Newburgh #9

Hello family!

Well this has been a lovely week! Thanksgiving was a lot of fun. We did weekly planning and some other things earlier in the day. Later in the evening we went to a member's house for dinner. The Elders and another family came for dinner as well. The Tousley family had a whole room of guitars, a key board and a drum set. I got to have a little jam session while waiting for dinner to b made, so I was in heaven. I miss playing music so much, so I had a blast strumming some beats on the guitar.

This week we have spent a lot of time going to choir practices for our performance in the NY NY N Mission Christmas Devotional that will take place this Friday the 6th. That is actually where I am right now. We are doing a run through of the whole program. I am so glad I get to be a part of it!! The music is so beautiful and I am just trying my best to keep up with all the choir lingo and singing the right notes haha. But it should be a great program! I am so excited to see Sister Awerkamp and Matthews!! And I already get to see sister Wilkes at choir practice. it should be a blast.

So you may have noticed that I am on Facebook now. As a online missionary we are trying to find ways to teach as many people as we can online. One thing that we are going to try to do is to create a Facebook event to have a gospel discussion. Once I create the event (a day and a time to be on FB) , I invite all the members here, all my investigators and all of my family and friends back home to join in a gospel discussion. We want you to invite all of your friend and family to the event as well. Anyone can be a part of our lessons and discussions! Sister Steele and I want to try to do our first Facebook even next Tuesday the 10th. We haven't picked a time yet, but we will keep you posted. Please have the turner ward girls and relief society and ward members add me on Facebook so I can invite them to these Facebook discussions with our less actives and investigators here in NY. In the discussions we will pick a topic such as receiving answers to prayers. Then we will pose some questions and anyone else can pose a question as well. This allows us as missionaries to have the potential to teach multiple people at once. It allows all of you lovely people back at home to be involved with missionary work here in New York! And it is a great opportunity for all of us to answer questions, to share our testimonies and experiences and to strengthen each other.

So please add me on Facebook and be involved with our online lessons! Other missionaries who have done this have had 20 or more people show up on Facebook to talk gospel and the missionaries didn't know most of them. So don't forget to invite your friends to the event as well!

Hmm I can't really think of anything else that was really eventful this week. We were able to help an elderly lady out up some Christmas decorations and she gave us some ornaments to take home to put on our tree. So we decorated our artificial tree and we placed random items under the tree...a soccer ball, tennis rackets weights, some chocolates and cookies, and some empty boxes haha so it looks like we have a ton of gifts under the tree. Oh ps, mom I now you have my current apartment address, but they have asked that we only send mail to the mission office (NY NY N Mission 700 White Plains Rd St. 315 Scarsdale NY 10583) so that they make sure that none of the mail is lost.

Well I love you all so much!

Love Sister Lounsbury