Letter on Monday June 23

Hey Everyone!

Has another week really passed?! Crazy.  So our new companion is
Sister Layton.  She is the sweetest thing and we have had so much fun
in our trio.  She is from Centerville Utah and did a year at SUU
before her mission. We just love her.  I love learning ASL too.  It's
been so fun!

The work here is really picking up.  I can't believe i'm in the same
area I started my mission.  It feels completely different.  We have a
few part member families we are working with and some pretty solid
investigators.  Its been fun to watch the work grow here. I'm going to
be heartbroken when I leave this area.  One of us will probably be
leaving in a couple weeks and I am hoping it wont be me. Even though
It would mean I would spend half my mission in Astoria.... which is
crazy... but I just really love this area :D It will always hold a
piece of my heart.

The highlight of my week was on Saturday night.  We had a ward dance
party and on our way there we ran into Joanne.  Joanne is the sweetest
old woman- probably in her late 80's who we taught for the first time
this week.  We told her she should come to the dance party but didn't
think she'd actually come... but guess what?! She totally came!! We
were in helping set up when a ward member came and told us, "Theres
like this older woman with a walker waiting outside? She says shes
looking for you??" Haha we died! The music was so loud and the lights
were crazy and then there is cute little Joanne sitting with her
walker.  It was pretty comical but we had so much fun.

Its been a great week.  I'm especially excited to be an Aunt. Baby
Jude is ADORABLE. I hope you all had a great week too! I miss you!

Letter on Monday, June 16th

Hey Everyone!

So this week was pretty crazy! We got some surprising news...I'll be
training a new ASL sister! Which means...we will be in a trio for at
least 3 weeks until Sister Board finishes her training AND that I'll
FINALLY be able to start using the sign language I learned in second
grade haha.   We've been busy trying to get our apartment ready and we
kinda feel like new parents preparing the nursery. We are excited to
go pick her up tonight :) Molly maybe we could have "babies" on the
same day?? ;)

Thursday was a pretty crazy day. We help serve food at a senior
community center every other week and this week on our way home we
started talking to a woman on the bus. She told us shed investigated
the church previously and was super sweet but we had to get off the
bus before we could get her phone number or address. Luckily Sister
Board has incredible faith. We got off the bus and she was like let's
pray that we will see her again. So we did and guess what... That very
night we ran into her... 20 blocks away.  Which NEVER happens
considering we are in New York and there are SO many people here. It
definitely was divine intervention. It was one of the craziest 5
minutes of my life. I had just gotten the phone call that I'd be
training and was already in shock when we ran into Nazaria. To say I
was speechless would be an understatement. We both just stood there
like is this real life?! Is this really happening?! We walked her home
and taught a quick lesson. She is such an amazing person and I'm so
glad we got a second chance to talk with her.

For one of our zone finding activity this week we hit the streets with
a "honk if you prayed today" and a "Mormon.org" poster. Never thought
I'd be holding signs on street corners on my mission but it was
actually super fun and we had a great response. Who knew? Haha I love
missions! Well I hope you've all had a great week. We are off to go
pick up our new companion at the mission home so I'm out of time. Love
you all :)

Sister Robertson

1. Our last lesson with A on Tuesday :( she's moved this week
2. Sister J birthday lunch

Letter on Tuesday, June 10th

Hey Everyone!

So no I'm not breaking mission rules... I know you all were thinking
I'm apostate ;) Our P-day was changed because Elder Nielsen came to
our mission yesterday.  It was such an amazing day and I learned so
much from our conference with him.

On Sunday night the craziest thing happened.  We were in Sunnyside
(which is about 30 minutes from our church) trying to find a less
active family when Sister Board told me she felt weird about it.
Well, we've learned to always act on any kind of prompting since New
York can be a sketchy place so we started heading back to the church.
Right when we got there I pulled out our phone and it started ringing.
The elders called and asked me if I could run to the apartment they
were at because the man there was having some kind of health problem.
Luckily we were only 2 streets away so we ran over, gave him a quick
assessment, decided he was having a stroke and called 911. It was such
a testament to me that The Lord is in the details.  He directed us to
exactly where we needed to be and at the right time.

 In my personal study this morning I came across a scripture that
perfectly describes my feelings on what happened. It's in Alma 26:37.

"Now my brethren, we see that God is mindful of every people,
whatsoever land they may be in; yea, he numbereth his people, and his
bowels of mercy are over all the earth. Now this is my joy, and my
great thanksgiving; yea, and I will give thanks unto my God forever.
Amen."

I know that God is mindful of each and everyone of us. He is involved
in even the smallest of details. I'm so grateful for the experiences
I've had on my mission to confirm this to me. I know that I was called
to the New York New York South mission for a reason and I feel so
grateful everyday I'm here.  I'll be missing you all on Thursday for
Tom and Julis wedding but I know this is where I'm supposed to be.
I'm so grateful for the amazing support I have. I love you all so
much!!

Sister Robertson

Our road trip to Bensonhurst to see Elder Nielsen

Letter on Monday, June 2

Hey Everyone!

Sorry I missed emailing last week! Things were a little crazy with
Memorial Day.  We actually were able to go to a Mets game for P-day.
I think we had the whole mission there almost haha. It was a good
time.

This week was great.  I'm proud to announce that each companionship in
our district is now teaching an investigator we've found.  We are
praying we will start finding some people we can actually teach soon
but I'm grateful we've been able to meet so many pure in heart people.
We had another shoe shine activity this week. We set up little shoes
shining stations and gathered people to come get their shoes shined.
It was a fun way to serve the community.

We did a lot of service this week. On Saturday we planted flowers
around probably 50 different trees here in Woodside.  I've been so
surprised by how green it is here.  Not quite the concrete jungle
Manhattan is.  Well I wish I had more exciting stories to tell but
then again maybe its a good thing :) Hopefully I'll have more to write
next week.  Hope everyone is healthy and happy.  I miss you all!

Sister Robertson

1. I ran into Elder Wilson and Elder Casper at Aldis today. Three
proud Olympus grads
2. On our way to the Mets game
3. Another rainy day
4. Our little visitor
5. The Mets game