May 25

Hello from a BEAUTIFUL day here in Scarsdale, New York!

So many things have happened in the last two weeks- and it has all gone by SO fast! I feel bad- I haven't really had a chance to sit down and e-mail for a while! Elder McMullin and I have been on the RUN!

We've been driving all over the entire Mission lately- we've been to Manhattan and the Bronx dozens of times already, up to Newburgh and over to Conneticuit and out of the Mission to Queens multiple times too! Good news, I've basically become a PROFESSIONAL city driver- haha! I can finally navigate those crazy streets without feeling claustrophobic or dizzy! SO many one-ways; you have to make loops and loops before you get to where you want to go! Just yesterday, we dropped off Elder Garside and Elder Zwahlen off at JFK Airport- we are going to miss them. They have trained Elder McMullin and I to run around and do all the crazy things they had to do for the past few months- and finally it feels like we've got the hang of things.

Although we run around the Mission and work in the office a lot, we still have an area and we still get to work as Missionaries!! We are covering the Westchester 1st Ward (English) and the Westchester 3rd Branch (Spanish)- our area is White Plains and Scarsdale and a few little cities and towns around the edges like Valhalla (cool name, right?), Greenburgh, Eastchester and a few others. I love this area. We are teaching right now several investigators in both the Spanish and English wards, and they are incredible. Just last week, on the 21st, we met with a young woman named Sandra- she is from Peru! We visited with her and her mom, and we talked with her Dad on Sunday at Church! In our first appointment with her we began talking about baptism- and she quickly said over us- "OH I know all about baptism- and I am ready to be baptized into your church!" She told us she had been praying to know if the Church was true and she said she knows it's the right thing to do. We are all very excited.

Today is the first warm sunny day in about a week- and it's a wonderful day for a YANKEE GAME! We are off very soon to head to YANKEE STADIUM- it's going to be a wonderful day! I'll eat a traditional New York Hot Dog for ya'll back in SLC! If you know anybody going to the game tell them to look for the Missionaries- there'll be about 40 of us there!! haha!

The Church is TRUE!!

B safe, B Sunny, B decked out in YANKEE BLUE!

Always,

Elder Hellberg