Man so this last week has been definitely the hardest week of my mission, and it's not going to get easier haha. Silsbee is complete opposite of everything I was used to, it's country roads and trailer houses. There's more churches than people and they must be pretty full because everyone has a church they go to. But really that's not why this week was so hard, it's because everyone in my district has NO faith. :( they have all basically given up, (except the sisters they're still hitting the grind but finding no success) and my companion is pretty quite most of the time. Everyone is just kind of sad here and they don't believe that they can baptise. But it really can only get better from here haha
On the bright side the ward here is really cool and nice. People are just straight up country folk who love God, George Strait, and the Missionaries (probably in that order). I'm starting to see the appeal as well, these trees and the fields here are so pretty, you drive down the 2 lane 75 mph highway and your just surrounded by trees on both sides, it's really pretty. And then there's the swamps, full of mosquitos and Mudbugs (Crawfish). Yum Let me just tell you about the food here for a sec. In Broadway, I had a lot of really good Mexican food and some tex Mex places that were 10/10. But out here in the Cajun country, I've had some great fried catfish, super good breaded and fried shrimp, we had some DANG good shrimp etofette (I can't spell), and shrimp Jambalaya. I'm in love with Cajun food gollie it's solo good. Alright but yeah the work here is pretty dead, nobody's got anyone progressing, we don't even have anyone, and the ZL's are coming down on me so this next week is going to be a grind. It's going to be good though, the best work is hard work so, I can't complain. The biggest thing that stops the missionary work here is the trains haha, we've probably spent a total of 2 hours stuck behind trains in the last week. But next time that happens, we will probably roll the windows down and talk to the other people stuck in traffic. Oh and thanks for all the birthday wishes your all the best and I'm grateful to have all of you in my life. That's about it sorry I don't have too many pics this week but here you go! Elder Robison
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Hey so your probably wondering why my email is entitled Curtain call, well it's because I have been transferred out of Broadway, and I ended with a bang 😁
One of the coolest weeks of my mission I don't remember any of it but I do remember that the Hendrickson family got baptised!! The mom and all 3 kids got baptised and now they are all members of the church, they are the cutest kids ever and I'm so grateful that I was able to teach them before I left. I'm now in a wonderful little town called Silsbee Texas haha, I've been transferred and got called as the district leader here! It's going to be VERY different from anything I've done before, this place is full car and there are not like any people here so it's a lot different than the city. But I'm super excited! My companion seems baller and his name is Elder Kennach, he's from Seattle area of Washington and we are going to be awesome I think. That's really about it for now thanks for all the birthday wishes and the present you are all the best! Here are some pics! Elder Robison P.s. I shed some tears saying goodbye to some of the members in Broadway they are LITERALLY the best people on the earth. 1 And on the first day of the 4th month, all were gathered around to hear the prophets voice. yea even in all the land were they gathered every man according to his family, yea and they were gathered in the homes, and in their meetinghouses and they did gather to hear the will of the lord concerning the people.
2 And lo the will of the lord concerning the people was proclaimed among them from the mouth of the prophet. Yea and the voice of the prophet was heard all across the land. And behold the prophet proclaimed good tidings among the people, who were of the church of christ, for there was much reason for the people of Christ to rejoice at this time. Yea and great and marvelous things did the prophet teach the people, many of which cannot be written at this time. But it sufficeth me to say that the spirit of the lord fell upon the people, and all who were present, yea even all who sustained the prophet, were filled with the spirit of God. 3 And it came to pass that the elders of the church rejoiced when the news was brought forth of the reorganization of the priesthood quorums. Yeah and all did rejoice because the work of the lord was hastening among his people, and my joy is full concerning this gathering of the church. 4 Now, my beloved brethren, I would exhort you to not forget the things which were spoken on this occasion. And if ye shall do the things which the lord has commanded us, then will our joy be full, and we will not just be hearers of the word, but doers as well. 5 And from this time forth the people of the church no longer were slothful in their calling to minister to every man, but were bold and magnified their calling for the love of God was upon them, and they did only things which were pleasing unto him from this time henceforth till the coming again of the Son of God. 6 And thus ended the era of home and visiting teaching among the people of the church. Love Elder Robison Ps. I'm doing awesome and got to celebrate Easter with Sister Stortz and Neil (my favorite two people I've met) and got to celebrate with cascarones confetti eggs. Basically they just fill egg shells up with confetti and you smash them on each other's head. 🤕😁 it was fun! We watched conference at the church and man was that a memorable conference. I'm going to have to study some of those talks over and over again to grasp all of it. But yeah other than that not much has happened! Oh I got to do some more service and replace some light switches and outlets and stuff, what a blessing it's been to kinda know how to rebuild someone's house because people here need it haha. Transfers are this next week so I'll probably be shipped off to another area. I'm pretty excited to leave haha I love it here but I feel like I've been here for a really long time. But I'm finishing off this transfer with some baptisms this weekend so let's pray it all works out! Love you all! Elder Robison Pps. Banana nut cheerios are LITERALLY the best cereal ever! Hi everyone hope your all doing well! Let me know if i can ever help any of you with anything.
Well im currently emailing from the South Houston Public Library because my darn tablet isn't cooperating. The Gmail app has gone all wonky so here we are. So sorry if i dont email very many of you jsut know that I love you all and read your emails and appreciate them a lot! This week we went on exchanges, did some service, went on splits, played some basketball, biked a lot, its been fun! Last monday we did some service after P-Day ended for a guy in our ward who is remodeling his house. He gave us the job of stripping his bathroom down to the studs and so we whipped out the sledgehammers and went HAM it was fun. Since i kinda know how to do some electrical i was taking apart his lights and the bathroom fan and stuff and when i went to cut the wire my knife exploded and the lights went out. Apparently they were still live and i tripped them through my knife. RIP knife. :( But i didnt get electrocuted too badly so no worries. After Harvey cleannup and working on this guys house a lot I have learned a lot about building houses so thats pretty cool! So if you need someone to fix something in your house sign me up for winter of 2019 okay? We have been going on splits with the bishopric and members of the Elders quorum pretty freguently and had some good success this last week with getting in to Less Actives homes. No body has been reactivated yet but we have cleared about 180 names off the ward list since I got here in September. I was able to go on exchanges with this baller missionary named Elder Barlow 8) hes my district leader and hes a super good guy. Oh also he goes home soon so if any of you single ladies are looking for a righteous companion i gotchu. Ive been playing basketball twice a week for the last 7 months and man do i love to ball now. we play with less actives and stuff and its been super fun, so you bros need to watch out when i get home cause we gon ball up. Oh this super nice cool man in our ward has had us over in the mornings to work out with him and its been killer but awesome. I think im slowly getting better at not being a walking zombie in the mornings. And maybe ill lose some of this Texas weight ive gained haha. The Hendrickson family is doing awesome we are going to finish teaching them the commandments this week and then next saturday they get DUNKED. im super excited maybe president will actually transfer me if i baptise a family haha ;) just kidding i still like it here in Broadway. Well i think that is about it! Love you all and dont forget to study the gospel everyday, not just read study! if life is busy and your stressed, thats when you need to do it the most! Elder Robison Well hello everyone! Hope you are all doing well and reading your scriptures and going to church! If not, we believe in repentance! 😄
This week went by really quickly I literally have no idea what happened and I don't think anything significant happened at all. So sorry to all those who actually read my emails this ones kind of lame but ive got some pics! Pics: 1 we had zone conference which was awesome! Oh and your probably noticing how ridiculously tight my suit pants are, but we started a fitness/weight loss contest in our district because of how tight they are so stay tuned to hear my amazing transformation story. 😉 2 I really should count how many times I've eaten at taco bell throughout my whole mission it would probably be an impressive number. 🌯🌮 3 some Spaniard missionaries got in our car. It's been a good 5th transfer here in Broadway. Man I feel like I've been here for a good minute but it's for a good reason! I'm glad the Lord wanted me to stay here we have seen some cool miracles happen.
Here's basically what's been going down these last 2 weeks: #1 Miracle - So our ward is really lacking in the deacon department, there is currently one deacon who is the bishops son. He gave a talk a couple weeks ago in which he said he's been praying for new deacons. Fast forward a week and me and my companion have been working with this part member family who was not progressing solely because the father works a ludicrous amount. So me and my companion have been praying for a way for them to be able to come to church somehow. Well this week we found out that the father lost his job and now has all the time in the world to meet with us and come to church. Since then they have met with the bishop twice and are on date to be baptised on the 7th of April! The best part, they have a 12 year old son! Prayers get answered people. #2 Miracle - we were biking down a road and were abruptly stopped by a crossing turtle. 🐢We got to him just in time for us to be able to save him from becoming some Cajun guys turtle soup. (Pics included) #3 Fun thing - so this last transfer I had to say good bye to my entire district, no not because I was transferred, but because everyone was transferred BUT me. So that was pretty weird but I'm happy I got to stay because GREAT things are coming this way. And I was blessed with a pretty baller district. My companion Elder Bowers and I get along really well and we are basically the same person so it's fun. I think that's about it y'all. Thanks for everything you do for me and for the prayers. Love you all and enjoy the cold! 😐 Elder Robison Pics: turtles, sleepy Elder Toledo, and the most baller Cholo Truck ever 🤘 Well this was a good week, I don't remember what happened before Sunday so you'll hear about my Sunday and Monday!
Sunday was actually baller we had 5 people come to church! The Hendricksons came and 2 young men we have been working with just showed up to church unexpectedly so that was super cool. Except this old guy in the middle of sacrament answered his phone and had a conversation during sacrament with someone on his phone. I regret not turning around and telling him to hang up it kinda killed the spirit of the sacrament. But the rest of Sunday was good we went around to some members and investigators to say bye. Oh yeah transfers where this week and I was 100% expecting to leave and guess what!? I'm staying here in Broadway! Kinda sad about it but also happy because I like it here. Elder Toledo is going ZL for this zone so I joke that I've "trained two ZL's" now haha. My new companion is Elder Bowers and he seems like a really cool kid. So the rest of Sunday was spent saying goodbye to people. Monday was weird we slept over at the elders apartment to do laundry before transfers and then we ended up packing all day and going to the graffiti warehouse to take departing pics. It was kind of an apostate day I feel bad but this transfer is going to be awesome. I figure I still have something to do here in Broadway and I haven't done it yet so I need to hit the grind this transfer and do whatever it is the Lord wants me to do here. I don't have too much time today to write but lucky for y'all I have a crap load of pics to send. Your welcome. Love Elder Robison What's up guys this week was pretty boring. We literally just biked around all week talking to as many people as possible and nothing really came of it. Everyone here is "too busy" for the gospel it's pretty frustrating.
Saturday we literally rode our bikes around in the pouring rain the entire day talking to people in the street it was fun. The streets were flooding and we were soaked to the bone haha. Good times But some things I've been thinking about is how blessed I am to have the priesthood. I've given a few blessings since I've been out here and I've participated in giving the priesthood to both of my converts and in blessing a baby. It's really an honor to have God trust you enough to let you use some of his power for the benefit of others. I was reading Jesus the Christ the other day and he talks about how in Mathew 7 when it says 21 ¶ Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. 22 Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? 23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity Apparently (according to Elder Talmage) Jesus is talking about those who perform ordinances without the priesthood. So having the authority is sooooo important guys and we are so blessed to have the priesthood in our lives. Sorry my week was pretty boring and I don't have anymore stories to tell you guys. But I hope y'all are having a good week! Love y'all Elder Robison Just pretend these pics are of me and not my companion haha Heyo everyone how's life in the West? Except I guess max and Liv are in Florida soooo not the west. Well here in the Broadway area we are doing well. This was a pretty darn good week I went on two exchanges! One with a greenie in Fairmont (by the beach but we didn't go 😑) and the other in the North area with Elder Bott (he's awesome).
Tuesday was in Fairmont and we didn't do much lots of cleaning and moving. It was fun to be with a greenie and watch him struggle and lead out haha good times. Wednesday I was in Broadway North area with Elder Bott and we biked around all day and ate Taco Bell and climbed a tree and talked to every single person we saw it was a good day. We did comp study at a park because we were like 8 miles away from the apartment so we climbed a tree and did our study up there 🌳 and we got Taco Bell and man I will never stop loving Brother Bell. It's just so good and $5 for everything you could want. Heaven MUST have a TBell. The rest of the week was good we put the Hendrickson family on date but they aren't ready so we took them off. They hopefully will get baptised someday but I probably won't be here for it. It's alright those kids are awesome and those parents need the gospel. All you parents out there, don't be mean to your kids just love them 💛 So our area book map (the app we use to figure out where we are) is kind of outdated and sometimes it tells us to go on roads that don't actually exist but this new thing we are doing is to just bike down them anyways haha. So we've done some off road biking recently it's awesome. Plus we get to pee outside when no one's around us and that's 10/10 😁 We've really been focusing on talking to every single person we see so we've had some pretty awesome awkward contacts, whenever someone is within eye sight and they speak English we cruise over there and talk to them. It's fun and you feel good afterwards like your fulfilling your purpose so we are gonna keep doing it 🤗 Well I love you all and pray for you guys everyday! Thanks for the package mama it was awesome and thanks for the Funcle shirt Mckay and Jenn it is awesome. I'm so blessed to have all of you in my life I've seen so many people here who just dont have anyone supporting them and it makes me more grateful for all y'all so thanks! Have a blessed week and don't forget to read your scriptures! Elder Robison P.s. here's a crap load of pics This week was weird we had zone conference Tuesday, biked Wednesday and Thursday, then my comp got sick Friday so I stayed inside all day reading and sleeping and stuff. Then Saturday we did service and went to the North Elders baptism. Sunday was cool it was ward conference and the whole time we talked about the atonement and how we can get strength from it and what it is. Super cool and last night was a mission presidents fireside and it was awesome! Some converts spoke and President it was very spiritual. So not a lot of time this week but I love you all and here are some pics!
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