Tuesday May 24, 2011

Our project for Tuesday morning was to do Soularium in Central Park. Katy Aleshire, Dani Bothe, Jared Doyle, and I headed to the park as a group to hopefully utilize this evangelism tool. We set up in an extremely populated spot, but barely had anyone even look in our direction. We stayed there for quite a while, and even dispersed ourselves across that section of the park to pray and give people the opportunity to stop. No one did. It was extremely discouraging, but at the same time, we almost expected it.
An hour or so later, we saw some of our co-HLGU missionaries and asked them about their time with Soularium. They seemed to be having the same issues that we were encountering. The people in Central Park were not concerned with what others were doing and simply wanted to be left alone.
On our way to look for another location, we heard a band playing and stopped to listen. We learned they were called The Dirty Urchins and actually have songs on ITunes. They had a really neat sound and sang wonderful harmonies.
In our search for another location, we found ourselves at Times Square and at TGIF for lunch. After finishing our food at a leisurely pace, we headed back to the housing.
That evening after supper, Jared and I headed toward the Hudson River to amble through River Park. We walked the boardwalk, watched the sunset, and eventually saw the city lights from New Jersey. As we walked down the boardwalk, we came across a restaurant on the river. It was beautiful and very popular! The atmosphere of the place was incredible and the people were thoroughly enjoying themselves.
We soon directed our paths back to the MNYBA building to end another successful day in New York City.