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Well folks. Safe to say this was probably one of my least favorite weeks so far!

First let me start by telling you a little about metro cards. The church gives us 112 dollars each month so we can buy a 30 day unlimited use metro card. This month mine expired on the 28 of April so I had just bought a new one right before transfers.

Wednesday, after all of the upstate people made it back to the city, we took the train back to our apartment. I had my metro card then.
After Pday we went to a members house for dinner and I didn't have it.
I have NO idea where it went. It wasn't in my jacket or my bag. I had only had my new card for 3 days and it was GONE! Losing my metro card has been the biggest fear on my mission, I am pretty sure. Next to an investigator dropping us right before their baptism, but that happened on Tuesday. :/

Thursday we woke up to a text from Breena, who is another investigator with a date to be baptized on May 10. Her text said "hey guys, can I get baptized on Saturday? The 10th isn't going to work anymore.. Oh and by the way I finished the Book of Mormon." uh. Sure? You can't tell someone no if they want to be baptized sooner. So we threw together a baptism in 3 days on top of everything else!

Friday was supposed to be MLC but they cancelled it and did a conference call instead. It was kind of a blessing in disguise because President pretty much told us we are all slacking as leaders... So that was pretty awesome. Not exactly what I needed but it's okay. We have a goal to reach 100 baptisms this month, so we talked a lot about goal setting and following up and keeping people accountable. Then we spent FOREVER with the zone leaders trying to plan zone meeting.

Saturday was the Revlon run, so we woke up at like 4:40 to be in Times Square by 6 am. It was pretty rough. We handed out signs to groups of people who were running. It was pretty fun but it made for a really really long day. We had our baptism that night and it went really well. Here are some of my favorite signs:

Sunday was fast Sunday. Nick made it to church and loved it! After church we went to visit Lilianna. We talked a little more about baptism and we asked her to pray to know if God wanted her to get baptized. We knelt done and she prayed. In her prayer she never once asked

Monday we taught zone meeting. It went okay. We talked about revelation through church attendance and the sacrament.

Tuesday we had an awesome lesson with Nick. He is kind of amazing.
I'll tell you more about him on Sunday, but as of yesterday he has a bap date for May 31. :)

This is kind of short and boring because I want to have a few things to talk about when I skype on Sunday :) hopefully you are thinking of some good questions and things to talk about too!

Love you!

-Sister Toone