Dear family,
Man, it feels like i haven't talked to you since last year! I'm glad new years was great for you all. Nothin better than to be surrounded by family! (besides being on a mission) James is a teacher!! He's growin up! That is so cool they let dad do that. The Mudd's? I'm not sure. Are they missionaries here? If so i could find them. That's way cool though!
So this past week.......i have got to say was SO AWESOME. It was probably the craziest! But it was the best. The beginning of the week was pretty normal and busy, we ran out of miles for our car on wednesday! That stunk ha ha. That night we were going on splits with a member to a lesson and we forgot something in the apartment so we ran across the grass and on the way back my foot found a pot hole and my ankle hit the ground. Perfect timing eh? The day we run out of miles is the day i sprain my ankle ha ha. The next morning my ankle was all swollen and purple and i really didn't want to get it checked out so we made a few phone calls and got a ride over to the Beavercreek Elder's to borrow a brace and a cane. That's right! A cane! Man i felt so cool. Anywayy, after we our ride drop us off at Wal-Mart for a investigator lesson/haircut and before Elder Riggs got out of the car the keys to our car, apartment, anything that is warm and has access to a fridge full of food fell out of his pocket in the member's car. We had no idea until he called us 20 minutes later to tell us he couldn't get them back until later that night. Awesome! So we decided we would just go tracting in an area by some members and see what happens. Mind you i'm Mr. Gimpy with a cane ha ha. But i still wanted to work! We ended up walking about 6 miles and got 1 return appointment. Woo! Satan never wins! We kick him in the face!
On new years eve we had a blitz with our Zone Leaders for most of the day, a blitz is where they come and get twice the work done in your area for the day. Elder Robbins and Shelton and I all went tracting for the whole day. We tracted all down this one street and all that we got was bible bashing verses thrown at our face which is no fun. But we kept going! We went onto this other street and no joke, 5 out of the 6 doors we knocked on we got a return appointment for. One family was even so nice they invited us in and fed us dinner ha ha! They were all Methodist and so nice. We gave them a Book of Mormon and they gave us all hugs and told us we were their New Year's blessing. That was cool. We'll be going by this week. Elder Riggs went with our other Zone Leader Elder Seeley and got one of our investigators on date for baptism!! January 28th! Woo! So right now we have the Thacker kids on date for January 21st, and Cody and Alex on date for the 28th. It's going to be a GREAT month!
On Sunday during church our district leader Elder Rose called and committed us to find another person to teach and for some reason it really pumped us up! We were worried we weren't going to have much time to find because of our dinner appointment, but it turned out that we didn't have one! We went out of the church running to our car yelling and making noises because we were so pumped to go find someone ha ha we got laughed at by some members but oh well! We ended up at some apartments not far from the church and tracted i'd say about 100 of them ha ha! It was soooo cold and we didn't have our jackets because we weren't planning on tracting but it was so fun! We ran from apartment to apartment and we got about 5 more return appointments from it. Right at the point where we were almost frozen to death we knocked on this one apartment at the very end of them all and some nice Muslim students let us in! And we taught them! They didn't speak English very well, but the spirit was there and thank goodness it speaks all languages!! Ha ha.
It was probably one of the most fun and hardest weeks of my mission so far. Because we worked hard and kept our focus and motivation, we found people who needed us. We got 3 new people in 3 days to teach and 19 return appointments set up for this week which is the most i have ever had!! This week is "destroy the standard week" and we are so planning on passing it up! What a way to begin the new year! I LOVE being a missionary. It has been THE most rewarding and enriching experience of my life. I am so grateful i can be out here sharing my testimony of Jesus Christ and the truth he has revealed to us. I am so grateful how much the Lord helps me to accomplish the things he asks of me. WOW what a wonderful week.
Until next week!! I love you all so much!
-Elder Robinson
P.S. I prayed after church that my ankle wouldn't hurt so i could do the work and as soon as i started tracting i wasn't limping any more!! Woo!!! The church is true.
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