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