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