What
a great Easter it was! I am so thankful for the knowledge I have of my
savior and that I know that through him we can all live again. What a
marvelous promise. This week was really awesome! On Monday night
President Hodge gave me a blessing that this sickness I have been having
will subside so I can focus on the work. I am a strong believer in
priesthood blessings and although I still get stomach pain it is bearable and I can feel Heavenly Father helping me all the time.
We met a women, Linda. I can't remember if I already told you about her or not but she has cancer and she wanted us to come over Monday the night before she went in for surgery. We talked with her about the book of Mormon (while she was smoking, but people can change) she said she was going to take it with her to the hospital and read while she was recovering. She is really searching for the truth. We sang Be still my soul before we left and the spirit was definitely there. She asked us to please please come back. The lord is preparing her.
Also this week we got air conditioning installed in our apartment. These two guys were installing it and when Sister Davis and I went downstairs to change our laundry they started talking to us about what we believed. We gave them Book of Mormons and all through out the week they kept on asking us question. They weren't in our area so we referred them to some other missionaries but it was awesome cause the one guy Matt he had so many questions like why to preachers get paid and stuff, all the things I could answer.
On Wednesday we had specialized training. Which is when all the missionaries in our area come together with President Pitt and we learn together. I learned that my original definition of the word Sacrifice- to give something up is not correct because actually everything I have is not mine it is the Lords so really Sacrifice means - to make sacred. To bring my will in line with Gods will. It was really deep I still don't full understand that but I have been studying it more and praying more fervently because Prayer is a from of work. After the meeting we all got to go bowling! It was a blast. I got three strikes in a row. I think my bowling skills have improved while being a missionary. I told everyone I was really bad before we went then they all thought I was lying. haha! I didn't think Missions would be fun, but they are. But what does FUN even mean really? My definition of fun now days is bringing people the truth of the Gospel! It brings so much joy.
Oh another interesting experience happened this week. We were visiting a part member family. The Scchicatanos. they live in a very nice neighbor hood and after wards we had like twenty minutes before dinner so we said well lets go knock on these two houses. So we knock on the first house and the guy answers the door and he was really nice and said come in they he saw our name tags and got really really mean. Long story short he almost called the cops on us for "soliciting" on private property. I was just so grateful that I wasn't an Elder cause he probably would have called the cops. It actually wasn't as scary as I thought it would be. Probably because we have God on our side. When we left we said a prayer for him that the next missionaries who knock on his door on accident maybe his heart could be softened. All we want to do is share a message about Jesus Christ but NO one wants to hear it.
On Saturday we had a lesson with Mary about the word of wisdom. She was really mad at first because she had just made a pitcher of ice tea and she liked her iced coffee too. She said she didn't know if she was ready to give up those things yet. We bore our testimonies of how the word of wisdom will bless her life and I felt really prompted to share a story with her which I won't mention because I don't know who all reads this and it is not about me so I don't know if a have permission to share it but anyways it was really powerful and then I asked her to pray and ask God to help her give up these things. Her prayer was so powerful and in her prayer she completely changed her mind she said "Heavenly Father I will try.. no I will give up these things I promise in fact I will go dump them out right now because I want to be baptized in this true church". Then she got up and said do you want to watch me? and poured them down the sink and wrote lemonade on her grocery list. that was SO powerful. Then Saturday night was the young women's broadcast. It was amazing. And we went to the church to watch it with Haley. She was the ONLY Young Women who came to watch it and she is not even a member yet. Our two investigators are stronger than a lot of the members. They are even stronger than me. I know that they truly have been prepared and that I have a lot to live up to for the rest of my life since I am the one that brought them this truth and they are already better than me. It is amazing.
Church was so great! President and Sister Pitt happened to be passing through so they came to our church. The speakers did a great job and I learned all about my saviors life. This week as I was studying about my savior I came across one of my new favorite scriptures it is in Doctrine and Covenants 6:34 and it says: "Therefore, fear not little flock; do good; let the earth and hell combine against you, for if ye are built upon my rock, they cannot prevail." and I know this to be true, as long as we are living the Gospel the best that we can we have no reason to fear because we are his sheep and he is our shepherd and he will always protect us.
I love you all so much, I pray for you everyday.
love, Sister Robinson
We met a women, Linda. I can't remember if I already told you about her or not but she has cancer and she wanted us to come over Monday the night before she went in for surgery. We talked with her about the book of Mormon (while she was smoking, but people can change) she said she was going to take it with her to the hospital and read while she was recovering. She is really searching for the truth. We sang Be still my soul before we left and the spirit was definitely there. She asked us to please please come back. The lord is preparing her.
Also this week we got air conditioning installed in our apartment. These two guys were installing it and when Sister Davis and I went downstairs to change our laundry they started talking to us about what we believed. We gave them Book of Mormons and all through out the week they kept on asking us question. They weren't in our area so we referred them to some other missionaries but it was awesome cause the one guy Matt he had so many questions like why to preachers get paid and stuff, all the things I could answer.
On Wednesday we had specialized training. Which is when all the missionaries in our area come together with President Pitt and we learn together. I learned that my original definition of the word Sacrifice- to give something up is not correct because actually everything I have is not mine it is the Lords so really Sacrifice means - to make sacred. To bring my will in line with Gods will. It was really deep I still don't full understand that but I have been studying it more and praying more fervently because Prayer is a from of work. After the meeting we all got to go bowling! It was a blast. I got three strikes in a row. I think my bowling skills have improved while being a missionary. I told everyone I was really bad before we went then they all thought I was lying. haha! I didn't think Missions would be fun, but they are. But what does FUN even mean really? My definition of fun now days is bringing people the truth of the Gospel! It brings so much joy.
Oh another interesting experience happened this week. We were visiting a part member family. The Scchicatanos. they live in a very nice neighbor hood and after wards we had like twenty minutes before dinner so we said well lets go knock on these two houses. So we knock on the first house and the guy answers the door and he was really nice and said come in they he saw our name tags and got really really mean. Long story short he almost called the cops on us for "soliciting" on private property. I was just so grateful that I wasn't an Elder cause he probably would have called the cops. It actually wasn't as scary as I thought it would be. Probably because we have God on our side. When we left we said a prayer for him that the next missionaries who knock on his door on accident maybe his heart could be softened. All we want to do is share a message about Jesus Christ but NO one wants to hear it.
On Saturday we had a lesson with Mary about the word of wisdom. She was really mad at first because she had just made a pitcher of ice tea and she liked her iced coffee too. She said she didn't know if she was ready to give up those things yet. We bore our testimonies of how the word of wisdom will bless her life and I felt really prompted to share a story with her which I won't mention because I don't know who all reads this and it is not about me so I don't know if a have permission to share it but anyways it was really powerful and then I asked her to pray and ask God to help her give up these things. Her prayer was so powerful and in her prayer she completely changed her mind she said "Heavenly Father I will try.. no I will give up these things I promise in fact I will go dump them out right now because I want to be baptized in this true church". Then she got up and said do you want to watch me? and poured them down the sink and wrote lemonade on her grocery list. that was SO powerful. Then Saturday night was the young women's broadcast. It was amazing. And we went to the church to watch it with Haley. She was the ONLY Young Women who came to watch it and she is not even a member yet. Our two investigators are stronger than a lot of the members. They are even stronger than me. I know that they truly have been prepared and that I have a lot to live up to for the rest of my life since I am the one that brought them this truth and they are already better than me. It is amazing.
Church was so great! President and Sister Pitt happened to be passing through so they came to our church. The speakers did a great job and I learned all about my saviors life. This week as I was studying about my savior I came across one of my new favorite scriptures it is in Doctrine and Covenants 6:34 and it says: "Therefore, fear not little flock; do good; let the earth and hell combine against you, for if ye are built upon my rock, they cannot prevail." and I know this to be true, as long as we are living the Gospel the best that we can we have no reason to fear because we are his sheep and he is our shepherd and he will always protect us.
I love you all so much, I pray for you everyday.
love, Sister Robinson
P.S My address for any who want it is :
1656 Shady Knoll Ave. Apt B
Bedford VA, 24523
and they just announced that we are now
allowed to email whoever we want friends family anyone. So if you want
to email me my email address is:
I would love to hear from you all :)
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