September 1, 2014 ~ Busy Busy!

This week has been so awesome!!  We have been so busy everyday and it's so great!  So many awesome people that we've been meeting and working with!  It kinda gives me flashbacks to my awesome first transfer in Petr when we almost never had dinner cause there just wasn't time for it we were so busy!  Thats kinda how it was this week, we had so many meetings set up that we don't usually have time to come home for dinner!!  I love it so much!  I've never been so glad to be hungry!  (but mom don't worry there are street vendors all over the place so we usually get something on the go).  

We had a really awesome meeting with our main investigator this week.  He has been an investigator for probably almost 2 years and has had a ton on baptisimal dates and has only been to church 4 times.  Well yesterday was number 5!!  It was so awesome!  We met him in the metro and went with him and he stayed for 2 hours!  We were so excited!  That was probably actually one of the best moment of the week when we got off the escalator and saw him walking towards us I was just so happy!  It was like "This is real!  He's actually coming with us this week!!"  

Earlier in the week we had a great meeting with him with a former temple president who is in ur ward and that was really good.  it kinda shook him up a little bit, but it was really good for him and made him think a little more seriously about what all of this means and how imortant it is.  Then the next day we just met with him in a cafe and talked with him and it was really such a cool spiritual meeting.  With him though it really is one of those situations where you would love to take away free agency from him cause he knows what's right, he's just too lazy to do it!  So frustrating sometimes, but he is so great.

Also this week I had my first meeting with an African!  That was pretty exciting haha.  He seemed so sincere and wanting to know the truth and was loving everything that we said and just couldn't wait to get a Book f Mormon that we planned to give him the next lesson.  We had a return lesson set up and a member all ready to come with us and then he called and cancelled.  Said he still really wanted to meet but couldn't.  He's being super flaky now and just keeps telling us he'll call like in a hour but never does.  Super disappointing cause he seemed so genuinly interested and our meeting was super awesome!

We had some other really cool meetings with awesome people this week, but that's all for now.  Basically everything is just awesome here and I am loving every minute!

Also in the hermitage we met a huge group of americans... I am going to really miss Russians haha.  All the Americans were super loud and annoying.  But I like them cause they make me laugh whenever they tell me I have good English.  Haha I guess I also wouldn't be expecting Americans to be the ones standing at the front door or one of the most famous Russian musems telling me to take my coat and backpack off.

Have a great week and do some missionary work!!

Elder Robison