Letter 3/20/12

Family, well a lot has happened since the last time I wrote.  A lot of good.  Well to explain why I have not written it is because Brother Nicho keeps grabbing the mail and forgets that he has it so I just thought y'all forgot about me.  So here we are I will try to get you caught back up.  Well to start off with our District they are still staying strong, in fact our numbers went up again as of right now we have 19 committed with a date for baptism and 13 came to church.  Those are really high numbers for the mission so we are definitely being blessed as a District.  For our whole Zone which is 3 areas in total we have 20  committed and we have 18 of them.  Life is good.  Well to catch y'all back up with our progressing investigators.  Casey and Bethany have been real busy so we have not been able to see them as often.  Well we have a new investigator named Marcos Ribas.  He is from Cuba.  We tried to commit him for baptism but he said he needs to read a little more.  I give him 1 week to have a date.  He is a very nice guy and it feels good to speak Spanish again.  We also have still been teaching Eric.  He is not progressing as fast as we would like him to but he has still got potential for a soon date.  Well we also were referred to a guy who is a very good guy.  His name is Mike.  He had 3 kids and a wife but they all died.  Not for sure how.  We have taught a lot toward family.  The next lesson will be The Plan of Salvation.  He has a great understanding of the gospel already and priesthood authority.  Gloria is still Gloria it is hard to have faith when you have been rejected so many times.  Well the other day I received a call from an old investigator who I used to teach.  Well it turns out he wants to be taught again.  So we met with him yesterday and WOW what a crazy cool story.  He told us that when he stopped meeting with us that he was just going to be done.  Well he said something kept telling him to call and call. He lost our number but found a card we had given him.  He said even when he had this card that it would always show up.  He was talking to his wife about us again.  He was asking her if he should contact us well in the middle of the conversation at Chick-Fil-A three missionaries sat right next to them.  He took it as a sign.  Well he said that night him and his wife were looking through their DVD collection and chose a movie, a movie that they did not even know they had.  The Other Side of Heaven.  He told us that they never even knew that movie even existed.  The next day he called us and 2 days later he has a date for the5th of April.  He knew it is true and so excited to be baptized.  Well we found out he does not live in our area so we gave him to the sisters but what a blessing.  Thanks you so much for the package it is great.  Well everything is going well here so take care.  Love Elder Robison

Letter 3/10/12

Dear family, Well I figure I better get an early start this week on the letter.  Well we have a lot of new news.  We have been teaching Brooklyn, one of the members girlfriend.  Well they broke up so basically that means we broke up as well.  That is a bummer because she was doing so well.  She had read 1Nephi and understood the first 3 lessons very well.  We were just waiting on her to find her answer.  I'm hoping everything works out with her.  Terry Green he is doing good.  He is reading on his own free time without us even asking.  We only come across his drinking problem.  I think it would kill him if he gave it up cold turkey so we are trying to help him wean off so maybe we can boost up his date.  We are looking for a baptism in March.  We were planning on Eric but he is very hard to keep in contact with.  We're still trying to get with him.  He is a taxi driver so his schedule is all messed up.  Two of my most favorite investigators right now are Casey & Bethany.  They have really warmed up to us.  We went over there this past week to reschedule.  They are a great family.  They are going to grow a garden so I told them I could help them with that and also one of their shed's needs rebuilt so we are going to see if we could help them with that also.  They invited us to go bowling with them the next time their friends and them go out.  I'm way stoked for that and also when they have people over for campfires.  So we are excited to see them progress.  Pray that they will find their answers in March so they will be ready for this month.  Well I received some news Thursday.  I found out I'm going to be the District Leader for our District.  Right now our District is the best in the mission.  We are doubled in our numbers and everything is going very well.  I'm excited and a little nervous but I'm hoping to help them get our numbers higher and to see even more success.  Well I'm staying with Elder Mills and I'm excited with that as well.  I love y'all and you all be safe.  Love Elder Robison
PS  Survived the tornado's, just missed us by 3 miles so everything is all good. 

Letter 3/1/12

Feb 16, Today started out great.  We studied and prepared for our investigators.  We came up with some pretty good ideas when we teach KC & Bethany.  We are going to show them some modern day revelation by teaching the Word of Wisdom and putting The Family Proclamation into it.  I've never really taught it like that before.  We'll see how it goes.  For lunch today we ate at Oasis with The Nicho's.  It was great and I ate way too much.  We visited with them for awhile about her house ideas and getting into real estate.  It really interests me.  The rest of the day went alright we had 4 other lessons and also taught Vivian.  She is doing great and we committed her to bring her son with her to church this week.  Feb 20, Well great day.  Today was P-day we actually went to the Smokey Mountains with our whole district.  The Assistants came with us and we had a lots of fun.  Our goal was to make it to the waterfalls but we read the map wrong.  We thought it said 5.2 miles round round trip but it was one way so we did not make it to the Falls due to time.  Well to finish off our day we had dinner with Bishop and his counselors.  They made 30 pounds of wings and 3 different types.  It was really fun.  There was a kid there that used to live in the ward.  His name was Derick Hinkley.  He is in a band with his brothers and they are really good.  You need to check them out.  The Hinkley Brothers.  He gave us some CD's.  Well its been a great week and y'all have a good week.  Elder Robison

Brenan and Jeff

Elder Mills, Jeff and Brenan

Brennan & Brenan they look all bad boy:)