Week 8! Oh, I love this boy!!

Hi there,

If I or my companion will be transferred we will receive a phone call a few days in advance. Transfers are on Wednesday December 1st and there will be 17 new missionaries coming in. Holy Cow!! The reason why I had to pay the airline 60$ was because I had to pay for the luggage to be put on the plane.  The mission gives us a credit card that they but money on every month, and they give us about 130$ every month.

We are gonna have a turkey bowl on Thanksgiving too! But I hear that missionaries aren't aloud to play tackle, but we will have to see about that. Also, we were invited over to dinner on Thanksgiving to an investigators house as well as the members who we will go eat with, so we might make an appearance there too.

This last Thursday we had our exchanges with the Assistants. I went with Elder Roundy and my companion went with Elder Davies. Elder Roundy and I went to an appointment with a former investigator who hasn't been taught for a year or two so we taught her the Restoration again. I have never felt the spirit more in my entire life than in that lesson. At the end of the lesson we asked her that when she prayed to know if what we taught was true and if she received an answer that it is true that she would be baptized, and she said yes!! We also invited her to come to stake conference and she accepted and she actually came!! Stake conference was so cool, they had a choir sing a bunch of songs and they sounded amazing, they sang a song that I think Mitchell has sang in choir, I think it was "How Can I Keep From Singing". Our mission president and his wife spoke, so did the stake president, and so did the Chicago temple president and his wife. It was one of the best stake conferences I have ever been to.

So that is pretty much everything that is going on here in Columbia City. I love and miss you all.

Love, Elder Brogan Robertson  

This is from a letter that Elder Robertson sent his dad regarding why he picked the scripture he chose for his mission plaque:

Mark 4:37-40
I imagine the great storm that they are in as either sin of great trials.  When they go to wake Jesus up and say, "Master, carest thou not that we perish?"  I imagine that as somebody kneeling down in prayer to God and Jesus Christ, having been broken down and humbled, asking for help and forgiveness.  Then after we pray for those things Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ will be there fr us to calm the storm of trials and sin.  Then after I am freed from my troubles either Jesus Christ or myself would ask me why I was so fearful and why I had no faith.  that is why I love that Scripture.   
Love, Elder Robertson