Dear Family,
In my interview with President Douglas he said something that I liked: if you have faith it means you gotta work like hell.¨
it´s true and it´s direct.
We´ve had some good experiences teaching and finding new people but for
the most part the work is really slow.....member support is waning and
we have very few people that we are teaching.
Mom thank
you for always being so loving and patient having to clean up after us
all our lives and pleading and begging us to do a few little chores and
then doing them anyway when you disobedient children don´t do them. I
think I may know a little of what that feels like now and I am sorry. I
don´t like playing ¨mom¨ in our house but unfortunately I have to. I
have to be constantly hounding the others (mostly the 2 latins, my comp
is great) to help and pull their weight. Now I can´t even imagine what
it must be like to do that for 7 people. You´re Wonder Woman!
working with less actives doesn´t seem to be rendering
results...it´s a long and difficult way back to activity and sometimes
it´s hard to know what these people need to progress and come back. Most
of the time they just put on a show to try and convince us that
everything is okay and that they are fine but we know they aren´t and
it´s hard to know how to learn their problems. It´s obvious that we need
the spirit and the gift of descernment because they dont seem all that
excited or willing to tell us what´s going on. the key is patience and
love. which isn´t always easy....
In a meeting we had with Pres. Douglas yesterday we were
talking about the gift of tongues and it´s a commonly misunderstood gift
of the spirit. The gift of tongues obviously refers to those
missionaries that go to foreign lands and speak foreign languages but it
also refers to every missionary and member and person that speaks their
native language. The gift of tongues refers more to the ability to
speak by the spirit and communicate what God wants communicated whether
it be in a foreign language or not. So Taft, you have the gift of
tongues and I know that you had your heart set on going out of the
country on your mission to speak another language and thought it had
been confirmed through your patriarchal blessing but know that you do
have the gift of tongues and you are teaching the word of God in his
language; the language of the spirit.
I am feeling the spirit in ways that I haven´t felt before.
And I attribute it to my amazing companion that has such great desires
to serve and be obedient and be a great missionary.
and
we are not being disobedient by emailing on friday (not p day). the
internet center was closed on wednesday and we were busy yesterday.
my deferment to the summer semester at BYU was granted so
I´m all set to go!!!!!!! man that was a stressful and long process...so
happy it´s over.
Life is good and it´s almost Halloween!!!
happy birthday Noah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
does he have a personal email address now that he´s 14?
love ·Elder hunter allen robinson
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