January 1, 2013

Ok so today is supposed to be our pday but since we leave tomorrow morning we have meetings all day today so I only have this time to write. This week has gone by so quickly and I hate it! I love these missionaries so much and I am going to miss them all so much! I cried a lot yesterday and I know I will cry a lot today and tomorrow too. last night we stayed up till midnight but we had to be in our halls upstairs and my companions went to bed on time so I yelled happy new years at midnight, woke them up and then went to bed (: they love me. tell Dallin that he wouldn’t have staph infection on his face if he would stop making out with his teammates...duh).

Last night we spent it in the presidents apartment baring testimony and drinking bubbly. president walker stood up at the end and told us that he felt strongly impressed that we had all known each other in the pre mortal life and we were all great friends there and we were all so excited to come down here and go on our missions so that we could see each other again. it was so powerful and I know it is true because I have felt the same way since I have been here. I have to get up at five tomorrow morning and since the most packing I have done is...oh wait none! So I am pretty sure I won’t sleep tonight and I will just be packing all night.

Since there are ten of us going to the Scotland/Ireland mission they rented a coach bus that will drive us there tomorrow which means I get to lay out and sleep all three and a half hours of the ride! And it will be just me and the guys which I am looking forward to. when we get to the mission home we put all our luggage down then drive an hour or so to Glasgow where we will hike Pratt’s Hill and then at the top we will individually dedicate our missions to the Lord. It is a tradition that all the missionaries do there because it is what the Pratt guy did when he came here and he promised the lord that if he worked his hardest then he wanted 200 baptisms and by the end of that time he had gotten exactly 200 baptisms.

I thought I wasn’t completely prepared to go out into the field but we watched a devotional by elder Bednar on Sunday that was so powerful. He basically said that we know enough and that we can do this! I hope my trainer will learn to love me...and I her. So I love England...like a lot. Like I am planning on moving here after my mission. This is definitely where I want to be. so much church history is here and it is so old school everyone and beautiful and it rains all the time.

We taught our last investigator yesterday and he gave the prayer at the end but he prayed as our teacher and not the investigator and he talked about each of us sisters in the prayer and it was so spiritual and powerful and I was bawling! I can’t believe I really start tomorrow....this is the real deal....I CANT WAIT! I know I was foreordained for this mission and to be here with these missionaries and I know that there are people in Scotland and Ireland that have been prepared for me to teach them the gospel. My purpose is to invite others to come unto Christ through the restored gospel and I can’t wait to share this joy and love with everyone I see.

I didn’t get to Skype with Brax and Britta and all of them for very long but it was good. Brax showed me his gun and I got a dance from Eldon and a fist bump from Adalee so all is good! You guys will have to tell me when you find out what Tiffany is having.

I never want to go home. This feeling I have all the time and the love I have for random people is amazing! I feel the spirit all the time and so strongly that it is actually exhausting!! I have never been so tired or happy in my life before. These next 18 months will shape the rest of my life and I am so happy that Heavenly Father was patient with me and answered my prayers so strongly that I knew I needed to serve.

When I get to the mission home I get to email you guys again so I will email you tomorrow and let you know where I am assigned and what my new address is.

I love you all so much!

Sister Robertson