Letter on February 24th

Hello Everyone!

We've finally had some beautiful days here in New York.  I'm trying to
live it up while I can :) This week has been a great week! We had the
cutest family come to church with the elders yesterday.  They are from
Nepal and had some friends join the church in Colorado who referred
them to us.  They have a one year old baby        who is the most
beautiful baby I have ever seen.  Long curly locks, porcelain skin and
big dimples... I've never seen a cuter baby.  Molly your baby will be
cuter though... obviously.  It was awesome to take          and         to
nursery and to see how the members welcomed them.  They are so
prepared and I can't wait to see whats in store for them.

I also had exchanges in the Brooklyn YSA ward this weekend.  We had a
lesson in downtown Brooklyn with an investigator over frozen yogurt.
It was great! Funny to be teaching people my own age but I enjoyed it.
 Speaking of frozen yogurt... the funniest thing happened this week.
Tuesday night was a little rough so Sister Joseph and I stopped to get
ice cream on the way home.  I told Sister Joseph to take a picture of
me with my ice cream so I could remember our crazy night.  I turn it
around to see the picture and behind me it says , "1 in 5 children
suffers from hunger" and I'm just smiling with my ice cream.  We
couldn't have planned it better.  It totally looks photoshopped in or
something.  We had a good laugh.  I'll attach the picture for your own
viewing pleasure :)

Letter on Monday, February 10th

Hey Everyone!

What a great week we've had here in the Astoria ward. We spent the
first part of the week shoveling and shoveling...every day I'm
shoveling ;) It was up supposed to snow 30 inches last night but we
woke up to rays of sunshine. Sister Joseph and I were wishing we'd
brought our swimsuits... Can't believe we forgot them ;)

We had so many tender mercies this week. We've been working a lot with
                  .      can't remember when she was
baptized and knows nothing about the church though so we've basically
treated      like an investigator.

We've been stuck the last couple weeks and were feeling like nothing
was getting through to     . During companion study Sister Joseph and I
both got different inspiration at the same time. I was feeling 2 Nephi
31 and she was thinking the temple. We combined the lesson and talked
about how baptism was the gate and how the temple is the goal on     
path to eternal life. It was exactly what      needed to hear. The
spirit during our lesson was incredible and               is so excited
to work towards the temple.           is starting        family history this
week. It was such a testament to me that god knows his children and
knows exactly what they need. I feel so blessed that I get to be an
instrument in his hands.

Last night we stopped by an elderly Romanian womans apartment. It was
snowing pretty hard and she was just so grateful to have some kind of
company. She lives alone with her dog and doesn't have any family. She
kept saying pallo (her dog) is her family. She has arthritis and is
stuck in bed most of the day. It was awesome to just sit and talk with
her. We randomly have a Romanian Book of Mormon so we are excited to
go back and give it to her. That little bit of human interaction meant
so much to her.  Heavenly Father really looks out for his children.

Anyways thats a little about my week. Love you guys!

Sister Robertson

Letter for Monday, February 3rd

Hey Family and Friends!

So i think i told some of you it was starting to warm up and so as a
result we've been blessed with a CRAZY blizzard today... my bad.  I'm
excited to shovel some snow tomorrow :) Mom to answer your question
yes I am in Queens... even though my apartment address says Woodside
its still Queens.  My ward is the Astoria ward and covers woodside,
masbeth, astoria, and Long Island city.

The ward is amazing!! My old BYU american heritage TA is actually in
the ward. Pretty Funny.  But the members are really so great. The
relief society sisters come to lessons with us all the time and will
each take turn watching each other's kids so someone can come to a
lesson.

We just had a baptism in the ward a couple weeks ago and he bore his
testimony yesterday. He investigated the church for a year and a half
and so its been cool to hear his story.  He is a theater critic and
did a review for the Book of Mormon musical before he started
investigating the church.  Pretty funny.

We had some great street sweeps this week.  The first was for our
family history center, we go out on the street corner and talk to
anyone who will listen about family history and eternal families.  My
favorite moment of the week was when I watched an Elder bear his
testimony about eternal families to a stranger who replied,"Our
definitions of families are very different... I'm gay"...and walked
away.  One of my convos ended with a kiss on the cheek from a cute
little 90 year old columbian woman.  It was the best!

On Saturday we painted over graffitti and cleaned up trash.  Rad
right? One of our investigators is a painter and is really into
service.  It was awesome. Anyways its been a great week.  Its awesome
to see how The Lord is hastening his work.  I love being a missionary!
Love you all and miss you!

Sister Robertson