Well Hello,
The reason why I did not write yesterday is because it was a holiday and the libraries weren't open so we are having our P-Day today. So as you all know I got transferred to a new area. I am now serving in Bloomington, Indiana. My address is 2305 East 2nd St. Apt B1, Bloomington, IN, 47401.
So far this area is way cool, it's a bit bigger than my last area so it's gonna take a little while to get the hang of this place. The ward here is awesome, it's filled with young couples and way cool families. My companions name is Elder Duren, he is such a goof ball but we get along so well. When President Collins announced at transfers that we were serving together I thought that he was gonna be super nerdy, but he is hilarious and always makes me laugh, I'm glad I was put with him.
One cool experience I have had already here in Bloomington is that when we were coming in for the night on Sunday, we got a call from a member called us and told us that he had somebody for us to teach. He told us that he wanted to get the missionary lessons and that he wanted to be baptized. So we will be going over there sometime this week. So I will let you know how it goes. We also met this catholic guy while we were tracting and he doesn't want to talk about religion with us but He will give us a ride whenever we need it, so that was pretty cool.
Tomorrow my companion will be going up to Indianapolis for a leadership training meeting with our district leader(our district leaders' name is Elder Roberts). So I am going to be left here with our district leaders companion, and I don't know the area very well still, so this should be interesting.
But over all I have been having a good time. I love all of you.
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Love, Elder Robertson
P.S. Transfers got moved from wednesday to thursday last week because of the snow storm. It was pretty funny.
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
Saturday, January 15, 2011
Why, oh, why??!!
10 January 2011
Hello!
This week was pretty boring because I got quarantined to the apartment because I got sick. Sister Collins said it is probably bronchitis. Super lame and I felt totally useless cause I wasn't preaching the gospel.
One highlight of the week was that Star came to church on Sunday and brought her boyfriend who goes to a Catholic church with his parents and he told Star that he liked our church better. Booyah! Even though they only stayed for sacrament meeting, but that is fine.
President Collins truck was broken into and his briefcase was stolen which had a bunch of important stuff inside it including his scriptures, church keys, mission documents, and some other stuff. So the whole mission fasted so that he would find his stuff. Not long after that a lady called an Elder in the mission and said that she found a briefcase with all this stuff in it laying outside of a bank. The power of fasting works and that is just one example.Nothing else really happened cause I was inside for the majority of the week so I don't have much to report on. But I hope you guys are having a good time back home because I am having the time of my life out here.
Also I got a call this morning telling me I am being transferred, so I will tell you where I am next week. So don't send anything here anymore, cause I won't be here. I'm a little sad cause I love the people here and Star is making so much progress and she wants to get baptized so bad. I have no idea where I am going, they only tell us at transfer meeting. And something funny and cool, Sister Kennedy told us that we eat more than any other missionaries she has seen, and I have only gained like 3 or 4 pounds since I've been out and I eat like it's thanksgiving every time I eat at a members home.
Thanks for your words mom, I love you too! I'm doing the best way I know how to be a good person, by taking on the attributes of Christ. somebody told us this week that our parents are lucky to have us cause we are so great and loving, I guess they were right.
Love, Elder Robertson
This week was pretty boring because I got quarantined to the apartment because I got sick. Sister Collins said it is probably bronchitis. Super lame and I felt totally useless cause I wasn't preaching the gospel.
One highlight of the week was that Star came to church on Sunday and brought her boyfriend who goes to a Catholic church with his parents and he told Star that he liked our church better. Booyah! Even though they only stayed for sacrament meeting, but that is fine.
President Collins truck was broken into and his briefcase was stolen which had a bunch of important stuff inside it including his scriptures, church keys, mission documents, and some other stuff. So the whole mission fasted so that he would find his stuff. Not long after that a lady called an Elder in the mission and said that she found a briefcase with all this stuff in it laying outside of a bank. The power of fasting works and that is just one example.Nothing else really happened cause I was inside for the majority of the week so I don't have much to report on. But I hope you guys are having a good time back home because I am having the time of my life out here.
Also I got a call this morning telling me I am being transferred, so I will tell you where I am next week. So don't send anything here anymore, cause I won't be here. I'm a little sad cause I love the people here and Star is making so much progress and she wants to get baptized so bad. I have no idea where I am going, they only tell us at transfer meeting. And something funny and cool, Sister Kennedy told us that we eat more than any other missionaries she has seen, and I have only gained like 3 or 4 pounds since I've been out and I eat like it's thanksgiving every time I eat at a members home.
Thanks for your words mom, I love you too! I'm doing the best way I know how to be a good person, by taking on the attributes of Christ. somebody told us this week that our parents are lucky to have us cause we are so great and loving, I guess they were right.
Love, Elder Robertson
3 January 2011!
Hey!
New Year's Eve wasn't very fun here cause we had to be in our apartment by 6:30 to do our weekly planning and be asleep by 10:30. But New Year's Day was the best! We went on exchanges with the assistants to the mission president. I went with Elder Roundy again which was awesome. We did lots of tracting and had great and funny experiences while doing so. Elder Roundy got into an argument with this Nazarene lady who was just didn't know what she was talking about and she started bashing on our faith and the Book of Mormon which upset Elder Roundy so bad. Elder Roundy totally owned her! We also got a return appointment set up with another lady that we tracted into and it is set up for tonight. Remember the lady I talked about who had dementia and wasn't supposed to make it to Christmas? Well Elder Roundy and I visited their house and she died New Year's Eve. Sad day. Loris (the lady's daughter) told us she really appreciated us coming by and that it meant so much to the whole family. She invited us to the funeral on Friday and she will be cremated. Then we went and taught Star about Tithing and Fasting and we committed her to fast for something and she said she would. We then went back to the apartment and had our exchange review which went very well. He told me that he had seen a huge improvement since we last went on exchanges and that I was becoming a great missionary. He makes me feel so good, I love him.
I had the best experience of my mission last night. Star came to church yesterday and stayed for 2 hours and then had to leave. She told us that she was fasting which made us way happy. Then we were laying in bed and we got a text from her saying that something awesome happened. We asked her what it was. She said she was having a fever of 102 and was getting a bad headache, so she prayed and started reading the Book of Mormon. She read for 45 minutes and her fever went back to normal and the headache went away. She said it was an answer. We asked what it was an answer to. She said she knows the church is true and that the Book of Mormon is true and that she is done drinking and done breaking the law of chastity. She told us that we were the greatest people that she ever met in her entire life and that we do amazing work together and that she will cry when we leave. When we heard all that stuff we were jumping for joy cause Star had gained a testimony of the gospel. She then told us good night and said she was going to read to her kids then go to sleep.
This has been one of the greatest and toughest weeks of my mission so far and it has been so rewarding. These experiences have given such a great testimony of the gospel and I love every minute of it. I hope all of you back home are having as great a time as I am having.
Love
Elder Robertson
New Year's Eve wasn't very fun here cause we had to be in our apartment by 6:30 to do our weekly planning and be asleep by 10:30. But New Year's Day was the best! We went on exchanges with the assistants to the mission president. I went with Elder Roundy again which was awesome. We did lots of tracting and had great and funny experiences while doing so. Elder Roundy got into an argument with this Nazarene lady who was just didn't know what she was talking about and she started bashing on our faith and the Book of Mormon which upset Elder Roundy so bad. Elder Roundy totally owned her! We also got a return appointment set up with another lady that we tracted into and it is set up for tonight. Remember the lady I talked about who had dementia and wasn't supposed to make it to Christmas? Well Elder Roundy and I visited their house and she died New Year's Eve. Sad day. Loris (the lady's daughter) told us she really appreciated us coming by and that it meant so much to the whole family. She invited us to the funeral on Friday and she will be cremated. Then we went and taught Star about Tithing and Fasting and we committed her to fast for something and she said she would. We then went back to the apartment and had our exchange review which went very well. He told me that he had seen a huge improvement since we last went on exchanges and that I was becoming a great missionary. He makes me feel so good, I love him.
I had the best experience of my mission last night. Star came to church yesterday and stayed for 2 hours and then had to leave. She told us that she was fasting which made us way happy. Then we were laying in bed and we got a text from her saying that something awesome happened. We asked her what it was. She said she was having a fever of 102 and was getting a bad headache, so she prayed and started reading the Book of Mormon. She read for 45 minutes and her fever went back to normal and the headache went away. She said it was an answer. We asked what it was an answer to. She said she knows the church is true and that the Book of Mormon is true and that she is done drinking and done breaking the law of chastity. She told us that we were the greatest people that she ever met in her entire life and that we do amazing work together and that she will cry when we leave. When we heard all that stuff we were jumping for joy cause Star had gained a testimony of the gospel. She then told us good night and said she was going to read to her kids then go to sleep.
This has been one of the greatest and toughest weeks of my mission so far and it has been so rewarding. These experiences have given such a great testimony of the gospel and I love every minute of it. I hope all of you back home are having as great a time as I am having.
Love
Elder Robertson
December 20, 2010
Hey there,
This week has been really cold! we have been keeping semi warm when we walk so that is good. We have the car until Christmas Eve but we can't use it because we are almost out of miles. So we are probably going to go over the limit this month unfortunately. The work has been really slowing down lately, just like everybody said it would during this time of year. Which means lots of tracting. Our p-day only lasts till one o'clock today because the assistants said that Christmas will be our p-day this week.
A new family moved into the ward this week and they are way young. They are from Sacramento, California. They are the Bates family. We tried to help them move but we didn't have a car at the time and we couldn't get a ride over there. We called them and told them we were so sorry. A few days later Bro. Bates called and invited us over for Christmas. That was so amazing and meant so much to me. This family with one child, who had not even seen us face to face, invited us over for Christmas. We told him we already had plans with the Kennedy's but we could try to make over there a little bit later. He said they were just going to play some card games or something.
We helped one of our investigators move some of their stuff to their new apartment on Friday. Which is kind of sad because we set a baptismal date with them and now they are moving. But luckily they will be staying in our district so we will still get to hear about their progress. We will be helping them again tomorrow with the heavy stuff.
Funny story, When we were on our way to district meeting on Friday we were taking some back roads which were a bit covered in snow and icy. We came around one of the turns a little too quickly and we slid right off the road and into a ditch. Luckily the ditch was located about 50 yards from a members house. So we called them up and he invited us inside, then he called somebody to come tow us out while we drank hot chocolate and played Skip-Bo. So the guy pulled us out of the ditch and we continued on our way and made it to the district meeting a little bit late. And I would just like to clarify that I was not the one driving when we got stuck. And that is pretty much everything exciting that happened this week.
I love you all,
Elder Robertson
Merry Christmas!
This week has been really cold! we have been keeping semi warm when we walk so that is good. We have the car until Christmas Eve but we can't use it because we are almost out of miles. So we are probably going to go over the limit this month unfortunately. The work has been really slowing down lately, just like everybody said it would during this time of year. Which means lots of tracting. Our p-day only lasts till one o'clock today because the assistants said that Christmas will be our p-day this week.
A new family moved into the ward this week and they are way young. They are from Sacramento, California. They are the Bates family. We tried to help them move but we didn't have a car at the time and we couldn't get a ride over there. We called them and told them we were so sorry. A few days later Bro. Bates called and invited us over for Christmas. That was so amazing and meant so much to me. This family with one child, who had not even seen us face to face, invited us over for Christmas. We told him we already had plans with the Kennedy's but we could try to make over there a little bit later. He said they were just going to play some card games or something.
We helped one of our investigators move some of their stuff to their new apartment on Friday. Which is kind of sad because we set a baptismal date with them and now they are moving. But luckily they will be staying in our district so we will still get to hear about their progress. We will be helping them again tomorrow with the heavy stuff.
Funny story, When we were on our way to district meeting on Friday we were taking some back roads which were a bit covered in snow and icy. We came around one of the turns a little too quickly and we slid right off the road and into a ditch. Luckily the ditch was located about 50 yards from a members house. So we called them up and he invited us inside, then he called somebody to come tow us out while we drank hot chocolate and played Skip-Bo. So the guy pulled us out of the ditch and we continued on our way and made it to the district meeting a little bit late. And I would just like to clarify that I was not the one driving when we got stuck. And that is pretty much everything exciting that happened this week.
I love you all,
Elder Robertson
Merry Christmas!
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