10-10-2011

Buenos Dias!
This week is the beginning of the third transfer. Did you read that?! Third transfer! Time flies when you're having fun...or when you're really really busy being a missionary & having fun too! I'm still here in good ol' Novato with Hermana Skroski. We are happy! We feel like it took us all of last transfer to really figure things out and get things started here with finding solid investigators and stuff. We are ready to find those that are ready!
On Saturday, Julie B. Beck (General Relief Society President) came and spoke to women from areas all around here. It was in Vacaville, so not too far away from here and we were able to go. It was soo good! I even shook her hand & felt all starstruck. She is an amazing woman. I felt the spirit so strong sitting in that room full of women. She uplifted, strengthened, and edified us. Every one of us in that room were different. We were raised in different parts of the world, have had different experiences, but we all were unified in that we are sisters & daughters of our Heavenly Father. Relief Society is the biggest organization for women in the world and we are a part of that. How amazing! It made me think of the women in my life and how blessed I am to have such great examples of strength, determination, charity, motherhood, and love. There is a new book out that I'm sure you may have "Daughters of my Kingdom" I can't wait to read the whole thing through. I've read quotes and pages here and there, but I'm excited to read it all the way through.
Yesterday in church, I gave my first talk on the mission. And I found out about an hour before I was to give it. Haha. It wasn't too bad though, it was on missionary work. I was pretty nervous though because of course, it was in spanish. The spanish is coming slowly, but surely. Sometimes it feels like it's not progressing, but then when I think back to a few months ago, I realize how far it's come. And it's all with the help of the Lord!
One of our investigators has cancer and so he has been in the hospital in San Francisco for a few weeks now. He is going to be in the hospital for a while. We have been calling him to see how he is doing and everything. When we first taught him, he was so eager to learn. He had read the pamphlets we had given him and had things to share with us from what he read. We talked to him on Saturday on the phone and he told us that he didn't have his Book of Mormon with him in the hospital, but that he had asked his sister to bring it to him. Hermana Skroski and I were so happy. We were so happy because the Book of Mormon is going to provide him so much peace and comfort through this hard time in his life.
We teach and talk to people everyday and we hear all of the different difficulties and trials that are taking place in their lives. There are so many troubles and problems people have, but every single one can be made better. It can be made lighter. And we have the answer- The Gospel of Jesus Christ. Some people don't want to hear it, though. It makes me sad because I know how their life could benefit. I know the comfort, love, and peace I have felt in my life from the Atonement, from knowing why I'm here. I love the Gospel.

Love,
Hermana Robinson