4 June 2012

Hey Family!

So this week was alright. We got one new elder to our district and he seems pretty cool. His name is Elder Lowe and he is from Utah, shocker! Our new zone leader is Elder Bighorse's trainer. He has called us almost every night since he got here. He is a new zone leader so he might be a little over-zealous, but I am sure he will do fine. So this upcoming week I have to go up to Fishers for a specialized training for district leaders. Should be a lot of fun because I have some friends in the mission who are district leaders now. So it'll be fun to see them again.

So I got the birthday package this morning! I loved it! My favorite things were the card and the pillow case. It was so random how Jihan signed the card, she seems kinda funny. The front of the card was hilarious! I loved the unicorn spitting out a rainbow, I was laughing so hard! All the quotes on the pillow case were awesome, I thought the batman one was pretty darn funny. I couldn't wait til tomorrow to open it. It'll be a great day anyways. I'll wear a new pair of socks and a new shirt. The socks are awesome by the way. Thank you so much, the package was awesome!

So this week we lost an investigator and possibly another. One of them said that they were too commited to their church. The other one was Leon who had a baptism date for July 14. We went to his house to see how he was doing after having surgury. So we were talking with him on the porch and then his pastor friend came out of the house. He proceeded to tell us that he didn't agree with us telling Leon to live the Word of Wisdom and that it was a commandment from a man and not God. Then he told us to not come back. Then I began to open my mouth to teach true doctrine and I had only gotten a few words out when he interrupted me and then went back inside. It was funny because he gave his opinion and as soon as I began to share what we know to be true, he fled. He was afraid of confrontation and that we may have proved him wrong so he left. I wasn't going to bash or anything, just teach true doctrine. But he couldn't stand to hear a pure testimony. So we are going to go back there on Wednesday and see what Leon has to say because he didn't say a word while this was happening and he couldn't even look us in the eye. So we want to hear out of his own mouth what his feelings are toward what happened.

So we are going to be looking for more investigators now because we just lost 2 solid ones. That was pretty much our week down here in Stone City, USA.

Love,
Elder Robertson

Ya, I'm not sure I want to rush into school that fast. My companion always tells me to stop smiling (jokingly), because I smile and laugh so much. But when I got that college stuff that you sent me he said that I wasn't smiling for like 2 days. It was a little weird to think about that stuff and I am not too thrilled to get back to it so soon after returning home.