tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11464989417263207952024-03-12T23:32:34.404-07:00Adventures in the Philippinesmacy robertsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03321100823089574130noreply@blogger.comBlogger96125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1146498941726320795.post-1290589026990882672014-05-15T14:00:00.004-07:002014-05-15T14:00:37.017-07:00Week 87<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">May 11, 2014</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hey fam!<br />So here it is. the last week. The last two years has been quite the<br />experience. Lots of ups and downs. Lots of lessons learned. All rolled<br />into one little black badge with the name Jesus on the front. It has<br />been such a privilege and a blessing to be serving and sharing the<br />gospel with the people here in the Philippines. Beforehand when yall<br />ask how was my mission this is how it was "It was the best two years<br />but took place on the other side of heaven but hotter and no ocean."<br />It really was like that. At different times in my mission I felt like<br />all 4 of the elders in "The Best Two Years". But its been good.<br />Definitely been the hardest two years of my life so far. It pushed me<br />to my limits mentally and spiritually for sure. The walking wasn't too<br />bad just the fact that it is so hot makes it hard. It really showed me<br />what kind of person I am and I noticed things that I need to change. I<br />feel like I have definitely grown and become a better person than I<br />was when I left. I finished the Book of Mormon for the last time of my<br />mission. By my count the BoM has 3901 references to Jesus Christ,<br />Lord, God, and any other title of His, that's like 7 times per page He<br />is mentioned. He is directly quoted in 723 verses and there is a<br />direct reference to the atonement in 103 verses. There is no way<br />Joseph Smith could have pulled this book out of a hat. It is just as<br />true as it is today as it was back then. I am grateful for the<br />opportunity I have had to really study the scriptures. I really took<br />them for granted before and I really want to keep the habit of<br />personal study every day when I get home. That and personal prayer. I<br />did that at home but not so much with the real intent part. I really<br />learned to pray with real intent out here. Cause I couldn't get by on<br />anything less haha. I could go on and on about lessons I learned from<br />my mission but I will save it for my homecoming talk. Anywho, I will<br />see yall next thursday at 2:30!!! Have a great week and a half<br />everyone!!<br />Love, Elder Robertson</span>macy robertsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03321100823089574130noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1146498941726320795.post-13879105832947333522014-05-05T12:39:00.000-07:002014-05-05T12:39:09.630-07:00Week 86<span class="thread-date"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="short" title="Sun, May 4, 2014 at 9:42 PM">May 4 at 9:42 <span class="ampm">PM</span></span> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hey Fam!<br /><br />This week was more of the same. We taught lots of less actives and a<br />few investigators. The weather here is weird right now. It will be<br />crazy hot and sunny until about 4 in the afternoon then the storn<br />clouds roll in and it will rain like crazy starting at about 6. The<br />rain cools down the place which is nice so i can sleep better at<br />night. But it brings out the mosquitos. i am getting bit like crazy. I am trying though to avoid a repeat of last year where I got dengue<br />fever my last week in my second area so i am using lots of bug spray<br />to avoid that. Other than that it is just finishing strong! I will<br />prolly finish the book of mormon for the last time on my mission this week. Its hard not to think about coming home cause my comp tells everyone i am coming home when we sit down to teach them. The members are more trunky than I am! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Well have a great mothers day next week! Have a good time skyping Kelci! I will just see yall in a few weeks haha its a pain to find a place where the internet is fast enough and has headphones that I can use to skype haha. Love yall!<br />Elder Robertson</span></div>
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macy robertsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03321100823089574130noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1146498941726320795.post-50102864830410337202014-04-28T11:40:00.004-07:002014-04-28T11:40:58.339-07:00Week 85<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Apr 27 at 10:38 <span class="ampm">PM</span> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hey Fam!<br />Well, its May this week.......holy moly the last month haha. This week was ok. We taught quite a few lessons and worked on finding. we are trying to go back to former investigators to try to teach them again. And less actives. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The branch had a branch council this week. They spent quite a while trying to figure out what they can do help less active return. I suggested a branch activity. They eventually came up with the idea of having the branch council and their families visit 15 less active families and have a family home evening with them in the less actives house. To me a branch activity would be cheaper and all the less actives could go and so could all the active members but its their branch not mine haha anywho.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It was crazy hot this week. like so hot that at night i slept with no sheets my fan on the highest setting and still woke up sweating. Man I thought i may get used to the heat. Wrong. it has been constant sweat for about two years now. I am so done with it haha. Well thats all i have to say.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Have a good week everyone!<br />Love,<br />Elder Robertson</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hey fam!<br />So last week for pday was amazing! we went to manila! We had to get<br />our fingerprints for those of us leaving the country in may. So it was<br />me, my mtc comp and another missionary who all went. It was great! We<br />ate ihop and pizza hut and 7-11 and wendys and krispy kremes and<br />cinnabon in the 24 hours that we were there. It was depressing to come<br />back to rice and hot dogs for dinner haha. I wrote out my last two<br />letters on paper but they are really long so i will just give some<br />highlights.<br />Conference was amazing. Great talks! Elder Holland's, the olympic guy,<br />Uchtdorf on gratitude, Monson mentioning jabari parker, the guy about<br />not saying mean things, Eyrings baseball one and Bednars spiritual<br />loads were my favorites. I made some goals to be 1. grateful of<br />circumstances not things. 2. Don't complain or get angry 3. Pray with<br />more real intent. Really spiritually uplifting for me that conference.<br />This week we had a zone conference about the Book of Mormon and<br />Easter. Also very spiritual. President talked about Joseph Smith and<br />the Book of Mormon then Christ and the Book of Mormon. He points out a<br />lot of details that I have never thought about. Then He and Sis Rahlf<br />shared about the last week of Christ's life. Very spiritual, very good.<br />They just talked about His last week and really just narrated the New<br />Testament but they are such good speakers the spirit was so strong! I<br />really learned out here that the impression of the spirit cannot be<br />denied. It really is true what it says in Luke 16 "no man having put<br />his hand to the plough and looking back is fit for the kingdom of<br />God." You really can't cause you can't deny the spirit you felt. you<br />can make excuses that it was just something about something but you<br />can't deny it. That is a big part of what happened to me these two<br />years. That foundation of faith has really become deeper. I can't say<br />like Elder Holland that I know Jesus is the Christ more so than he<br />knows that the 20,000 people are sitting in front of him. That was<br />something else. and Packer straight up saying I know Christ. those are<br />giants among men. I'm not there yet. But I can say i am more fully<br />converted than I was two years ago. Well those were the highlights!<br />Have a good week! 4 weeks na lang!!<br />Love, Elder Robertson</span><br />
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Conference: this is an Elder Holland quote: "'Why is this so hard President?' I have thought about this a great deal.<br />
I offer this as my personal feeling. I am convinced that missionary<br />
work is not easy because salvation is not a cheap experience.<br />
Salvation never was easy. We are the Church of Jesus Christ, this is<br />
the truth, and He is our Great Eternal Head. How could we believe it<br />
would be easy for us when it was never, ever easy for Him. It seems<br />
to me that missionaries and mission leaders have to spend at least a<br />
few moments in Gethsemane. Missionaries and mission leaders have to<br />
take at least a step or two toward the summit of Calvary. I'm not<br />
talking about anywhere near what Christ experienced, that would be<br />
presumptuous and sacrilegious. But I believe that missionaries and<br />
investigators, to come to the truth, to come to salvation, to know<br />
something of this price that has been paid, will have to pay a token<br />
of that same price. For that reason I do not believe missionary work<br />
has ever been easy, nor that conversion is, nor that continued<br />
faithfulness is. I believe it is supposed to require some effort,<br />
something from the depths of our soul"<br />
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Church is true!!</span></span><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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macy robertsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03321100823089574130noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1146498941726320795.post-43854992524284137572014-04-14T19:54:00.000-07:002014-04-14T19:54:31.976-07:00Week 83<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">April 13, 2014</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hey fam, don't wait up for me. Goin to manila!!!! I'll explain when I<br />get the chance but its nothing bad haha. Maybe tomorrow when I get<br />back I will email haha. Love yall!!</span>macy robertsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03321100823089574130noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1146498941726320795.post-4160620567891350052014-04-07T13:06:00.000-07:002014-04-07T13:08:11.192-07:00Week 82<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hey Fam!<br />So we went to some waterfalls today. Waterfalls meaning a trickle of<br />water falling down rocks haha. It actually wasn't that bad. I would<br />take pictures but my camera broke haha. We had to take a tricy to the<br />mountains then hike up them for an hour or so. Made me want to swim </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">so </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">bad. Only 6 weeks! Is the weather looking up there? Or is it still cold. I also went to a career workshop on Thursday for those of us who are going home in April and May. It was good, they just talked for six hours on how we can use skills from the mission in getting a job and what not. I learned a few things. But it was mostly for the Filipinos and getting them a good job.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We worked this week but not much happened. It was the Mallig fiesta. So a lot of people were involved in that and of course more farming. just tough. Just finishing strong. Have a good week everyone!! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Do you guys want any souveniers from here? tell me if you want anything and I will hook you up. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Love yall!<br />Elder Robertson</span>macy robertsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03321100823089574130noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1146498941726320795.post-3380456807376942014-04-02T17:39:00.003-07:002014-04-02T17:42:11.774-07:00Week 81<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12.727272033691406px;">March 30, 2014</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12.727272033691406px;">Hey fam!</span><br style="background-color: white; font-size: 12.727272033691406px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12.727272033691406px;">It was insanely </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12.727272033691406px;">hot here this week. I thought I was used to the heat </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12.727272033691406px;">here then this </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12.727272033691406px;">week happened. Not used to it. Basically this week </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12.727272033691406px;">we spent more </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12.727272033691406px;">finding. We have almost tracted the whole area </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12.727272033691406px;">which is impressive </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12.727272033691406px;">cause it is a big area (walking wise) Everyone </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12.727272033691406px;">is still busy in their </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12.727272033691406px;">fields and don't really care to listen right now. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12.727272033691406px;">We had a few lessons </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12.727272033691406px;">where I could tell the people could care less </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12.727272033691406px;">about the message. they </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12.727272033691406px;">just want more money. I even had one </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12.727272033691406px;">guy think that I am a treasure </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12.727272033691406px;">hunter and he tried to sell me some </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12.727272033691406px;">World War 2 forks haha he said he </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12.727272033691406px;">dug them up in the mountains. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12.727272033691406px;">It was funny. Well I'm working hard </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12.727272033691406px;">finishing strong. Its a little </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12.727272033691406px;">hard to believe I only have 7 weeks </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12.727272033691406px;">left. Its like running a race </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12.727272033691406px;">but I can't see the finish line cause </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12.727272033691406px;">there is still a big hill to </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12.727272033691406px;">climb haha. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12.727272033691406px;">Love yall!</span><br style="background-color: white; font-size: 12.727272033691406px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12.727272033691406px;">Elder Robertson</span></span>macy robertsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03321100823089574130noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1146498941726320795.post-9777930770497219392014-03-24T15:05:00.001-07:002014-03-24T15:05:08.010-07:00Week 80<span class="thread-date"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="short" title="Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 10:09 PM">Mar 23 </span> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Same ol same ol this week. We did have one bright spot though this week. This one member who is awesome. Tatay (which is like a respectful term for old people) Gudinez who is a stud and has given and helped us teach everyone who lives close to him. We were finally able to teach his wife! There is potential here and tatay can help her come to church and keep commitments and what not. Hopefully she will be baptized. I really want this one because he is such a solid convert of a year and he just went through the temple for the first time and it would be so awesome if his wife joined him. We will see what happens. Other than that it is teaching less actives and investigators who aren't progressing. Good stuff. The branch did have their first ever branch council meeting yesterday! That was quite an experience. Basically we got up there and said who we visited and what they could do to help then they talked about their Easter activity for an hour and how that will affect their budget. It's a start. Just makes me miss wards and meetings and stuff like that. But that's about it for this week. I am working on cooking filipino dishes so I can make it for you guys when I get home. Maybe in like July, haha I want a break from rice. I think you guys will like filipino food. Its good stuff. Just they have about 5 things they eat. Sinigang their version of soup. Adobo. Fried fish and chicken. Chicken curry and leaves from the tree. Seriously, they take whatever plants and throw it with vinegar and soy sauce and let it cook for 5 minutes then put it over rice. boom. a meal. Ya i am tired of those 5 things haha. I want a burger. Well take care ya all. </span></div>
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macy robertsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03321100823089574130noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1146498941726320795.post-88587365416160238362014-03-17T18:10:00.001-07:002014-03-17T18:10:16.988-07:00Week 79<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Mar 16 at 10:12 <span class="ampm">PM</span> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Davis Happy late Birthday! Hope it was great and only a year from double digits haha. Well.........this week was pretty much the same as the last few weeks. We were looking for new investigators and we were able to teach people for the first time but we really have trouble to get back in the second time. So we visit a lot of less actives cause of the 400 members in this branch only 50 or 60 go to church so we have plenty of work to do in strengthening the branch. I would rather get less actives to return rather than baptize and then go less active right away. A serious problem with retention here. So we working on getting members to fellowship better here. Other than that just working haha. President Rahlf wants us all to read the Book of Mormon before the next zone conference in may so I started over again. He wants us to highlight every time it mentions Christ's name or he is quoted or references to his life, mission, death, and resurrection. So I am doing that. So far it is a pretty colorful book. I am writing at the bottom of every page how many times it mentions a name or title of Christ. It is quite often. But that is about it haha. 9 weeks..... Thanks for all the support! Have a great week everyone!</span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1395104512017_9002" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.33px;">In a book entitled “God’s Mirror,” inspirational author Max Lucado shares the amazing rescue story of an American naval officer named G.R. Tweed. Tweed had been serving on the island of Guam during WWII, when the Japanese overtook it in 1941. He escaped into the jungle and survived there for nearly three years. Late in the day on July 10, 1944, he spotted an American battleship. Positioning himself on a cliff, he pulled from his pack a small mirror and began sending signals. Holding the mirror in his hands, he reflected the sun’s light in the direction of the boat with the dot-dot-dot, dash-dash-dash, dot-dot-dot code that spelled SOS. A sailor on the ship saw the distress signal, and within minutes a boat was sent to rescue Tweed. </span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.33px;" /><span id="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1395104512017_8998" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.33px;"> How grateful he must have been to have that mirror, and to know how to use it. And how fortunate that the mirror cooperated. “Suppose it hadn’t,” writes Lucado. “Suppose the mirror had resisted, pushed its own agenda. Rather than reflect a message from the sun, suppose it had opted to send its own?” What if it had been an insecure mirror? “What if I blow it? What if I send a dash when I’m supposed to send a dot? Besides, have you seen the blemishes on my surface? Self-doubt could paralyze a mirror. So could self-pity. Been crammed down in that pack, lugged through the jungles, and now, all of a sudden expected to face the bright sun and perform a crucial service? No way. Staying in the pack. Not getting any reflection out of me.” (from God’s Mirror, Max Lucado) </span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.33px;" /><span id="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1395104512017_9010" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.33px;"> What a good thing that Tweed’s mirror didn’t act on its own! Instead, as an instrument in his hands, it was the critical means of his rescue. That mirror matches exactly what we do in our service as the Lord’s missionaries. As we let ourselves become “mirrors” in His hands, we reflect and share His message and we become the critical means in the saving and rescue of His children. And as such valuable instruments, we understand that we are on His errand, that we lose our life to find our life, and we know that it’s not about us; it’s all about Him.</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.33px;" /><span id="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1395104512017_9011" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.33px;"> It is both powerful and humbling to be an instrument in the hands of God. Ammon expressed this when he said, “And this is the blessing which hath been bestowed upon us, that we have been made instruments in the hands of God to bring about this great work. I do not boast in my own strength, nor in my own wisdom; but behold, my joy is full, yea, my heart is brim with joy, and I will rejoice in my God. Yea, I know that I am nothing; as to my strength I am weak; therefore I will not boast of myself, but I will boast of my God, for in his strength I can do all things; yea, behold, many mighty miracles we have wrought in this land, for which we will praise his name forever.” (Alma 26: 3, 11-12)</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.33px;" /><span id="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1395104512017_9012" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.33px;"> We are so grateful for each one of you, and pray that we may all go forth this week seeking to be instruments in the hands of God, reflecting his light and love to all we come in contact with, sharing His message of hope and feeling joy in His work. We could not be in a better place, than to be in His hands.</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.33px;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.33px;"> </span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.33px;" /><span id="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1395104512017_9013" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.33px;">“And thus they were instruments in the hands of God in bringing many to the knowledge of the truth, yea, to the knowledge of their Redeemer. And how blessed are they! For they did publish peace; they did publish good tidings of good; and they did declare unto the people that the Lord reigneth.” (Mosiah 27: 36-37)</span></div>
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macy robertsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03321100823089574130noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1146498941726320795.post-83940546955273853262014-03-10T13:09:00.002-07:002014-03-10T13:09:45.103-07:00Week 78March 9, 2014<br />
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This week was good. We taught a bunch of lessons, mostly to less actives. And really looked for some new investigators. We are in like the dog days of finding. We can teach people once but then they won't want to listen again so they hide or tell their kids that no one is home. Kinda funny haha but tiring when it just happens over and over and over again. We did have a less active come to church for like the first time in four years which was cool. That was unexpected but but cool. I hope she enjoyed being back. But otherwise just a working week really. Not much else to say. Working hard. Finishing strong. My camera is still broke. trying to find a place to get it fixed. Well thanks for all your support and everything! Love yall!</div>
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macy robertsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03321100823089574130noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1146498941726320795.post-34141177317820281602014-03-03T13:44:00.000-08:002014-03-03T13:45:09.588-08:00Week 77<br />
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from Alicia which is in the mission boundries. He got called to his<br />
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then got called here. kinda funny. He speaks fluent ilocano so half<br />
the time I have no idea what he is saying to people. kinda like being<br />
new again. But he is cool and we get along just fine. So our<br />
investigator family, the franada family. the dad was shot. so he has<br />
been in the hospital for a while. but he is fine and hopefully we can<br />
start teaching them again soon. other than that we are in<br />
finding/trying to get new investigators to come to church mode. We<br />
have lots of less actives to teach but not many come to church cause<br />
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Working on the Book of Mormon. Lots of times the Lord does if/then<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This week was ok, we just worked and did our part. We were able to find a couple of new investigators. It's a mom and her college age son. There is a dad but he is always busy and another brother but he doesn't want to listen. The mom's dad was a member for like 10 years and always went to church in Tuguegarao, my last area, and she wondered about why he was so faithful and what do mormons believe but then she moved out here and forgot all about it until they met a member that roomed with the kid at school. So we were invited over with the member and were able to teach. They have potential, they asked questions and actually talked during the lesson which was nice. They are more likely to get baptized if they talk and ask questions. That was the highlight work wise this week. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I did finish the October conference issue for like the third time this week. I really enjoy reading conference talks over and over and highlight in different colors each time. I really get a different feel of the messages each time. Like reading the Book of Mormon, I get something new out of it every time I read it. I started it again this week and am almost through 1 Nephi. This time I am going for specific advice that they give. Like challenges to improve and stuff like that. Like there is a challenge in 1 Nephi 1: 20. Nephi says to seek the tender mercies of the lord. So I have been writing stuff like that in my little study journal and trying to work on that. I hope to finish before I come home. This week is transfers and so I will get a new companion this week. Elder Pawin was a good comp and I really enjoyed being with him. This could be my last comp of my mission so ya haha. Go bombers! Go Tar Heels! Go Lakers! Thanks for all the support everyone!</span></div>
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macy robertsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03321100823089574130noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1146498941726320795.post-57922085140868955922014-02-22T16:16:00.001-08:002014-02-22T16:16:58.543-08:00Week 75<span class="thread-date"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="short" title="Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 8:30 PM">Feb 16 at 8:30 <span class="ampm">PM</span></span> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So this week not much happened. We must of got lucky last week cause we worked just as hard this week and had about half as much work to show for it. There was the lowest amount of people at church in my entire life yesterday, there were 25 people. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am gonna try to finish the book of mormon before I finish my mission. I will start over this week and finish it in three months which shouldn't be too bad. I've read the book of mormon like 7 times now while I have been out here and I have no doubt that it is true. The church is definitely true and what not. Its just people really annoy me sometimes. That is the hard part about the mission. adjusting to the culture and obedience just takes a little self discipline. But people have their free agency and that is out of my control which annoys me and frustrates me to no end. But I have to deal with it. And not complain. </span></div>
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macy robertsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03321100823089574130noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1146498941726320795.post-88212809811794064132014-02-10T20:09:00.002-08:002014-02-10T20:11:10.042-08:00Week 742-9-14<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That snow looks so fun! I remember when church was canceled one time then we shoveled The Hills and hooky bobbed on bro Henry's cop car. It was awesome. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So this week was good. We were able to teach a lot more less actives because they are done planting rice and we had 6 or 7 come to church! Our investigator family unfortunately wasn't available so we weren't able to teach them. But we found a whole bunch of new less actives and were able to teach them so that was good. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Interviews with president were good. He talked about staying motivated and enduring to the end. He mentioned three kinds of motivation; 1. Fear 2. Reward 3. Love and told me to just keep being motivated for the right reasons especially now. It was a good interview and will help me stay on the right track for the rest of my mission. He is a good president. Having two mission presidents is interesting because their styles are just totally different. President Carlos was a great president and he really liked to get to know the elders maybe cause the mission was 150 missionaries smaller. President Rahlf is a great president and has made the mission more........streamlined? President Carlos liked missionaries in the mission to get to know each other so he would have departure firesides (for the going home missionaries) and transfer days where all the missionaries would go to Cauayan for the day. President Rahlf has cut all that out and tried to keep everyone focused on the work. It's been different but I like both presidents and they both have taught me so much. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Well that's about it for this week. Happy Valentines day by the way haha. those brownies/cupcakes that someone made with the peanut butter heart in the middle are amazing! I can only eat one cause it is such a sugar rush haha can't wait to fix that. Thanks for all your support! have a great week and build a snow fort for old times sakes haha.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So this week things started to look up! We had a zone conference on wednesday and it was way good. President talked about the hastening of missionary work and what it means for us....basically the members should work harder. But he also talked about joseph in egypt and lessons we can learn from him. Of course we all know the story of joseph but how hard would it be if we were in his shoes?? getting sold as a slave by his brothers. getting thrown in jail for something he didn't do and staying there for like 7 years. But he lifted where he stood in the words of President Uchtdorf. He became chief of potiphars slaves. he became the best prisoner. and then he was rewarded. he became number two in all of egypt. I wondered if the prediction by his dream way early in his life that he would be a ruler over his brethren, I wonder if he ever got discouraged and thought that it would never come true. He is a very good example of perseverance. He had the faith to keep going and even when it was hard he stood as a pillar of righteousness. A good zone conference. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So this week people finally started finishing planting their rice. so we got to teach some good lessons and get in touch with our investigators again. Now we just need to get them to church so we can get them towards baptism. It may be a while but we can get them going. Thats about it though. just life in the mission haha. </span></div>
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macy robertsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03321100823089574130noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1146498941726320795.post-57504362245588786462014-01-27T19:24:00.002-08:002014-02-10T20:12:40.480-08:00Week 72<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1/26/14</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">yes mom, I did not write last week because I had to go make a chocolate cake. it took a while so we had to finish emailing early. but it was a delicious cake and we took it to a FHE in the zone leaders area. They really liked it. Well still here in Mallig with Elder Pawin. It should be a good cycle. I really like him and we get along well. Hopefully we can baptize that family we have been working with. we haven't been able to teach them this week. they are always gone. just hope they aren't hiding from us cause that would be depressing. Anyways. I want to cook more this cycle so when I get home we can have a filipino day where we wash clothes by hand and go without toilet paper when we wipe and bucket showers hahahaha I am gonna teach ya'll how to be a real filipino haha. work this week was slim pickins. everyone is in their rice fields still so we walked around some more and tried to find people. not much goin there but oh well, just got to keep going. Hey! I turn 21 this week! thats a weird thing to think about. Maybe I will buy a lottery ticket when I get home......haha jk i still can't rent a car though until I am 25. Whats the point of being 21 if you can't rent a car? Well thats about it for this week. I want the seahawks to win the super bowl. I hope they can pull it out this year. peyton might be too good though. Thanks for all the support! Love yall!</span></div>
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macy robertsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03321100823089574130noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1146498941726320795.post-80674925001036804242014-01-13T12:09:00.001-08:002014-01-13T12:09:07.995-08:00Week 70<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">January 12, 2014</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Either it was a slow week for Conner or after 18+ months on your mission you feel you don't need to email your parents anymore.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">He is good though. Actually, his comp got a foot infection and was laid up most of the week.</span>macy robertsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03321100823089574130noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1146498941726320795.post-49916316906215328222014-01-06T19:35:00.002-08:002014-01-06T19:35:39.094-08:00Week 69<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1-5-14</span><br />
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2014 at last! It should be a pretty good year. Its getting hot again. This week was tough work wise. First, new years literally everyone was drunk so not much was done. Then the rest of the week people were planting rice. The way they do it here is they get all their friends to help them so like everyone is in their fields planting from sunrise to about 5. then they all go to bed at about 8 so we have like a three hour time window of good solid work. Other than that we just walk around and try to find people at home. Or go visit members if they are home. It will be like this until february i guess from what people tell me. I would like to help them plant rice but it is against the mission rules to because elders would get sick and nasty infections back in the day. But We'll work with what we are given. New years was crazy, it sounded like war. Fireworks here are like sticks of dynamite cut into different sizes then either wrapped in wrapping paper and lit or launched into the air. bombs. It was loud. Other than that just life in the philippines. My birthday is this month, weird I will be 21. Thats about it for this week. Have a great week everyone! </div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It was nice talking to you guys over skype! That will be the last time before I come home! Other than that Christmas was kinda boring. Shout out to Gran and Grandpa and Stuart and fam and Laurie and fam and Bonnie and fam for the packages!! Me and my comp basically just snacked on some good ol american junk food all week haha. Then we went to a few parties and that was it for my christmas. Looking forward to next year. It didn't feel like christmas at all cause it was hot. coulda been hotter but it was cloudy which was nice. I guess we are in full on winter here. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Guess What! After a year and a half and almost giving up hope I finally met someone that I think you know from your mission! Her name is Judith Mariano Obungen but I think the last name is her married name. She said that you helped her with her mission papers in Hong Kong and that she served her mission in San Pablo. She says hi and and wants to know how you are doing. I was sitting outside of church yesterday greeting people and she comes up to me and says "robertson....you don't happen to know the robertsons who served in Hong Kong?" I freaked out! I thought is was hilarious and crazy cool at the same time. She just married our branch president last year and now they have a little baby. It was the coolest thing ever. She thinks the world of you and grandma and that helps me haha cause now she loves me. I thought you would like to know that. She says hi and hopes you are doing well!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">How is everyone this week? Well I was transferred this week and now I am in my new area. Mallig Roxas. Its the area theSshaners were in when they were on their mission. Let me tell you. It cannot get anymore third world than this. Basically it is farmers who work in their fields all day and and are very poor. There are a lot of people to teach but they are all less actives. The branch has about 60 active members and the meetinghouse is nothing special. just a tiny little house with a church sign on it. Every family here is part member families so there are plenty of opportunities to get investigators, everyone just wakes up at 2 am to go to the bukid and then they get home at 5pm then they all go to bed at 7pm so teaching is a tough but we do have a baptism this week. Her name is jenny and she is 16, she lives next to a bunch of members so they help her go to church and what not. Mostly here the women are active and teenage girls. Almost all our teaching appointments are old nanays and teenage girls cause the men are always working. So tough but staying positive can help haha. Roxas itself is not bad there is just nothing here and the internet is not good. It's just really third world. I guess God is trying to teach me a lesson in humility. But life goes on. Luckily I have been in the mission for a while so I am used to the country. If this were my first area it would be terrible. Love to here from everyone! Well have a good week everyone!</span></div>
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Happy December! The Philippines is getting ready for xmas. The way they do it is by caroling for money on the streets and shooting off firecrackers. Yeah I'm glad its my last xmas here. The weather though has been great! It has been cloudy and windy all week! Like 65 degrees haha. It has been great except the water in my bucket shower is really cold haha. Other than that it was a pretty good week. We did a lot of contacting and mostly tried to help members get over their fear of sharing the gospel with their friends and family. There are a lot of part member families here in the philippines and so the best way to get referrals is by teaching peoples families. But the members are so scared to share the message because their family might not like it. So we try to tell them not to worry at least they are trying and the worst that can happen is that they say no. It's kinda working cause we have a few names we can contact. It all depends on the missionaries. We have to be more assertive or we will never get referrals. I am looking forward to it in my next area. I am getting transferred this week so I will be in my fourth area next week! Other than that it was just a week of work again. And everyone here is so sad that the guy from fast and furious movies died, they love those movies. probably because there is no acting, just car chases. </div>
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macy robertsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03321100823089574130noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1146498941726320795.post-1477750782998997812013-11-24T14:33:00.001-08:002013-11-24T14:33:33.436-08:00WEEK 62
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basically we went tracting and around to members to ask for referrals but with
no success. I had an interview with president and he really helped me learn
about what I need to do in the slow times. Sometimes we hit a wall and we feel
like we can't go anymore and feel burnt out. . Investigators are slow in coming and the area isn't really
progressing. It has been hard to stay obedient and work hard and what not. But
president said that these times come and times like this are to test to see if
I can be obedient and work hard so I can take the next step. Progress is like a
staircase and sometimes the stairs are easy to climb like at home sometimes the
stairs are like scaling a wall. I am reminded of Ether 12: 6 "ye receive
no witness until after the trial of your faith" I guess I am at a wall to
scale. With the lords help I have been able to be obedient and work hard. Just
keep going. I read a talk called "His Grace is Sufficient" a talk
given at BYU a few years ago. It is a great talk that really helps put the
atonement in perspective. Here is the link: </span><a href="http://speeches.byu.edu/?act=viewitem&id=1966" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">http://speeches.byu.edu/?act=viewitem&id=1966</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> I recommend reading it sometime this week. Very enjoyable
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macy robertsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03321100823089574130noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1146498941726320795.post-6312978667084367912013-11-17T12:22:00.000-08:002013-11-17T12:22:08.679-08:00WEEK 61
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">How is everybody? I guess you all
heard about the typhoon that hit down south and let me tell you it was crazy up
here! It rained so hard the bottom of my pants got wet. I'm just glad I'm ok,
with no umbrella I would have had a wet shirt haha. But while we were in zone
conference with elder Nielson the area president, he was texting a lot. Turns
out he was texting the Quorum of the Twelve preparing for the typhoon to hit.
Organizing relief and talking to the mission presidents down there all while
giving us a zone conference. Pretty impressive multitasking. He gave a great
Zone Conference though! Sister Rahlf talked about devotion and if we are more
devoted and have more desire then the work will go better for us and it will be
more exciting. When devotion is first, discipline and obedience naturally
follow. President Rahlf shared Luke 2: 8-14 and talked about the amazing
experience that must have been to announce the birth of Christ. As missionaried
we have the amazing opportunity to announce the Atonement of Christ and the
opportunity to live with our families forever! He also talked about the glory
of god shining round about, and that if we try to be more like Christ as
missionaries then the glory of god will shine round about and affect our
investigators and they will feel the truthfulness of this gospel. They didn't
talk for a long time. Sister Nielson talked about companions and compared them
to inlaws. She was a funny speaker and talked about her sons while they were on
their missions and compared the inlaws to having their own way to do things
when her family had their own way and she really had to work hard to love her
sons and daughter in laws haha. She gave a few questions for us to ask ourselves:
1. Can we be someone who will not criticize our companions and 2. What is the
lord trying to teach us through our companions? Sometimes the most annoying
thing about our companions is the thing that the lord is trying to teach us and
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Elder Nielson talked about the
process of revelation comparing it to 1 Nephi 11-14. He said that the first
step to revelation is to ask a question. "what desirest thou?" Asking
questions opens the heavens. Every part of the restoration happened because
someone (mostly Joseph Smith) had a question to ask. He said that in meetings
he has had with the Quorum of the Twelve and the First Presidency, that they
spend a lot of time coming up with an Inspired Inquiry. The question they are
going to ask the lord. I find it interesting that they pray to know what they
are going to ask later. Second, we need to look. We need to see that we are
receiving revelation. Alma 17: 2-3 is a good scripture on where to look. We
need to pray, read the scriptures, fast, go to church and act on what we
receive. revelation usually doesn't come until we act Christ says in John 7:17
that we won't know his doctrine until we act on it and try it. D&C 138:
1-11 is a good example of the process with Joseph Fielding Smith and asking where
is his son (its not in there but Nielson gave us the background) and his
acting. The third step, "what beholdest thou?" we need to write down
what our revelation is what we are receiving and ask if there is anything more
we can receive and ask follow up questions to the first one. God does not force
revelation upon us and what we receive is up to us and if we have faith,
usually god will give us more than what we ask for. Then he connected this
pattern of revelation to our investigators. As missionaries, our goal is to
help people open the heavens to themselves and help them receive revelation.
Through the Holy Ghost, prayer, the BoM, church they can recieve revelation and
PMG is the guide for us to help us know what we need to do to help
investigators receive the revelation and open the heavens. Elder Nielson used
the phrase "open the heavens" a lot. Then later after a lunch break
he talked about the responsibility we have to establish the church. Not just
baptize investigators and then get transferred. We are to work with new members
and less actives. In our mission there are about thirty thousand members total
and about twenty three thousand are less active. So yeah we have a lot of work
to do as missionaries. The members are supposed to do home teaching but the
stake president a few weeks ago told us missionaries that we need to do our
home teaching. Yeah we are working with him too. It was a great Zone Conference
and I really learned a lot from Elder Nielson. He hinted that next year we
might get an apostle here in the Cauayan Mission. Hopefully it will be before
June haha. Well that was the Zone Conference and we have interviews with
President this week. Good stuff! Hope everyone is
doing great!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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