Sunday, October 20, 2013

October 2, 2013 "Called to Train"

October 2, 2013

Dear Family,
Well folks everyone´s been saying it for a long time now and I´ve been denying it until about 15 minutes ago. I´m gonna train this next transfer. President Douglas called me to tell me. It´s a little bit of a shock. I´ve known for a long time that I would train and President has always kinda teased me with it by calling me out in meetings about a year ago when he was talking about the huge flux of missionaries that is happening. so here we are. In a week I´ll have yet another companion and he´ll be a greenie hungry and thirsty to bring souls unto Christ. It´s gonna be a cool experience.
Let me tell you about one of the few progressing investigators we have here in Licey. His Ex Wife is a recent convert and is what got him coming to church. My first impression of him was not good seeing as how about a month ago he showed up drunk to lecture his ex wife for leaving him. So it was a big surprise to see him show up at church a couple weeks later and he hasn´t missed church since. He has some obvious issues with the word of wisdom but he is very sincere and has since asked ex-wife and his daughter to forgive him. In the past he has spoken out against the church on radio and t.v. so we are being really careful about everything but it seems like he is truly changing. He has a baptismal date for the 30 of November and it looks like I´ll be here seeing as how I´ll probably stay here to train and generally you spend two transfers (3 months) training. It´s been interesting to see nearly all doubts about this investigator disappear as we have been guided by the spirit and have taught him. He has changed and if he´s willing to make a drastic change in his life he will be baptized on november 30.
it´s raining a lot here and my comp is sick. We still don´t know what he has. he´s at the hospital with Elder Urbina who has kidney stones doing a few more tests to figure out what´s up. I really hope he´s okay and that he´s not too sick.
Elder Robinson

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