Okay also, thank heavens for american healthcare!! There is a guy down here named E**** and he is a recent convert to the church and his apendix burst. So he went and got it taken care of and went home the next day! But it's okay because he goes back every day to get it "cleaned." And what I mean by that is he has his arms and legs strapped to a table, then gets his stitches removed from the wound, has a doctor climb on top of his and squeeze out all the blood that has built up, and he has to keep doing that until the blood comes out clean... All of the stories he has been telling us has made me really glad for American healtcare.
Okay I want to tell you about a family that we are teaching. So it is a part member family and the daughter and mother are the members. Then there is a 18 year old son named A**** and the dad whose name is J****. So they have been working with missionaries for over a year. They are always really nice to the missionaries and they progress at times and then other times don't. But they wouldn't get baptized for different reasons over the past year but they have been pretty certain about it, especially J****. So we decided to really focuss on the this month. We have been talking and teaching and extending invitations. Finally in one lesson we were talking about eternal families and the importance of them. I felt inspired to talk about my family and how important it was to me to be with my family forever and then I extended a baptism invitation and THEY BOTH ACCEPTED!! It was amazing! We even set a firm date with A**** and we are working with J**** to get one. Also with them the next time we met with them we didn't have anything planned to teach them because we stopped by when an appointment fell through. So they ask "so you guys got a message for us?" We kinda stopped for a moment and then both had an impression, we looked at each other and both said "prayer" and as it turns out they hadn't been praying as a family and we think that is really going to help them as a family and help J****. It's just crazy how things work like that.
We also found a couple named C**** and A**** and they are the most prepared people I have ever seen! Right off the get go they had so many questions for us and seemed so interested on what we had to talk about. We came back for the second lesson and they had read a ton in the Book of Mormon and had so many questions for us that we didn't have time for our planned lesson and we actually had to stop them because we had been there for so long and had to get to our other appointments. And then even more than that, when they came to church (less than a week after we met them) they knew, and I am not exaggerating, 10 different members of our ward (which is like a third cause we have a small ward) from different ways. It was so awesome!!!
To answer a few of Dad's questions from last time, No my area is quite small, it takes us about 13 minutes to walk from one end of it to the other. My mission president is amazing!! I haven't had a ton of time to get to know him but he is super fun and energetic and just a really good guy. They culture of the mission is very obedient. President Corbitt has really helped the entire mission be super obedient because we want to be. And we are seeing the benifits! Last month the mission had 213 baptisms and we expect that number to keep growing! And the food, it is super amazing, if it is cooked by someone who knows what they are doing... Otherwise it can be very hard to eat! But for the most part the mission is super amazing and I am loving it!!!
Now, something to ponder. What does it mean to do something in the name of Jesus Christ? Because we all do it in every prayer, testimony, class or anything religious. We always end in the name of Jesus Christ, I wear his name on my chest every day! I would especially love insight on this. What I have come up with so far is it means that we are always desciples of him. In every action and thought, at all times of the day and in every place. If we want to be able to do anything in the name of Jesus Christ we have to try and live as he would live in all times and in all places. Following him in only what we want to follow him in only makes us "almost disciples" and not complete ones and if we are not full desciples of Jesus Christ we shouldn't be allowed to testify in his name.
Anyways that's all for this week!! I miss you all and love you all so much! I hope yall have an amazing week!!!!!!!
Elder Robertson
