Letter 9/19/11 and pictures

Dear family this has been a great experience and probably the best decision I ever made.  No the best decision I have made.  I love it more and more.  When I look back to see where I started all the way back from when I was a boy when I first made that decision to go on a mission.  I'm thankful for all of you that helped me set and make goals to be able to be where I'm at today.  This week has been great.  I think there is a good chance I'm leaving but nor for sure yet so Crofts and I are enjoying the last 7 days with each other.  He is definitely my favorite companion.  We are chill.  Well he and I are off to a great start this week.  We have put quite a few hours of tracting and had great success.  We have 5 return appointments and have already taught 2 of them so it's been great.  We have also started teaching V D's brother C.  We have been making pretty good friends with him.  He is hard to teach so we are working with him slowly.  We also have been focusing on K's aunt, S W.  She was slowly falling away because we have not been able to see her as much as we would like.  Well we taught her the Plan of Salvation and her eyes lit up.  She was impressed to see that in her own Bible then to top it all off we showed her why the Book of Mormon is so important by using Alma chapter 40:11-14.  Showing her the state of rest in the spirit world.  We had a great lesson with her.  She loved it.  We are hoping to reset a date with her for September 29th.  She will be ready.  Well today is Thursday and we have weekly planning but before that we had interviews with President Irion and Sister Irion. They are great and still have that excitement.  Well 4 of us were interviewed at the church and they all went well.  While we were waiting we had the chance to visit with Sister Irion.  She is pretty chill to talk to.  We talked about her daughter in Russia.  She has been serving for 8 months.  I asked her what it is like to have an apostle for a dad.  She said it was pretty neat but you just never get to see them that often.  She told us of some stories of when he was a heart surgeon and some childhood memories.  Pretty interesting.  Well after that we went back home and weekly planned and set some goals as a companionship on top of what we already have.  We set a work out plan so we can stay in shape and lose weight because as of right now I'm 95% Idahoan and 5% Georgian.  Well sounds like potatoes are about ready to start and the grain is put in for the year.  Keep up the good work love Elder Robison

Llamas at Shinoocks

Door to our apartment

Outside our apartment

Charly

Crofts

good old Charly

Louisa and Angie

Crofts cooking

my pond

dinner appointment at DelaCruz

District and I doing reports

Sister Laulea & Sister Christiansen

Elder Sowards, me, E, Crofts & Sexton

I'm crouching because E doesn't like being short

E & me

  I found out today that he gets to stay in Dalton for another 6 weeks with Elder Crofts.  He was pretty excited.

Letter 9/15/11

Dear family well great week to start it all off we had a baptism on Sunday morning @ 8:00.  I can't remember if I told you about E..L..  He was one of our invstigators that we would teach and then let the sisters fellowship him because they live not to far from him.  It worked out great.  I had the opportunity to baptize him.  He was really excited and it meant the world to him.  I asked after how he felt and he said neuvo y limpio so that was great.  Well the reason y'all probably havent heard me talk about him is because we verily started to teach im 3 weeks ago and I did not think he would get baptized so fast.  He is leaving to Florida so that is why he wanted to be baptized so fast.  Well the next day was P-day and we had a zone activity.  We all got together and played ball.  It was good fun, Pratt and Sexton were there so we challenged them for a quick game of ball.  This week we got the car back from the other missionaries.  It was a good week to have the car because it rained for 3 days straight.  it flooded a lot of roads and some were closed down so I enjoyed the car.  Well we are commiting K.... aunt for baptism tonight so hopefully we will have another ready in 2 weeks so pray for her.  Well we commited her and she accepted but the date we gave her will not work.  She is going to tell us this Sunday when she can so I'm happy she is doing good.  Well I just got the letter of the week and it sounds like harvest is getting done.  Well Matt tell him he needs to suck it up and get back to work haha j/k.  Well you all sound great so keep it up and hope y'all are doing good so keep up the good work and be safe.  It sounds like dad is going to have to get training wheels for the 4 wheelers.  Have a good week.  Elder Robison

Letter 9/6/11

Hey family well this week has been great.  We have had many opportunities to get into peoples houses this week.  some of them we have some return appointments.  One guy who sticks out to me is this guy who we were talking to.  He told us that we had stopped by this morning.  We looked at him a little funny.  He told us that they were J Dubs (Jehovas Witness I assume)  He kind of did not care about our message until we brought up unpaid ministry.  As soon as he heard that he asked us if we wanted to come in for a soda.  From there on he was glued to our message.  We are going to teach him this next Sunday.  Hope the best for this guy.  We also talked to an old lady who listened to our message but didn't want us to come back but told us she was going to read it.  Well the reason I tell you about his is because I have a good feeling about her.  Well Keyaundra is doing great, in fact she is doing missionary work as we speak.  She has asked 3 people to take the discussions.  Her aunt Sherri Hawkins.  Her friend Sean and another friend that I have not met yet.  She has been a big part of our success.  We are grateful to have her around.  The 2 out of the 3 we taught they seem to have interest especially Sherri.  She is looking forward for church next Sunday.  She accepted a soft commitment as well.  She is doing great.  She does have word of wisdom problems so pray for her.  Well we also had a great opportunity to teach Keith Johnson.  He read the Book of Mormon so we went on ahead and taught him the Plan of Salvation.  He understood it clearly but did not believe it even when we taught straight scripture out of the Bible and Book of Mormon.  He used to be a J-Dub so it is a little more difficult but I like it because we actually get to teach so I like it.  He still has interest in us so we are just waiting for his answer in the B of M.  It's going to come sooner than later.  It always seems like I'm never satisfied for some reason.  If I feel like I need to work on Spanish then the next week I feel like I don't know my scriptures like I should so I just want to have it all well I notice things come with time I guess you could say.  Well funny story of the week, I ate it on my bike and jacked up my pants.  Well let me tell you how and why it happened.  Well we just got done eating at De La Cruz house and I ate too much as usual so we took of and I peddled up behind Crofts and grabbed his back pack and he was peddling us up the hill.  Well it came to the point we had to get off the curb and get on the street well Crofts swerved hard in front of me and my front tire hit his frame and turned my forks a 90 degree angle so I kind of went over the bars.  Well I was not on the ground for to long because the ice cream man saw the whole thing so I got back on and hurried away.  So it was pretty funny.,  Well it was a good week and thank y'all for your letter have a good week and love y'all.  Elder Robison