Week 74 - The time change is the worst!

This week was kind of a slow one with Halloween parties, actual halloween, and the time change. Y'all.. the time change is the worst. It gets dark at like 5 or 6 now! It makes doing missionary work so much harder haha. But we'll just have to adjust to it. It's just weird to think about.

No one came to church this week... again. It's been getting harder and harder to get people to church. I never thought 20 minutes away would be hard but for some people it's just too far. But we're working hard to get it done! The weirdest thing happened in church. Randomly a third of the way through sacrament in the Spanish branch, like half of the branch just got up and left. For no recognizable reason.. it was so weird! The Branch is struggling right now and we're trying to figure out how we can best help it. We're praying and waiting on those miracles as we work our hardest!!

[We got the paperwork from Matt's mission in preparation for his coming home in June. One of the questions was whether we wanted to come pick him up from the mission instead of his flying home to Austin to meet us. We asked Matt his preference and this is his response.]  So about picking me up... I've thought a lot about it actually and here are my thoughts and y'all can tell me what y'all think. So I really want to have y'all here and be able to tour the mission with y'all. I really think that would be super awesome and fun to introduce y'all to all these people who I've grown so close to. However, I think I'd rather do it after I get home. There are a couple of reasons. One, because the whole way back home to Texas I won't have been released. So we won't be able to do a whole lot and I feel like that would be weird for me haha. Also when we tour the mission after y'all picking me up I'd still have to act like a missionary in the sense of the rules and such. Not that I'm planning a whole ton different than now. Just I've told a bunch of people when I come back I'll play fifa with them or do something little like that cause I won't be a missionary. Also I kind of like the idea of the plane ride home. I feel like it'll give me some good final pondering moments as I'm returning home. I don't know. those are kind of my thoughts. I don't know if those make sense or not!

Everything's going well in the district. We're having a super good time having the new elders in the same apartment complex as us. It's pretty fun. We get to hang out a lot. It's fun having a lot of missionaries close. It makes the down hours seem fun.

Bedsides all of that there really isn't a ton of stuff that happened. But it was a good week. We found some really awesome new families that we're working with! Families are the best! Good work with the missionary work by the way!! Love y'all and hope y'all have a good week!

Love,

Elder Robertson

Our "trunk" at Trunk-or-Treat. My costume is that I'm Elder Quintana and he was me. Very original. haha

my "pumpkin" i carved at the family's house

Ward Trunk or Treat

Ward Halloween Party

Us shopping for halloween

Us on halloween night with the family who took us to their house to play games and stuff. and the district after a district meeting. It's the last district. It's changed since then.

My exchange with Elder Perkins

Longhorns

Elder Perkins. He's a good missionary