June 20, 2012
To whomever it may concern. hahaha
This week has been good. I had
my first exchange with my district leader on Monday from lunchtime on
Monday to lunchtime on Tuesday. It was an interesting experience to be
in a different area teaching people I have never met before. We talk one
guy who is an inactive member: he served a mission in Haiti and i think
hi s Dad was even the mission President but now he is inactive. How
that happens I will never understand. It was a good experience to change
of the routine a little and see some more of the areas here. It was
strange to sleep in someone elses bed and know that someone else was
sleeping in my bed.... Yesterday we had our last meeting with President
Lee before he finishes his mission next Friday and President Douglas
comes. It was a Good meeting. he is finishing strong but you can kinda
tell that he is excited to be finished.
We have 4 investigators with baptismal dates for my birthday!: Manuel
Luna, Juan, Clara and niño. How great of a birthday present would that
be?! Speaking of birthday presents Nikelle gave me permission to open
the birthday package she sent me so I opened it last week and inside
was: the rest of my ducks, a little blue journal just like the one I
asked you to look for mom and yes its in that briefcase and I cant
remember the combination.....,a t shirt with HLJ (CTR) on it in the
shape of the superman emblem, a rock, a pine cone (silly earthy things
from home), 3 awesome ties, 2 letters, and a little mini sd cards that
was supposed to have voice recordings on it but it only had 6
pictures.....Sorry Nikelle, I dont know what happened, I dont thing the
card got swipe clean in transit, what I think happened was that you
recorded all the recordings onto the internal memory not knowing it and
thinking that you were recording them onto the memory card in which case
you still have all the recordings on your recorder. Sorry I didnt teach
you how to change the settings to record to the memory card.....I am
quite alright but Im sure you are a little disappointed.....
Im so glad my package made it! do you like all the stuff I sent? I dont
know if I will try that again, kinda stressful, I have heard horror
stories of packages sent home that didnt make it at all or took like 8
months to get there and the box was beat to heck. So I think I will just
collect the things that I really want to bring home for everyone and
just bring them home with me at the end of my mission.
Happy Fathers day dad! sorry Im a little late......
The big struggle
we are having right now is failed appointments: we set appintments with
investigators and they just arent home or are leaving as we get there or
are sick and obviously there are some good excuses but its frustrating
to study and be ready for a lesson and you show up and they arent
home.... And then the part that makes me a little mad is when we see
them later in the week in the street or wherever and they say: why didnt
you come by my house the other day? assuming that we didnt when we did
and we say that we did and at what time and then they say: oh yeah i was
at the store or whatever other excuse they have. but they knew they
werent home and they just assume that we didnt come by when we did and
then place the blame on us.......There are some things about the people
here that are very frustrating.
We have a zone goal to have 36 baptisms this transfer 3 of which are
supposed to be ours but Im not sure if we are going to meet that goal. I
have faith and I want to do it but the people just dont understand and
dont act and i feel like it is partially my fault for not being able to
help them understand the importance that the gospel and especially going
to churh has. Manuel Luna is doing really well and Im almost 100% sure
he will be baptised on the 7 of July.
Elder Johnson and I are staying positive and working hard. Despite the
set backs and the difficulties we are happy and working to have the
spirit and more faith in the people.
I hope and pray all of you are well and happy.
Elder Hunter Allen Robinson
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