Happy new years again!!! Today is old new years, and yes there are apparently some people who do celebrate it. Anyways I have no time to waste on nonsense, this week was incredible!!! SO much happeneing!!! First with the bad news, the super cool guy who we were helping to quit smoking asked us for money this week to pay off his debts and got super unhappy when we wouldn't give him any. Too bad cause he was super cool. He told us to not ever call him again...:/ but to make up for that, the lord double blessed us this week!
Our investigators are doing amazing! One of them is finally able to live the word of wisdom, and he's doing it all on his own. He's taken a long time cause he's wanted to kinda ween himself off of alcohol. He's not a drunk usually just like a can of beer a day or something, but we did find out this week that every single day for 7 years he has had some sort of alcoholic drink. So this has been a really huge accomplishment for him this week. And he is so cool!! He loves to have gospel discussions and he really is so converted and he's not even a member!! He's awesome!
Also 2 of my favorite people in all of Russia we have met with almost every single day this week. I talked about them last week, the woman who came to church for the first time last week and her almost husband who was a super less active member. Anyways they are incredible and 2 of the most humble poeple I have ever met in my entire life. I have never met anyone more ready that this woman - she has so much faith its incredible. They are both progressing along really well. I will remember them forever and their examples of humility. Really incredible.
I really liked a story that my companion shared in his talk in sacrament meeting yesterday. When he was seving in the city they were walking down the street and the side walk was all torn up and it was just like a giant pit and the only thing guarding it was like a little caution tape. They looked a little past the pit and saw a girl walking towards them and heading right into it. Then they realized she was walking with a white stick and she was blind. They ran to try and stop her, but not in time and she fell into the pit and got pretty hurt. He jumped down and tried to pull her out and the whole time she was asking "what's happening?". He related that to missionary work and what we do here. That there are people all around us who are spiritually blind and fall into spiritual pits and get seriously hurt. But since they are blind, they don't know what is happening, all they know is that they are hurt. And that's why we are here. To help these people go around these pits and keep them from getting hurt or pull them out and help them know how they can get be healed from their spiritual injuries. Obviously healing only comes from the atonement. Also I really love what he tells our investigators and members.
When we are hurt and we go to the doctor, we all sit there on the edge of our seats and are willing to do anything that he tells us to do in order for the pain to go away or fix whatever is wrong. So why do we not do that with the commandments. The commandments are the "great physician'" perscriptions for what we need to do to stay healthy. Why then do we not follow the commantments with as much dilligance as we follow doctors perscriptions? I'm just learning so much, I love it!!!
Have a great week!!
Elder Robison
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