Hey everyone! I hope you all are having a great christmas! This past week has been crazy for me with up and downs. We also saw some pretty cool miracles happen.
The biggest thing I learned this week was how blessed we all truly are. We have a couple who have been investigating the church for quite some time now. They are great people but they don't have much for food and won't have anything for Christmas. We were able to bring them some food for Christmas, but just to see how happy they were even though they had so little was crazy to me. Whenever I think of Christmas the first thing that came to mind is presents and family it's not really Jesus and what he did for us. But that's really what this day is all about and they really opened my eyes to the true meaning to Christmas.
The Lord blesses us in mysterious ways also. While I've been out here, it’s been crazy to me how much the Lord helps everyone of us each day. One way that he helped Elder Pouwer and I this week was through a guy named Jonny. We had a member refer us to him. We've only met with him one time so far but the spirit was so strong. He was in awe with everything that we shared with him and everything that he learned. He made both of our days so much better and we are super excited for what is in store for him. |
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| Elder Nelson (from the MTC) |
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It's been a great week though. We found lots of people to teach and we even put someone on date to be baptized. I love it out here in Oregon though. It's always wet and kind of cold but the people are amazing here. I've met some of the coolest people while I've been out here and I love getting out know them all.
A funny thing that happened was one day we were over at a members house cleaning up their pig pen. The member asked us if he could take care of a pig and we said sure not knowing what he meant. But he goes and shoots it and then he asks us if we wanted some meat. It was pretty funny.
Anyway I know that the Lord is there and helps each and everyone of us in our life. I love doing his work and wouldn't want to be anywhere else. I love you all and hope you have a great day!
Merry Christmas!! -Elder Robbins
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Hey family Merry Christmas!!!! I love you all and can't wait to talk to you! We're going over to a members house at 9 for breakfast and could do the video after that? I would guess we would start anywhere from 10-11 if that works for you guys :) I can email you throughout the day also because it's p-day. I would guess once we have breakfast though it would be about 2 hours after that :) we are probably just going to go visit people and hang out with other missionaries haha. I am doing laundry right now and we aren't shopping but we have so much food in our apartment we'll be fine. love you all
Note: Tyler carrying on the tradition of Christmas morning pictures on the stairs! |
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| We have the BEST ward! So many treats and CANDY! |
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Other random info:
- I sang in the choir with Elder Pouwer. There were 6 men and 6 women total.
- For me this Christmas
has really been humbling. We meet with a lot of people. There is a couple that we're teaching (she's a inactive member and he's not a member). They don't have much money and so yesterday we got
a bunch of food from our apartment and brought it over and the guy started crying. They didn't have any gifts and barely any food. They were both still so happy
though and thankful for everything the Lord has blessed them with. It's
awesome! :)
- I'm still sick which sucks. I have random cough
attacks throughout the day and in the middle of the night, it sucks. I'm used
to it though.
- We have laundry machines in our apartment which makes it super nice. The laundry bag is nice but one of the straps broke in the MTC bc it's kind of
flimsy but it works well enough for going down the stairs into the laundry
room.
- I use my tablet so much more than the phone but when I don't have my
bag with me I use the phone.
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