Week 51

Hello!

This week was cool. Very service-y. Here are some highlights:

- Monday night cooking, cleaning, watching the children and basically playing mom for a member while she rested upstairs with her newborn baby.

- Wednesday night coordination with the ward mission leader and his wife. They took us out for ice cream and then insisted on driving us around the area in their Masareti. We drove through neighborhoods filled with multimillion dollar houses and caught a glimpse of the New York skyline from the top of a hill. 

- Thursday J----'s baptism started to feel real as we scheduled the time of her interview next week and helped her get started on finding family names to take to the temple. She will be getting baptized next Sunday.

- Friday we spent the whole day at Ellis Island helping in the family search center. I spoke with visitors from Italy, France, Hungary, and Sweden this time. 

- Saturday we didn't even get into our proselyting clothes. We spent the whole day doing service starting at 8am and finishing at 9pm. Our agenda included handing out food to the poor with the Salvation Army, cleaning the chapel with a recent convert, helping a member family pack up to move to Arizona, helping our investigator N---- clean and organize her stuff from her recent move, and moving a full filing cabinet up two flights of stairs for a new potential investigator/referral. Super fun day! I loved it!

- Sunday the Relief Society lesson was taught by one of the Spanish speaking sisters, so I sat up front with her and translated it into English while Hermana Byron sat in the back next to the Haitian members and translated it into Creole. 

XOXO

- Hermana Croft

Pictures:

- me in the back of the Masareti

- H. Byron with the ward mission leader's dog sitting on her lap

- at Ellis Island. There were no spots in the parking lot, so we had to park back on the grass by the old abandoned buildings. We found a broken section of the the torch from the statue of liberty. Cool.