Letter 10/17/12

Dear family well I figure I will have a little bit of time to write because at General Conference there are a couple of talks by women so I figure I can write y'all real quick haha (that's for you mom).  I'm a slacker and have not wrote in like a month so I'm going to catch you up where I'm at today.  Well for my last little while I was in South Knox.  I was able to see most of the members to say goodbye especially the YSA.  I made quite a few friends in the YSA and in fact Cody Moon is coming to BYUI.  We are going to room together.  He is from Montana so not to far away.  Well that is shocking news that Kaden can go on a mission any minute now so that will be good.  That is crazy they switched that.  Well let me tell y'all a little bit about my new life.  I'm training a new missionary named Elder Kevin Dreesen from San Diego California.  He is an awesome kid from the 9 that came into the mission.  President & Sister Irion said he is the best one.  He is well prepared and humble to learn.  His spanish is good too except when he is under pressure on the door step then his eyes get a little bigger and he looks at me so I can step in.  I'm excited for the next few transfers back in Dalton.  I feel like I'm back at home.  There is no doubt that Dalton is the best ward in the mission.  My first day back in Dalton was Wednesday.  Well on our way back from transfers we got a flat on the trailer.  Well one of the Brothers from the Spanish Ward saw we needed help.  He loaded up all our stuff and took us home.  While we were with him he bought us all lunch.  Later on that night we went over to the church and introduced Elder Dreesen to some members.  Well it was awesome because I have not seen anyone in a year so 10 members wanted to know what we had planned for this week so they can feed us.  From Thursday until all the way to next Friday we have dinner appointments so we are being well taken care of.  Some of the success that we have had so far.  Well we found 5 new investigators in a half a week.  Two ladies that have great potential.  Then a couple other people close to the church.  We have been tracting close to the church because we live within walking distance of the church also because Elder Dreesen popped his tire on his bike on his first full day.  It blew up like a firecracker so everything is going well.  We have a pretty nice apartment so I'm excited about that it is a lot nicer than South Knox.  Well I'm doing good so no worries.  Sorry for not writing in a month!!  Have a safe week.  Love Elder Robison

A facebook message I received from a family in Dalton

It has been a super crazy busy day. But I am so blessed. I am humbled by the love and kindness of friends and am so thankful for my church family including the amazing missionaries. One of my favorite missionaries said something to me that touched my heart and brought tears to my eyes. I was thanking them for all of their help and hard work today and apologizing to the for them missing part of conference when I was humbled beyond belief, he told me he would rather be in the service of My Heavenly Father doing service for others instead of hearing someone talk about it" meaning he wanted to put those words into action. I cried. Thank you Garline Coleman and Kevin, Thank you Morgan Clark and Krista Clark, and thank you Angie Sutton Robison for raising an amazing son with a heart for our Heavenly Father who only wants to serve. I am truly humbled and blessed by all of you and thankful for the love you have shown my family. #Blessed

10/2/12 Email

Well sounds like everything is going well there back at home and everyone is doing good! well I will catch you up on everything but you are going to have to give me a couple days on a letter. the reason I know were I'm going is because I will be training one last time so that means I will be white washing an area so pres is sending me to a spanish area again so it is exciting to go and see all the people down in Dalton and to work with them once again. Training will give me an opportunity to sit back and be exact and to finish hard and mayby a little spanish will come back along the way so really I was shocked but pres said he wants another one like me out hear so I need to train him to be like me! haha jk but I'm excited hopefully I get a comp that just really needs help I love to help the under dog so I want to do my best!!

 

Hi Presidents letter

 

 

 Dear president

I enjoyed meeting with you as well this week. You wanted  me to talk about my mission vision! Well I have been pondering it quite a bit lately and have come up with some ideas on how to accomplish it. I just wan to to thank you for this opportunity to train again I think there is nothing better to finish out as a trainer / district leader. I know this is a great opportunity to start on my vision because it dose not only reflect me but my new comp. From the extra study in the morning and to being exact that is what will make my light shine and to reflect upon others to make them better disciples of Christ. That is how I'm going to reach my mission vision!
Well for our area in South Knox we had a great week this week. We were able to get with the Delgado family and to help them out this week. They were in need of a bed so we had a service project to help this member move in with her new husband and it turned out that only one member showed up so we had a lot of work to do. We noticed that they had this older bed in the garage so we asked them what they were going to do with it. They said they were going to throw it away. Well the Delgados needed a bed very badly in fact Jimmy Delgado was sleeping on the floor so it was a huge tender mercy from the Lord and I love to see the Lords hand in all things! Later that day we commited the whole Delgado family for the 28th of Oct so we have been blessed so much this week. We need to get them to church and then the dates will count!
Also the dates we have with Shelly and Dusty they are doing great we had a very spiritual lesson with them this week. Dusty opened up and we can totally feel the trust with them they truly love us coming over so everything is going well in South Knox and if our faith is right and we do everything we can we are projected to have 8 baptisms this month. It will be spectacular. well President thanks for everything and you and sister Irion have a great week! Love Elder Robison

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

Letter 8/17/12

Well to start off by giving y'all some info on this past week.  It has been busy with all the meeting stuff.  We had zone council which was Tuesday all day.  Friday we had our zone conference which went super good the spirit was strong and the reason being is it was on a very good subject The Book of Mormon so everyone had another spiritual witness that it is true so it was pretty cool.  Sister Irion's daughter just got back from her mission and she gave a training at the conference as well.  She had some cool experiences on her mission.  My training was on gaining confidence in the Book of Mormon.  It seems we offer it to so many people and it is the number 1 turned down message.  I gave advice on how to gain peace, confidence and strength.  It went well.  Well for some teaching experiences this week we went to this guy's house named Chris.  He is Pentecostal so he gets excited when he feels the spirit so he kind of scared the crap out of us.  We taught him with boldness and just laid the law.  We also had a good Sunday this week.  We had a member from the YSA bring 2 of his friends and we taught them after church.  One of them was really smart and had some deep questions.  We answered them well and confounded all doctrine to his needs.  We left him with a Book of Mormon promise.  Another Chinese guy is now coming to church.  There are now 2 Chinese investigators and they don't even know each other both are in the sisters area so bummed about that.  But to make up for it a couple of different members referred their friends to us and 1 might be promising.  She has 3 kids but all are under the age of accountability.  The Rivera's a spanish family invited us over for dinner tonight and to talk to their neighbors.  Well the neighbors did not show but hopefully we'll get a hold of them.  It has been forever since I spoke in spanish so I'm pretty rusty I imagine.  Well this is my life at the moment.  I might be out of here in 10 day's but who knows so here is the short weekly letter.  Have a great week.  Love Elder Robison