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Hello Everyone!

Another week come and gone. I have been in the field for a month. Transfers are this week and I can't believe I already filled up a whole mission planner!! I never thought the day would come. haha It is crazy that it has been a month in the field but also it feels like it has been an eternity. An awesome eternity at that. It has been the most challenging, trying, spiritually uplifting, growing month of my life!! NO DOUBT. But so worth it.

We had another lesson with Mary. She is a miracle. The one who told us no at first when we went tracting. the lord prepared her for us I know. She said that she feels the need to be baptized again. the spirit was really strong in that lesson as we taught her about faith and how it leads you to act. We had another lesson with Hayley to. We are on to the Plan of Salvation with her. The spirit was so strong and she can't wait to be baptized. That evening we had dinner with the wolfs. they are a younger family from Utah. Rudy Wolf joined the church when he was 18 then served a mission in Mozambique (not sure how to spell that) Africa. He met his wife Melissa at BYU and they moved here because he is A dentist and the pay is really good here. They are always doing missionary work, so at dinner there was a man Jose. He is going through a really hard time he has been divorced and his wife just got custody of the kids. He wants the hope that we seem to have. We shared a scripture thought with him and asked him to take the lesson he agreed! The spirit was so strong. I know I saw that a lot but really it always is so strong.

There is member we always go visit her name is Sister Overstreet. She had a stroke and can't get around very well she is lonely and loves "her girls" she calls us. Well it was her birthday and she loves these Lemon Cranberry bars (Sounds gross) well they are. We attempted to make them for her and after three batches we gave up they were so nasty! But we took them to her anyways and she loved them! YUCK! She even called a few days later to tell us thanks again and that they were better than hers ever where. oh dear, haha. I love serving others, something I never liked to do before my mission. But it is such a tender mercy when you can see someone light up because of something that you did for them.

On Saturday we had a lesson with Mary again all about church and we took her on a church tour. She was really excited to come to church and we were really excited that she was willing to come. So Sunday morning we picked her up and she said that she really enjoyed it and looks forward to next week. YAY!!! Mary is such a sweet lady. She would never pray and we finally got her to pray on Saturday. After she prayed she had tears in her eyes and said "I said a lot more than I thought I could say and I felt a lot more than I thought I could feel" Then she told us thank you for changing her life forever. And this is why missionary work is awesome. It is like a constant roller coaster ride but the moments like this are all worth it.

Last night after we went tracting we were driving home and the GPS always likes to send us the shortest route for miles so we turned down this random dirt road that is more like a walking path that is barely big enough for a car. This is normal here though that is how almost all the roads are there is houses down in these hills they call them hollers and they tell you to avoid them cause they are pretty sketchy. Well sister Davis and not knowing any better kept getting deeper and deeper into the hills and then there was this random house on stilts it was the weirdest thing and all of a sudden the river just runs right through the road and you see it come up on the other side. there was no where to turn around because it is cliff on one side and mountain edge on the other and to make it worse it was getting dark.  So we back up all the way till we get to the house so we could turn around. Then me, being kinda dumb decided I wanted to take a picture of the river running through the road so I got out of the car and ran all the way back took a picture and then I heard A door slam and I got a really bad feeling, I ran back to the car as fast as I could and we started to drive away right as we saw the man of the house walking towards us. Talk about scary and talk about listening to the prompting of the holy ghost. I felt bad for sister Davis because she saw more than me but didn't dare call out my name to draw attention to us. I guess what I learned from that story is that when people tell you that weird things happen deep in those hills I fully understand how weird it is in there. I am grateful that we have the spirit to protect us from danger.

This was a great week The scripture this week is Doctrine and Covenants Section 9:7&8. We should always turn to our heavenly father when we are in need but we can't just ask him to help us when we haven't done our part yet. I know that he is always there willing to help us when we ask and when we study out the questions in our minds we will be able to receive our answers. I love you all! I love this church. I know that Joseph smith was a prophet and that the book of Mormon contains the fullness of the gospel. I know it with every fiber of my being. Love always,

Sister Robinson