April 12, 2012
Saludos!
Esta semana fue bien. Nosotros continuamos a aprender y enseñar
mucho y es un buen tiempo y tenemos mucho divertido. Fuimos al campo
misional ayer y teniamos intercambios (exchanges) con los misioneros en
el oeste mision. fui al San Geronimo y fui con Elder Tyler de California
él tiene veinte meses in la mision, el español de el es muy bien. Tenía
la oportunidad a dar mí testimonio a tres o cuatro personas en
lecciones cual muy bien. No estoy muy bien a hablar español o entender
español pero pienso que sí puedo entender las lecciones pero cuando fue
mí oportunidad a hablar no sé que decir....
I hope my spanish isn't horrendous....I'm still learning and it is
difficult for me to put together sentences longer than a couple words.
Don't scrutinize too much...
What I said was that yesterday we were able to go out to the west
mission on exchanges with the missionaries there. We drove out to San
Geronimo (don't ask me where that is cause I don't know). I went
Tracting with Elder Tyler and we were in a more "rich" area. All the
houses had gates and fences so we would holler from the sidewalk
"saludos" or "Buenas" which is just to say hello. The people would come
to the door and we'd introduce ourselves from the sidewalk and ask if
they wanted to listen to what we had to say. It was very hot and I
sweated a lot....I don't think I got sunburned though! It's a miracle!
We were able to teach an old Investigator that Elder Tyler had and we
shared some scriptures and asked if he'd be baptized and he said he
would then we asked if he would come to church and he said he couldn't
because he has some sleeping disorder where he doesn't get to sleep
until 3 in the morning.....Apparently that is the stigma (right word?
I'm going with it): the people say yes to everything but don't really do
it. It's pretty annoying. So we're not supposed to read to much into if
they say yes to baptism. We taught a couple others and when I say we I
mean Elder Tyler. I didn't understand very well what was going on most
of the time but I think I could follow the lesson more or less. He would
turn to me and I'd give him a blank stare and I didn't know what to say
so he'd continue. He was nice and pretty cool. The last person we
taught I finally got to talk a little bit and I shared James 1:5 and the
First Vision account from memory and bore my testimony of how we can
all know if the church is true if we pray. I felt good about it but
don't know if anything will come of it because his wife is a pastor for
another church.....regardless a good experience.
On Sunday we had the mission presidents from: the Puerto Rico
mission, Haiti mission, West Indies mission, and Jamaica mission here
and they talked to us along with their wives about the ressurection of
Christ and the President from the Jamaica mission told a story that
really illustrates it well: Philip was a little boy in sunday school and
he was slightly handicapped. The other kids would make fun of him now
and again and the teacher was usually pretty good at correcting them and
helping Philip. On Easter Sunday the teacher gave all the little kids a
big plastic egg (the kind pantihose come in haha) and told them to go
outside and find something that represented new life and all the little
kids went out and found different things. when they came back and the
teacher was opening the eggs there was a butterfly, a flower, some
grass.....when she opened Philips it was empty and of course the other
kids laughed and the teacher was trying to explain that Philip just
hadn't understood the activity but as she was trying to explain Philip
was tugging on her skirt saying "It's empty, It's empty!" and then the
teacher realized that Philip had brought back the best thing to
represent the Ressurection of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ: an empty
egg representing the empty tomb. A few months later Philip passed away
and the little sunday school class went to view their friend, as they
left they placed a plastic egg in the casket next to him and his mother
saw it and opened it just to be sure, yes it was empty. When He told
this story I was beside myself. It's so touching and brings my focus
back to Easter and it's true meaning. Share this story with all you meet
and help others come closer to Christ. Every member a missionary.
Later on Sunday President Glazier gave a great 2 hour devotional on
the last 24 hours of Christ's life and it was great. It's always a
struggle because we are the minority now and he speaks in spanish and
translates as he goes for us gringos. Spanish has gotten much harder:
Grammar stinks in all languages....
Other than the Presidents coming and exchanges it was an average
week in the life of Elder Robinson. We did teach a lesson on Chastity
for the first time which went really well mostly because our
investigator (keep in mind this is our teacher acting) was already
keeping the law of Chastity. It'll be really fun to teach that one to
someone who maybe has issues with it....
We have taught the Latinos for practice and it's been pretty rough:
we don't understand them very well and speaking is still hard. the
really surprising part is that the Hermanas are really immature and
ruthless (did I talk about this last week?) oh well any ways the
hermanas have torn apart the north American missionaries that have
taught them: They flat out told Elder Montgomery and Elder Midgley that
they taught the lesson wrong. They laughed out loud at Elder Jewkes and
Elder Larsen for their pronunciation. And the way it works is that one
companionship teaches the others acting as investigators and aparently
when Elder Jewkes and Elder Larsen taught them they thought they chose
to be too difficult as investigators and decided when it was their turn
to be investigators they would be mormon haters. in my opion they need
to grow up. They obviously don't understand their purpose as
missionaries let alone the purpose fo the practice activity.
It's been good. I've still not received any physical mail or the
package but I am ever hopeful. I need more stamps but I may just need to
find a place to buy them here because it seem that if you try to mail
me some I may never get them.....
Elder Relf and I are working well together and having fun. We pray
after every lesson we teach to thank our Father in Heaven for granting
us the words to say and the ability to speak and the spirit He grants to
us in our lessons Alma 29:9.
Well that's the update, I've been slacking on pictures lately I
need to take some more. Did you get my letter with the sd card in it? It
had like 300 pictures on it....
it's good to hear everyone is doing great and that Katie is there.
i'm so proud of Noah for sticking (pun intended) with lacrosse, It's not
easy and the first few games are always difficult. Keep it up and don't
give up! keep practicing! i know you can do it. Send me a picture.
Claire got braces? wahoooooo. so how do you feel about them? I
know were excited before and now you're excited that after they are off
you will have better teeth but how do you feel right now?
It sounds like progress is always being made on the house which I'm
always happy and anxious to hear about. Send me some pictures! dad's
new office, my old room, the pictures all arranged on the wall, the
basement. Is the basement all clear now?
I love the temple mom. We go every week and I only get to go one
more time for the duration of my mission, i am going to miss it. We went
today and we did initiatories and a session and it's always interesting
because it's in two languages. we have little translators which is
nice. But for a couple of the names I did for initiatory they did in
spanish and they talk so fast and it's hard to really know what's going
on..... The temple is the best and I love to go and I will go every week
when I get back home.
In the words of porky the pig: "that's all folks"
Elder Robinson
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