Dear Family,
Oh man I am so sorry I didn´t tell you about our Baptism.....Our Baptism on Saturday is Ani-Leidi she is 15 (i think...) and she is a great investigator and a great person. Her parents have received nearly all the lessons with the missionaries before I got here but are having trouble with their marriage right now. We are hoping that Ani-Leidi´s baptism will help with some things in that area.
It sounds like it´s been a busy busy week. Sorry to hear about the
Lacrosse tournament little dude....I know you played your hardest and in
the fall you´ll be even better. Keep practicing you should have 2
sticks now right? get taft to practice with you.
Claire and Taft, it sounds like things are winding down for the
both of you. Congratulations you´ve made it through another year of
school and you´re still alive and I´m sure your grades are still off the
charts.
I´m Glad Parker and Alaura found a new place, that´s exciting. Tell
that big baldy to email me sometime, or better yet try to send me a
letter. do you know their new address?
Katie is having a GIRL! how exciting is that?! She sent me pictures from their cruise and it looks like it was tons of fun.
Grandma´s surgery sounds scary.....I hope she and Grandpa will be alright.
Thank
you for sending me the ducks and my recipe book. I wonder if you could
send me my little red journal, it says ¨journal¨ on the cover. I got it
the day of my baptism and want to use it to take notes. Sorry, you are
probably tired of digging through all of my stuff to try and find my
things I want......If you don´t want to worry about it that´s fine, I
can get a journal here for like 3 bucks if I need to.
I testify that what you learned and heard about the daily scripture
study is so true. I look forward to studying every morning. Not only
because I need to for my lessons but because I need to for ME. I sent a
letter today as well so hopefully it makes it home....i figure every
letter I or you recieve will be like taking a time machine back a couple
of weeks. kinda fun.
Work Hard. Play Hard. SUMMER IS HERE!!!!!!!
(part 2)
okay so Elder Johnson heard that if you interlaced your fingers together and put an egg in your palms no matter how hard you squeeze it won´t break. well........the egg breaks. hahahahaha I laughed so hard when he splattered himself and the kitchen with egg. haha. so funny.
I am trying to remember this quote that talks about the world taking the people out of the slums but Christ takes the slums out of the people and then they take themselves out of the slums. Can you help me remember it exactly?
I want to tell you about Miguel: he is a husband and a father and a less active member of the church. We were teaching his wife Clara yesterday about the doctrine of Christ. She hasn´t been very good at keeping commitments to read so we helped keep their son Isaac (who is our favorite little Dominican in the world!) so she could read and ask us questions. It worked perfectly! we were so happy to play with Isaac and help her understand at the same time. As we were saying the closing prayer thier table broke because she was leaning on it. Seeing an opportunity to serve we jumped into action. We deduced we needed nails and a hammer so we literally ran to a hardware store to buy nails and borrow a hammer. We were able to fix the table and get a little exercise at the same time. Que Suerte! After we fixed the table we were talking to Miguel and he told us how appreciative he is that we are his friends. He also said that he feels inadequate as a father because sometimes there´s not enough money to buy food for his wife and son......He wasn´t treated very well by his father and is trying to make a good life for Isaac and we explained to him that the most important thing is his relationship with his son and with Heavenly Father. The people are hurting here. There´s a lot of food on this island but there isn´t a lot of money to be had. He asked us for some money so he could buy some food for his family that night and he would pay us back on saturday. Elder Johnson gave him 200 pesos which is technically against mission rules but people are more important than rules sometimes and Miguel is an exception. Elder Johnson loaned him a little money before and he speedily paid it back. This rule will be difficult for me to keep all the time because I have money, in fact it´s more than I need. I´m not saying I´m going to go all robin hood on this place and give everyone all my money. But I feel there are exceptions. Faithful saints trying to make it in this country and it´s hard and if I can help a little and I know their intentions are good I will help them.
your missionary,
Elder Robinson
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