"Almost" Home Alone-Lost in New York

"Well, as you know, I went to the temple this week, Wednesday. We left the apartment at about 8:30am and made our way up to another area, Huntington, to pick up another Elder, and then made our way into to Queens. Once we got to the mission office we just waited around for a little while for everyone to show up. There were about 14 of us I think. Elder and Sister Comer were the senior couple that accompanied us. We went through an endowment session that began at 12:30. There were two members from Staten Island in the session as well: Brother Ostreicher and Sister Zeniou. Sister Zeniou didn't see me but Brother Ostreicher and I met eyes as we were first entering the session. It was exciting to see someone from Staten again. So, after the session, we all got changed and made our way to chaple and distribution center next door. We were all supposed to meet in a room, somewhere that I didn't know. I got stuck at the distribution center talking to the two sisters working behind the counter, guess where they were from, yep, Staten Island . It was Sister Melendi, the organist (she had us do a couple of musical numbers while were there), and another sister whose name I'm not sure of. It was so fun seeing so many people from Staten in one day. As I was talking to these two sisters I began to realize that all of the missionaries that had been at the distribution center had all disappeared. I had figured that if i just stuck with a couple of 'em that somebody wouldv'e known where we were going. But now I looked around and realized I was all alone. "Ah, crap," I thought, "of course this would happen." I went downstairs and outside to see if anyone was out there. I got out on the sidewalk, looked around and realized that I was all alone in NEW YORK CITY...AWSOME! And then Elder Comer came up out of the temple behind me and helped me find my way up to where everyone was meeting. So I didn't end up getting lost or left, which seems to have happened only all to often throughout my growing up years, oh well. All and all, the temple was awesome. But the adventure doesn't stop there. The Comers said we still had some time and that we could all take a walk. So we made our way around the corner and down the street to Central Park. Oh it was awesome. We headed south to the next train station. We just walked along the outside but it was still awesome. New York is exactly how it looks on TV. We saw the

"Trump International Hotel" .

I've got some good pics to send home. "

~Elder Maughan

That's our boy!