I got my package! It's all perfect and I love every single bit of it THANK YOU!!! I can not thank y'all enough. You have no idea how happy that package made me. Made all my problems seem little. I love y'all so stinkin' much. Y'all are the hugest blessing in my life.
As for my week, not much happened haha. Pretty uneventful. We taught some lessons, committed another person to get baptized on December 22, and studied a lot(: Just the life of a missionary. I am wayyyyyy excited for the Christmas call, though. As you can tell, I am counting down the days. 2 Mondays and I will be talking to my favorite people!!! This week, I bought some Christmas decorations for our room to give it a little pep and to make me feel not so far away from Christmas. Its super hot here everyday so definitely doesn't feel like Christmas. But I am so looking forward to our baptisms this month that we have. We had 5 people at church yesterday which is just so exciting. The missionary work is strong right now, and I think it's all part of the Christmas season of miracles. I love it and love this work so much!
As for some other exciting news, I got word that there are "ax thieves" in Sipalay right now. Meaning theres a group of people going around with axes, breaking into people's houses and stealing stuff. Last I heard, no one has gotten hurt, so that's good. But a little scary hahha so pray that our house will be protected!! I worry about thieves all the time cause that's a common occurrence here so pray extra hard!!
Sorry this letter is kind of short but not much happened this week to explain. I'll end with a quote that I love and has been really getting me through any hard time that comes my way. It is my Thomas S. Monson. He said "The great thing about the gospel, is we get credit for trying. Sincerely trying to live the gospel is living the gospel." I struggle here on my mission with not feeling good enough, or not feeling like I am doing enough. Missions hold really high standards, and as a missionary who is striving to be exactly obedient, it can sometimes weigh on me that I have weaknesses and I fall short of perfection everyday. I really want to be a celestial missionary, who is exactly obedient, and I really do try. So this quote gave me all the comfort in the world, that the Lord is pleased with my effort, because I am TRYING. This gospel is not for perfect people. Perfect people don't need this gospel. But since we are all short of perfect, we all need this gospel. And as long as we are trying, that is exactly what the Lord asks of us. Sincerely trying every day is living this gospel. So anyways I love that and found so much comfort in it that I don't need to be perfect, as long as I am putting my all into trying. I love this gospel and I love this work so much. I love this opportunity to come closer to my Savior and to help others do the same.
I love y'all sooo much and miss y'all soooo much. FOURTEEN DAYS!!!
Sister Robertson
