Week 66 - A new companion from Argentina

I just want to share my testimony of this amazing gospel. It really is amazing how people have given their lives for this faith. And the wonderful joy that it brings to each of us every day. I don't know how to better say it than that I love my Savior and thank him every day for the opportunity he has given me to grow up in this, his true gospel!

So this past week was great. We had a lot happen. So first off transfers happened. Dun dun dunnnn. Elder Bean is getting transferred :(. We only got one transfer together! It totally stinks. He is an awesome missionary and a great companion but I know that he has other places to be. He has been in this area for ages so it was time for him to move on. My new companion is from Argentina!!! say whaaaat! I love argentines! I'm stoked. My spanish is going to improve so much. We also got our area split in half. We were covering two huge cities and now we only have to cover one of them. President put more missionaries into the other city. However... there are a lot of people I love in that city (Dinuba) So it's gonna be hard not seeing them as often anymore. But it's all good!

Jesus, one of our investigators, came to church this past Sunday! He is the brother of a less active member. It was so awesome that they came. They have a giant family so it made Sacrament meeting look like we had a ton of people there. They are super awesome and like straight from Mexico so they're super fun. We had a lesson with them in which out of no where I felt prompted to teach them about eternal families and the temple. It was a super powerful lesson and at the end my companion testified to them that it was true and that he had never even told me about their plan that they had been making to try and get to the temple as a family. I had no idea about that! It was just a really cool way to see the spirit working through us :) But yeah, they came to church and it was super awesome!!

We played Volleyball last monday and Elder Bean is stinking good. I didn't realize how much I really love that sport when you're playing with a lot of people who know what they're doing. Sorry that was random but it was something cool that kind of happened this week.

We had a lesson with Margarita. A suuuper short awesome mexican older lady who is like our mom. Literally she calls all of us "mijo". She was baptized in January. She's really struggling and it was super hard to hear what she is going through. It's amazing how much empathy you really develop for these people. But the coolest part is that she came to church even though it's really hard for her because of her situation at her house. And you could just see how happy she was and how much it lifted her spirits to be at church! Her smile just filled the whole chapel it was amazing!

It's been an amazing time with Elder Bean and I'm sad to watch him go. But I'm excited for what's in store with Elder Rearte (my new companion). Missionary work is the greatest and I absolutely love it more than anything. Thanks for being so awesome and being the best examples in the whole world. I love y'all so much and hope that y'all have an amazing week!!

Love,

Elder Robertson

Sushi!! - one of the last meals with Elder Bean as companions. We had to.

Margarita - This is Margarita and her grand daughters with Elder Bean!!

Alma - One of the recent converts in the area. She's awesome!