Letter received from Brenan's compaion Elder Mills

Dear Robison family,
Thank you so much for the Valentine's day card and tie.  Elder Robison and I had color coordinated ties for church on Sunday and several of the ward members noticed and complimented us.  Serving with Elder Robison these past few weeks has been incredible.  I am learning so much from him.  Everyone loves Elder Robison out here.  In fact, we get fed my the members more than the other set of Elders in our ward because everyone wants Elder Robison in their home.  I hope all is going well in Idaho.  My mom grew up in Idaho, and my grandparents live near Twin Falls in a little town called Wendell.  I have cousins who live in Idaho Falls.  My sister and brother-in-law graduated from BYUI and are currently at the University of Idaho where he is working on his law degree.  Even though I was born and raised in California I have spent lots of time visiting family in Idaho.  It is a nice place.  Elder Robison has shown me pictures and it looks like he is blessed with a wonderful family.  Thanks again for the card and the tie.  I truly appreciate the support.  It is such a blessing to have the opportunity to serve with Elder Robison.  Thank you for helping him be the Elder that he is.  Love, Elder Mills

Letter 2/21/12

Dear family well this week has been great.  We have had so much success with some investigators especially with some new investigators we have.  Well the regular are still the regular but we were able to meet with KC & Bethany.  They have been doing their home work that is for sure.  They had some questions we could not answer right away.  In a couple of spots in Ether it talks about steal and windows.  In that time period there were not steal or windows he said.  We will figure it out for him.  They are both seeming to warm up to us.  We were talking about how we have been working out in the morning and he wants to come with us that's way cool.  Oh ya I forgot to tell you we received permission to go work out with a member every morning at a place called Crossfit.  It seems to be working I'm pretty sore as of right now.  Hopefully KC will come with us and that they find their answers in the Book of Mormon.  We have also met with a new guy named Eric Shermonker.  He is doing very well.  We have met with him twice and he seems to be solid as a rock.  He understood the vision very well and reads the Book of Mormon often so he is doing fantastic.  One of the lessons we visited and he asked us to take the envelope in the middle of the table.  It said tithing on it so he wanted us to take it.  We told him we wouldn't be able to that we don't have permission to handle money.  We gained alot of respect because of that so we are planning on setting a date with him soon hopefully for the first of next month.  The work seems to be going great the time is flying so fast I can't believe it.  I had a neat experience this week with following the spirit.  The spirit was direct with me on what I should do and who should be apart of it.  There is a sister in the ward that has a little girl of 2 or 3 years old.  Well when I saw them in Sacrament meeting I had the feeling that we need to make sure and see her after church and to get the Clarks to go visit her that night.  Well I got it all set up and it turns out she had been having a very hard time with her husband and she never gets to talk to people much.  We had a great visit and the Clarks helped her out alot.  Well great week.  Sorry this one is so late.  Love ya so much.  Love Elder Robison

Brenan........Roman soldier

Brenan sent these in his email.  Sister Irion asked him to dress up as a Roman soldier for the training she did at their zone conference.  He had to walk in as she read a scripture.  He makes a pretty cute Roman soldier

Brenan and his companion Elder Mills

Letter and pictures 2/6/12

Dear family, well it seems I fell behind on the letter writing again.  I'm hoping to pick that back up so I can make mom happy again.  Well I need to catch you up on what has been going on especially this last week.  A lot has changed.  Well first off I've got a new comp his name is Elder Brennan Mills so he has the same first name as me.  This past week we have had two people ask us our first names because they were confused on our tag's.  We told them our first name's and I think they thought we were mocking them in a way.  That was funny to see.  A little bit about Elder Mills.  He is from California the San Francisco area.  He has 2 sisters one older and the other younger.  His dad is a manager at a computer software company.  His dad is also a bishop.  He comes from a great family.  Well with the work this week we have so many people we are working with.  A group of investigators I will list them from most potential to least potential Jeff Inchen, Terry Green, Gloria, Jeff Gann and family, Casey & Bethany, Inez Mena and Thomas Cook.  That is just the potentials we have more that are just there for the moment.  Jeff Inchen has finally stopped smoking and has really committed himself to stop for good.  We are trying to help find him a place so he can move out of the people house that don't treat him well.  We have also been working with Bethany and KC.  They are a pretty nice family.  We taught them the Restoration.  The spirit was strong but I'm not for sure if they felt it but they will eventually find it.  We are waiting for them to read the Book of Mormon and see how they feel.  They are busy for 2 weeks so we will see them next week.  Thomas Cook well we found him after a long search of 1 month.  We're excited to start working with him again.  We are hoping to set a date back up with him so we will see.  Last night we had a very spiritual experience with Gloria.  We have been pullen her leg trying to get her to church.  I'm hoping the deal was sealed.  We had Brother Reynolds with us.  Jim Reynolds.  He taught her the Restoration very well in a different way then I have ever seen before.  Gloria followed every word the spirit was so strong and on top of that Gloria was melting all over Jim. Hopefully we get them dating and Gloria to church.  I think she is coming this week.  So we've had such a blessed week and hope to keep pressing forward with these great people.  You all have a great week take care and Love Elder Robison

Robert (tiny)

Temple I made

Sterling Howard he leave to Brazil in 4 weeks

The Cumberland zone

The Eddy's

I finally got Elder Harwood

Our District

Our District and part of our zone

Alli's letter

Well alot has changed since the last time I wrote you. Well let me tell you the big changes. I'm still in Pleasant Ridge but with a new comp. His name is Elder Mills. Something that is way cool is when we were walking in the meeting to go meet all the greenies, I knew from the beginning who my comp was even before President called him up so my revelation has been on fire and the kid that sat by me Elder T Smith I called his companion for him too. He was impressed. Well a little about Elder Mills he is from a family of 5 with his parents. He has 2 sisters he is in the middle. His dad is a manager at this huge computer company. This kid is a stud he is way chill and can teach so well for how young he is. He is teaching at a level where a normal missionary is teaching in a year and a half on their mission. It is a great blessing to be able to train him. Well just to get you caught up on this past week. My last few days with Harwood were awesome. We went and visited a couple members he wanted to go see. We also went bowling for our last P-day. We had everyone there. There were 16 of us and we bowled for 5 hours non stop. We bought unlimited passes for everyone so we were getting pretty good. My highest score was a 179. I was on fire it was really fun there should be pictures coming soon!

Well now let me fill you in on the work. Currently right now Jeff is on for Feb 9th and Gloria is for April 12th so 2 committed we had a very spiritual lesson with Gloria yesterday and we found some concerns she had. We should be having a great Sunday this week because she is coming. Well we are on our bikes all week and we definitely have been using them. We rode for 7 miles in the rain yesterday and it was so cold. But for some reason it was so fun because Elder Mills is not used to biking yet so he is a little slow. But he will get better. Well we decided to knock some doors where we knew a couple of hispanics would be. We knocked about 8 of them we got into a guys house named Francisco. It was the first Spanish lesson I've taught in 8 weeks. It was great. It was directed by the Spirit because I have not practiced Spanish in awhile. I know the Lord wanted me to be able to speak with boldness and power because my comp needed to see that I could speak so he will have confidence in me. It was such a great understanding and experience for me to speak with the gift of tongues. 

Some pretty exciting events that happened this week we were sitting in this apartment lobby waiting to be rang up. Well this lady was too, but she had no one to let her in. So she snuck in because her grandma did not answer. Well pretty soon after that the ambulance pulled in I told Elder Mills that I bet her grandma died. But I was kind of joking... well it turns out she did die. So we waited to talk to her. We asked her if she needed any help "crazy eh"