Letter 7/22/11

Dear family, well another week already.  This one went by fast.  This week has been great, well lets get right in about our investigators.  Richard, we met with him twice this week.  He really remembers everything we teach him.  We read the Book of Mormon to him because he can't read and understand at the same time so we started him in 1 Nephi chapter 4.  We did that to grab his attention.  He liked it, loved the part were Nephi is commanded to cut off Labans head.  He wanted us to stay but we had to leave but before we left we had him pray.  He said he has never prayed before.  We taught him he said after the prayer he has never felt like that before.  That mad us very happy to hear.  We then went to Charline and Don Long.  They were doing horrible.  They lost one of their puppies and a close friend so they were really stressed out about that.  We asked if we could teach them to see if that would make them feel better but they didn't want to because they were sad.  While we were there Don's mom came over and talked to us.  Her husband is a preacher so that don't help any.  On Thursday night the Zone leaders came down and trained me on District meeting stuff. Elder Sexton & Pratt.  They are way cool cats.  We went on an exchange so me and Elder Sexton stayed here and Pratt and Henriquez went to Cleveland Tennessee.  It was great.  I like exchanges they are a really great help to learn how other missionaries do it.  There were a couple things I learned that helped me out a lot.  It has been great.  This P-day we just got back from Chattanooga Park from a zone activity.  We rode with the Zone Leaders down there.  We played frisbee.  Elder Crofts was also down there so we hung out as well.  That was my week it was great.  Well it sounds like y'all are doing great.  Be safe and remember why we are here.  Love Elder Robison

Letter 7/16/11

Dear family, well this week went by fast even though we were on bikes.  We ran into some interesting people on the door this week.  We had done quite a bit of tracting this week.  Well we are still tracting the outside part of town and seem to be doing a lot better because not very many missionaries tract out of town very much.  There are a lot of people that have never talked to us but have seen us on our bikes.  We give them the fill in on what and why what we do.  They seem to be more interested.  The first guy we met thought he knew me and it was funny because I've never seen him before in my life.  I went along with it.  It turns out that he wants us to come back so we are going to teach him as soon as he gets back from his trip.  The next guy is a little crazy.  We started talking to him on his porch.  He was telling us that Satan was buried by his house.  He had a whole bunch of crazy ideas.  We invited him to church he said he was coming.  The next guy we tracted into was Richard.  He is a young guy that just verily was released from jail.  He is covered in tattoos from head to toe.  He was really nice and immediately wanted to learn more.  We taught him.  We are still teaching him so we are hoping to prepare him for baptism some time in the near future.  Well President came over to our apartment at 10:30 Saturday morning so we could meet him and get him caught up on everything.  He is a really good guy.  While Henriquez was being interviewed by President.  I was being interviewed by Sister Irion.  We talked about my family and her family.  We also talked about experiences on my mission so far.  I chose to talk about Maria and Keyaundra.  I was interviewed by President next.  It went really well.  I felt like I was in a doctor office.  He still has doc talk.  He is a really good guy we just talked about the mission and he was committing the whole mission with obedience.  I committed yes.  I'm excited to work with him.  Sunday came around.  We went to church then went to Sister Griggs family.  She has 4 boys and their just little guys so for the lesson I committed them to be missionaries.  I gave them the first restoration pamphlet and told them they need to study it then teach their friends.  They are supposed to report to us next time.  Well the next day is P-day.  We played tennis and basketball and during basketball Dalton West got a call from President Irion.  President told them that Phippen was leaving to Knoxville which is a bummer.  He is going to be a zone leader.  As soon as he was off the phone then ours rang and President told me that I was going to be a District leader.  I will still be staying here so that is good.  That was some pretty shocking news.  I really like Phippen he was probably one of my favorite missionaries so it's a little lame.  So this week has been a little crazy.  Well it sounds like everything is great back at home so that is good.  Keep on doing good and take it easy.  Elder Robison

Letter 7/9/11

Dear family hey y'all at home it sounds like you guy's are doing great and the spuds are all tucked in for the year.  Well I hope the weather out there starts to cooperate.  It sounds like the spuds are going to be small without some heat.  The weather over here has not been to bad it is just too hot outside but good thing we have the car this week with the air conditioning.  We still have to work in the heat though.  We decided this week we were going to go tracting on the outside of town because we figured they have never been knocked before.  Well we asked them if they had ever talked to guys like us before.  Some have but most had not so it was good because we talked to like 3 people that had very much interest.  We taught a lady named Shanon.  She has 7 kids the oldest is 16 so we have a great opportunity to help them and teach them.  We have a return appointment with them.  We also taught a lesson to a guy named Gary.  He is a little rougher.  He had never heard of us beofre so he is interested in us.  This week has been good the only down fall is the 4th and the rec center is closed so we won't be able to play with the brothers so that is a bummer.  Instead of that we are going out to Brother Shinocks to ride llamas.  We are pretty stoked for that.  The Shinocks are great and will be out to BYUI for their sons graduation.  Maybe y'all will have to say hi.  They will be down in December.  Keyaundra is doing great and still progressing.  She is looking forward to getting her patriarchial blessing pretty soon.  Her over all goal is to go to the temple.  She has even hinted on a mission so she is great and living life to the fullest.  Well it has been a great time and time seems to be flying but days can get pretty long.  Well sorry this is short but I want to get some sleep so y'all will have to have a good week and be safe so peace Elder Robison
PS I was wondering when you and dad were going on a mission.  It seems to be asked more frequent lately and Kaden is old enough to take care of himself.  Just wondering?

Pictures but no letter this week

Chad Lewis he played for the Philadelphia Eagles

Our district

Elder Johnson

After the tornado

Wolf spider in the apartment

Keyandra Broom

Gracie

The Degallado family they got my back

Melissa Bonds

my half of the room

My 6 month mark burning my tie

Elder Phippen on exchange

Henriquez flat top.  I told him not to get but he doesn't listen very well.  It lasted about 30 minutes

Temple I made with my sewing kit

 

Keyandra's baptism day

Keyandra and her mom look at Jesus hand in painting

Brother Lunt and Keyandra

The roots of a tree picked up this van