Dear Friends and Family
Well this week was another toughie, haha wah wah wah.... gotta roll with the punches. Our investigators just don't seem to be progressing, or care. Its hard to care when they don't. But we are trying our hardest and trying to keep the good attitude. Happiness is a choice. Here on the mission it seems like your doubts and frustrations are the strongest first thing in the morning when you get up, at least for me. Satan is trying to kill the day before it even starts, haha so I've learned to just say a prayer immediate on waking up and then start working immediately, if I even take a minute to think about the tough things, the day is over in the first couple minutes. Keep it positive man!
As far as highlights of the week there are two that come to mind now. First was on Thursday
we had a conference with our Mission President, which went well but it
was what happened afterward that sticks in my memory. Me and my district
went and got pizza afterward and walked over to a park to eat it. We
were talking about how hungry we were after the conference, and started
chowing down. While we were doing this, a street beggar came up to us.
He was missing his ears and half his mouth and could barely talk, and
was wearing whatever he found on the street. He put out his little cup
to ask us for money. We gave him lots of pizza and as soon as he walked
away the song "a poor wayfaring man of grief" came into my mind. Christ
has truly blessed us with so much, how can we not give? Our "hunger" was
nothing, we hadn't eaten in 6 hours, who knows how long it had been for
this guy. Puts things in perspective for sure. Another guy in the park
saw that we did that and he wanted to know more about the church because
of it. Sweet. We got a lesson in humility and a new investigator,
win-win.
The second was 5 kids in our ward got baptized this
week and I got to be the witness for all five. Its cool to see all these
kids dressed in white and so excited to start their own path to Eternal Life. You could just couldn't help but feel the spirit and feel happy
when they got baptized and then the day afterward in church when they
got confirmed.
So overall good week, just gotta get those investigators to commit man!
Love
Elder Roberts
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