Service and Dating..........

So this week Chet and I realized that we were spending more time together. We have always had kids around us. Dates were few and we had to find the time just to have adult conversation. We really didn't want to be empty nester's. But we like having time for us again. We know we will be OK without kids in the house. We can spend time together and not be bored. A new chapter for Chet and Wendy. Kind of weird because I don't feel like I should be here yet!! Service......a great word! Chrys as you can see is excited for his friend Francis to get out of jail and come home. So he has the youth helping them fix his yard up. Awesome!! Sometime service is as simple as baking a cake or making someones bed. Sometimes it's bigger like sitting by a bed side or taking kids for a day. There is no service too small. For Chrys........his Mission is his service. What a great example. There are many who show what true service is around me. I was able to clean the cannery side by side with Chet. Was it hard.....yes......but it was so worth it!! Service is one of the hardest things to do, but it is so worth it!!!!

Dear Family,

HAPPY BIRTHDAY GRANDPA NUNLEY!!!!! I LOVE YOU!!

Lauren is engaged now? Wow! Congrats!! James is growing up, man! That is crazy. Talking to girls too?? Oh that is just not right ha ha. I am glad you and dad get time together! Ha ha it's like dating again thats awesome. And i also understand Nathan's and James' take on it all ha ha gross. Elder Rawlings! Ok i will be looking out for him! He is going to love Ohio. It's so awesome here. It's a very Christian state. It's nice!

I don't have a whole lot of time so i will speed through this. :)

Francis will be home friday! So excited! Since he has left his yard has really gotten out of control, so on sunday i went to the young men's leader and set up a service project for them to do! We're all meeting tonight and we're going to whip it into shape for him! Oh man, i have really missed that man. The ward is really looking forward to being involved with him!

Zone Conference was this past week. It ROCKED! President is the best. He pumps us up so much! Ha ha. I just wanted to get out and baptise after that! Ha ha.

Yes we went to the temple last thursday and i have to say, incredible! I LOVE the temple. I'm so grateful Brother Coulter was able to take us. It was exactly what we needed!

I cut my thumb up pretty good! With an X-ACTO knife. It's pretty deep, deep enough for stitches but it's too close to my nail. Man did that bleed a lot ha ha i got video of it too! Woo! It's funny. But then not ha ha. Those band-aids you sent me with are pretty good friends of mine at the moment.

We taught an investigator on sunday! But this is no normal investigator, she's been investigating for over a year and a half and even has a calling in our ward! It was so good though! Completely led by the spirit. She finally opened up to us and expressed her feelings and we know her concers now. We and the ward have been praying for her and to be able to find these things out. We're also fasting for her and everything. It was so awesome!

Let me just say, thank goodness for the Oxy Clean you guys sent me. Chocolate on a white shirt is evil ha ha.

Oh and we helped out a less active yesterday and he lets his cats go to the bathroom wherever they want, and oh my gosh. His ceiling collapsed in his basement and there was water everywhere mixed with all the urine in the carpet, so awful ha ha. We couldn't even breath! I love the awesome things that you experience out here ha ha. We had to throw all of our clothes in the wash afterwards.

Well i have to go now, but i love you all so much! Things are going well! We're working though the obstacles! The work is progressing.

The church is true! How great is my calling to bring this truth to others!! I love it!!

Have a great week my wonderful family.

-Elder Robinson

Happy Birthdays and Homecomings.........

This week finds the Robinson's with 2 awesome birthdays. Chet Michael the leader of the kids is celebrating his birthday today. I met him in October of 1984 when he was 6. Wow how time has flown by!! He is now a great father and he is a great son!! Happy Birthday Chet Michael!! Next we have Jackson Chelsie's youngest. He will celebrate his birthday this Friday. He has the most sweetest face that you just want to kiss!! He makes me just smile every time I think of him!! Happy Birthday Jackson!!!! It was a great week. We spent time with James at the aquarium and I touched everything with him. It was a great morning with just James. Then we took off Friday and went fishing. Ashlee and Nate came with us. I love the mountains!! I caught a stick....nice!! But it was so great just to be outside that I didn't care about the fish teasing me! Saturday Chet and I just spent the day together. How often does that happen?? Sunday was so awesome!! We got a new Stake Presidency and the meeting that went along with it was so uplifting I wanted it to keep going. But I had a homecoming to get to so I really wanted to get to Orem. CJ, Chrys' friend came home from Bulgaria and what a wonderful meeting that was too!! Lunch at the house after was so nice because seeing friends from the ward was great! I was so tired by time I went to bed I didn't have any trouble falling asleep!! I'm sure if you looked at me I must have been smiling!! Yes, I miss my kids and grand kids that are not with me.......but yesterday it made me so grateful that I have them and I love them soooooo much!!!!!!

Dear Family,

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CHET MICHAEL AND JACKSON!!!!!!!! I love you both!!!!

Sounds like a pretty exciting week! Tell CJ to email me! I haven't heard from him in a while. That's so crazy!! The new stake presidency!! Wow Chris wells and Corbridge! That's so awesome! And bishop! I mean President! Ha ha. Man that is cool!! Let me know who is the new bishop ya? :) Oh and no i did not get transferred, still here. Will be here 6 months! Which is a long time to be in one area just so you know ha ha but it's all good. I love this ward. All the Gordons are in my prayers!

I really don't have much time today so i have to be quick.

Tuesday night we were able to go on exchanges with a member to visit some less actives. We went to the Tidwells who are almost never home and if they are they are busy and can't talk, but not this night! We pulled up and they were already outside, so we started to talk with them and all sorts which was really good. But then the Tidwells brother who was in town for a few days walked out so i started talking to him about all sorts of things which eventually turned into me being prompted to teach him the restoration right then and there while my companion was talking to the Tidwells. So i did and it went so well! He actually asked for a Book of Mormon ha ha and i gave him one with your testimony in it! He was so nice and was talking about how bad he wanted to get reading the scriptures and get in touch with God again. It was so cool. I am so glad i could be there and be an instrument in the Lord's hand to bring the truth to him.

I was able to see Elder long on Tuesday as well! It was so cool. He had left some things in the apartment and was in the area for a meeting so he stopped by. He's a life-long friend. He's also training again! Ha ha. He trained then had a 5 week brake then back to training ha ha. He's the most solid missionary i know! It was awesome to be able to serve and learn from him.

We are having Zone Conference tomorrow! It may be where President will change up a bunch of things, we're pretty stoked! We do a lot of training there and have a lot of people speak to us.

I have to go now, but this week i am focusing on bearing my testimony. I do it a lot any way but i feel i should do it even more. I KNOW this church is true, i KNOW the Book of Mormon is true, i am so grateful for this privilege i have to serve!! It's amazing!!

I love you all SOOOOO much! Have a great week!!

-Elder Robinson

He holds us accountable..........

Isn't it nice when not only you but your children hold you accountable. It can be a good thing. It keeps you on your toes. But to hear it from your Missionary is a great thing. You always hope to hear it once from your kids. So I guess this is my once! Another week has gone by and I am still plugging away. Chrys' friend that he grew up with comes home tomorrow. That is awesome and hard at the same time. He is older than Chrys so he would be home before him and Chrys did go out when he was 20. It just will be hard to have CJ here without Chrys. Soon though, they will be both here. Next week Chrys will be out 5 months, that went by fast.....lets hope it goes by just as fast for the rest. I want him to have all the experiences he needs, but 2 years and 4 phone calls is a long time. Right Mom's!! I hope this week brings all of you happiness with your families!! I hope to have some fun time with James before school starts next week. That is if I can get him away from Wyatt! Happy end of the summer to everyone!! :]

Deaaaarrrr FaaaaMMiillyyyy,

So many things happening at home! That's crazy! Way to go Kyle!! I love hearing about all the people leaving to serve!! Drake is leaving already?? That is incredible. And crazy that CJ will be home tomorrow!! Holy moly! I can't imagine what he is feeling right now. Please do send pictures! I can't believe James is in the 8th grade. I won't believe it! Ha ha. What a good year that was for me. They're changing the stake presidency? Sad! Good luck to you all! Ha ha. Tell President Doman if you see him that i say hi. I love that man.

This past week went well, honestly, i don't remember what happened ha ha. There is a family that moved this past week to Provo, the Windsors. Jeff Windsor, is an amazing man. I have learned SO much from him!! Especially about temples! And Free Masons...ha ha yeah random. It was good to know though because it's a source of anti out here. It was actually really sad to say good bye and see him go. But he's in Provo! And is going to teach at BYU! Ha ha so i'm not too worried. I'm definitely going to look him up when i get home.

So there's another family out here that i love. The Peine's! Their son Adam, is the cutest kid! He is i think 5. Last week at church, Brother Peine came to me and was telling me how when he was dressing Adam he was telling him how he wanted to look like Elder Robinson. Ha ha! Then yesterday the daughter, Erin, told me she went to button Adam's jacket and he said, "No! I want to look like Elder Robinson! He never buttons his Jacket!" Ha ha ha isn't that the cutest?? I love it.

Transfers are this week. That came fast huh?! We are all pretty sure i will be leaving, but then again Elder Peirce has only been here for 5 weeks and still needs to know a lot more about the area so i could possibly stay longer. Probably just another transfer if i do. It would be really hard to leave this area though, i love the people here. They are so wonderful. We are having one last Nerf war before transfers! Today is going to ROCK! ha ha. We had one last week. They are too fun. Except i messed up my pinky about a month ago playing dodgeball and it still hurts. I'm hopin i can still kick butt! Ha ha.

I have had the opportunity to bare my tetimony to so many people this past week. It has been so awesome. I love it. We were able to sit in a temple prep class with an elder that is preparing to leave for Australia and his family at their home. How spiritual! I was able to bear my testimony to him on temples and how incredible they are. And how much i miss the temple ha ha. I should be going soon though. Any way the spirit there was just awesome.

Well i must be going now. I love you all SOOOO much! I have been listening to some John Bytheway lately and in one he talks about family, especially parents. Thank you mom and dad for raising me in this Gospel. You two are such amazing parents! What a blessing. I love you both so so so much. Thank you for everything you do for me and our family! One thing he mentioned is, my friends and family have molded me into who i am today, and i hold you completely accountable for that! Ha ha. It's true, i am who i am and i do what i do because of you! Thank you!

I love you ALL!

-Elder Robinson

Deeear Familyy..........helloooooooooooo

This week I was trying to think about what I wanted to write about. Nothing came to mind. Well actually something does, but I just don't like writing about it. I have been facing some challenges. As you get older it tends to happen. I am not a spring chicken anymore. But with prayer and listening for answers things are better. I am not laying on my bed crying and hugging my pillow. That is a good thing. I am not filling like my head is whirling around me 24-7. That is an awesome thing. I am not having headaches that brought on nausea. Thank goodness for that. It all came down to a leap of faith and prayers. Well and a change in medicine. Sometimes being stubborn is not a good thing. You can only stand your ground if you can get out of bed. I can get out of bed now. So I guess Chet has to deal with me being stubborn again. My family helped me to keep going and I am so grateful for that. Prayer helped me to keep going. When we get older we still learn. Yes, it is a fact. I hope that your week finds you with health, family and if you need it a little bit of stubbornness........because sometimes you just need it.

Deeear familyy,

Sounds like a pretty crazy week at home! I'm glad to hear all is well! Oh and let me say...i have not done the bump in the pool ha ha ha what does that even mean?? My dear mother...my dear dear tan mother.....you make me laugh. The Browns had their baby? Aw congrats! That's awesome! Oh and i don't really have much time today so could you tell Christian that i love him and to have an awesome birthday!

Another Good week here in Pickerington! The work is progressing. I honestly cannot remember what happened this past week ha ha it's all mushed together...hmm...we taught this awesome lade from Ghana that lives in Germany. It went very well! We're headed back tomorrow. She said she will have the entire Book of Mormon read by the next time we visit. Crazy huh. It was so cool though. I couldn't really understand what she was saying because she has such a heavy accent but i could really feel the spirit speaking to me and helping me understand what i needed to say. It's incredible how much the Lord is with his missionaries. I would never be able to do the things i do if it wasn't for Him.

President Nislen will probably be going on splits with us soon. He's been going with everyone around us but hasn't gotten to us yet. Pretty stoked! He is incredible. He does so much for us.

The ward is so involved with us right now! They are coming out with us almost every night and there isn't a night that we aren't being fed. Even the new families that just movied in last week have signed up for dinner! So cool. The bishop is trusting us with some major things right now and some big changes. We see him a few times a week. Less active members are really starting to come out and become involved in chruch and church activities. We have about 15 on our list right now.

We taught primary yesterday! 9 and 10 yr olds. It was SO fun! They didn't want us to leave ha ha. It reminded me of my kids at home. Oh man that was awesome. We teach every couple weeks. It's pretty much my favorite thing ha ha.

Well, i think that about covers it for this week. This upcoming week should be pretty amazing. I am loving it more and more each day i am out here! I love teaching about this gospel. The message we have to share is amazing. I love seeing the blessing that come from it. I love my Heavenly Father. I love the Book of Mormon. I love all of you!

Keep up the good work my family, have a great week!

-Elder Robinson

I Love Ohio!!!

Well this week the talks were on talents. Are we using them or do we know all the talents that we have or did we just let them fall away. That is a lot to think about. If you really want to keep your talent up you need to practice. Put in the time to make sure you are a good listener, a good cook, a good piano player. So what is your talent? Or what would you like your talent to be? Another list maybe? As you read this you will see Chrys is learning the Ukulele. I played the Ukulele for 2 years in the 5th and 6th grade. I even played it with the 6th grade teachers while everyone else sang in our concert. Do I still play it? No.......maybe a talent I need to revisit? Something to think about. So what are your talents and future talents?

Dear Family,

It's great to hear you all had a good week! I did too! ... I'm older than Ashlee?? Ha ha what the...that's cool i guess! Anyway, i bought a card reader this past week so i could send a few pictures with this email and i forgot it. Ha ha. Oops. Next week. I've got some good ones. I'm glad church was awesome! Strange about the confusion though, i'm glad that turned around quickly. Sacrament has become so special to me. It's pretty much the only time i have to relax and just worship. Ya know? To sit back, pray, renew my covenants, and listen to the speakers. I learn something new each Sunday. I love being involved in it also, they ask us to pass every once in a while because there are so few deacons. I love it. I want to bless this Sunday.

I gotta say, one thing i do love hearing about is my mama! It makes me so happy to see the Lord blessing you. Hooray on getting your life back!

26 years!! You guys are OLD!! Ha ha! Wow that is so wonderful :) Happy anniversary!

This past week was a good one. I love the package!! So many things! It took me a while to get through it all. I promptly put the tie on as soon as i opened it! Love it! Also the box it came in i am going to use for a lesson i share with members and less actives. It's called the faith-box. I glue a candy bar in the box and put a big ? on the top and talk about how they can find out what is in the box. By exercising their faith! Then relate it to the scriptures and how they become delicious to you as you read. It is pretty great. And the box is PERFECT! Thank you! I'm lovin all the letters! I saw the bag and was like, are all those letters?? Holy moly i'll never catch up! Ha ha.

This past week we did a ton of less-active work. It was great! Less actives are my favorite. I love sparking up their testimonies again and sharing with them mine. A lot of them have just forgotten or have been caught up in the world. I'm so blessed to be able to help them progress in this gospel again. Yesterday we had 2 investigators and 9 less actives at church!! It was awesome! They all enjoyed going! We did some service for one this morning and i can see the light growing in her again! She also bought us a present ha ha she is so awesome. We're also working on bringing her husband to church too. He's an Orthodox Jew. Such a cool guy! He's really coming around.

I can't remember if i mentioned this a few weeks ago but i had my first experience with poison ivy. A big forest of them. Ouch. Ha ha.

I'm becoming better at the Ukulele! I'm having more lessons today. I can now sit back and play a few chords and relax before i go to bed. It's so fun.

We had 2 dinners yesterday. Can you say...STUFFED.

We're working on a family right now, named the Rothes Wonderful family! The Husband is a member and recently went kind of less active but is coming around and the wife and daughter have been investigating the church for almost 2 years. We're really working hard on resolving the anti she has got from family and help her feel the spirit so she will be baptized! We were over last night and played some games with them. Ah i love them!

I love Ohio! My testimony of me being sent here for a reason has grown so much. This is where the Lord wants me to serve in his vinyard, and i will the very best i can. I love serving these wonderful people. I love this gospel. I love the scriptures. I love all of you!!! Continue to be awesome.

I LOVE YOU!

It's HOT!!!!

Happy Pioneer weekend!! I love the talks I heard in church yesterday. But my favorite came from a sweet 12 year old who said to be a "Trailblazer". Just like the Pioneers there are still many things to be done. Be a Trailblazer. Chrys is a Trailblazer for being a missionary. What are you going to do today? What about tomorrow? I think I better get a list going myself!! I am grateful to be of Pioneer stock!! If they hadn't come to the Salt Lake valley, I wouldn't live in the beautiful state of Utah! I Love where I live! I love to visit other states, but I love to come home to Utah! July reminds me of how blessed I am to be living in the United States and to be free to worship the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Yes, I am of Pioneer stock.......and I am grateful!!

Dear family,

It is so good to hear from all of you. James is TALL! That shouldn't happen. Not allowed. Ha. And i see James is even tall enough for Dad's bike? Goodness. And buying new tube for it i can relate to, i've gone through 2 already ha ha. Awesome. Yes, that's Elder Turner's name! Ha ha he's sitting on the computer behind me. That is so cool! We've been calling each other brothers all week ha ha.

I am so blessed. This past week i've felt just overwhelmed with blessings. The other night we came in to get ready for bed and while i was laying down i thought, "man, i am so tired.....and why am i so happy?" ha ha. I've been the happiest i've ever been this past week. It's been amazing! Time is flying by. I just realized how far i am into my mission, and how much more time i have. Wow ha ha it motivates me to work even harder because i'm only out here for so long! And it's not even a long time! There is so much to be done.

It was so humid and hot this week. I have never experienced so much sweat ha ha! It was insane. We biked miles every day and boy oh boy did i drink a ton of water. It was in the upper 90's all week with what the people here say, is 100% humidity. We pretty much swam all week ha ha. The other day we were biking on the trail that goes through this big park, that one trail i took a video on. If you saw it. And a big deer jumped out in front of me and i almost crashed ha ha i laughed so hard.

Elder Pierce is awesome, i don't think there is a goofier missionary in Ohio ha ha. We're both pretty much laughing all day every day. We get slap happy a lot ha ha. He's a way hard worker too.

Wanna hear something weird? .....ok so yesterday i was told by a priest that he never sees me not reading in some doctrinal book. I was like...I am always reading. Weird! Ha ha I love it! I learn something new every day! My brain seems to have finally kicked it into high gear. What a blessing.

A women and a child were shot wednesday in the apartments across from us. Don't really know what to say about that. Sheesh.

A drunk also showed up at our door in the middle of the night asking for help. That was also interesting. He wasn't very receptive to the gospel when we visited him the next day but i know that if we wouldn't of answered the door and talked to him, who knows what he would of done. It was a pretty different experience. He's a great guy though. I hope we can help him.

My testimony of this work has grown so much. I can tell you that Christ is coming. And it'll be a lot sooner than we think. There is so much to be done! But i know this is true, and i know that this is the Lord's work. I know that we aren't alone. There are angels all around us to bear us up! I am grateful i am a part of this, to be an ambassador of Jesus Christ, how amazing! I love serving my God. I love my Savior. I know he is real and he loves each and every one of us. I am so grateful for all of you and how wonderful of a blessing you are in my life.

Be an example of the believers and have a great week!

- Elder Chrys Robinson

New Companions and Cousins.......

Well this past week Chrys asked us to look in a journal we have of a Grandfather on Chet's side of the family for names. He and another Elder had told the same story that happened in their families. So this morning each of the families sent the names and dates the Elders needed. I so wish I could have been in the library when they read each others letters!! Yes, they are cousins. How awesome for them to be serving in the same state that their family was baptized in. Two sides of Chrys' family lived where the Church started in Ohio. So great for Chrys!! He also has a new companion. Two funny guys living together. Let's see how this goes ha ha!

Dear family,

Aw man. Ryan just emailed me! That is so exciting! I got all giddy when i saw his email ha ha i was like woo! That is so cool. Tell Kevin i say helloooooooo. I love sally! There's a girl here in this ward that looks like her ha ha it's weird. Is Colten putting in his papers yet?? Let me know. WHAT?! Since when is it almost August?? Ha ha that's crazy!! Wow, CJ is almost done. Exciting! Corrine Bauer is serving a mission too? Oh man that is awesome! All these missionaries!! How amazing this work is, ya know? So many missionaries bringing the fullness of the gospel forth and crying repentance to the world! Ha ha so cool!

Transfers were awesome, i was able to see all my MTC district! Everyone except Elder Morley. I love those guys.Elder Pierce rocks, he's old! Ha ha he's been out a little over 18 months. He is super funny, i'm pretty much laughing all day. He's about 6'4" and 280 lbs. Big guy ha ha. He's teaching me the Ukulele! Elder Long was very bussiness like, and Elder Pierce is complete opposite ha ha. It's pretty different. This past week has been a very big learning experience. I realize how much i know about missionary work and about this area. I had no idea ha ha. I'll basically be senior companion till he can get around and get to know the members and such. It's hard but it is awesome!

Interviews with President Nilsen are this week, I AM SO STOKED. I have so many things to talk to him about ha ha. He's so awesome to just be around though. His main focus is love. Love everyone! He says we love the Savior because he loved us first. Same is with our companion. If you want the work to progress then you have to love and support your companion. President is so awesome. His other main focus is working through the members. Last night we were able to sit and talk over every single less active and part member family in the ward and see what the ward needs. It's very cool. President Hinckly promised that if we work with members the work will double. That's what we are working on this week.

It is SO HOT. This week the humidity is going to be up in the 90's as well as the temperature. Yay! . . .It's so humid right now it feels like i'm in a sauna ha ha and it's all foggy and what not. It's pretty great.

My focus on the work is increasing every day. I feel more and more independent and i feel and recognize the spirit more each day. Especially this last week. I love being a missionary, i love love love it. I love bearing my testimony to others and teaching them about this restored gospel. I love these people out here. I love this ward. I love my Savior. I know Joseph Smith was called to restore this gospel. I know the Book of Mormon is true. I am so so so grateful for this gospel and what it does for me and families all over the world. I love it.

Oh...and....

ELDER TURNER AND I ARE RELATED!!!!!!!! Ha ha!! We just printed out our emails like 30 seconds ago to compare, and we're related! Oh man ha ha that is so funny!!

I love you all so much. Thank you for everything you have done for me. You are each in my prayers! Talk to you next week!

-Elder Robinson