Email, Monday, March 23, 2015

the transfer is starting on fire! we have a potential of 2 different
investigator families! one is a family of five and the other is a old
couple, the guy is a baptist minister haha we are really excited to
meet with him, my Spanish is improving, a lady thought i was from
Argentina which is a complement cause they have good Spanish, and the
people that do know me think i have a gringo accent... so i don't know
who to believe.
being a DL is stressful, being in charge of a district, its kinda
hard, but i made it through week one so we should be good now, i
normally need one week to adjust myself.  but the district is starting
to see the fruits of our labor,
we found our selfs with about a hour of open time Sunday so we started
to do lookups early when we received a call from bishop and he asked
us to take a member the sacrament and give a blessing to a lady, so we
were happy for that and then after we both got super thirsty, so we
walked back to the church when a LA member scared me haha! we had a
good chat with him, and it resulted in a lesson this Wednesday! woo!

im glad im writing in my journal (i know its not daily but its pretty
good) cause i can never remember the week hahaa
well i believe that is alll

Email, Monday, March 16, 2015

heyy!
transfer 14 week one
this week we (my district) were talking about singing for a Sunday
during sacrament, when i started to play a song i wrote (its the
re-written lyrics to Hallelujah) and a zone leader the sisters and us
sang it, the zone leader told us we could do it for transfer meeting,
so it was a moment of 'well that escalated quickly'! so yeah we have
been practicing the song a lot to say the least hahaha!  Wednesday we
had service day then district meeting (picture one) we were talking
and elder roland fell asleep, couldn't resist the picture, so now we
have two investigators with a baptism date on the 9th of April, super
nice! we have had a lot of time for finding people, and we have
finally looked up all of our look-ups so we got to go knocking! we
have had a couple doors in our face, but generally people were nice.
elder roland, before we fell asleep one night (more like passed out)
he woke me up and said that we were meant to be together, that he has
felt the inadequacy the week before, but i was always lifting him up,
telling him that his Spanish was good (his Spanish is truly awesome).
that night i prayed for heavenly father to let me know i was being a
good trainer, so i take that as a answer from him, "god answers his
prayers mostly, i think, through other people" Jeffrey R. Holland
so has anyone watched the religious freedom videos on the gospel
library, wayyyy good, it adjusted my view on the subject, before i
wasn't interested on the subject now I'm way into whats going on!

but yup i think that is all that i can think of, oh, so transfer calls
and leadership calls come today, so wooo, wish us luck ;)
(well i just got a phone call from the zone leaders... i have a
interview with president Calderwood... so i am getting a calling woo!)
picture two: chicked and sautéed onions and green peppers, kinda wish
we had mushrooms...
pic three, well i found where they sell deep fried oreos!

i love you all! i hope yall know that!
your New Yorker!
Elder Daniel Buffington

Email, Monday, March 9, 2015

hello from Brooklyn!
   we had a lot of snow this week! and that resulted in sword like
icicles (a sister has the picture, so i will obtain it ASAP) my
docMartins love to slide, as do i, so i ware them during the snowy
times!

   my companion and i are doing great! we have a investigator that has
a baptism date! April 19th, we gave him a book of mormon, he spent the
rest of the hour reading four chapters, alma 9-12, so we had a lesson
right after church, and ElderRoland committed him to be baptized, he
was worried that he wouldn't be ready, but we assured him that he
could be ready by then. so he agreed to it!

   Those with iCloud, i set up a share folder with pictures and videos
for y'all, so email me your iCloud address so i can add y'all!

   NY is warming up, maybe we are out of winter days now? any word
from the outside world?

   i love y'all, the church is true, and if your not 100% sure, pray!
its the simplest thing y'all can do,  y'all have a promise that y'all
can receive answers, its been promised by prophets, scriptures, and
yours truly, me... try it (you ain't down) see what miracles the lord
has in store for y'all!
y'all are truly the best! keep the faith! its worth it!
love y'all!
elder daniel buffington!

Email, Monday, March 2, 2015

Well another week has flown by, and alot has happened, this week we
had two meetings, trainer trainee meeting, which was super amazing! We
had a amazing workshop by the APs and President Calderwood, then the
senior couples talked about keeping ourselves safe in different areas
of the work like healthy eating, and not crashing in cars, so it was
slightly boring after the workshops but all good, we got pizza after
:)) mmmmm :) then Friday we had a general authority and a head honcho
from the missionary department which were talking about the next stage
of the technology age of discipleship, and informed us that we will
receiving new i pads, and those who would be keeping them would be
paying for them,  (thank goodness i go home a transfer or two before
that happens) and those would keep there i pads would be paying for
them and then keeping them, ill get one when i get home, probably....
TBD later... But yeah we had a really good week, numbers whys no, but
how we taught yeah! Im getting used to training, its a new experience
for sure, i am introducing him to quite a few things, we will have to
get a picture with our companionship ties, they are super nice, super
Spanish hahaha, i have shared the treasure of Gyro King, the picture
is the second time for him, he looks ssooooo enthusiast, he likes it
:)

Well i love  you all! And your always on my mind! Keep being amazing people,
Ooh! Look at one of my favorite pictures this week! Well it is
president Uchdorphs picture, but i like it alot, during the
approaching easter season, yall the bestest!


-Elder Bufí (Buffington)-

Email, Monday, February 23, 2015

Helllo from the brick of NY
We had a goooood week, we got to skype Olgita! I got to go to the
temple which was amazing, and we did alot of look ups this week, which
we gave two solid potentials to the sisters which should turn out well
:) im in love with my mission, im finally able to speak my mind
comfortably to people, and my companion is doing awesome! His spanish
is wayyyyyyyy better than mine when i was in my first area! Even by
the time i ended my first area, still, it feels weird being the more
experienced in spanish, it helps me realize that i have come so far,
but it also is a double edged sword, cause there are times where my
companion asks me for a word and i get nervous and forget the word,
but i now have a tendancy of when im not focusing on language, i
generaly speak in spanish.

But look! Pictures
Oooooooohhh ahhhhhhhh

1) and 2) temple trip! (About four degrees without wind in account)

3) Olgita!!

4) only in NY will a building have two adresses, yes it says AKA xD (i
died of laughter)

Have a beautiful week!
Love yall!
-Elder Bufí (Buffington)-

Email, Monday, February 16, 2015

Hello from the Frozen Apple
Yeahhhh its a little chilly up here, but we are keeping warm, it is
definitely more cold this year than last year #BlameItOnGlobalWarming
but its a adventure, i have experienced everything from the 113°
tundra of Arizona, to the blistering -5 (plus wind chill so like -20)
of New York.
So this week we had a couple sweet finding street sweeps, the first
was a photo booth that we will post on Facebook, which we have
pictures of :) and the second was to something epic! The NBA all star
game was in our area! Soo we went to the game and had games and
challenges for people to do to get the church out of obscurity and
talk about the gospel super fun!
But besides that there isnt anything super new, i have a EPIC companion,

Yup that is all i believe
Stay warm, and happy (late) valentines!
-Elder Bufí (Buffington)-

Email, Monday, February 9, 2015

What does a lazy fish do? Nothing! Haha... Ha... Ha.  Okay that wasnt
good, but its funnier in spanish...
Well transfers came and gone and my trainee is super cool! His name is
Elder Parker Roland, from Mesa AZ, he has super good spanish for just
getting out of the MTC, he is a black belt in american KinPo
(something to that effect) so he is gonna teach me a little, so yay!
Hahah we had a hard first day, but the week went amazing! We are
seeing miracles! And the lord guiding us, and helping us.  Im learning
so much, and i know that i need this, so i am ready for it! Im working
harder than before, and i am dead by 9 oclock and most nights we are
out of the pad till 9:15 with a lesson, everyone wants to have a
lesson after 6 and we fill those days by Sunday after church, super
nice, especially when they normally feed you at those appointments ;)
have i told yall how amazing spanish food is?! Its better home made,
even when comparing taquillas, (i want to go back and chat with the
homies in spanish)

We have been bold, and loving, declaring repentance to the people of
NY (sometimes it is a quite litteral declaration of  repentance) and
we see hearts begin to change,
 “We as a people have one supreme thing to do, and that is to call
upon the world to repent of sin, to come to God. And it is our duty
above all others to go forth and proclaim the gospel of the Lord Jesus
Christ, the restoration again to the earth of the plan of life and
salvation."
-President Heber J. grant
None of us are perfect, but we can surly try to do our best,
Trying your hardest is the essence of faith, acting as though you have
a perfect knowledge, when you dont, and it might not be perfect, but
that isnt what god wants, i have been rejected, and i have also messed
up, but i know that the effort that i am putting in to this will not
be waisted. All i am doing is planting seeds.  I am me still, just,
well... Converted, i have changed, im a new person, i can firmly
testify that a few parts of my Patriarchal Blessing has come true, i
know that though they might not come to us exactly the way we thought,
but i do know and stand as a witness that they do come, so dont fret
if one word isnt right in your eyes, its not your will, but the will
of the father =D

Love yall much!

Picture one: on the way back from transfer meeting
(Back two from left to right elder Jensen and Elder poole (ZLs),
middle row, sister Cristensen (new to the Zone) sister Nation, sister
Urizar (from guatamala and trainee of sister nation, they are in my
district) then the amazing elder Roland, then front row is sister
Pulotu (yeah she is a Poly! They are awesome!) and me!

-Elder Bufí (Buffington)-