Dear Family,
So we have been helping 12 year old Ronald prepare for baptism over the last few weeks and this Saturday is his baptism! The is only 12 years old and there is a lot of danger and risk involved with baptizing someone so young if they aren´t getting baptized with their parents or other family members. The risk of going inactive is significantly higher. But as we have taught Ronald my doubts and fears that he won´t be a stalwart active member of God´s true church have disappeared. He´s very smart and is a scriptorian. I hope that he can be a good example to his family and one day his siblings and mom can enter the waters of baptism.
On Sunday I got a call from Elder Johnson (my first
comp) and he said that he met someone from my ward that was here
visiting. Kim Hamilton was here for about a week and I was able to talk
to her on the phone for a little bit on Sunday and yesterday. She is
returning home today so you can go ask her about her trip and about the
conversations we had. She came because her old companion´s daughter´s
farewell was on Saturday. This is the same companion that she had me try
to find to give her a letter that Kim sent with me. The very same day
her old comp received the letter she got on facebook and found Kim and
they began to talk. Kim really only needed one good reason to come back
to the country she served her misson and the farewell was it. I did not
get to see her because I´m clear out in the boonies but talking with her
was great.
Saturday and Sunday we had regional conference in
the church and on Sunday we watched a live broadcast of the conference
from the capital with Elder Russell M. Nelson. I´m the only American here
so it was in Spanish and I was very proud of myself to be able to
understand the translators and David L. Beck and Elder Zwick who didn´t
need translators because they both speak Spanish. It was a great
conference and a cool opportunity to see and hear (kinda) from Elder
Nelson. Sis. Hamilton told me a little about the opportunity the young
men and young women had to meet and talk to L. Tom Perry last week. How
was that?! What did he say?!
Things are going well and the work has shifted from
trying to find investigators to trying to find less active and inactive
members. We've seen some pretty tough situations with less actives. The
key is to never be less active. Never even think about it. if you decide
to just take one college class every otherSsunday, or play baseball on Sundays or you get a job working Sundays that´s it. It´s begun and if
you´re not careful you´ll be inactive. It surprises me how much a person
can forget of the truth if they've been away from it for a long time.
Some of the less active members are more lost than a lot of non
members....
Life is good.
Elder Robinson
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