03-05-12

Buenos dias mi familia!

This week is a big week, for all of you and for me! I hope that EVERYTHING goes wonderful with Clark and Jennica's wedding. I know that it will and I know that it will be beautiful! I will be thinking about it! I received the announcement last Monday actually, and LOVE it. It is so cute! Enjoy it!

On Wednesday the Santa Rosa California Mission which means ME, haha, and the Oakland/San Francisco Mission get to meet in Oakland and hear from Elder L. Tom Perry, an apostle of the Lord. Yay! We are all so excited and I know that it is going to be a wonderful experience! It is always a powerful and spiritual experience when hearing from a general authority. I will tell you about it next week!

Life is beautiful. I love this opportunity I have to be serving the Lord. You all know that I am a type of person who loves setting goals. Sometimes, though, I am so focused on doing them and achieving them that I forget to live in the moment. It is something I have struggled with for a long while now and I think a lot of people do. Well, I know a lot of people do. It is something I am working on though, and the beautiful thing is that with the Lord's help it is possible! Saturday, was a beautiful day, the weather was beautiful and it really wasn't different than any other day other than I was really living in the moment, I was enjoying the beauty around me. We went into a lesson and had a really good lesson with a lady named Juana. It went good, we taught her the first lesson, taught her about the Book of Mormon, and gave her a chapter to read. We invited her to read it and to pray about it. We bore testimony of the powerful effect of the Book of Mormon in our lives. We made a return appointment and we were able to meet her beautiful little girl. It was a good lesson and I enjoyed every minute of it. Afterward, my companion was saying how it went good, but was saying a few different things that we could have done better. We are working so hard to be the best instruments in the hands of the Lord that we can and what she began doing is the very thing that I always do. I always walk away from a lesson saying the things that I wish I could have done better and the things I can do better next time. I was surprised that I wasn't feeling that same way. I realized though, that I had loved every minute of the experience with Juana. We had done our best and we had been following the spirit. I was very happy with how it went. As we were talking about the lesson, I began telling her that we did good. We had done our best and followed the spirit. As I did so, I realized that this was a little abnormal for me. I realized that I had asked the Lord for help to live in every moment and enjoy the day. I know that it was the Lord helping me, I know that the Lord had heard my prayer and my desire. I don't want it to sound like I'm not enjoying my mission or enjoying the experiences because I am! I do realize, though, that I think we get so caught up in life, the things we have to do, that we forget to enjoy the journey. Now, we always should evaluate our teaching, we should always look for ways to better ourselves. I think, though, that it's good to be happy with what you did do and be happy when you know you did your best and followed the spirit.
Yesterday in the Spanish group, I bore my testimony about enjoying the journey. It is so important! I thought that there had to be a scripture about that and of course, there is one! The scriptures have ALL the answers. REALLY. Haha. There is a scripture found in Psalms 118:24 "This is the day which the Lord hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it." I love it and I think it's going to be my new motto for a while. :]
This isn't something new, but I guess I realized that even when we are having a few difficulties or the work is hard, we CAN find happiness. We can find peace, and we can live and enjoy every moment.

Life is beautiful. ENJOY it! Thank you, thank you for the love you constantly show me. Thank you for your support. Thank you for being YOU!

Have a wonderful week!



Con mucho amor,

Hermana Robinson