Letter on July 28th

Hey Everyone!

Another great week here in Terryville.  This week we had our ward
missionary movie night.  We watched Ephraims rescue and we had a great
turn out! Sister Cook and I were in charge of the photo booth and I
must say we did a dang good job ;) We got some great pics of everyone!

We had some funny moments this week.  My favorite happened during our
ward correlation meeting.  Right as we started discussing our
investigators our ward correlator's wife screams, "--- THERE IS POOP ON
THE KITCHEN FLOOR!" No... it wasn't a missionary who pooped on the
floor... good guess though.  Ha her son is potty training and decided
he would rather poop (sorry mom... I mean messy...) on the floor than
in the toilet right in the middle of our meeting.  Made our meeting
pretty exciting.

Guess what else?! I mowed my first lawn this week! Yep... I'm not
joking... I'd never mowed a lawn before Saturday.  Don't worry we got
it all on video and everything.  It was a big day.  I only ran over
two big tree stumps too.  Haha we were helping Sister------
neighbor --- and she was out there just cracking up watching me.
I'm a pro now though.  Who would have thought I'd mow my first yard in
New York right?!

Our investigator --- came to church yesterday.  She is blind and so
her service dog came too.  She is the sweetest woman on the planet.
We are working with some amazing people and I feel so blessed to have
had them come into my life.  Missions are awesome! Sorry this is a
short letter this week.  We are headed to go play basketball.. yep...
basketball.  Who would have though I'd become a baller on my mission
too? Not I!  I hope you all have the best week EVER!

Miss you all!

Love, Sister Robertson
Sent from my iPad
1. Sister cook and I with the sign we made
2. reunited with Sister Joseph at Sister Conference
3. photo booth
4. more photo booth

Letter on July 21st

Hey Everyone!

Greetings from the promise land.... TERRYVILLE! I was transferred to
the Island last week and I LOVE it. My new companion is Sister Cook
and she is from Cokeville Wyoming...total population 500.  So its a
good things shes starting her mission out here on the island :) She is
great. We've already had so many adventures out here.

Speaking of adventures... last night we knocked a members door on
accident. Awesome right? They opened the door and we saw them all
sitting together in the living room and we were like wait a second...
we know you! It was awesome.  Definitely something that only happens
when you are blinded into an area. Pretty funny.

Also we've had some funny excuses lately knocking doors lately.  My
favorite was, "Sorry I had a birthday party a few days ago and I'm
really tired" Who gets a birthday party hang over for a whole week? Oh
the adventures of finding.

The ward here is awesome.  They are so willing to help us out... and
feed us... holy cow.  Haha Sister Cook and I keep joking that the
members here are really helping us grow.... not just spiritually but
physically too... in width. There is the cutest grandma in our ward,
Grandma Lugo.  On our first Sunday here kids STORMED the relief
society room after church.  I was like what in the world is
happening?! Turns out Grandma Lugo brings her treat bag every Sunday
to give the kids treats.  Its so awesome! I love the ward here and can
tell we are going to see miracles the next few transfers working
together.

Well I hope you all had a great week.  Happy 24th of July!

Love, Sister Robertson
1. Yep... I'm still in NY
2. Taking advantage of free slurpee day
3. Yarn dolls from our investigator

Letter on June 30th

Hey Everyone ,

Happy Monday! Can't believe I'll have been out 6 months this week...
freaks me out.  I don't know where the time goes.  This week was
another busy one.  Our pool is booming right now.  We have been so
blessed.  I honestly can't believe I'm in the same area I was in when
I first got here.  It feels so different.  I LOVE Astoria.  I'll
definitively be leaving a piece of my heart here when I go.

Speaking of which transfers are this week.  We will find out Saturday
if any of us are leaving. There is a chance we could stay in a trio
but we will see.  This week we were in charge of our zone finding
activity.  We gave out free lemonade.  It was so much fun and was
pretty successful.  Except for when one woman walk passed an Elder
pulled her kids close and yelled, "Don't drink the koolaid kids...
Don't drink the koolaid" Maybe you had to be there but it was pretty
funny.

I had a huge tender mercy happen this week.  I'm sure most of you know
about Kendall, the boy I dated who passed away from colon cancer. Well
this week I looked up a less active we've been trying to meet with on
facebook and Kendall was a mutual friend.  We'd been talking with her
already so I texted her and asked how she knew him.  Well guess
what?!? She is his cousin! How crazy is that?! Shes been pretty hard
to get in with so we are praying her heart will be softened. I know
Kendalls probably just been up there waiting and waiting for me to
figure it out. Pretty cool and another testament to me that God is in
the details :)

I hope you have all had a great week and enjoy your Fourth of July.  I
miss you all! XOXO

Sister Robertson

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