Letter on Monday, September 29th

Happy Monday!

So transfer calls were this Saturday... It was rough.  We were thinking we'd both be staying here but Sister Cook is being transferred.  Its super bittersweet. I'm SO happy I'm staying because I LOVE everyone here and there is just so much more work to do but I'm also heartbroken Sister Cook is leaving. I just love her! 

We had an incredible last week together though.  ___ who we met last Sunday is progressing so quick.  She is just SO pure in heart.  She is just soaking everything up.  Weve met with her almost every day and she came to the Women's General Broadcast meeting Saturday.  She loves it all and just keeps saying, "this makes so much sense! Why doesn't everyone accept this?!"  She even went to the store right after to buy a journal so she could write down everything that she is learning.  She really is just a miracle.  I feel so blessed to have met her- Its such a blessing to be teaching her.  

Katie came to church on Sunday as well.  She loves the Book of Mormon and has had so many great experiences with the missionaries and with her neighbors who are members.  She is really progressing.  She is taking us out for steak dinner tonight before Sister Cook leaves.  We just love Katie so much.  We also taught her mom Lynne this week too.  There family is really so dear to my heart and its been such a joy to watch them start to embrace the gospel.  

Another of our investigators Jane committed to baptism this past week.  She has had such a hard life with abuse and I just know she is going to find so much peace from the gospel.  I'm just so grateful for all the incredible people we are working with and I know that we were led to them.  I feel so blessed that I get to stay and continue to watch them progress.  I'm truly grateful.  I hope you've all had a great week.  We are off to go finish saying goodbyes.  I love you all! 

Sister Robertson 

Letter on Monday Sept 22

Hello World,

Wow... I don't even know where to begin with this week.  It was an
incredible week. So many miracles and blessings.. but also some crazy
days. Lets see... where to begin.  I guess I'll start off with letting
you know that I bowled a high score of 54 bowling last week for P-day.
Yep... I'm that good.

But Anyways this week started off pretty crazy... On Tuesday our phone
decided it didn't want to work anymore, our car got a nail in the tire
and we found out last minute we were having sister wide exchanges that
night.  So of course in the middle of the chaos I have to leave to the
Hamptons for exchanges and left Sister Cook with all the dirty work...
whoopsies.  Missionary work is a little difficult without a phone, car
or companion.

After exchanges Grandma Lugo- one of our favorite members wanted to
take all 4 of us sisters out to eat. So there we are just eating our
dinner when Grandma Lugo screams OH NO! She looks at me and smiles and
one of her teeth was completely gone... she swallowed it!  Poor Gma
Lugo.  It was just a day full of broken things.  Broken phone, broken
car, broken GPS and top it all off with Grandmas broken tooth.

On Thursday our Mission President came out to Terryville to interview
one of our investigators for baptism.  The whole day was incredible.
Our Mission President is one inspired man.  Sister Cook and I were
able to teach a lesson on baptism with him and then he interviewed
Melissa for baptism.  Half way through the lesson she runs in and
collects all the bottles of alcohol in her house and proceeds to pour
them all down her drain screaming, "I'm repenting, I don't want this
stuff in my house!" It was awesome! After the interview we all met
outside where President Calderwood said with tears in his eyes, This
family NEEDS the gospel.  Melissa and Jessica NEED this in their
lives.  The things they have experienced we do not understand and it
is NOT their fault.  It was a powerful experience and I'm so grateful
President Calderwood was willing to drive a couple hours to help us
out.

Saturday was a big day for us. We were able to take Sister Mcgibney to
the temple. Sitting with her in the Celestial room was one of my
favorite moments on my mission so far.  We LOVE her so much and are so
happy she FINALLY was able to make it back to the temple.

We really just had so many miracles this week. Yesterday we were able
to teach Amy- a single mom that the Elders found while knocking doors
with President Calderwood (It was the first door they knocked and they
had a kneeling prayer with her).  The lesson was amazing.  Amy is SO
pure in heart.  We didn't even get halfway through the lesson and we
just felt so prompted to invite her to prepare for baptism.  She
accepted and is preparing to be baptized the 8th of November.  She
offered the most sincere heartfelt prayer at the end of our lesson.
It was just another miracle this week to add to the list.  This is the
Lords work and I feel so grateful to be laboring her in the vineyard
with Him.  Its SUCH a blessing.  I love and miss you all but I'm so
grateful for the privilege this is.  I hope you all have a great week.
We find out about transfers Saturday so I'll have news next Monday :)

Love Ya!
Sister Robertson

Pictures of the best day EVER! Temple trip with Sister Mcgibney :)

Letter on Monday, September 15th

Hello World!

Is it really Monday again?! Craziness.  I just need time to slow down
for a second.  I can't believe I've almost been out 9 months.  Its
gone by WAY too fast. These week was a good one.  It was pretty busy
with Mega zone conference and a few other meetings we had but through
the grace of God we were able to see everyone we wanted to see.

We have a few progressing investigators right now that we are working
with.  Our mission president is actually coming out on Thursday to
meet with two of them in preparation for baptism.  We are so grateful
and excited for his insights.  Mega Zone Conference was great and we
learned so much.  We are just excited to apply everything we learned
to our work.  Life is Good.

So lets see... We had some great moments this week... Like when all we
had a calendar confusion and all 3 sets of missionaries showed up for
the same dinner appointment... whoopsies.  That was awkward.  Or when
our GPS led us to the wrong address.  Ha We were sitting at a Panera
bread for like 30 minutes waiting for a member and finally we were
like maybe we are at the wrong panera bread??... So turns out we are
in the totally wrong town 30 minutes away.  Moral of the story...
always check your GPS.

We work with a lot of less actives here Annie, a less active we've
been working with since we first got here finally came to church
yesterday.  One of my favorite parts of being a missionary is being
able to testify of the blessings that come from keeping the
commandments.  I'm so grateful for the blessings I've seen in my life
and I'm grateful that Annie chose to trust that she would be blessed
as she kept the sabbath day holy.  I love being a missionary!

Hope you all have a great week!

Sister Robertson

1. Sisters from my MTC district at Megazone Conference- we are all out
on the island now :)
2. Sisters at Megazone conference