August 15, 2012
Dear Family,
First off a mini missionary
is a young man here in the D.R. Preparing to serve a mission and occasionaly
there are times when the full time missionaries don´t get their visas in time,
a missionary goes home unexpectedly or early, or for whatever reason the
mission does not have enough missionaries to fill all the companionships. In these
times they call mini missionaries that come to the mission field, live with the
full time missionary, eat, cook, clean, study and teach with the full time
missionary as his companion and under special circumstances when they are out
for a long time (sometimes a whole transfer) they have the oportunity to
baptise. I am not sure if they are set apart I would assume that they are. It´s
a pretty cool thing.
Secondly, yes I know it is
9:15 and P day ends at 6. But this is what happened today: it all begins back
on monday in district meeting when we decided as a district to hike one of the
mountains in our district leaders area for a district activity the next P day
(today) so we all showed up in thier area this morning and headed for the
hills. We had 2 or 3 young men who volunteered to be our guides up the mountain
which was nice of them. Well We technically hiked 2 mountains today and we did
not reach the top of the final mountain until 3 in the afternoon. So then we
had to get down which we thought couldn´t be too hard because going down always
is faster than going up. Well we really had no idea how far we had come.....We
hiked forever!!!! We were so tired. We hiked for like 10 hours today. We had
food and water thank goodness but it was a rough hike. We had been told
previously that it would take 2 hours......We were lied to.......After we got
down off the initial mountain we were still a very far way away from home and
we actually asked a guy if we could pay him to give us a ride down the rest of
the way but that was a no go. We decided to pray which we should have done a
long time before......A little while later a car came by and had enough room
for the 2 sister missionaries and they said the ride was free. And right after
that a truck came buy and we got a free ride down as well. There were 6 of us
total. We got down and found a bus to take us where we needed to go to get
home. We probably got ripped off on the price but we didn´t care we were so
tired and felt bad we were so late.....We got back to the house at about 8 or
so and now i am here recounting this story to you. Fun huh? It actually was fun
but just wish it hadn´t taken so long, we had some pretty important
appointments that we are going to have to squeeze in tomorrow.
The baptism on Saturday went
well. One thing about Eufemia that I didn´t mention is that she is totally
blind and has been for 10 years. So baptising her was kinda tricky. We enlisted
the help of the bishop because he is a strong guy and were sure he could do it
no problem. But we were still unsure how this old, frail, blind lady would
react to being shoved under water. Well the bishop tried twice but her feet
kept coming up like a mermaid. So Elder Jensen volunteered to get in the water
to help. Well he got in the water with the cell phone, his camera, and his sim
card and sim card reader in his pockets......She was baptised with his help but
all of the things in his pockets got wet. The camera is pretty much dead, but
he only has one transfer left and then he goes home so that is better than
starting the mission with a dead camera. The phone came out okay, and the card
and card reader work. When we got home we immediately put them in rice to try
and save them but the camera died.....Eufemia is now a member of the church and
is very happy.
This week we have 2
baptisms: Rosa and Carolina, we are still not sure if Carolina´s parents are
going to approve of her being baptised so we are praying for that. Also in San
Francisco Oscar is getting baptized this saturday and I think Franklin might be
getting baptized as well but Oscar for Sure! I´m so excited for him!
It appears that summer has
been fun and hard work. Dad you look great in the pictures!!!!!!! Thinner all
the time. Everyone looks great. So happy you are all safe and happy and that
mom and dad the huntington´s will be able to enjoy some time on the water
together.
The people here taht are
getting baptized is really no thanks to me at all because they were being
taught and prepared by Elder Ferreras and many of them have received all the
lessons and are just completing the requirements for baptism. We need to
contact more so that after we help these people who have been prepared get
baptize we can have new people getting ready.
One thing that i do not need
you to send me in the package is my camel back backpack.....i know that was the
motivation for the package and may not make it worth sending the package
anymore but I have made other arrangements. the guy that made my scripture
covers also makes like scripture bags that are really cool and popular and
convenient in the mission so I bought one. you may or may not have noticed that
i have taken a bunch of money out of my personal account and that is because
somehow i ended up with zero money.......I am pretty sure it was my fault
because i wasn´t doing a sufficient job keeping track of expenses so I will be
better at that.......
i got a letter from Nikelle
and from Katie on Saturday Thank you!!!
This has been pretty scatter
brained but I am tired and sweaty and just want to finish this up and go home
and take a shower and go to bed.......
Something interesting about
Elder Jensen is that his middle name is Hunter! cool huh?
Alright until next time
Elder Robinson
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