Dear Family,
Thanks for the update.
We had the baptism of Carolina
and Rosa on Saturday. it was really good there were a ton of people
there. Elder Jensen performed the baptisms. I gave a short talk on the
holy ghost.
Today I have 6 months in the mission. It´s really crazy to think
that it´s already a fourth of the way over. Time really does go
quickly....Also in San Francisco Oscar was Baptized on Saturday! I was
so freaking stoked to hear he was baptized!!!!! And Franklin will be
baptized this saturday if all goes according to plan. I´m so happy for
them.
I hope the cruise goes well and everyone has fun.
We had
multi zone conference with President and Sis Douglas and Sis douglas
talked about gratitude and all the benefits there are for just being
grateful. She told us a statistic that said that if you don´t smoke you
will add approximately 6 years to your life span and if you are happy as
a result of being grateful you add approximately 9 years to your life
span so that is interesting. She also shared a study about a group of
people that wrote in a gratitude journal everyday:
1. write 5 things everyday that you are thankful for. Be specific
2. write why you are thankful for each thing. Be specific.
3. do it for 30 days
And
the results from the study were this: All the people experienced more
happiness in life, their relationships improved with their family and
all around them, depression in all it´s forms was nowhere to be found,
and even for 6 months after the study and after stopping doing the
gratitude journal these people continued to see these results in their
lives. Pretty interesting. I started my gratitude journal and it is good
to be grateful for things.
Pres Douglas shared this crazy story from his mission: as a farely
new missionary he got a call from the mission president and he told Pres
Douglas that he wanted him to go to an area of the mission where the 4
missionaries there were being very disobedient: going to the movies, not
wearing missionary attire, playing basketball all day, and really never
going out to preach. So Pres Douglas went to go straighten things out.
When he got to the area they were playing basketball but it was okay
because it was p day so he played with them and when it was 5 he told
his companion that they were leaving to go to work. But his comp told
him that it was monday night and no one is ever home on monday nights so
they should just stay and play basketball. But pres douglas said. I
came here to be a missionary not play basketball, I am going to work. So
they left and ended up visiting several of the members in the branch
and he was able to meet the branch president. Later in the week his
companion told him they needed to practice basketball because they would
be playing in a tournament on Friday. Pres Douglas called the mission
Pres. to see if they could practice and participate in the tournament.
The pres. told them they could participate in the tournament but could
not practice during the week. Friday rolled around and they went to go
to the tournament but when they got there nobody was there. They waited
for a while to see if anyone would show up but no one came. So Pres.
Douglas said let´s go to work. They left and got into a taxi and as they
were driving a military vehicle ploughed into the taxi ejecting two of
the missionaries from the car one other flew to the front of the vehicle
smashing his head into the windshield and Pres Douglas came out of the
crash without a scratch. The taxi driver seeing what appeared to be 2
dead americans ran away knowing that he would probably get blamed since
the other vehicle involved was a military vehicle. Pres Douglas
administered blessings to the injured missionaries and a bus and a car
drove up and the missionaries were taken to a clinic where they were
given nothing more than morphine for the pain. Pres douglas left the
clinic and went to get the branch president he had met just 4 days
earlier. He came and they both administered more blessings and then the
branch president walked the 100 kilometers to the mission home to get
the president because all the phones shut off after 10. he got there at
about 5:30 but no one was awake so he waited until they woke up and he
got back to the clinic with the mission president 2 ambulances and 4
doctors at around 10 a.m. all the missionaries lived and one or two
returned to the mission to finish honorably and the rest did not. A very
powerful story about obedience. Pres Douglas is called of God and is a
good man.
We are working hard and having fun to. We made peanut butter bars yesterday and they turned out pretty good.
It´s been another good week
Elder Robinson
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