Yeah! Another letter! Week 5

This week has been exhausting! We found 3 new investigators, which we had to walk many miles to accomplish because we don't have a car this week until Friday. We are so close to getting a baptism! The lady says she wants to get baptized but she wants to clear up a debt she has with somebody before she gets baptized. My companion and I had the longest planning session ever last night because we have so many people we need to visit, Elder Savas who has been out for 15 months said it was the most insane planning session he has ever had!
     Here is a sad story about a little 4 year old girl named Sophie Augustus. About 2 weeks before I hit the mission field my trainer was in this same area as we are now. Him and his companion received a call at about midnight from Brother Augustus who was in tears. Sophie had jumped off her bed and landed on her head and had been vomiting which are signs of brain damage and they were in the hospital. He told them to run down to the hospital to help give a blessing. She left the next day with only a cracked skull. 3 weeks from then, just this last tuesday, we received a call from Brother Augustus in tears again, Sophie had been hit by a car and was in the hospital getting some scans. It looked like she had a broken jaw and maybe a chest contusion and she had a cut on her chin which needed stitches. We rushed down there to help give a blessing to her. Her head was so warm when we laid our hands on her head for the blessing as she laid on the table. She left the hospital the next day, her jaw was only dislocated and her ligaments pulled it back into place and she only had bad bruises, nothing broken or fractured. I now have a firm testimony of the power of priesthood blessings.
     Since we had to give the car to another companionship on friday we have been walking many many miles. I got some blisters on my feet because of it. But it has been worth it when we got to teach the lessons to our investigators. This first month of my mission has gone by like a flash and I don't think it will be slowing down anytime soon. I love and miss you all, and those packages have been very comforting.
         I'm so jealous that you guys have been going on hikes, even though we walk a lot here, it's nothing like taking a hike in the beautiful Oregon forests. I miss Oregon and all of it's beauty and the mountains. But I have been having a good time here. I'm so proud of the ducks 8-0! GO DUCKS!! I haven't seen any drive-ins where I'm at but I'll keep my eye out. We had to be in the apartment by 6 pm yesterday cause it was Halloween. But we did get a lot of candy from a family who fed us yesterday. I have come to love church hymns since I have been out here and I think I am getting better at singing. I sing those forgotten carols everyday and I love them so much.                                                                                                               Love, Elder Brogan Spencer Robertson


    P.S. Could you try to get more people to write me? The only people that have wrote me besides my family are Becca Lough and Sister Frederick(she was in my district in the MTC). Try people at church and my non-mormon friends. I will write a letter to Mitchell today.