Hey Family!
So this week was totally crazy. So transfers day rolls around and we drove down to Fishers and almost got in a wreck on the way there. Then I got paired up with one of the elders I came out with, Elder Simmons. We got double transferred down to North Vernon where they haven't had missionaries for 3 months. So I don't know if I told you or not but one of the investigators I was teaching in Fort Wayne got baptized on Saturday and President Collins permitted me to make the 3 hour drive back up there to baptize him, I will send pics later cause I forgot my camera. While we were in North Vernon we were staying with the spanish missionaries in Seymour, it was pretty cramped. So on Sunday we introduced ourselves over the pulpit cause they were having their testimony meeting this week because of General Conference. In every prayer at church they gave thanks that the missionaries were back in the area. I never really knew how much members appreciated us until I went there, it was one of the coolest feelings ever. So by this this time you may be asking yourself "why hasn't he given me his address yet?"
I will tell you. So Sunday night rolls around and we are planning for the next day and President Collins calls. We were like "What the?!" So we answer and he tells me to put it on speaker. He says "before you get to deeply entrenched in the work down there I'm gonna shake up your world a little bit, I need to emergency transfer both of you out of there and split you up and go fill the spots of 2 elders who just went home." So we accepted and we were freakin out cause it was 10 o'clock and we needed to pack everything up and take it to the media conference the next morning(which is why I didn't email yesterday, p-day got switched to today). So we stayed up til 3 packing and washing our clothes. We woke up at 5:30 to get all ready to leave. So we only got 2 and a half hours of sleep that night, it sucked. The media conference was a training on the new mormon.org website and the advertisements that are going to be happening such as billboards and commercials. It was awesome. You need to make a profile on there so you can refer your friends there! And Elder Evans of the first quorum of the Seventy was there and he was so intense. He rebuked us so hardcore on the relationship between a junior and senior companion. at the end he committed us to ask for referrals from everyone and he promised us that we would had more people to teach and that our baptisms would start increasing. It is so awesome when General authorities give us promised blessings for doing something because it always comes true. So I got put with Elder Thomas in Indy 2nd area. We asked for referrals from everybody last night and we got 3! Promises are so awesome! So this morning we went to the Lucas Oil stadium, which, if you know, is where the Colts play. The tour was pretty sweet, I took lots of pics. I was told the p-days here are pretty sweet cause the whole zone gets together and plays dodgeball. I am pretty stoked about that.
So that was my crazy week.
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Love,
Elder Robertson
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
19 September 2011
Hey Mom,
So we got transfer calls this morning and I am getting transferred. I kind of have mixed feelings about it because I have gotten attached to the ward here and the investigators, but I would also like a change in scenery and a new companion, this one is starting to get on my nerves.
So Parker told me all about his new teachers and about how Mr. Gerig still remembers me, and I'm sure Dave Ware still remembers me too. They were definitely a great help to me and I told Parker that, and I told him accept any help from them that he can because they are very forgiving.
So I had one of the most tender moments of my life yesterday. So one of our investigators spoke at the Why I Believe fireside. This investigator is a little autistic but he is most definitely not retarded. He wrote out his testimony and he was going to read it to everybody, even though he can't read very well. So right before it is his turn to go up, he looks back at me and says, "Robertson, you have to come up there and help me". So I did. I felt as I am sure parents do when they help their children read things over the pulpit. After we sat down he looked back at me and said thank you. His forehead was a little sweaty cause I am sure he was super nervous. I love him more than anybody else I have met out here, if I could adopt somebody to be my brother, it would be him. If I don't get transferred too far away, I will get to baptize him this Saturday.
But the rest of this week has been filled with lots of finding activities which have been unsuccessful in getting new investigators. We have done lots of less active work during these 3 months I have been with Elder Empey. We have gotten 3 less-active members to come back to church, none of which are related to each other. One of them lives with a girlfriend. Another is married to a non-member who may quite possibly be interested in listening to us, we haven't tried to get him to sit in on the lessons yet but he is very friendly to us. The last one is gay and we are trying to help him over come that. I guess we just caught all of them at the right time in their lives and they were sufficiently prepared to come back to church. It has been so great to see them progress over this short time that we have met with them. Miracles are everywhere.
So that is pretty much all I have to report on right now but it has been a pretty good week.
Love,
Elder Robertson
So we got transfer calls this morning and I am getting transferred. I kind of have mixed feelings about it because I have gotten attached to the ward here and the investigators, but I would also like a change in scenery and a new companion, this one is starting to get on my nerves.
So Parker told me all about his new teachers and about how Mr. Gerig still remembers me, and I'm sure Dave Ware still remembers me too. They were definitely a great help to me and I told Parker that, and I told him accept any help from them that he can because they are very forgiving.
So I had one of the most tender moments of my life yesterday. So one of our investigators spoke at the Why I Believe fireside. This investigator is a little autistic but he is most definitely not retarded. He wrote out his testimony and he was going to read it to everybody, even though he can't read very well. So right before it is his turn to go up, he looks back at me and says, "Robertson, you have to come up there and help me". So I did. I felt as I am sure parents do when they help their children read things over the pulpit. After we sat down he looked back at me and said thank you. His forehead was a little sweaty cause I am sure he was super nervous. I love him more than anybody else I have met out here, if I could adopt somebody to be my brother, it would be him. If I don't get transferred too far away, I will get to baptize him this Saturday.
But the rest of this week has been filled with lots of finding activities which have been unsuccessful in getting new investigators. We have done lots of less active work during these 3 months I have been with Elder Empey. We have gotten 3 less-active members to come back to church, none of which are related to each other. One of them lives with a girlfriend. Another is married to a non-member who may quite possibly be interested in listening to us, we haven't tried to get him to sit in on the lessons yet but he is very friendly to us. The last one is gay and we are trying to help him over come that. I guess we just caught all of them at the right time in their lives and they were sufficiently prepared to come back to church. It has been so great to see them progress over this short time that we have met with them. Miracles are everywhere.
So that is pretty much all I have to report on right now but it has been a pretty good week.
Love,
Elder Robertson
12 September 2011
Hey Everybody!
So right at this moment, there is a guy sitting in between three of us missionaries trying to disprove our church. Does he really think he will be able to do that with three youngish men who do this for a living? I asked him if he had ever read the Book of Mormon himself and he said no. Then I asked him how he really expected to discuss this with us intelligently when he hasn't even read what he is trying to disprove. But anyways.
So my week was good. I went on exchanges with the zone leaders on Friday. 2 out of 3 of our appointments fell through but we saw a miracle. As we were going through our back-up plans we went to a former investigators house to try and set up an appointment. Turns out she moved to Philadelphia. But, we got to help to young couple who had already brought in most of their belongings in their house. We took a lot of things up stairs for them, moved things around to organize them, we even got to rip out a carpet with them. As we were about to leave we got into a brief conversation about our church and our beliefs. We then set up a time to come back and teach them about the Book of Mormon (the appointment is tomorrow). It was just so cool that even though most of our appointments fell through and it looked like it was going to be sort of a drudgery day, we could find a miracle in the midst of it. I love my mission.
So we had a fun dinner appointment last night. For the spiritual thought we role-played with the individual family members different situations in which they could share the gospel and bear their testimonies. Having been out here we have heard just about every argument and we kinda just brought everything we have heard to the role-play. But it was fun though.
So those were the highlights of this week that I can remember anyways. This Saturday we are going to help the ward clean up a park, so that should be fun.
Love,
Elder Robertson
So right at this moment, there is a guy sitting in between three of us missionaries trying to disprove our church. Does he really think he will be able to do that with three youngish men who do this for a living? I asked him if he had ever read the Book of Mormon himself and he said no. Then I asked him how he really expected to discuss this with us intelligently when he hasn't even read what he is trying to disprove. But anyways.
So my week was good. I went on exchanges with the zone leaders on Friday. 2 out of 3 of our appointments fell through but we saw a miracle. As we were going through our back-up plans we went to a former investigators house to try and set up an appointment. Turns out she moved to Philadelphia. But, we got to help to young couple who had already brought in most of their belongings in their house. We took a lot of things up stairs for them, moved things around to organize them, we even got to rip out a carpet with them. As we were about to leave we got into a brief conversation about our church and our beliefs. We then set up a time to come back and teach them about the Book of Mormon (the appointment is tomorrow). It was just so cool that even though most of our appointments fell through and it looked like it was going to be sort of a drudgery day, we could find a miracle in the midst of it. I love my mission.
So we had a fun dinner appointment last night. For the spiritual thought we role-played with the individual family members different situations in which they could share the gospel and bear their testimonies. Having been out here we have heard just about every argument and we kinda just brought everything we have heard to the role-play. But it was fun though.
So those were the highlights of this week that I can remember anyways. This Saturday we are going to help the ward clean up a park, so that should be fun.
Love,
Elder Robertson
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
6 September 2011
Hey!
So this week I turned the calendar to September and I saw my year mark on there and I was like "Oh my gosh!" I cannot believe it has come up this fast, it is unreal. Mom, I would answer your questions that you sent me in that letter, but I forgot to write them down in my planner again, my bad. I even thought about it this morning. Oh well.
So we had some heat this week, especially on Saturday(90). Then yesterday it was in the high 50's. I like the cold and all, but that change in temperature was way too dramatic and quick. It was chilly yesterday.
So we went on exchanges on Friday and I went to spanish land and we biked so much, it may have been the most I have biked in a single day out here. It was killer. I feel so left out when I go on spanish exchanges because I don't speak the language and I can't really contribute anything. But Elder Albers was nice enough to translate for me so I could teach a little bit in the lesson that we had. So his companion at district meeting gave his first training, and he isn't even a district leader yet, maybe he is preparing to. He did really great though.
That is all I can really remember about this week, nothing else really exciting happened. But yesterday there was a ward Labor Day picnic and we had a few less active members attend, that was pretty exciting.
Love,
Elder Robertson
So this week I turned the calendar to September and I saw my year mark on there and I was like "Oh my gosh!" I cannot believe it has come up this fast, it is unreal. Mom, I would answer your questions that you sent me in that letter, but I forgot to write them down in my planner again, my bad. I even thought about it this morning. Oh well.
So we had some heat this week, especially on Saturday(90). Then yesterday it was in the high 50's. I like the cold and all, but that change in temperature was way too dramatic and quick. It was chilly yesterday.
So we went on exchanges on Friday and I went to spanish land and we biked so much, it may have been the most I have biked in a single day out here. It was killer. I feel so left out when I go on spanish exchanges because I don't speak the language and I can't really contribute anything. But Elder Albers was nice enough to translate for me so I could teach a little bit in the lesson that we had. So his companion at district meeting gave his first training, and he isn't even a district leader yet, maybe he is preparing to. He did really great though.
That is all I can really remember about this week, nothing else really exciting happened. But yesterday there was a ward Labor Day picnic and we had a few less active members attend, that was pretty exciting.
Love,
Elder Robertson
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