Week 82

  

This is great Work!

When you come to it. The Lord has a work. His work will happen. We participate as much as we choose.

Elder Marks and I have been striving to participate in this great work.

We have had ups and downs, but God has greatly blessed us. We meet a man from Turkey that has read every sacred book from other religions. He started reading the Book of Mormon and really liked it. We challenged him to pray about it. He said he's very excited to read the rest of it!

Sister Ueda is another friend that we talked about baptism with. It was a great experience and we also talked about temples and what we do there! We will be talking about baptism in the next lesson . 

As a mission this transfer we want the missionaries to experience a baptism this transfer. So how will you do that? Through faith in God. Being ready and prepared for a baptism by working towards that goal and looking forward with an eye if faith. Every area is so different though. So instead of focusing in a problem like other times, we are going to learn how to use Preach My Gospel (PMG) and how to recieve answers for our own questions and answers for our area as a a companionship. 

So we are doing a PMG challenge for this transfer! So excited!

A cool story. We went to this massive park called Nagai Park. We started talking to this family by chance, but didn't get to the Gospel, we were both a little down, but we finished comp study and near the end, I felt a prompting to get up and find that family! They were walking around so I thought it wouldn't be that bad. We then couldn't find them, but then Elder Marks felt we needed to go a different way and then we talked to this Vietnamese guy and he wanted to talk about our message! So we got his Facebook and hopefully we can meet up sometime! Miracle!

Super quick thought. God always wants us to improve, but sometimes that improvement is simply doing the things you learned and learning to do it everyday. 

For example, you learn how pray. Improvement isn't necessarily having a more intricate prayer everyday, but maybe it's simply learning TO do it everyday. So sometimes, God wants us to learn to love something. To learn to do something with joy, not just for a day, but everyday.

This past week was transfers. Elder Marks and I are here for another one! We're awesome excited to see where the Lord takes us. But yes, Elder Matsumoto did finally go home. There were many amazing missionaries. But Elder Matsumoto was an amazing influence on me and it was sad to see him go, but I'm so excited to see where he goes in life. 

But I know this is a great work. I know Christ lives! He loves me and you. Please remember that!

Love

Elder Robertson