Long time no see!

Since I just talked to you on Sunday I don't have much to say. :)

Monday was district meeting. We had leadership meeting right before with the district leaders and zone leaders. I used to just assume the leaders of the mission worked super hard and were always diligent in getting things done. Then I became a leader. I think they all hate me because I am constantly pulling their attention back to the things we are actually there to talk about. :) after district meeting we split with sister Hoyos and sister Brog. I was with sister Hoyos in her area.

We had to go to their apartment because the owner of the building is redoing everything and people were there to put in an intercom. It was good because we had time to talk about how things are going in her area and we worked on planning an APF in their area.

After they put in the intercom, we went out to an appointment with a less active. I love splits because I get to meet so many people and be strengthened by their faith. We did some lookups and ate dinner after that appointment and by then the day was over.

Tuesday we woke up and ran to the pier to watch the sunrise over the Brooklyn bridge. It was kind of foggy, but still beautiful! Then we had personal study and an awesome companionship study and even some Spanish language study :) then we took the train to Roosevelt island to visit a sick member. Roosevelt Island is seriously the coolest place. There is like one road on the whole island and it is SO quiet!
You can see the whole city from the island.. I love it!

We do a district APF every Tuesday and this Tuesday it was the elders that are over the YSA ward. They took us to Chelsea to tract. We were looking for the building when someone said "Fashion institute of Technology? What is that?" I grabbed sister Campbell and I might have screamed a little. We found it!! And it's huge. They have a museum even. Everyone in the district thought I was going crazy but eventually I calmed down.

After the APF we went to visit Karen who straight up fell asleep during our lesson... It was hilarious. Then we went to an investigators house and she had the whole family there. We taught 6 teenagers about god. I was really nervous at first because all of these teenagers have tattoos and piercings and potty mouths and one is a teen mom. They all dress like they are from the hood and they listen to loud rap music. We felt really awkward and pretty unwanted at first... But then we started our lesson and things completely changed.
Every single one of them believe in God. We had a great lesson about always remembering Him and by the end the daughter asked us if we could teach them how to pray. We invited all of them to church and they committed to coming! It was just amazing, there really are good people everywhere.

Our investigator fed us dinner and then we had dinner at an active members house so by the end of the night I wanted to die! We had an online lesson with Lilianna. She is doing okay... Kind of flaky. Her aunt still doesn't want her to get baptized so she wants to wait till she is older. When we asked her how much older she said 17... But she turns 17 at the end of the summer... So it doesn't really make that much of a difference. We are struggling to know what to do with her.
She has really strong faith and desire but she is really young. Our online lesson was awesome. One of the first ones that I felt was actually a success!!

Well. That's my week! Love you all!


-Sister Toone