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