Letter 8/19/11

Querido familia, Pues esta semana fue magnifico.  Yo tengo un neuvas companero.  El se ama Elder Crofts.  El es mis amigo.  Elder Henriques se fue en ? oltra lado de Tennessee.  Est atranslado es meyor.  Por que tenemos el mismo problema con espaniol.  Entonus yo tengo mas confedencia en espanil.  Well this week was amazing.  I have a new companion.  It is Elder Crofts (This is his friend from Shelly who was in the MTC with him, they are great friends)  He is a good friend.  Elder Henriques left to another area in Tennessee.  This transfer is better because Elder Crofts and I have the same problem and that is spanish so I have more confidence in my spanish.  Well I have been so busy lately.  I wanted to write more and sooner but we have been really busy with things from appointments to preparing for District Meeting.  We had our District meeting today.  It went great.  Everyone participated.  We have 2 new Missionaries in the District, Elder Crofts and Sister Christiansen.  They are great.  We have the best district in the Knoxville Tennessee mission.  I let them know that.  For this transfer we set a goal for 5 baptisms.  I know we can get it and I promised the District that if we are 100% obedient we will hit those goals.  I'm excited for this transfer.  Elder Crofts and I are planning for 2.  We have Alfredo Hernandez and Nick Martin.  We are hoping for a bonus from tracting.  We have been tracting like crazy.  That seems to be helping our spanish.  Well for teaching we taught Nick Martin this week.  He was supposed to be baptized last Tuesday but we had problems with his birth mom even though she lives in Nebraska.  We are hoping for him in the next couple of weeks.  Today when we were over at his house I felt like we need to get to know him a little better and be more of a friend so we played chess with him and we won.  I don't know how we did.  Well I'm so excited for our District.  I think we are going to be more united.  I'm starting a prayer roll for our district so when I do nightly phone calls they are going to let me know what they need help with whether it is with an appointment or return appointment or just plain tracting.  We are going to pray as a District that way we are a lot stronger.  I'm thinking this will help but I need some help on how to get some of the missionaries more effective in their work or just use their time more wisely.  A set of missionaries do the exact same thing every day so be thinking what we can do for the District to help us with our goals.  Enough about that let me tell you a little bit about this week.  Well Richard we are doing a drop lesson with him this week.  He was not progressing at all.  We went Tracting the other day and had great success.  We had 6 return appointments.  They were all spanish too so it was great.  Well it sounds like y'all are having fun especially at the cabin so send pics of all things at the cabin and of the cabin.  But thanks for writing those big huge letters every week.  I really like that so thank you.  Sorry for not writing much so I'll get better but y'all have a good week and love y'all Elder Robison