Robinsons Having Fun: Happy Thanksgiving!

Hey guys!

How's it going? I hope you all had an amazing thanksgiving and black Friday! We had thanksgiving with the President and his wife and it was amazing. Best meal I've had in a year. it was honestly amazing! And we even got pumpkin pie! How blessed are we? #superblessed

And today for our P day we got to set up Christmas decorations here in the office so that when all the missionaries come in on Monday to look for their packages, they just feel like CHRISTMAS all around! It was a blast. I'm way excited to see their faces when they come on Monday! Also, it's transfers this week, but I already know that I'm staying! haha. But I already knew that I was gonna be in the office for 6 months. So it's great! :)

Also, some news about Giovana...

Well, she's still freaking awesome, and she went to church, and she's keeping all the commandments (except for still not married) but sadly she told us this week that she's moving! And she's moving on Tuesday! But she said she wanted to keep going to church in her new ward and that the missionaries will visit her there in her new ward. And I know the missionaries that are there, so I'll get to pass that reference right on over. :)

And we witnessed a miracle this week. The day after we found out Giovana would be moving, we received a reference from the Concepcion South Mission, he's honestly golden. He has a baptismal date for the 12th of December, he said he wouldn't be able to go to church this week, sadly, because he has some crazy test early this week so he said he needs the time to study. We'll have to work on that. But he's way interested, and we're really excited to be able to go and work with him.

Also, this week I really realized that God blesses us for EVERY single good thing we do. Every single one. I've been thinking about the blessings I have seen in the life of Giovana as I've gotten to teach her and learn with her and every time she has decided to follow a commandment, or be brave and ask her boyfriend about getting married, she has been blessed immediately. A frequent mistake of mine on the mission has been searching for instant gratification for my efforts. If I try really hard one day, I want to find a golden investigator that same day. Or if I have been studying well and trying really hard to have the spirit always, I want to hear those people say, yes, I will be baptized in three weeks, and I'll go to church every Sunday and in a year more I'll go to be sealed in the temple. That is what I want to hear. Those are the fruits I wanted to receive from my labors. And I wanted it immediately.

However, teaching Giovana and being able to see her progress so much since we started visiting her, I've been able to understand a lot better that we really are blessed immediately. We really can see the fruits of our labors, and see them immediately. But maybe they're not the fruits we expect to see, so we just left them there. It's like we are working in His vineyard, and He gives us the fruit immediately. But if He gives us grapes and we were looking for apples, we might be missing out on a lot of great grapes that He has blessed us with. I don't know if that really makes sense, but I hope so. Because I was looking really hard and working for those apples, and now I'm looking back and realizing how many grapes He was giving to me, and I didn't realize it. I pray that now, I may be able to recognise the fruit that He is giving me. And that you all can recognize the fruits that He gives you in your lives. We are blessed.

I love you guys a lot! And hope you have a fantastic week! Time to put up Christmas decorations!!! :)

Love,

Elder Robinson