I cannot believe I have
been out for a year. I was almost crying in sacrament meeting this week
reflecting back on this year and it has gone so fast!!! Man. Crazy.
The biggest lesson I have learned lately is that you always
have a friend in Christ. My whole mission I have been really close with the missionaries
I serve around, they have all been my best friends and it has helped me so much
throughout my mission. Lately I have felt alone, so of course my studies this week have all been focused on helping me get
through this rough time. I read one day in John 15:9-16 and it says:
"As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love. If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have
kept my Father’s commandments,
and abide in his love. These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy
might remain in you, and that your
joy might be full. This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved
you. Greater love hath no man than this,
that a man lay down his life for his
friends. Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you. Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends;
for all things that I have heard of my
Father I have made known unto you. Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should
go and bring forth fruit, and that
your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall
ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you."
What I loved from this scripture is that Christ refers to me
as his friend. I have come to feel his love and joy this week and know him
better than I have before. This is the time in my mission where I need to learn
to rely on Christ alone, not on others to make me happy. So this is a growing
time for me, yes it is hard, but hey, I'll be better because of it!
This week seems to have gone so fast! And it was one of the
slowest weeks we will have this transfer...
We saw so many miracles this week and were able to really
improve our finding skills. We stopped these 2 ladies on the street and they
said they had had a bad day so they didn't want to talk. We asked if there was
anything we could help them with and they in turn asked what we could help
with. We told them that we are disciples of Jesus Christ and as soon as we said
this one of the ladies burst into tears. We proceeded to pray with her and
testify of gods love and it was so powerful! The spirit was definitely there
and she ended up asking where the chapel is so she could come to church. We are
looking forward to seeing her. It was a huge testimony builder for me on the Lords
timing. We had been running behind all day and I was kind of frustrated with
it, but we trusted in the Lord and he led us to this wonderful, prepared lady.
I went on exchange again this week and it was really good. I
am starting to like exchanges. I learn a lot from them, I don't know if I help
them at all, but I do my best. I went with a sister who is from Denmark, her
mums whole family lived in Bergen in Norway. Did you serve there Dad? If so do
you remember a family named the Borges? She said it was a quite big family.
Sorry it is a scattered and short email this week. We are
playing sports at the chapel and I don't really know what more to say...
Halloween in England is weird. Everyone just gets super
drunk and it is scary. We were on a train at 2 in the afternoon and everyone
around us was drinking vodka straight from the container...so we prayed super hard
all day to stay safe. We were in early to plan for the next week, so all is
well. We did get to carve pumpkins at a LA house though, so that was good. They
had a ward Halloween party too that we took an investigator to, so that was
fun. This ward is a lot like a Utah ward, it is different, but I like it.
That's about it. I am still alive and kicking it here in Sutton!
My mission is the best and it has changed my life. It is scary to think I only
have 6 months left...but, life goes on and at least I have that much longer to
be changed and molded into the future mother Heavenly Father needs me to be.
I love you all and think about you often! I hope you have an
amazing week and turn to the Lord often in prayer!
Love,
Sister Robison :)
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