Elder Matthew Robertson : Week 76 - The temple was wonderful

The temple was wonderful. I really do love that place. It is such a blessing that even though the world gets crazier and crazier.... the temple never changes. You can ALWAYS go and feel the spirit of the Lord and feel at peace. What a blessing that we so desperately need in these days. One of my recent converts Charlie is going through the temple to take out his endowments in a couple of days! How exciting! However, he moved to Utah so I won't be able to accompany him.. But I'm still so happy that he's staying strong in the gospel and taking that wonderful step.

We got to go to a Veteran's day thing and it was awesome!! It was awesome to just salute our veterans and thank them.

Mom, I love Joseph Smith as well and will read those as soon as I get a chance! It's so amazing that we get to just know all of the gospel. We get to have the full comfort.. Not just part of it. I really liked that picture you sent of Jesus saying "trust me".. It's so true and probably one of the most frustrating parts of being a missionary. You offer these people so much and so many blessings and they just sometimes don't have the faith to seek them. But it makes the ones who are all the more precious. Opposition in all things right?

Everythings going pretty well. I baked cookies for the WML to help improve our relationship. I told him that I made him some cookies and all the other elders in the meeting told him that I was really trying to work with him the best that I could. I think we are starting to get on the same page. What an incredible blessing!! I have such a strong testimony that serving/loving people and just being as humble as you can brings the most precious blessings ever!!

We had a good amount of people come to church on Sunday! A family of 8! It was super cool. It was a mom and her 6 kids and her little sister. They're doing pretty well and we have high hopes for them. Her name is Isabel. She's really awesome. Besides that we're just making small progress with everyone. We really are focusing on trying to find more prepared people so that we can help them come to know the gospel! Hopefully we'll be able to find more this week. I'm excited for the holiday season though. Everyone seems to just be a little more friendly! Love y'all so much and hope y'all have a great week!

Love,

Elder Robertson

We did a challenge called the "McCoy's Challenge" You have to eat all that food... yeah we all died. It's a Selma tradition. I was one pancake away from finishing.. Food v. Elder Robertson: Winner - Food