Transfers!

Well hello again. This last week went by so so fast. It's really scary actually.

The rest of Pday was fun! Hopefully you all saw the picture from Clarissa. We went to lunch and then walked the Highline Park. It was so windy but beautiful. Then we went to visit a potential/new investigator. I think I have emailed before about the Haitian family we are trying to teach... It's a mom and dad and 5 kids. The kids are between the ages of 19 and 11 so it's an awesome opportunity to teach a family! Then we went to dinner with an active member family.

Thursday was good. Nothing too exciting happened... Weekly planning sucked up a good portion of our time. The only other exciting thing that happened was I got my skirt stuck in the door of the subway..
So..,that was cool.

Friday we were on a split. I stayed in our area for the second time. I still have NO idea where we are going. Good thing we have a map! (And yes, I have actually learned how to read a map. Sort of.) I was staying with a sister who is pretty new and pretty intense when it comes to missionary work, so I was really nervous. We planned a really full day with some awesome appointments.

Before we split I made a comment like "I love splits because miracles ALWAYS happen." We had to come home first to do companionship study and to make a game for a family we were going to teach. Our first appointment was in the projects and I wasn't 100% sure how to get there so we left early. We got there just fine and had time to tract so we got in the elevator just her and I, and I pressed 17 which is the top floor. (Yeah, I know. 17 floors of projects. Don't worry, that's the usual). The elevator stopped so we got off and started tracting. There was a lady mopping the floor (miracle 1. Projects are
DISGUSTING) we knocked on two doors and no one answered. This weird guy came out of no where so we were going to go to another floor when we got the prompting to talk to the lady who was mopping.

We talked to her for a while and she told us about the miracles she has seen in her life. She talked about her youngest son and how she felt like she had one more child waiting to come to earth. Then she talked about how she finally got her son and he has always been really interested in going to churches. We talked to her for like 30 minutes and then I realized we were on floor 9. Not 17. We have no idea how the elevator got to there but we are chalking it up to a big fat MIRACLE!! :)

The rest of Friday was kind of a joke. By the end of the night we were over an hour behind because nothing went like it was supposed to, but we worked so hard. We taught 9 lessons that day! The Lord really does know so much more than I know and has much bigger plans for us than we do. At the end of the night I was talking to sister Groberg and she said that this split was exactly what she needed. I thought it was a pretty garbage day but obviously The Lord knows better. :) she talked about how she needed to learn how to slow down, and that when we are doing our very best, The Lord will bless us. It was awesome. I love being a sister training leader!

Saturday we woke up at 5:15 to go play gator ball in Harlem. It was really fun and probably the highlight of our day. We had an appointment with Albert and he told me I am too pushy and then he yelled at sister Campbell and by the end of the lesson he was so mad he wouldn't even pray. On our way to the appointment I realized I forgot my tag and sketchy things kept happening. There was this guy that sat across us on the train and he was straight up rolling his weed. Seriously. He spilled it all over his pants once and it didn't even phase him. Then another group of druggies got on and I'm pretty sure they were making deals with their drug lord. It was just sketchy as crap.

After Albert made us feel horrible, we went to do another chalk APF.
This one was just with the singles ward. It was pretty fun, but I liked the faith one better. After the APF we got juked once and then had a few other okay appointments. Oh. Saturday was also transfer calls! Campbell and I are staying! Get this. My trainer, sister white is coming to be in our zone (so my mission mom) and sister Orme is also coming to our zone and she is going to be my roommate! (She's my mission baby) and I am just stuck being their sister training leader.
Yay me.

Sunday was a good day. Nick came to church and we had dinner at an awesome members house! I finally feel like I know. Few people and it's great. I do love it here in south man.

Monday we had our last district meeting. We met with Liliana in the afternoon and set plans for her baptism on Saturday. She said she was really excited and ready, so of course we were really excited too.
Nothing else too fantastic happened Monday.

Tuesday takes the cake for crappy days on the mission I think. We woke up to a text from Liliana saying that she can't be baptized because her aunt got really mad about her being baptized again. Then she didn't text us back all day. We went to the church and Albert was there (he is a guard for the temple) and he wouldn't even talk to us.
We got juked by a less active and our investigator family. We even called the investigator family to confirm and they still juked! Not to mention it rained all stinkin day. It ended better, though. We took Liliana to a dinner appointment at our ward mission leaders house and she said she would ask her aunt again to see what she said. Liliana said that her mom would probably be proud of the decision she is making so hopefully her aunt will understand.

Okay. Enough about me. Let's talk about the work for a minute. If you haven't noticed, the work is hastening. Our mission taught 1700 lessons last week. That's more lessons than this mission has ever seen. EVER! We have 108 people with dates to be baptized in the month of May. People are walking up to us on the street asking to be taught by missionaries... I have witnessed it first hand. What are you doing to help the work? Are you reading PMG like the apostles asked? If not, today is a beautiful day for you to start. I love this scripture. I think if each of us tries a little harder today to follow it we can each do our part in the hastening.

Alma 25:26
And we talk of Christ, we rejoice in Christ, we preach of Christ, we prophesy of Christ, and we write according to our prophecies, that our children may know to what source they may look for a remission of their sins.


Love you!
-sister Toone

Ps, some pictures for ya!
We found a tulip festival