7 May 2012

Hey Family!

So this week was pretty good. We found a few people who are willing to have us come back to talk about the gospel with them. So that's awesome. One of the people we found let us right in and we got to teach a little bit. Then he let us play the pinball machine he has in his living room. That was pretty fun, I hadn't played that in a long time. I also got a graduation announcement from Jacqie this morning. That blew my mind. I had no idea she was that old. Time just isn't stopping.

So the investigator that we have that is on track for baptism on June 2nd, his name is Leon. Unfortunately we haven't been in contact with him since Tuesday. So hopefully we will be able to get in contact with him soon so we can continue preparing him for baptism.

This week in my training, I trained on how our attitudes affect the work in our specific areas. I felt like it was a really intense training, but fortunately the rest of the district didn't take anything the wrong way. I used a sports analogy that I thought was pretty good. I asked Elder Santy who played rugby in high school how his and his teams attitude was when they knew they were going up against a team that they had no chance in beating. He  said that their attitude was pretty poor and wasn't what it should have been. So I went on to say that I was pretty much the way I felt going into an imminent loss, although I still played my heart out and did the best I could. So I went on to say that if our attitude is that we know we are going to lose and that we have no chance in winning and we are saying to ourselves, "Why even try?" then we might as well throw our jersey in the coaches face and go home. To apply it to missionary work, if we are saying to ourselves, "Why talk to this person, they aren't going to be interested anyways, so why try?" we might as well take off our tag and go sit in the apartment, or better yet, go home. That way at least the mission president can replace you with somebody that will work. I didn't say that last part, but I made it sound that way. I thought it was a great training, the zone leaders did as well when they had called to check up on me, they thought I was super inspired in it.

We were supposed to have 3 people come to church yesterday but none of them showed up. So we will be getting in contact with those people and recommiting them.

So we have our zone conference tomorrow. Here is the exciting part. We have a leadership training on the 18th and a mission conference on the 19th. And guess who's coming. Neil A. Anderson, the apostle! I am so excited for that, I have been waiting so long for an apostle to come and he is finally coming! Booyah!

So that was my week. Well I am gonna get off now cause we want to be up in Bloomington pretty soon. But I love you and I will talk to you on Saturday and Sunday!

Love,
Elder Robertson