Here in the Office

May 30, 2015

Hey everyone, Elder Roberts! This has been a really interesting couple of days. First off, I am sending my email today because P day at the office is on saturday. I took a bunch of photos this last week of all the people that I left behind. It is always hard to have to pick up everything and move. I have already had 4 areas in my short 10 months here in the mission, which is something that is quite rare. I really have got to see a lot of different areas and have a ton of incredible expieriences. 

A cool expierience that I had was when I got to got out and work with the Assistant to the President, Elder Elton. We were out walking in the street when a lady called us to stop for a second. We went over to here and she asked us ¨¿es posible a ver mi esposo que morio otravez?¨ or, Is it possible for me to see my husband that passed away again? How incredible is it that God delivers these people into our hands. How does God give us such great responsiblity as humans? All of the organization and administration of the church is on the shoulders of the prophet, just a man. How is it that we are given this huge responsiblity to help others obtain the salvation? I have learned that God has a lot of paitence, I mean a lot. But he really does love us and has trusted us with this great work. Luckily I know the answer to the question that that women asked us. Luckily I have been blessed with the spirit to guide and direct me. Luckily I have been blessed with this great gospel. 

I truly am just blow away the more and more I think about how small we really are, yet the grand potential that each one of us has. I love all of you. You are all truly incredible. Thank you for your examples and your constant love for me. My knee has been improving a little bit, and know that I can truly feel your prayers. Have an incredilbe week! 

Elder Roberts

I tagged some pictures with a couple of my friends and members from my old area. The young family that is sitting on the couch with me is Carlos, who was baptized today I hope. 

Updates From Here in Peru

May 25, 2015

Hey everyone, Elder Roberts here. Hope that everyone had a great mormorial weekend! Everything down here has been going great!

This week we have the baptism of Carlos, but because of the plan of God I am not going to be here for it. I have been struggling with my knee again. I am getting changed to go to the office for 2 and half weeks to see if reducing the walking can help it to cool down. 

Enough about that. But as I have continued writing all of you I have realized more and more how much all of you know. It really blows my mind to think about it. There is so much that all of us learn here in this life, but really at the same time it is so finite in the perspective of God. I love getting to learn line upon line, precept for precept. It truly is the way of God. In this way, we can truly learn and enjoy every part of the process of becoming like God. Every time I take a step forward, I realize how much farther there is to go, but that is just motivation! How amazing is it, each phase of our lives. Enjoy every single moment, because I have seen in my little time that I have that if you don´t enjoy the moment, your not going to enjoy the end result either. There is a path specifically set for each one of us. Now we just need to find it and let God lead us along the way. 

Love you all and thank you for all of your love and support. The only picture that I have is of this huge pancake that I made. It was bigger then my hand. Have a great week!

Elder Roberts

Hey everyone!

May 18, 2015

Well I will start out this letter by giving a big thanks to everyone that wrote me this week. It is always great to open up the emails and see that people still remember you! hahah. 

Here it has been a good week, enjoying all of the little moments that bring the happiness. Waiting in church and watching your investigators walk in just on time, for example. It really is something that is incredible. I thought that the mission was something that I would do to serve God and pay him back for all that he has given me. I now realize how completly wrong I was. I have seen now that it is actually one of the biggest blessings i have ever recieved. 

It is absolutly incredible how much God loves us. He gave his Son, a sacrifice that none of us could ever imagine, to bring to pass our salvation. There was no other way. Without this sacrifice, we would be completly damned without any way of finding salvation. But God did it, He gave us his Son. 

Sometimes in our life there are sacrifices that need to be made to reach our divine potential. There are many good things, many things that are important, but very few things that are truly necessary for our salvation. Remembering this helps me to work when I am tired, to be obedient when the trials come, and repent when I mess up. Always remember your true priorities, and make sure that you complete the necessary steps for this goal before any other want or desire that you may have. 

I tagged some photos of me enjoying a grenade as they call it here. This things is bigger then my two fists put together! It cleans out your insides very well too as I came to learn. Also enoying some banana pancakes. 

Love you all and hope that you can all remember what are your true priorities!

Elder Roberts

Hey Everyone

May 11, 2015

It was great to get to talk to the family yesterday! Seeing all of you was really an awesome expierience. It is crazy how fast the time goes by! all of the little kids are so big!

We are working with an investigator here and his name is Carlos. He is about 30 and his wife is a less active. He has seen how happy all of his wife's family is and really has been searching for that in his life. He has always been pretty quiet and reserved. We gave him the book of mormon and he prayed and asked God if it was true. It is strange, he has recieved his answer in a way that is different then many of the investigators that I have worked with. He hasn´t got his answer as a difinitive yes or no. He has got to see his answer through daily studying and watching his nature and character change. This last sunday, they had plans to travel down south to see there family, but instead of leaving early in the morning, they changed there plans so that they could be here in the sacrament meeting. 

I feel that this has a lesson that all of us can learn. Many times we forget that the power of the gospel is written clearly in the Book of Mormon. It brings conversion with the continued reading of it every day in our lives. It isn´t a night to day change that is brought to pass, but an everyday process of putting on our daily spirtual armor or adding a ring in our spiritual ladder. 

I love you all and am so blessed to have such an incredible support system of friends and family. Thanks to all of you who write to me by email and written letters through the mail, they mean a lot. I have recieved a ton of support from the ward in Dammeron Valley and would like to thank all of you! Have a great week!

Elder Roberts 

Mother's Day call home (taken at Jill's)

Hey Everyone!

May 5, 2015

How is everyone doing? Aweful quiet in my inbox. Hopefully everyone is doing good and having fun! Happy Birthday to Jeff and Sadie! Hope that you guys both had a great birthday! 

This last week we had changes. They combined my area with another, so I had to move all of my things to the other house. My old companion went to Ayacucho, and I am still here in San Juan, or Lima. I am now with Elder Salgado, from Chili. He is really cool and I can´t wait to work with him here. I have to learn all of this area and lead my old area right now, along with being the district leader. Elder Salgado was only in this area a week before I came, so he doesn´t know all of the people here yet very well. It is going to be a lot of work this change, but I know that God will help and bless me here. 

I also got to have interchange with my old companion from the MTC, Elder Seguin from Canada, this last week. That was super awesome to get to talk with him about all that has happened in our missions. It is crazy to see the difference and how much each one of us have changed. I remember when I started my mission, I said that he was super crazy and that he drove me nuts, but now I absolutly love the guy. Crazy how we change here in the mission. 

I was studying this morning and I started reading into the Christlike attribute of virtue. When Christ was touched by the women in the street, he says that virute was taken from him. The wording in this verse seems very interesting to me. When we sin, we have to repent. How is it that we recieve the forgiveness of these sins? It is that we are restored because of the suffering of Christ and then restored through the endless light that He radiates. It is throught this constant light that the scars of our old wounds can be healed. It is through this light that we can become truly converted. The light of the savour is such a great blessing that we are allowed to have. The virtue is when we contain a great abundance of this light through viruous living and also through means of repentance. 

Thought I would share that little thought with you. Hopefully the spirit will touch your hearts a little as it did mine as I was thinking of this trait. I love to hear from you all, so write me when you can. I love you all and hope that all is going great!

Elder Roberts