Elder Brenan Robison: 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