March 13, 2012
Dear Family and Friends,
Well the time has nearly come to leave this great country to the
land of heat, humidity, and spanish. I'm very excited and a little
nervous but I know the Lord will provide a way for me to over come all
the difficulties and succeed.
Mom I 'm not sure if you are aware but you used the word legit in
one of my letters. I just thought that was so funny. my mom is hip and
happenin. haha.
Thanks for not sending the jacket, I would
have just sent it right back home. The last week has been really nice.
It's another warm day and it's official: Spring is on the way. I have
printed some pictures and will send them home today. The rumors are true
I will be able to call home in the airport. this is my flight schedule:
Thursday 3/15/12
6:05 a.m. leave Salt Lake
9:50 a.m. arrive in Dallas
11:30 a.m. leave Dallas
3:10 p.m. arrive in Miami
7:05 pm leave Miami
9:10 pm arrive in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic!
I think these are all the local times of where I will be. I will
call home during my lay over in Miami so sometime in the afternoon so
get ready. I'll call mom's cell phone. I bought a pay phone card so I'll
use that. This is very exciting and i can't wait. I'm going to start
packing today.
sounds like the D.R. group mom is a part of is really
cool and very informational. Thanks for all the advice and info. I'm
sure it will help a lot.
Katie sent me a letter
and unfortunately I don't have her address. But it sounds like all is
well with her and the baby is fine. She said something about a tornado
which is scary and fortunate that it did not come any closer to them.
Sounds like they are working hard and living the life. Thank you Katie
and Gabe for the letter and all the love. I'm sure Gabe is right and
I'll learn much faster in the Dominican Republic.
Claire guess what?! I found someone here that knows the
turtle song and he gave me the rest of it: "my turtle swims sideways
your turtle swims upside down, my turtle swims sideways your turrtle is
dead..." I like our version better because turtles are cool and I want
them all to live and we just laugh hysterically after the first line. I
cut that part of the box out and kept it. It's on my desk in my room.
I'll talk to the rest of the clan in my handwritten letter I'm running out of time and I want to share some spiritual things:
I've
been receiving a lot of personal revelation about prayer lately. It
seems that no matter what class or what meeting I'm in we talk about
prayer.
In 1 Nephi 2 verse 1 i think (trying to hurry here) it says that
Nephi "spoke with God" and I have found myself too often talking at God
rather than co nversing with Him. I 'm not confident that many of the
prayers I've said in the past have made it past the ceiling of my room
because I just rattle off a bunch of routinish stuff. I want my prayers
to penetrate the heavens and make it all the way to Heaven. As I've been
trying to do this more I've had great experiences so I want to
challenge all of you and ask you When was the last time you SPOKE with
God? the last time you really and truly bore you heart and sould to God
and like the King of the Lamanites Cried Mightily unto God. he was
willing to give all he had just to know if God was real and he was not
disappointed and I know that God will answer our prayers when we cry
with all our might unto God.
Dad you were right there are many that are here are not
ready and not in the right state of mind to be missionaries. It's
difficult to work with these individuals because they just don't
understand. It 's frustrating and I'm not ruling myself out either. I
need to be better and eliminate distractions in my life and stay
focused and it is difficult.
out of time again!!!!!!!!!!!!!! gRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR.
I will tell more in a written letter which by the time you receive it I'll be in the D.R.
Love Elder Robinson
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