Teaching the youth

Our primary assignment on our mission is to teach institute classes. We presently teach three classes per week at three different chapels in the Brooklyn Stake. One of the classes is at Staten Island, a different island than the one on which we live. We actually live on Long Island, but the people here refer to Long Island as only the part of the island which is east of  Brooklyn and Queens, which are two of the five boroughs of New York City.  So, technically, according to the locals, we live in Brooklyn but not Long Island. 

Our largest institute class is the Park Slope class in Brooklyn near our apartment which is featured in this weeks picture. 

The young man with sister Tenney is a recent convert to the church. His name is Jouvanni. The missionaries knocked on his door at the right time and he was ready to listen to the message. It was fortunate that the missionaries could even knock on the doors in Jouvanni's apartment building, since generally the buildings are locked at the front door and missionaries are not able to enter the building without a specific invitation from a tenant. 

On that one day in January the missionaries were walking by the front door of the apartment building when they heard a loud buzz indicating that the front door was unlocked. They stopped and discussed it for a minute and then decided to enter the building and knock on every door. That is when they found Jouvanni. It was almost like the Holy Ghost was beckoning the missionaries to come in. Such is the nature and joy of missionary work!