This week has been a weird week. Tomorrow, all of the people who I see as "old" people in the mission, the people who when I got here I saw as real missionaries who had a lot of time, all of the district and zone leaders when I got here, are all going home. Now when I look at a lot of people, I have more time here than them and it is a weird feeling because that means that I am going to be one of the old people in the mission. It is a very weird feeling. I still don't feel like I have a ton of time but at the same time I do.
The biggest highlight of the week was two miracles that happened named Sebastian and Chais. They were two people who got baptized this past weekend. When we started the week we almost didn't have any investigators. So we decided to start working with some of the people who had been going to church for a while but didn't want to get baptized. The first was Sebastian. He is a 16 year old kid who likes the church but had a lot of doubts about getting baptized and didn't want to live all of the commandments. We started working with him a lot and had a few really spiritual lessons with him and he finally decided that God wants him to live the commandments and he knows that it is the right thing to do. He got spiritual confirmation about the truthfulness of the gospel and decided he needed to get baptized.
The second is Chais. She is a girl in the primary that everyone thought was a member. Her parents aren't members but she always comes to church with the aunt of her mom. She came up to us and told us that she wanted to get baptized. I have never met a 9 year old girl with a bigger testimony of the gospel of Jesus Christ. Now because of her we are going to start working with her parents and her grandparents. She is super awesome and was super happy to finally get baptized.
I loved reading about y'alls thoughts about the eternal family and being sealed to your family. We met a family where the husband is a member but the wife isn't. We started working with them and had a really spiritual lesson about eternal families and it made me miss my eternal family a lot. But I had the chance to bare my testimony about how grateful I am for my family. She has doubts and doesn't want to give up drinking coffee but we are going to keep working with her because they are so close to being an eternal family. It has been interesting pondering so much about being sealed and marriage and the importance of the family. It is by far my favorite part of the gospel. It is the part that I love sharing most about the gospel. Even though it isn't a requirement to be baptized, it is the second lesson in the order of missionary lessons. The most spiritual experiences of my mission have been when I have been in lessons and we have been teaching about the importance of the family and watching the spirit touch the hearts of these people about how important it is. I love yall so much and am more grateful for yall than I can express.
The area is awesome! Elder Portillo and I get along really well and we are trying to find ways to pick up the area. We have a few ideas and we have a few new people who we are working with. I am super excited to work here. I will be here at least another 6 weeks.
As far as package things go, I don't need a ton of things, one thing I wouldn't mind would be a few pens. All of the pens here aren't very good and I love pens. I love pens in different colors and I like fine point pens. Like .5 mm. Other than that I know that whatever yall send will always be awesome!!
I love yall a ton!!! Have a great last week of summer!!!
Love,
Elder Robertson
