Greetings from Siberia... Erhhh I mean Queens New York. It's freezing
over here! New York decided to welcome me with a HUGE blizzard!
Members have said it's the coldest winter in over 30 years... And I
believe them!! Our heater was broken the first night and my bedding
didn't come in time so my first night here was the longest night of my
life. But don't worry I'm surviving- I bribed the YSA missionaries
with the candy in my package to go pick it up for me. So thanks mom
for sending treats with my bedding :D
So I'm in Astoria Queens. I LOVE it here. The members in our ward are
amazing! We have two sets of Elders in our ward and then another set
of sisters serving in the singles ward. And guess what... Sister Lugo
is serving in the singles ward, so we are in the same district. We
were SO excited. It's the only district in the mission with two sets
of sister. It's the best, I've seen her almost everyday!
My trainer is SIster Joseph... Funny right... Our phone says
Jospeh.Robertson after every text and it cracks me up. She is the
sweetest person on the planet. She is from West Valley and went to BYU
for a semester studying food science. She's been out on the mission
for 4 months. She's great! We take the bus and subway everywhere. I
LOVE it! I ride past the Empire State Building every day and we can
almost always see manhattan. We went to visit a less active in Long
Island city this week... It was gorgeous. I'll send some pics :)
My mission president is amazing. Words don't even describe. Can't wait
to get to know him better. So let's see my week. My first night was a
MAJOR blizzard. I've never experience cold like that. Walking to
appointments was crazy. Wednesday we shoveled and shoveled and
shoveled. I'm a pro now, shoveled more driveways then I have my entire
life :)
The world really does come to you here in New York. We had
appointments with a Chinese family Tuesday, dinner with a Columbian
woman Wednesday and some Pilipino woman on Friday. It's awesome!! Also
we ring buzzers instead of doorbells here. And we've only gotten lost
once which is pretty impressive considering the crazy bus system. I'm
proud of us.
Mom I have a new mom here so don't worry. She is a cute less active
Columbian women and she always ties my scarf before I leave. She's the
cutest! I'll tell you about our investigators in another private email
but they are great! I love them! Anyways I better run but I love you
all!! Thanks for all the support.
Sister Robertson
P.s. You should know that I constantly look like Edward Scissor
hands or Junice from the SNL sisters skit. It's too cold to put my
fingers in the finger holes of my gloves so I curl them up...
unfortunately my companion hasn't seen Edward scissor hands or Junice
so I just laugh to myself. I think it's pretty funny :)
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