the big apple : the big city

I have no officially been here for now 2 weeks! I love it here!! It's now been long enough that i am comfortable with the family, getting used to the area (and all the confusing roads). It's very easy to get lost since they have two main highways..LIE (Long Island Expressway) and 495...yeah i still can't get those right..ever!! Something i figured out, very quickly..people say that Utah drivers sucks, please come out to New York and they will prove everyone wrong in 2 minutes. Not kidding!!

My branch is amazing!! They have been nothing but nice and so welcoming!! Out here since its so not populated with mormons like Utah..they do lots of things together!! FHE, sports night and institute with everyone. I love it because it beings us all together and the people in my branch are so great.

During the week days i work everyday and all day so there is no time to actually go into the city..so on the weekends i take advantage of that (and my host parents wants me to go explore everything). This past weekend i went with a friend who is in my branch and she also is a nanny so her weekends are free too! So we headed into the city on saturday. We basically explored Times Square since she had never been in NYC before. So i took her around to all the places that she would enjoy for the first time (M&M Factoary, Hershey's Factory, the stairs in Times Square, all the characters walking around, a lot of the shops, etc) We still didn't get everything done, but thats okay..we have 8 months to do it all. After a couple hours of shopping, we met up with Kristi (Josh's sister-in-law) and her mom and sister for dinner! We went to Dos Caminos, it was so amazing! After dinner we went shopping at a couple of stores! It was so great! So nice of them to invite me!!:)

We were suppose to go to a comedy club that was suppose to be so funny, but it was awful so we left! haha! It was lame, so we left and walked a trillion blocks and finally got back to Penn Station and got on our trains and went home! It was such a fun day, i can't wait for every weekend to be like that! :)

This experience thus far has been amazing. Even though there are hard days of missing my family and everything back at home..i know that there is a reason why i am out here. It will be amazing once i find out why! The family isn't Mormon so i am praying that they will continue to ask question and that i may be a missionary (this will be my mission at 19, while all the other girls are out on their missions, Marmor family is mine) Keep praying for me because i will always need them. I always remind myself that being an example is much more than words.

More adventures to come!