Elder Connor Robertson Atlanta Georgia North Mission

  Greetings weary Travelers,  I see ye have stumbled across this email again. You have no idea what is in store for you, and neither do I. Let's go on this adventure one more time.   This was another wonderful week. The Christmas Spirit was felt. The ward Christmas party was on Saturday, and I'm still recovering from it. The party was wonderful, and there were a a lot of highlights. We had a lot of people come. From the ward members, our friends, and some recent Converts. The gym was so packed that we had to grab more tables and chairs for everyone. We didn't even sit down because we were running around helping and talking. And eating can't forget that part.  They did a great job focusing on the central message of Christ's birth. It was so fun being able to sing with the Elders. I have the message written on my heart. I will find a way, make Him room, let Him in!   We had a wonderful lesson this week with one of our recent Converts and his family....

  Feliz Navidad!    Yes I am in the Christmas spirit, and yes this was a great week. Now let us jump into it.    One of the things that got me in the Christmas Spirit was the Christmas Music. Who isn't affected by this Jolly Music? Answer, no one. I have been exposed to the music because we are practicing for our performance on Saturday. I don't know how we got roped into singing at our Christmas party, but I am glad that we did. We have been practicing a lost carol called, "The Innkeeper" .  (Iam assuming this is the song he is talking about) If you have never heard of it before than you are in the same boat as myself.  We have practice it twice this week and I felt like I was back in the band room learning how play a song. I was joyful after our first practice. I felt the spirit as we sang about the Baby Boy that came to save us all! Please pray that I don't mess up a wonderful experience for others. (I'm not that confident in my abili...

  Hello all ye people of the Land,  This last week was great. Before I get into the spiritual learning and the run down of my week, I would like to tell a story.  This story takes place on Saturday while we were on exchanges, that is how you know it is going to be a good story. We just finished teaching our friend who I on date. And we're on our way to a baptism for one of the other Elders. On the road to Winder I saw something that I will never forget. I was driving the truck when I saw a hawk. This hawk caught my eye because it flying close to road. In fact it was flying so close that while we were going 60 per hour we hit the hawk with our windshield. It was loud and cracked our windshield. Not to mention it broke our rear view mirror. Thankfully we stayed on the road and are safe. Sadly the hawk was not. We are going to get our windshield fixed soon, but until then we are using duck tape to hold up the mirror.  With that out of the way we can move on to the spiri...

  Hello Y'all,  The week was great. We shall see if I can remember why it is great, but regardless I know that it was great. I hope I can remember so I can tell you, then your week will be great. At least I hope that will happen.  Let me start with the biggest thing first. We had another Mission Tour! It was wonderful for so many reasons. The Missionaries-wonderful. The music-wonderful. The Spirit-wonderful. Elder Schmidt-wonderful. Elder Schmidt was the one who gave the talk about the different names of Christ in General Conference last year.   There were many things that I loved about his message and the messages from President Judd. I hope I can remember what they talked about because it was impactful. Now then, after reviewing my notes. I loved learning about how the Lord is working ahead of us. He is already preparing people to receive the gospel. If we simply look up we shall see that the field is white and ready to harvest. Knowing that The Lord is prepa...

  Hello Everyone,  Well I have said it many times but I'm going to say it again. This week went fast and I can't believe that it is Monday again. This week especially went by fast. Perhaps trios are fun and we have had a great week.  We had our Zone P-day that Monday and it was a lot of fun. Once again we had a Zone Olympics, and I had the Blessing of being on the red team. As you know the red team is always the best team, and we did when. For the first game we did a sack race with some trash bags. I started to hop and I hopped fast but because it was only a trash bag my feet tore through. Thankfully we had thought about this beforehand and made the rule that if our feet go through then we need to have our arms go through the bad too. While I started by hopping I finished sprinting as I wore the trash bag.   The last game we played reminded me of Mario Kart. "How?", you may ask. We tied balloons to our ankles and went around trying to stomp on the other teams ba...

  Hello Everyone,  Sorry for the last few emails being short and not very exciting. It's okay you can admit that these emails have been going down hill. But I am going to change that starting with this email.  Let us begin with the transfer news. Surprisingly Elder Nickerson And I stayed for round two in Ft. Yargo. Something  that wasn't surprising at all is that we got a brand new missionary to join us. Yes that means that I am finishing Elder Nickerson's training while also starting another Missionary's training. Welcome Elder Christensen to the GANM, for now.  I say for now because Elder Christensen is a reassigned Missionary. I have no idea how long he will be with us before he goes to Peru. I love this trio of joy. We all have been getting along very well. I was surprised how well we were getting along. It felt like we had done this before. All three of us are alike. In name and in deed.  The down side to being a trio is that sometimes i...

  Hello everyone,  I have had a great week. Do I remember what happened this week. No! I will say that I had fun on exchanges.  So this past week I went on Exchanges twice. Both times into a Spanish area where I had no idea what was going on. Since I can't speak Spanish I didn't speak in lessons. Which I would say is actually harder because I have to find other ways of staying awake. I was a challenge because I had no idea what was going on, but I made it through all of them without falling asleep.   This past week I reflected a lot about this transfer, and a little further back. And I am grateful that I have learned how to set goals and do better and I'm grateful for the opportunity to better than I once was.  I know that God wants us to progress and be better than we are now. And through Jesus Christ we can be perfect one day I know that and that this life is meant to be a joyous journey. We are not alone as we go through this difficul...

  Jello everyone,  If you can't tell I am hungry while writing this, so I hope I get some food soon.  And it came to pass that this week was once again fun. My memory is still not the best when it comes to what we did this past week.  The week was fun spending time with the district and the zone. Today we drove quite a bit to go see a gorge. It was beautiful with fall trees everywhere. To get to the bottom of the gorge we had to walk down a lot of stairs. I finally know how the dragon warrior felt when he met his old enemy. It was a great time, and saw some great views.  Sorry if I don't have much to say. Maybe I'll just send one of my old email. Let me know if any of my future emails sound familiar.  I love learning. There is so much to learn about this wonderful Gospel. Stories and teaching that I know very well continue to be meaning fun to me. I love when I can learn by the Spirit because I feel my Savior's love all around me. This past Sunday I felt hi...