Second week here in Cali!

September 7th, 2015

All is going well here in the mission. Working feels so great! I am loving working here in this new area. It is like nothing I have ever worked in before. I am excited to see what can happen here. I am eating well, but somehow am losing weight. Beats me how that works out. 

It is incredible to me how much God loves each one of us. I am starting to get a little glimps into that through some special experiences that we have had this week. We received a call early in the morning and someone asked us to come and give them a blessing out at the college. They were here visting from out of town. We headed on over and met with this guy named Chris. He was a very unique person, very fragile of feelings I guess you could say. He taught me a great lesson. He said that sometimes he feels that in the church he feels like a number. He feels like the missionaries and memebers just look at him and don't see who he really is. It helped me to do an inward analyzation of myself. It humbled me enough to realize that these people are individuals that our heavenly father know and loves. He is putting so much trust in our hands to effect there lives in a positive way. We are representing Him. All of you that have been through temple carry that same responsabilty to an extent. Remember how much God is trusting in you. 

It is great working here. I forget where I am, often times I feel that I am surely somewhere in Mexico. It feels good to wake up every morning and place that tag on my shirt. How special it becomes when you understand what it feels like to take it off. Know that your prayers do reach me. Especially all of those little nices and nephews.

We got to go to the vineyard and harvest rasins. If you have seen the church video about the spanish branch that worked in the vineyard on Christmas, that is the same vineyard that we worked in. Kind of cool! What an awesome experience getting to serve there! I attached some pictures below.

 I love you all and hope that your lives continue to be blessed. Until next week!

Elder Roberts