Email, Monday, April 21, 2015

hello! this week was really good! The sisters had a investigator who
was baptized Sunday! and i got the surprise when they asked me to
baptize her! and i completed my first interview! it was really cool!
she had been well prepared from the lord, and i am blessed to have
been a instrument in his hands, and even more of a blessing that we
had was and investigator that i have taught for a while, in fact he
has been investigating for years, was there, and loved it! he might be
baptized soon!
there is beautiful weather right around the corner! love yall!
thats the highlight of the week!
stay safe!
elder Daniel Buffington


Pictures!
1)baptism partay!

2) spring is here

Email, Monday, April 13, 2015

hello there,
this week was pretty pleasant, from a great lesson with a less active
family, to stake conference!
we are teaching a beautiful family that have been trying to return to
activity, they want to be sealed but they must wait till the father
has a interview for the bishop so he can hold the higher priesthood,
and some minor stuff, but we will always have a lesson Monday nights,
so that is great! they are trying for the end of June, so fingers
crossed for them, also we had stake conference, super good, translated
for the first time, super hard, found out my mind doesn't work that
easily to translate but it was only for one person, and i got to
paraphrase a lot, still the people that translate are awesome!
we got some good pictures, i love Brooklyn,
and we found a lot of cool stickers, like like these two, (because i
am terrible at journal writing i have started making sticker pages
from the back and working to the front, hoping to fill the book by the
end of the mission... i have 6.5 front and back pages of stickers that
i have found in Brooklyn, its pretty funny cause we were pealing a
sticker off of a stop sign when a random guy was telling us that
vandalism is against the law, but we reassured him that we were taking
the stickers off the sign, and he told us that was a good thing and
that vandalism is bad haha :)
the preceding pictures are from downtown Brooklyn, by the Marriott by
the Brooklyn bridge, which Marriott is owned by a mormon, so in every
room is a copy of the book of mormon :)
but the last one is from the priesthood and adult sessions of stake
conference after it all we had dinner as a zone wooo! plus a lady that
the english sisters are teaching

well that is all i got for yall, we are going to see the Statue of
Liberty so i hope to get a picture or two for that for yall, i am
thinking about yall! cause i love yall, (that is a lot of yalls even
for me) i know that christ lives! he leads and guides the church in
these last days!

have a blessed week!
Elder Daniel Buffington

Email, Monday, April 6, 2015

well this week flew by! we had some funny times, so during this week
we have been having a competition to see who could share the video "he
lives" more, so each view is for each person who saw the video, so
yesterday was the last day for it, we went to the park because it was
a BEAUTIFUL evening after conference, we got 7 by the time we got into
the park, and the other elders haven't had luck but they had went up
ahead because we were talking to a (now) potential investigator couple
that are golden (in fact we will be having a lesson with them Sunday
evening)! when we finished talking to them we set out to see how the
others were doing when we saw a big crowd of people, we counted 8
people watching the other set of elders video and we had figures that
they shared it more, so we saw a couple of skaters, we shared it with
them and had a awesome discussion on the side walk, (score now 10-~8)
so we weren't about to lose ;) so as we were walking we saw a HUGE
family, i looked at my companion, as he told me "they look Spanish" i
replied, "should i?" he responded "yeah!" so we went and they agreed
to watch the video, but before i started i asked if the rest of the
family would like to see, so they gathered everyone around my mini
iPad and watched the video, (score now 30-~8) it was a family of 20
and there were more that didn't watch the video! the other elders were
flipping out because they saw the group we fearlessed! xD
Humberto came to conference! he loved it! but he didn't hear President
Monsons talk so he is excited to hear and learn more about those
talks!

so pictures are of Conference and haircuts earlier this week!

i love you all! y'all are on my mind oft, i have a firm testimony that
families are meant to be eternal! that God loves us, and knows us
better than we know ourselves, He has a plan for us, and that plan has
been revealed to us by a Prophet. i know that we have a prophet on the
earth today that is leading us.  for those with doubts, doubt them,
the fullness of the gospel is housed in the church of Jesus Christ of
Latter Day Saints!

with love,
Elder Daniel Buffington

 look the district Easter Pic!

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)-