2 Nephi 4:34-35

Note: Kea didn't email as usual on Monday, we have been waiting in suspense until today - she was able to go to the temple on Monday which postponed Pday! Happy day!

!Hola Familia!

Ok now starting with my week, so Monday night we saw a miracle!
So you know Paqui. Well she has three daughters, 18, 14 and 12 and
usually they are just in their room when we come over and last time we
visited Paqui we watched the 20 minute restoration video and so we
went over and she was like what are you gonna talk about about today
and we were like we have something special and she was like I want to
watch the video again with my daughters so we were like ok and we
watched the video with her daughters and they loved it!!!!!!! They are
super smart and right now they don't really believe in God because
their house started on fire a while back but Paqui explained faith and
it was a really good lesson and poco a poco they will progress😋 also
this week we found a new guy named Natalio, his wife died and he is
searching for happiness and we are here to show him the way! This week
we saw Robel from a Coruña! He is in town for a job interview and
while he was here we gave him a temple tour, super cool. This week
Alejandra invited her mom Marta to baptism and that was a super
spiritual moment until she said no! She said she just doesn't feel
prepared yet cause she has to work on Sunday sooo that is a road block
we are going to have to overcome. Also, I don't know if you remember
Fransisco(we've only met with him once) but we called him so we could
meet with him and and his dad died!!! So sad, we taught the plan of
salvation and it was so good he came to church the next day and loved
it, he will get baptized. Also, we found another investigator named
Julia, she is totally ready except she works on Sunday. Work is really
hard to find so when you have a job you have to keep it so if you work
on Sunday your stuck and it's a problem here. How blessed are we to
have jobs where we don't have to work on Sunday. Also the American
Fam(the Bouche guy that emailed Kelci) they moved into our ward and so
they fed us pancakes and bought us Costco muffins like to take home. I
have 6 chocolate muffins 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍. anyways that's a
nice little recap of this week, actually just found out, Esperanza
from a Coruña is going to Peru on her mission! I just saw her, she got
her endowments out last night!!!

Hermana Robertson❤️

the district

Robel from A Coruna in Madrid!

D&C 31:3

¡Hola familia!

¿Come estan? Sounds like you all had a very spiritual experience at
church Sunday! Here's my two cents: yesterday in consejo (the thingy
where all th leaders meet) Bishop showed us all a vídeo of Elder
Bednar, and it Was about being an agent not an object and that
reminded me of when he spoke to us, he talked about being an agent not
an object. So take what you learned and act on it so you can be an
agent! Anyways, church was good yesterday and then after we went home
with the Alvarez family and Hermana Alvarez taught us how to make
empanadas, holy cow🐄 they are sooooo good, the best things I have
ever eaten. And the baptisms with Alejandra were amazing! She was so
happy and so excited and it was just amazing! A lot of recent converts
came and it was super cool. This week we had zone training, I got a
letter from mom! Yay and Davis' pic of Carson🤗. Anyways, there is this
girl and she is so hesitant when she speaks Spanish, it's kinda
painful so I've decided that even if I don't know what to say or how
to say it just try my best and act confident! Also, I think I am
getting better and I'm understanding everything basically. Also, I
don't know if I told you about Margaret, but we received her reference
from other hermanas and they said she was menos activo and so that's
what we thought and we taught her and turns out she's not a member but
her whole family is and she has been meeting with the missionaries and
never has gotten baptized. Her family (her kids, husband, mom and dad)
are still in Ecuador and she has been here for 4 years working but she
is going back at the end of September. But when we met with her a
second time, I was like bearing my testimony and then she was
like yeah I know it's true and we were like why aren't you a member
then and she said that she feels something is missing. So our goal is
to figure out what's missing so when she returns home, she is ready
for baptism. Anyways, sounds like dad and Derek both gave really good
talks! Hopefully copies can get sent my way.... Well have a good week...Love you all!!

Hermana Robertson❤️

Zone   Kea and other missionaries in her zone were able to take recent converts and go to the temple and perform baptisms IF they had their own family names to take. Thanks to Mel, Kelci and dad Kea was able to perform baptisms for 12 ancestors with recently baptized Alejandra. Such a special day! Thank you Alvarez's for the delicious Empanadas! Exploring Madrid on Pday!

 

Helaman 7:19 <--Be Good

¡Hola familia!

For a long week, not too much exciting happened. First off, the temple
today was AMAZING! I am so blessed to be so close and have a temple in
my mission! It was definitely a spiritual experience and I learned a
lot and felt the spirit the whole time. I know that this is Lords work
and that He has a plan for us and families can be together forever!!!
The other day we were walking and this lady stopped us and told us she was in B8 but we had never seen her, but she told us she served a mission and
everything she is super fiel but because of work it's hard for her to
come to Church, anyways we had called like everybody to help us with a
lesson that night and nobody could so we asked her and she could, and
she was amazing in the lesson! It was a great lesson about the plan of
salvation to a women who's husband recently passed away. Also, our
Romanian investigator, we met with her and she googled some stuff and
we went over and she just wanted to fight and it was very tense and
uncomfortable and I feel sorry for her, she could have just read and
asked God herself. Also, we are still meeting with Alejandra's mom and
they read the Book of Mormon together and she is so ready to be
baptized, she just can't come to church because of work so that is
really hard. We are still planning on going to the temple
with alejandra tomorrow and we are all soooo excited! I will print off
the names, thanks everybody for your help with those! Crazy that
grandpa is a great grandpa and I am really sad about his package too😭
I hope he is resending it👍🏽 and then he can send me another one
right after that for my birthday and then another one right after that
for Christmas😍🤗😛 how are his apples?????? Exciting to have Carson
home and glad everybody loves him, he's a ball of cuteness!!! Well
love you all!!! Have a good week, and go to the temple😊😊😊😊😊😊

Hermana Robertson❤️

Madrid Temple with some of her zone

Alma 26:27

August 1, 2016

HOLA

CARSON JAY WHITBY IS THE CUTEST BABY I HAVE EVER SEEN!!!
Felicidades!!!!! Glad everybody is healthy and ok!!!!!

Alejandra got baptized this week!!!! I am actually just like really
disappointed in the ward cause there was only three members
there😢😐 but the spirit was sooo strong and Alejandra was sooo
happy. It was amazing. Sounds like everybody has had a fun week! My
week was pretty good, not the best. It was really hot this week and my
companion complained like everyday and did not want to work I still
tried my best but it was just not a give it my all week. I read Nefi
and Laman and Lemuel and felt like Nefi, just keep pushing forward and
trusting in the Lord! So other than Alejandra's Bautismo, her mom is
ready and very excited to take the discussions, and Alejandra is very
excited for her too! Hopefully there will be another baptism in the
near future. we invited one of our investigators to baptism this week
but he is evangelist(I think that's what it is in English) and he
recently got baptized in that church and doesn't understand/doesn't
want to change, I believe, through the spirit, he will also be
baptized in the near future, he has desires to find Christ and well
through this gospel he can do just that! We also met with this other
lady, and she has mental problems and says like dragons are following
her and people and dark spirits are following her and pushing on her
head, she has really good intentions to follow Christ but if she is
mentally unstable, I don't know what to do😬 we also taught a Romanian
girl this week, I found her on the street one day. She was super nice
and she had so many questions it was good. I can't tell if she was
just curious or actually wanted to know, I could see her getting
baptized too, she is super cool. She is orthodox(I think that's what
it is in English) so we will see what happens. This week I ate Guinea
pig, it was pretty good, literally tasted like chicken. Also, last
Sunday we invited one of our menos activos (called her at like 9:30)
to church and we woke her up but she ended up coming but she was
really mad at us whoops😬 but then later that week we passed by her
and then she continued to yell at us, she was still mad about church
and I guess it's rude to go to people's houses at 5:30? She is a very
stubborn old lady hehe. I don't understand but her wish is my command,
just trying to save her soul😅 also the other night,  hermano Lopez(my
ccm teacher) helped us with a lesson(with a menos activa)  and haha,
he is such a good missionary. We learned a lot from him. All in all my
week had its pros and cons, proud of Alejandra and her decisions to
follow Christ!
For pday we just chilled because we are tired. Love you all!! Happy everybody had a good week!!!! Keep enjoying your summer, can't believe it's already august😱 LOVE YOU ALL😘
Hermana Robertson❤️

Alejandra's baptism

Auntie Kea & Carson