August 11, 2014 ~ Another Great week in Petergof!

Yeah I don't really know what to call this email so I'm not going to. I'll just get right to the good stuff this week.  In the neighboring area in the city this week they had an AWESOME youth activity "Mini-mini-mission".  Basically they did everything possible to make a copy of the MTC for all the youth and it was awesome!!  We were there to help and to be MTC teachers!  (But we were only there 1 day).  It lasted 2 days and it was so fun!  They were organized into companionships and they had a new missionary meeting and president and sister childs came to speak and they had investigators to teach and they even had sport time like in the MTC.  It was so much fun, kinda made me miss the MTC.  Really it was just a powerful activity. 

We didn't go the next day cause our awesome branch decided to have another picnic!!  I just really can't really get over how much I love this branch.  We had 8 people at the picnic (our whole branch)  and even though none of our investigators could come, we still had a really awesome time!  I love them!

Then there were some really powerful experiences yesterday in church.  Sacrament meeting was wonderful, we had some guests which literally doubled the attendance.  There was just such a powerful spirit there.  There is something so special about these members here, they are some of the strongest and just always filled with the spirit.

Also we recieved news from our family in uzbekistan (members of our branch) that had to go back a few months ago and get new passports, yesterday they sent the branch president at txt that the dad and the son have recieve their new passports and they are just waiting for the mom and the daughters and they will be able to come back!!  I love them so much and so sad cause they've been gone the whole time I've been back and I haven't seen them.  But hopefully they will come back soon!!!

And had a really great lesson on gospel principles second hour with the new convert (from feb) and his brother who isn't a member.  We had a wonderful lesson on Jesus Christ and I just felt so grateful for our saviour and for all that he has done for us.  These 2 are also from Uz-stan and There was just a really powerful spirit as we were able to testify that Christ really is our saviour and the son of God.  I really felt the truth behind the words and It was another little "holy place" for me.  

Really, it just doesn't get better than Petergof!

Til next week
Elder Robison