Gex, Week 7

Hello :)

Monday I got my new companion, Sister L. She is super cool. Like super cool. Like I think we are going to be awesome together. She is a convert of three and a half years, from Ohio,she went to BYU, and she is 20 and so cool. She is only in her third transfer but it has already been really great this past week with her. We may not understand everything people say, but we try and I think some miracles are going to happen. I expect miracles to happen! I really love Sister L already though and we get along so well. I'm bummed we only have five weeks left this transfer! Anyway, it rained a lot this week, and August is notorious for vacation month here so there is like no one home or on the streets. Literally. We would contact maybe five people in an hour if we were lucky. And a lot of the members are gone en vacance so we had a hard time meeting up with them too.

Did I tell you we only have one car now? It is very challenging with two companionship's because we have places to go at different times and we have limited miles to cover a large sector. It's been challenging and frustrating at times, but we are trying to make it work the best we can.

We met with T on Thursday night for a short bit. We introduced the Gospel of Jesus Christ.  We decided we are going to work on is having him talk more. I have been told that the investigator doesn’t get converted when the missionaries talk but through the spirit and when they have the opportunity to talk. So we set up another lesson for Saturday and had a member ready to go with us to talk about the Gospel, BUT he wasn’t there. His phone went straight to voicemail. And today, Monday, it is still going to voicemail. So we don’t know where T is. I am thinking I might just go and wait by his door until something happens. Just kidding. But really. We don’t know where he is! I hope he is okay.

E is doing okay. We really wanted to finally teach her. We keep doing service for her, but we want to teach her. So we went and she talked to us about this friend she has who she wants us to visit. Score! Then I was like E, what exactly do you know from the missionaries you've met before? Then she starts talking about a thief that robbed her neighbor. We tried to talk about faith but that didn’t work really either because then she started to teach us how to count in French and the alphabet and the calendar stuff. Which we learned like in the MTC. Then when we tried to leave she had us make her bed for her... So... we've concluded that the next lesson we need to re-establish what exactly we are here for and maybe we can go from there. But we got a referral! :)

Friday I went to the Bleu's conference! All the missionaries who came in with me had a little conference; president Talked about faith which I loved. My faith has gotten so much stronger since being here. Without exercising faith we can’t grow. Everyone: have faith. Have faith in the Lord and in this work. We don’t know a lot. We don’t understand why things happen the way they do, but when we have faith, we don’t need to know why. We trust in Him and continue to endure. I CANT WAIT FOR ETERNAL LIFE. It was fun seeing all my old MTC buddies again.

Anyway, be prepared next week for an email of miracles. I love you all so much. Keep writing me letters. I love it! And I love you :)

Love, Sister Roberts