March 4, 2019 - Why are you wearing that?

Sorry this may be a shorter one but this was a pretty wild past week. First off, for the title I saw a wild oregonian this past week, not something I want to see again. Basically this guy was wearing a black skirt with a pink shirt that hung way too low, he had on cowboy boots and lipstick with a gnarly beard. It was not the prettiest of sights. We also met a witch that day. We tried to talk to this one guy and all he says is you don’t want to talk to me, I’m a witch lol. He had on pants that were waaaaay too tight. Needless to say, it was a good but very interesting week. We also had exchanges, I was with Elder Schults who killed off one of my previous companions Elder Mcelmurry So that was fun to hear how he was doing near the end of his mission.

Elders Robbins, Schults, King, Nelson

On that exchange, we were able to teach a few lessons. One of the people we are teaching almost dropped us but we saved it barely. We also found another guy who was interested but then within the next couple days told us we had the wrong phone number. That’s fine though.

We had a great lesson with a lady we are teaching named Raquel. I’m not sure if I‘ve mentioned her to you all yet or not but she is awesome. She has been showing forth so much faith and is so willing to turn her life around to be walking upright with God. It’s an inspiration to me that through Christ we can do hard things during this life.

The weather here has been super nice but I found out that during the summer it really doesn’t get over 70 degrees because of the ocean breeze. It will be nice to be on the coast for 2 summers in a row but I know it will be brutal coming back to Utah once summer hits lol. This past Saturday I finally got a taste of the touristy part of Lincoln City. There were people all over and it was so warm outside. It was nice.

Next to the movie theatre here in town there is a sword shop. All of the elders came down for p-day and wanted to go and check it out so we did! They had a bunch of super cool replicas of video game swords and different swords used throughout history. Don’t worry mom, I didn’t buy a sword or knife haha.

One cool thing that I learned this past week is that the Atonement has a physical symbol and this is it. All throughout the scriptures there are scriptures that say something along the lines "yet his arms are stretched out still". The Lords arms are always stretched out to us and it is something if we are looking in the right direction. When a parent comes home and sees his kid what do they do?? They put their arms out for a big hug. I believe this is how it will be once we see God again. We will be so excited and run to each other in a big hug. What a glorious hug that will be. And then he will say welcome home and we will be in Paradise living with God again. We will become one with God. That is a purpose of the atonement, after all it’s right in the name: at-one-ment. At one coming together. Our savior Jesus Christ has made this possible.

 -Elder Robbins