Letter #5

Hola Familia!

First of all, I feel so sorry for little Spencer. What a bummer. Has he called and talked to Aunt Krisit about it yet? We all know she too had a problem of falling from relatively low furniture. I want a picture of Spencer with his cast on! (If you print it at a photo kiosk it looks better when it gets here) Speaking of pictures, i got the ones Mom sent. Thanks! They were great and so fun to read!

Stephanie got her Driver's License?!?!?!?! Wow, that is hard to believe. I think it is a double whammy, because I was gone to college and then I came here, and suddenly Steph is licensed to drive? Scary! I'm just teasing. Anyway, it sounds like summer is going well so far. I hope you are having fun. As Carl Vance pointed out in a letter to me recenlty, I will never have a summer vacation again. Oh well...

Pues, we are done with 5 Weeks at the MTC!!!!!!!!!! Only 4 weeks left! Actually, it was four weeks from yesterday! I can't wait to get there, but now I am kinda getting nervice! Oh well though, I just keep doing what I am supposed to be doing and I know that the Lord will bless me. Dad and Mom mentioned something that Brother Odgen had said. I love the thought because it is actually how PMG (Preach My Gospel) and PME (Predicad Mi Evangelio) say to do when people have doubts. Our church is either True or it is not. That is simply how it is. And the truthfullness of our church is all dependent on whether the Book of Mormon is true or isn't. If the Book of Mormon isn't true, then the rest of the Church goes with it, but if it is true, as I personally bear testimony that it is, then we have the restored Gospel of Jesus Christ again on the Earth and it is our duty to tell as many people as will listen about the wonderful blessing that is ours. If you have been thinking about whether or not to try to share the gospel, read the Book of Mormon. As your testimony grows of that wonderful Book, so will your desire to share it with everyone you know. I know that is how I feel, now I just have to learn how to share that in Spanish!!!!!!

In sincerio, the Spanish is coming along. It is amazing to see the Lords hand in all of it here. I have only been studying the language here for 5 weeks and I have learned so much. Oh yeah, before I forget. Our ratio just keeps improving. We have had 5 devotionals so far, and 3 of them have been by Apostles. Thats right, last night Elder Robert D. Hales came and spoke to us all. It was an amazing talk about the light of Christ and of truth and how light has the infinite capactity to dispell darkness. I was really impressed with it. Also, this past Sunday we had some speakers come and talk about the hymns they had composed music for in the Hymbook. I can't remeber their names right now, but the songs they made the music for were: "Our Saviors Love" (I think his name was Crawford Gates) and "Press forward Saints" It was really neat to have them here.

Mom, Steph tells me you haven't sent my package yet, what a relief. I always feel bad because I think of one more thing. I won't add anything else after today, so just go ahead and send it. I would like the Grey shirt and also my blue firecracker race shirt. I just need another shirt to wear to gym and the firecracker one is a good shirt. Also, speaking of gym, i run the track everyday now. I tell you this so that I can now ask for something: You know those little "counters" the ones you hold in your hand and press a little button and it will keep a count for you? They are usually small metalic things. Anyways, if you could find one from walmart or somewhere and send it ASAP it would make my life so much the more enjoyable. I don't think you know how hard it is to keep track of all the laps i do when it takes 10 laps to make a mile. Anyways, thats really all.

Is there anything else you want to hear about?
Time is up.

Love,
Elder Roberts