Letter 10/5/11

Dear family this week has been great as well as slow it seems.  Well this week we have had a lot of meetings and they were wonderful to be at.  The big meeting this week was in Knoxville.  We had to drive up to Athens TN and slept over at the elders apartment.  It was fun to go meet new elders.  This meeting was for missionaries with leadership positions so all trainers, District Leaders, zone and Assistants so Crofts went with one of the Elders in Athens and stayed there and did work with them.  Elder Wixom and I went up to Knoxville.  Wixom is from Pocatello and he knows Jeff Driscoll.  We were on that subject because he loves airplanes.  We talked about the P-51 he told me he knew a guy with one.  It turned out to be Jeff.  He is a pretty cool kid.  Well we had a pretty good training with President.  He trained on Doctrine of Christ in 2 Nephi he took an hour and a half and gave great points of view and reasons then Sister Irion gave light on love through scriptures.  they both did great then 2 guys from the MTC came and taught us how we should be studying in companionship study.  They did a great job and taught us how to gain that much more success with our investigators.  In their training they had us plan a lesson plan for an investigator that they played on the projector.  Out of all the people I was put with Sister Maynes as my comp.  She was the sister that was in my district for 6 months.  We ended up making a lesson plan and it went well.  She is a great missionary.  Her brother was in Matt's mission.  The next thing we did was finished off by our new assistants little training and then we ate pizza and went home.  The ride home was long.  We went with a member from Athens and it was crammed and stunk.  Then we hit bad traffic, then to top that all off we ran out of gas so we called Crofts and Thompson to bring gas and pick us up.  Then from Athens we had Charley pick us up we ended up getting home at 7:30 so our day was gone.  On our way home the sisters called and they set a date with Tim.  They have been working with Tim for 7 months so I took them out for shakes.  I'm trying to be the cool supportive District Leader.  The sisters are working hard, its great to see. The next day was Friday and we had District meetings and it turned out great.  I followed President Irions exercise in 2 Nephi.  Everyone participated and got a lot of insight out of it.  I also extended a little exercise we had the day before.  After district meeting we practiced some Hymns because they want to do a musical number for church.  I'm not to sure about that.  I think I'm a better listener.  Earlier this week we had a lesson with this new lady named Dedra Simpson.  She is great.  We asked her to read the Book of Mormon and get on Mormon.org.  She did and took great notes.  We had a great lesson with her.  We taught her the plan of salvation.   It is my favorite lesson to teach.  It went well so this week has been great and I'm hoping for some dates with some of our investigators at the end of this week so hopefully we can get some.  Y'all have a good week and enjoy conference.  Elder Robison