Monday, May 14, 2012
05-08-2012
Hi familia!
Today is p-day! Usually we have our p-days on Mondays, but because it's a new transfer and the new missionaries aren't coming in till today, it was changed. I should have let you know last week in my e-mail, but I completely forgot! Sorry about that. Here I am now! Anyway, transfers are always crazy because you never know what is going to happen. You never know where the Lord wants you to be. I have only been here in Napa for one transfer and so I was almost positive I would be staying, but Hermana Ordonez has been here in Napa for three transfers and so we had no idea if she would stay or leave. She had a really good chance to leave. I am so thankful to be companions with her, we get along so well and we work so well together. Come Friday night when we find out about what happens for transfers (who will stay or who will go) we were nervous and jittery. We received the voicemail from the zone leaders and we were freaking out! They start listing off the missionaries in our zone and who will be going where and they get to Napa North Spanish (which is us) and let us know that we were both going to be staying!! YAY! We were jumping up and down, hugging, and yelling. Haha, we were sooo excited! I felt so happy that she was staying. It's a beginning of a new transfer and we will be together another 6 weeks. I was so grateful!
This past week has been a good week! We've been meeting a lot of new people everyday, we have been teaching a lot, and we have been trying our best! Everyday I am on the mission, I love it more and more. I feel like I'm in heaven. Napa is beautiful, seriously! (search online for pictures and you will understand!) The branch and members are amazing, I love our investigators so much, and I love my companion. What more could I ask for?! I am soo blessed. On top of that, I have a family that is so supportive and so loving. Thank you for everything that you do!
I had an interesting experience this past week during personal study. I have come to cherish my personal study time on the mission. It is a time between 8 and 9 in the morning where we study the scriptures, preach my gospel, books in the mission library, or the Ensign. I have learned so much as I have been guided by the spirit in the things that I need to study to help me know how to better help God's children here. I can't remember exactly what I was studying, but I was thinking of our investigators. A lot of our investigators & members have struggles and difficulties like we all do: they are lonely, they have addictions, they feel like they can't change, they are lost and confused, they aren't progressing, etc, etc. As I was thinking about all of this, it made me sad. It made me so sad because I just want people to be happy. I know that the gospel will make us truly happy. Of course, we will still struggle. Of course, we will still have difficulties-that's a part of life, but I know that through the Gospel we can be healed.
Yes, I felt sad, but then I realized how God must feel at times. We are ALL His children and we all have so many struggles. It's almost overwhelming to think about right?! Then, I thought about the perfect plan He's provided for each and every one of us and that through this perfect plan, we can all have true happiness. We can all have hope. That is what the message of the Gospel of Jesus Christ is--HOPE!
There is a scripture in Psalms 147:3 "He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds."
There is another scripture in the Book of Mormon in Ether 12:4 "Wherefore, whoso believeth in God might with surety hope for a better world, yea, even a place at the right hand of God, which hope cometh of faith, maketh an anchor to the souls of men, which would make them sure and steadfast, always abounding in good works, being led to glorify God."
What does the Gospel of Jesus Christ offer? HOPE. What are most people longing for in this world that we live in? Hope. As we meet new people each and everyday, as we talk to our members in the branch, as we teach our investiagators we hear of all the different struggles and difficulties that people face. As different as they are, there is one solution to all of them: The Gospel of Jesus Christ. I know that it's true. I know that Jesus Christ can heal us. It's only through him, that we can be whole and happy.
I know that Jesus Christ lives. I know that The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is led by Jesus Christ. He is at the head of the church. We are so blessed to be members of his church.
I love you so much! I will hear your voices on Sunday. LOVE YOU!
Con mucho amor,
Hermana Robinson
I will call you on Sunday at 5 your time. Thank you, thank you! LOVE YOU! CANT WAIT!
04-30-2012
Hello family!
It sounds like changes are happening there in the family. By the time I get home, I don't know if anyone will even be there. Haha. No, I know that at least a few of you will be there. ;] Life goes by so fast, and change is so constant. At times I feel that we blink and when we open our eyes everything is different. That is how I felt when I began this journey as a missionary and I know it is certainly how I will feel when I come home. Despite the fact that change is constant, there are other things that can also be constant in our lives. God is constant, Jesus Christ is constant. The gospel is constant in our lives, but in order to feel of the blessings we must live it. Family is constant! The connections we have as a family can last for time and all eternity, forever. If that isn't constant, I don't know what is. :] I know that it is true that we can be families forever! I also know that as we make the Gospel a constant in our lives, the peace, the strength, and happiness of that will also be lasting or constant. "Let us relish life as we live it, find joy in the journey, and share our love with friends and family. One day each of us will run out of tomorrows." -President Thomas S. Monson
I am so thankful for the Gospel. I know I say that all of the time, I probably sound like a broken record, but I say it because it's true. Jesus Christ is our Savior. He lives and he loves each and every one of us. I hope you don't all think that everyday on the mission is perfect, no it's hard, it's REALLY hard. Haha, but because I know that I have the Lord on my side, I know that I can do what I need to do. I have more peace and more strength in all of the things that we do each day.
We are working with quite a few investigators right now and at times I feel like I have the weight of the world on my shoulders, we are working here with God's children and I can't help but feel so overwhelmed. I know, though, that when we are doing all that we can that the Lord is happy with us.
There are people that we teach that live of the world. One investigator, in particular, that continually tells us that we can't change. He is too much a part of the world. We testify over and over again that through the Atonement of Jesus Christ we can change, we can become better, we can become the people that God wants us to be. I love sharing the message of hope with others. I love seeing their eyes light up when they hear that they can change, they have hope. Change isn't a bad thing. If we are changing for the good and using the Atonement of Jesus Christ in our lives daily. We can ALL change for the better, and we can start that change at any moment. I love seeing the changes in people's lives that come from the Gospel of Jesus Christ. There really is nothing like it! I am so thankful that I can become better. We are here in this life to better ourselves, we are here to progress. If we are progressing, we know we are doing well. :] I love you all so much! Thank you for all that you do for me. Thank you for your examples. Keep going strong. Remember that you are so important and so special to me and, most importantly, to the Lord.
Read these talks they are amazing! Read them together! :]
http://www.lds.org/general-conference/2008/10/finding-joy-in-the-journey?lang=eng&query=change+constant
http://www.lds.org/general-conference/2012/04/the-race-of-life?lang=eng&query=change
I love you all!
Thanks for the Easter package. You are SO sweet.
Con mucho amor,
Hermana Robinson
04-23-2012
Hola, hola!
How are you all doing?! I hope you're doing bery, bery good! (Hermana Ordonez always says "very, very good" but in her cute spanish accent!) She's rubbing off on me. This past week has been very good for us! I first want to tell you about Saul. Remember Saul?! Hermana Skroski and I tracted into him in Novato and he was amazing and got baptized shortly after we both left the area. He received the priesthood! The hermanas that are serving there now keep me updated on him and I am so happy to hear of his progress. He is doing soo good!
I have made so many good friends here in Napa all ready. I love the branch! We cover a large area here. We cover the North part of Napa and then a couple cute towns- St. Helena and Calistoga. Calistoga is about 20 minutes away, and we have a few investigators that live there. This past week we were able to take one of our members, Nivia, with us to go to our appointments. She's 20 years old and is SO cute. She is here living with her aunt and cousin. She just recently started coming to church again. We call her "futura misionera" because she will be a missionary! We have been talking to her a lot about a mission, though. We invited her to think about it and pray about it. She would be such a good missionary. It was so fun to have her with us and to be able to talk to her about a mission and answer her questions.
Here in the spanish branch, we meet in the Relief Society room because our branch isn't too big yet. Yesterday, though, the room was completely full. I know that soon we will move into the chapel and that will be awesome! The branch is growing and I am so excited and happy with it's progress. We had two investigators at church yesterday! We have an investigator named Jose, who has a baptismal date, that was there and also an investigator Juan who came to church. It's the most exciting thing to have people come to church! Being a missionary has increased my testimony of the importance of going to church and partaking of the sacrament. It's a special opportunity that we have that I think a lot of us take for granted. I hope that you are all trying your hardest to go to church on Sunday because it is there where we are able to remember Jesus Christ and especially renew our baptismal covenants that we made when we were baptized.
I love these people so much! There are times when I just cry because I want SO bad for them to experience the blessings that come from living the gospel. I love them and want them to be happy.
I love all of you SO much. There are times when I just cry because I am thinking about all of you and I want all of you to experience the blessings that come from living the gospel because there are so many blessings that Heavenly Father wants to give us, but we have to live the Gospel. I want you to be happy! I know that we can only have true happiness when we live the gospel!
I LOVE YOU!!!!! Gracias por todo que hacen para mi. :]
Con mucho amor,
Hermana Robinson
04-16-2012
Hello family,
How are you doing today?! I hope you are having a wonderful day& week. This past week has been great! I feel like we've done so much. The branch here in Napa is pretty new and so most of the members are recent converts or less active members coming back again. I love being able to see it grow, and to see the members strengthen their testimonies. It's awesome!
We do a thing thats called exchanges every once in a while which allows us to go to a different area, be with a new companion, and meet new people for a day. This past week I was able to go to Novato with Hermana Osorio. It was so awesome to see the people that I had been working with before. I was able to see two less active members in particular that I grew really close to and it was such an amazing feeling to see them again. It was like a dream, haha. I still feel just as much love for them as I did then. One of them is Andres and another is Denny. When we went to see Denny, she had no idea that we were coming and so when she opened the door she was so surprised and ran out and gave me the biggest hug! I love her so much! It was fun to be back and another thing that was so comforting is just to see that even though we come and go, the work still moves forward. There are now other Hermanas there taking care of the area, loving the people, working hard just as I did when I was there. It's a comforting feeling to know that those people won't be forgotten or lost. It reminds me that we will never be forgotten or lost. The parable of the sheep in the new testament that says something like: how many of us would leave the 99 to go searching for the one?! I know that Jesus Christ is our shepherd and that we are NEVER, EVER forgotten.
On Saturday we were also able to go to the temple and it was beautiful! I love the Oakland temple, I just love the temple. Afterward, I told Hermana Ordonez that I never want to leave there. There is something about the peace inside the temple that gives me a whole new outlook on life. I am so thankful for the temple! It will soon be a year that I went to the temple for the first time.
The temple is beautiful! It's even more beautiful when we have family and friends that can be there with us. I hope that you all have that vision and that goal to enter the temple. There is nothing like it and I know that as you do all that you can to prepare yourself, you will feel the help of the Lord because there is nothing more that our Heavenly Father wants for us than to go to the temple and feel of the love and spirit there.
I am so thankful for your love and support. I know that the Lord is taking care of you, I know it! And I hope that you know how much He loves you. I hope you know how much that I love you!
Thank you, thank you for everything!
Watch the video clip about families and temples! :] http://www.lds.org/pages/mormon-messages?lang=eng#eternal-truth
I LOVE YOU!
Con mucho amor,
Hermana Robinson
Sunday, April 15, 2012
04-09-12
Hello!
Feliz Pascua! How was your Easter?! I hope it was good! We had a good day yesterday even though it didn't really feel like Easter. Haha. When your on the mission and holidays come around, it just doesn't feel like the holiday. I do love the time that I have to focus on the true meaning of the holiday though. The world has made holidays a way to receive presents, candy, and to focus on material things which makes it easy to lose focus of the true meaning. I love being able to truly focus on the significance of why we celebrate the day though.
Watch the video!http://www.lds.org/pages/mormon-messages?lang=eng#his-sacred-name-an-easter-declaration
Our Heavenly Father sent Jesus Christ to this world so that we could all have the opportunity to live with God and Jesus Christ again after this life. He sent His son because He loves us SOOO much. We will never be able to comprehend His love for us. I was so happy and excited to go to church! Because we had General Conference last Sunday, it was my first Sunday going to church here in Napa. It's a pretty small branch here, but I love it! After serving in Vacaville, I have a whole new appreciation for branchs and wards. Haha. (I LOVE the group in Vacaville though.) Every time I am transferred and go to a new area, I never cease to be amazed at strong members of the church who devote their lives to building up the kingdom of God. Their examples to me make me want to be better, make me want to be stronger. We have been working a lot with less active members and it makes me so sad to see these members struggling in their testimonies. I want nothing more for them than to feel the peace and happiness that comes from living the Gospel.
We had a lesson this past week with a boy named Raul who is a member, but he's less active. He is SO cute! He's 9 years old and reminds me of Chandler. As I am around these beautiful people, I can't help but feel so much love for them and want them to do good and be happy. Maybe it's because I have a little brother who is about that age and so any little boy that age just touches my heart, I don't know, but I feel a strong desire to help them, to be there for them, and to love them. He came to church yesterday and I was so happy as I saw him walk into the church with his mom.
I pray for all of you so much. As I sit here and write this email today, I can't help but be full of tears because of the love that fills my heart for each and every one of you. I want so bad for all of you to be happy, to have peace and comfort in your life & during your challenges, I want you to be able to have the blessings of God that He is so anxious to give us as we live the Gospel of Jesus Christ in our life.
I hope that you were all able to go to church yesterday and feel of the spirit of Easter there. Jesus Christ lives. Jesus Christ knows us personally. When we do all that we can to be more like him, we will be happier.
Faith is like a seed, we must constantly feed it and nourish it so that it can grow. As I have been on my mission, I have recognized how important it is to read & study the scriptures DAILY! Pray! Go to church! Love those around you and look for ways that you can serve them. Please, do those things that will help your faith grow because just like a seed, if we do not nourish it everyday, if we do not give it water or sunlight, it will die. Keep your seeds ALIVE! :] Read Alma 32 as a family this week, it talks about our faith being like a seed. I love the chapter! I will ask to see how you liked it next week.
I love you all so much! You mean so much to me. Thank you for your love and support.
I am SO blessed.
Con mucho amor,
Hermana Robinson
Feliz Pascua! How was your Easter?! I hope it was good! We had a good day yesterday even though it didn't really feel like Easter. Haha. When your on the mission and holidays come around, it just doesn't feel like the holiday. I do love the time that I have to focus on the true meaning of the holiday though. The world has made holidays a way to receive presents, candy, and to focus on material things which makes it easy to lose focus of the true meaning. I love being able to truly focus on the significance of why we celebrate the day though.
Watch the video!http://www.lds.org/pages/mormon-messages?lang=eng#his-sacred-name-an-easter-declaration
Our Heavenly Father sent Jesus Christ to this world so that we could all have the opportunity to live with God and Jesus Christ again after this life. He sent His son because He loves us SOOO much. We will never be able to comprehend His love for us. I was so happy and excited to go to church! Because we had General Conference last Sunday, it was my first Sunday going to church here in Napa. It's a pretty small branch here, but I love it! After serving in Vacaville, I have a whole new appreciation for branchs and wards. Haha. (I LOVE the group in Vacaville though.) Every time I am transferred and go to a new area, I never cease to be amazed at strong members of the church who devote their lives to building up the kingdom of God. Their examples to me make me want to be better, make me want to be stronger. We have been working a lot with less active members and it makes me so sad to see these members struggling in their testimonies. I want nothing more for them than to feel the peace and happiness that comes from living the Gospel.
We had a lesson this past week with a boy named Raul who is a member, but he's less active. He is SO cute! He's 9 years old and reminds me of Chandler. As I am around these beautiful people, I can't help but feel so much love for them and want them to do good and be happy. Maybe it's because I have a little brother who is about that age and so any little boy that age just touches my heart, I don't know, but I feel a strong desire to help them, to be there for them, and to love them. He came to church yesterday and I was so happy as I saw him walk into the church with his mom.
I pray for all of you so much. As I sit here and write this email today, I can't help but be full of tears because of the love that fills my heart for each and every one of you. I want so bad for all of you to be happy, to have peace and comfort in your life & during your challenges, I want you to be able to have the blessings of God that He is so anxious to give us as we live the Gospel of Jesus Christ in our life.
I hope that you were all able to go to church yesterday and feel of the spirit of Easter there. Jesus Christ lives. Jesus Christ knows us personally. When we do all that we can to be more like him, we will be happier.
Faith is like a seed, we must constantly feed it and nourish it so that it can grow. As I have been on my mission, I have recognized how important it is to read & study the scriptures DAILY! Pray! Go to church! Love those around you and look for ways that you can serve them. Please, do those things that will help your faith grow because just like a seed, if we do not nourish it everyday, if we do not give it water or sunlight, it will die. Keep your seeds ALIVE! :] Read Alma 32 as a family this week, it talks about our faith being like a seed. I love the chapter! I will ask to see how you liked it next week.
I love you all so much! You mean so much to me. Thank you for your love and support.
I am SO blessed.
Con mucho amor,
Hermana Robinson
04-02-12
Buenos Dias!
My first week here in Napa and it feels like I've been here for a lot longer than a week. Haha, missionary time is crazy. I love Napa! I feel so blessed to be serving here and I LOVE Hermana Ordonez. She has been our for 5 months and I am learning so much from her. She is an AMAZING missionary & is a good spanish teacher (she is from Ecuador). Haha. She teaches and helps me with my spanish and I teach and help her with her english, and so it's perfect!
We are teaching a lot of lessons and I am meeting a lot of wonderful people! It never ceases to amaze me that within a few minutes or even seconds you can feel the love of God for that person. Missionary work is a beautiful experience and I am so thankful that I have this wonderful opportunity. I am so thankful for your support and your love for me! I will never, ever be able to express my gratitude enough. There is this cute little family that we are teaching: Rubi, Nayn, and the little girl Jessie. Nayn is a member and Rubi is not. They are not yet married, but they now have their marriage license and so we hope it will be soon. Rubi wants to be a member of the church and as soon as they are married, she will be able to be baptized. On Saturday night, we were able to teach them about the temple. I felt the spirit so strong and we taught them about the sealing ordinances and that in the temple we can be sealed for time and for all eternity as a family. I look at that beautiful family and it makes me so happy that I get to witness their journey of becoming an eternal family. I am so thankful that we have the knowledge that we can be together with our families FOREVER!
Saturday night we came home and our power was out. We were like ahhhh, what do we do?! Haha, I don't know where my flashlight went and so Hermana Ordonez was the only one with a flashlight and then I was using the light of the cellphone which wasn't too convenient. We were trying to plan for Sunday with the little light we had and it wasn't working out too well. We were comparing it to the parable of the ten virgins and that 5 of them were prepared and had oil in their lamp, but the other 5 weren't so prepared. Of course, I was the unprepared one, haha. It goes too show, though, how important it is to be prepared. I have been thinking about that a lot and after watching General Conference this past weekend and feeling the spirit so strong, I realized that one of the things we must do to be prepared is listen to the words of the Prophet, or really, the words of God. http://www.lds.org/general-conference/sessions/2012/04?lang=eng (watch it!!) The Lord gives us so many resources so that we can be prepared when Jesus Christ comes again. He has given us a living day Prophet! We are so blessed to be able to hear from President Monson and I hope that we all listen to the counsel that he has given us as well as all of the other wonderful leaders of the church. He has given us scriptures to read and study, so that we can be strengthened spiritually to face the challenges of life each day. We are able to pray, to talk to our Heavenly Father at ANY time and ANY place. He has given us the church, so that we can take of the sacrament and be cleansed of our sins and renew our covenants. We have been given so many ways so that we can be PREPARED. I love this Gospel! I am young, I don't know a lot of things, but I know with all of my heart that we have a Heavenly Father who loves us. We have a Savior, Jesus Christ, and He lives! Joseph Smith restored the Gospel of Jesus Christ and we have a living prophet today, Thomas S. Monson. I know that families can be together forever through the ordinances of the temple. I know that the Book of Mormon is another testament of Jesus Christ and we can feel of the love of God more when we read it everyday! We can learn ways to overcome our challenges, find comfort and peace, and we can come closer to God through reading it daily.
I am so thankful for all of you. I love you so much!
Have a wonderful week! & watch general conference!! :]
Con mucho amor,
Hermana Robinson
My first week here in Napa and it feels like I've been here for a lot longer than a week. Haha, missionary time is crazy. I love Napa! I feel so blessed to be serving here and I LOVE Hermana Ordonez. She has been our for 5 months and I am learning so much from her. She is an AMAZING missionary & is a good spanish teacher (she is from Ecuador). Haha. She teaches and helps me with my spanish and I teach and help her with her english, and so it's perfect!
We are teaching a lot of lessons and I am meeting a lot of wonderful people! It never ceases to amaze me that within a few minutes or even seconds you can feel the love of God for that person. Missionary work is a beautiful experience and I am so thankful that I have this wonderful opportunity. I am so thankful for your support and your love for me! I will never, ever be able to express my gratitude enough. There is this cute little family that we are teaching: Rubi, Nayn, and the little girl Jessie. Nayn is a member and Rubi is not. They are not yet married, but they now have their marriage license and so we hope it will be soon. Rubi wants to be a member of the church and as soon as they are married, she will be able to be baptized. On Saturday night, we were able to teach them about the temple. I felt the spirit so strong and we taught them about the sealing ordinances and that in the temple we can be sealed for time and for all eternity as a family. I look at that beautiful family and it makes me so happy that I get to witness their journey of becoming an eternal family. I am so thankful that we have the knowledge that we can be together with our families FOREVER!
Saturday night we came home and our power was out. We were like ahhhh, what do we do?! Haha, I don't know where my flashlight went and so Hermana Ordonez was the only one with a flashlight and then I was using the light of the cellphone which wasn't too convenient. We were trying to plan for Sunday with the little light we had and it wasn't working out too well. We were comparing it to the parable of the ten virgins and that 5 of them were prepared and had oil in their lamp, but the other 5 weren't so prepared. Of course, I was the unprepared one, haha. It goes too show, though, how important it is to be prepared. I have been thinking about that a lot and after watching General Conference this past weekend and feeling the spirit so strong, I realized that one of the things we must do to be prepared is listen to the words of the Prophet, or really, the words of God. http://www.lds.org/general-conference/sessions/2012/04?lang=eng (watch it!!) The Lord gives us so many resources so that we can be prepared when Jesus Christ comes again. He has given us a living day Prophet! We are so blessed to be able to hear from President Monson and I hope that we all listen to the counsel that he has given us as well as all of the other wonderful leaders of the church. He has given us scriptures to read and study, so that we can be strengthened spiritually to face the challenges of life each day. We are able to pray, to talk to our Heavenly Father at ANY time and ANY place. He has given us the church, so that we can take of the sacrament and be cleansed of our sins and renew our covenants. We have been given so many ways so that we can be PREPARED. I love this Gospel! I am young, I don't know a lot of things, but I know with all of my heart that we have a Heavenly Father who loves us. We have a Savior, Jesus Christ, and He lives! Joseph Smith restored the Gospel of Jesus Christ and we have a living prophet today, Thomas S. Monson. I know that families can be together forever through the ordinances of the temple. I know that the Book of Mormon is another testament of Jesus Christ and we can feel of the love of God more when we read it everyday! We can learn ways to overcome our challenges, find comfort and peace, and we can come closer to God through reading it daily.
I am so thankful for all of you. I love you so much!
Have a wonderful week! & watch general conference!! :]
Con mucho amor,
Hermana Robinson
03-26-12
Hola!
Crazy changes happening here in the mission. Week of transfers is always crazy because you are wondering if you'll be leaving and where you may go, but trying to stay focused and work as hard as you can to do the things you know the Lord needs you to do for His precious children. We make our transfer predictions before it comes and we were sure Hermana Fenn would stay in Vacaville and we were pretty sure that I would be leaving. I could stay here forever and be happy, but it was likely that I would be going. I told her "the last thing that will happen here is that we willl be white washed with Elders". Which means that they will take us both out and spanish Elders will come into the area. Transfer information came Friday night and we were both shocked because we were both leaving and being white washed out with Elders, haha. Sister Monson (who we live with) said: "if you want to make God laugh, tell him your plans." Haha which was kind of the case in this situation because we were NOT expecting that. Hermana Fenn is going to Santa Rosa and I am going to Napa. It's a lot of work when you are both leaving because you have to organize and make sure the Elders will have all that they need to take charge of the area. We have been trying to get everything organized and make notes for everything so they kind of understand what's going on here. I am excited to go to Napa! It is an area that I have wanted to serve in and I know it is where the Lord wants me to be. I am very sad to leave Vacaville though. It's amazing how a place just becomes home to you and then when it's time to leave it's like leaving home and family because it is how it feels. I have learned so many things here in Vacaville that I could have never learned otherwise. I am so grateful for this chance to have been here and met all the people that I have. Like the quote from Dr. Suess "Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened." And so my new direct address will be:
1260 Trower Ave.
Napa, CA 94558
And I am excited to be with Hermana Ordonez, I've met her a few times and she's way cute! She is a native spanish speaker from Ecuador and so I know that it will be a new, fun adventure. I am very sad to leave my mom (trainer) Hermana Fenn, but she will forever have a special place in my heart. We've spent three transfers together and have seen each other through ups and downs. I love her so much!
On Friday, we had a wonderful lesson with a lady named Maria and she has two cute little kids who love my stickers of Jesus Christ and will just keep asking for more and more, haha. She read the chapter we gave her to read in the Book of Mormon (yay!) and had some questions. She had a question about the age we are baptized in our church. We flipped open the Book of Mormon to Moroni 8 where it explains that small children are innocent and don't need to be baptized. We then discussed baptism and invited her to be baptized. She said yes and that she would prepare herself to be baptized on April 30th. After leaving the lesson, we could feel the spirit so strong and knew that we had been instruments in the hands of the Lord. I love sharing the gospel with others and I love helping them come closer to Jesus Christ.
Guess what's coming up this weekend!?!? General Conference! And I am SO excited. I can't believe that General Conference is already here again, I feel like it just happened. We are so lucky to be able to listen to servants of the Lord speak to us and tell us of the things that God would say to us. There is nothing like it, we are so blessed to have a modern day prophet and I hope that you all make the time to watch it. One thing I am doing that I did last time and it's AMAZING is writing down some questions I have in my life and then as I watch conference, think of the questions I have, and I promise you they will be answered through the talks that are given. Try it!
http://www.lds.org/church/events/april-2012-general-conference-dates-announced?lang=eng
Thank you for everything you do! I love you so much and you are constantly in my thoughts and prayers. Today we will be visiting the people we haven't been able to see yet before we leave, packing, and getting things ready to head to our new areas tomorrow. the next time I write to you, i'll be in Napa. It's a beautiful area and I know there are people ready to accept the Gospel!
Have a wonderful week!
Con mucho amor,
Hermana Robinson
Crazy changes happening here in the mission. Week of transfers is always crazy because you are wondering if you'll be leaving and where you may go, but trying to stay focused and work as hard as you can to do the things you know the Lord needs you to do for His precious children. We make our transfer predictions before it comes and we were sure Hermana Fenn would stay in Vacaville and we were pretty sure that I would be leaving. I could stay here forever and be happy, but it was likely that I would be going. I told her "the last thing that will happen here is that we willl be white washed with Elders". Which means that they will take us both out and spanish Elders will come into the area. Transfer information came Friday night and we were both shocked because we were both leaving and being white washed out with Elders, haha. Sister Monson (who we live with) said: "if you want to make God laugh, tell him your plans." Haha which was kind of the case in this situation because we were NOT expecting that. Hermana Fenn is going to Santa Rosa and I am going to Napa. It's a lot of work when you are both leaving because you have to organize and make sure the Elders will have all that they need to take charge of the area. We have been trying to get everything organized and make notes for everything so they kind of understand what's going on here. I am excited to go to Napa! It is an area that I have wanted to serve in and I know it is where the Lord wants me to be. I am very sad to leave Vacaville though. It's amazing how a place just becomes home to you and then when it's time to leave it's like leaving home and family because it is how it feels. I have learned so many things here in Vacaville that I could have never learned otherwise. I am so grateful for this chance to have been here and met all the people that I have. Like the quote from Dr. Suess "Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened." And so my new direct address will be:
1260 Trower Ave.
Napa, CA 94558
And I am excited to be with Hermana Ordonez, I've met her a few times and she's way cute! She is a native spanish speaker from Ecuador and so I know that it will be a new, fun adventure. I am very sad to leave my mom (trainer) Hermana Fenn, but she will forever have a special place in my heart. We've spent three transfers together and have seen each other through ups and downs. I love her so much!
On Friday, we had a wonderful lesson with a lady named Maria and she has two cute little kids who love my stickers of Jesus Christ and will just keep asking for more and more, haha. She read the chapter we gave her to read in the Book of Mormon (yay!) and had some questions. She had a question about the age we are baptized in our church. We flipped open the Book of Mormon to Moroni 8 where it explains that small children are innocent and don't need to be baptized. We then discussed baptism and invited her to be baptized. She said yes and that she would prepare herself to be baptized on April 30th. After leaving the lesson, we could feel the spirit so strong and knew that we had been instruments in the hands of the Lord. I love sharing the gospel with others and I love helping them come closer to Jesus Christ.
Guess what's coming up this weekend!?!? General Conference! And I am SO excited. I can't believe that General Conference is already here again, I feel like it just happened. We are so lucky to be able to listen to servants of the Lord speak to us and tell us of the things that God would say to us. There is nothing like it, we are so blessed to have a modern day prophet and I hope that you all make the time to watch it. One thing I am doing that I did last time and it's AMAZING is writing down some questions I have in my life and then as I watch conference, think of the questions I have, and I promise you they will be answered through the talks that are given. Try it!
http://www.lds.org/church/events/april-2012-general-conference-dates-announced?lang=eng
Thank you for everything you do! I love you so much and you are constantly in my thoughts and prayers. Today we will be visiting the people we haven't been able to see yet before we leave, packing, and getting things ready to head to our new areas tomorrow. the next time I write to you, i'll be in Napa. It's a beautiful area and I know there are people ready to accept the Gospel!
Have a wonderful week!
Con mucho amor,
Hermana Robinson
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