Letter 9/22/12

Dear family well I have a lot to write about so I hope to not bore y'all with this one.  I figured I'd better start off with Elder Foster.  He did an amazing job.  Our whole zone was really inspired and felt confident when they left.  It was by far the best conference yet.  Everyone thinks that Elder Foster and I are pretty tight or something.  Elder Foster made it sound like we were good friends.  He talked about the farm and told everyone if they have ever eaten an Idaho potato that it probably came from our farm.  He let everyone know that I have the nicest sister and she cleans his teeth so everyone got the vibe that we were family friends.  With his training he did a wonderful job.  Our investigators in our area the Delgado family a hispanic family of 6 they are struggling with money right now they are scraping all they can to make the light bill so our bishop came with us and helped us out.  He gave them some money out of his own pocket so hopefully we can get them rolling.  We are also teaching Shelly & Dusty.  Shelly is getting close to baptism.  She is a nice lady.  She was referred to us by Gloria one of my old converts so that is way cool.  Well a little bit about our area during football season.  Well with the Vols they had a game against the Florida Gators last Saturday.  At 5:30 in the morning the streets were full with people in orange.  It was nuts.  The YSA had a tailgate party at the institute.  it was pretty fun.  I think next week we might see if we can get permission to go to the game but I doubt it.  Well not much more to say but I love y'all and have a good week.  Elder Robison

Letter 9/10/12

Dear family, sorry I've not been able to write too much these past couple of weeks.  Well to catch you all up where I'm at as of right now with our investigators we have seen some serious miracles.  Our ward is doing a 40 day fast!! Elder Shoemaker and I have taken advantage of it and have found some really awesome people.  We found the Delgado family.  They are hispanic but don't speak spanish.  They are in true need of help.  They don't have money and have to take care of 4 kids.  The oldest being 11 and the youngest being 3.  Three of the kids will be able to be baptized as soon as we prepare them.  We also were referred to a lady named Shelly.  She has a date for the 21st  so we need to get her ready.  I think her son will be baptized with her as well!  We went to a return appointment yesterday.  It is an old couples house.  Their names are Tom & Ella.  They are a good family.  When we set this return appointment we thought they didn't have much interest but they let us in to share a message.  She read a little bit in the Book of Mormon!!  They are super good people and I'm excited to see where they head to.  Last Tuesday we had our Council with the Zone Leaders.  4 1/2 months ago I was the youngest one in the council but now I'm the oldest.  Just in that short time a lot of things have changed.  For the 12th of this month Elder Foster(Brad Foster) is coming from the 70 to the mission.    We were asked to give a 15 minute training on Gospel blessing families so it will be a couple of sentences to expound upon.  Well I heard the bad news about Keely.  It is still hard to take in.  It's kind of hard to believe.  I hope the family will be able to endure it well because I know how much Kristy loved Keely so it will be hard.  I hope the other girls are OK.  Well that is just a little bit of where I'm at so y'all have a good week and be safe.  Elder Robison

Letter 9/2/12

Dear family well a lot has changed since last time I wrote.  I will try to start where I left off.  Well Elder Craw went to West Hills all last week to go get trained to be an assistant so I have been with the Farragut Elders off and on.  It's been fun they have an awesome ward mission leader Brother Ray.  He is a ears, nose and throat specialist so he took us out for dinner at some nice restaurant.  Farragut is a very wealthy area so all doctors, lawyers and business men live there.  We knocked on the VP of Mastercraft.  His home was huge.  Well I have my new comp now.  His name is Elder Doug Shoemaker from Mesa Arizona.  He is a cool kid.  So far this week we have had so much success.  The most success since I have been in Pleasant Ridge.  Last week we found 11 new solid investigators!!  and we committed 3 investigators for baptism.  The first one is Nate Thompson.  He is a members friend and is a black guy.  His date is for the 28 of September.  Next we set a date for Eryn.  January 20th.  I think they want me to come back out for their wedding and baptism!  We finally set a date with Lauren for September 15.  We are going to keep them in our prayers and we should have 2 more this week:).  I'm enjoying the work everything is going really well for P-day I might go play some ball so y'all have a good week.  Love Elder Robison