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Hey Family!
This week was crazy! Baptism weeks are always so
stressful on missions, it is ridiculous. We have to make sure the
investigator is still on track, organize everything for the baptism and so much
more. So much stress...but C GOT BAPTIZED! It is one of the best
things to be a missionary and see someone enter the waters of baptism.
The past few days the same thing has stood out to me in church and study, and
that is that what I am doing goes far further than just my mission, I am
changing peoples lives forever and one day in 20+ years I will be able to see
my converts kids go on missions. The joy that I have had as I have
realized that is unreal. It is so fun to serve here because practically
the whole ward, well everyone in England really, is converts, so I get to hear
all about their conversion stories. Just thinking about C, and T,
and T telling people their conversion stories makes me so happy.
Being a missionary is great.
So last week we went to Bath for p-day. But Bath is so
pretty! Definitely somewhere I want to go back and visit. It was so
convenient cause we just emailed on the train up for one hour, and on the train
back, then had like 6 hours there. Sister Dimond and I just kind of
wandered around the city. We saw the place the filmed Les Mis I believe,
when Javier commits suicide...I will send a pic. We ended up in some art
museum as well...then we got gelato. I felt like a normal person again,
it was weird but fun. Then we met up with the Elders in our district and
zone Leaders and went to the Roman Baths...which was cool. It is the only
Hot Spring in the UK and the romans like built a temple around it or
something...I cant remember exactly what it was...but it was fun.
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| Pulteny Bridge-I think this is where they filmed Les Mis |
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| My District & Zone Leaders at the Roman Baths |
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| Our Roman Friends |
Tuesday was really good for sister Dimond and I. We
have so many people to teach that we get so stressed all the time. We
don't even have time to contact at all during the day, which is hard because we
are supposed to talk to everyone in our paths. So we get super stressed
cause we think we don't have good enough numbers, but we don't have enough time
to do any finding. But Tuesday it turned out that all our appointments
cancelled, so we just went out and did finding all day in Bridgwater. It
was so nice. We did street contacting and knocked some doors. Finding
is a great stress reliever for me because you can forget about yourself and
just go help people be happy.
Wednesday we spent most of the day planning for our temple
trip the next day and the baptism. We went to the Temple on Thursday
with some investigators, recent converts, and less actives. The ward
rented a mini bus, and a member of the
bishopric drove for us. It is a 3.5 hour drive, so it was quite a long
day. We left at 6:30. It was so nice to be back on the temple
grounds. So that was a fun day, all of our
investigators there had a really good time as well. The temple is
amazing, if you ever want someone to feel the spirit, take them to the temple
ground and teach about Joseph Smith...miracles will happen!
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| The Group at the Temple |
We got back into
Taunton around 5 Thursday night from the temple just in time for President
Millar to get there for interviews. This was my final (and only 3rd)
interview with him, so that was really sad. I really love President and
Sister Millar, they are such great people. He also told us that everyone is going to see
Elder Holland next week at the Hyde Park Chapel, so that is super
exciting!
Friday once again was a day of planning and getting the
baptism sorted. I am telling you baptisms are super stressful. But Saturday was the baptism. We
taught him one night this week and we had to be outside, but it was really cold
and we were all dying. We showed him the bible video of Christ’s Baptism
and afterwards he just said "it isn't cold anymore" it was so cute
haha. He was really against baptism when I got here and didn't recognize
the spirit at all, but then all of a sudden one day everything just clicked and
ever since then he has been so happy, a totally different person. We
bought him a nice quad for a baptism present and that made him so happy.
So there ya go, there was my week. It was a really
stressful week and Sister Dimond and I overcame a lot of weaknesses. We
have truly come to know and understand repentance and what it means to repent
this week. The gospel is amazing. Repentance is real and works for
any situation. I was reading the lyrics to Saviour Redeemer of My Soul
yesterday in sacrament meeting and read the scripture at the bottem D&C
95:1-2 (I believe) and that scripture is all about how the Lord rebukes and
chastens the ones he loves. If I have learned one thing on my mission, it
is that the Lord gives us weaknesses so that we can turn to him. They
aren't a bad thing Ether 12:27.
Sounds like your summer is off to a great start! When
do you go on all your holidays?
Yes I got the journal mum, thank you :) and I sent a
package home today for someone, it is a surprise who...but it should be there
in like 1.5 weeks hopefully.
Well family, I love you all so much. Sorry if my email
is too long...I just get typing and can't stop. I cannot believe it is
June already...it feels like just yesterday it was January. Where is time
going?!?!
Have a great week!
Love,
Sister Robison xxx
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