27-jun-201 letter

Hola,

This week went great. We had lots of chances to go and teach. More than I thought that we were going to be able to get. And then had a bunch of doctor appointments as well. Yesterday we had a departing fireside for the first time and it went amazingly well. We were able to invite all of our recent converts from our entire mission and then bear testimony to the congregation of them and the missionaries that brought their investigators. It was amazing. Then they had us sing a departing song which actually turned our pretty well. Lucky for us we had a lot of choir people in our group of departing missionaries. This morning we swung by Hno. Villalobo's house to take pictures with him and in his tree-house which was really good. I'm excited that tonight we have President's dinner that is going to be great and then tomorrow I'll see you all at the airport. Yesterday we had a miracle drop into our laps as well. We were in church and nobody came that we had invited but we kept getting a phonecall from a restricted number. I got up during gospel principles class and answered when they called again and it was a lady named Teresa Arias. She had just come across a pass-a-long card that Elders Viecco and Wayman had dropped off at their house about four months ago and wanted us to stop by. We went by and had an amazing first lesson where the spirit had a chance to bear testimony so that they could all know that the message is true. They are coming to church this next week and will be baptized in a couple. I couldn't have asked for a better last day of proselyting in the area. Well I love you all. I know that my Savior lives, He is the Holy One of Israel. Through his infinite atonement we can all one day receive the forgiveness that we all seek and acheive our full potential as sons and daughters of God. I love this missionary work and am excited to continue on with it working with the missionaries back home. I love you all once again.

Ciao,

Elder Rubert

20-JUN-2011 Letter

Hello,

This last week has been awesome. Elder Viecco and I were able to start teaching a new family. It is a mom and a dad and they have a bunch of teenage and grown up kids. Then last night we started teaching a golden investigator that was a referral from the relief society president in the Passons Ward. We are seeing a bunch of success as is normal of the last week and a half of a transfer. I'm excited that we get to go to the temple with President tomorrow and then we have interviews and meetings most of the week. We have some pretty solid teaching appointments set up too that will be great. The Elder's Quorum president is having a BBQ at his house today that he invited us to. I'm stoked for some BBQ. It's been a loooong time. (Since I was in Cypress I think.) Well, everything is going great and I'm excited to see what the Lord will do to bless us this week. I love you all,

Ciao,

Elder Rubert

13-JUN-letter

Hello everyone!

Well, this week was great. We just had stake conference yesterday which was really well done. They had the mission and temple presidents speak, and they also had some reactivated people share there stories and then one missionary gave his farewell talk. It was good and really spiritually uplifting. But as for the work, Elder Viecco and I keep truckin' along. We had lots of chances to teach the members this week to get them stoked for stake conference, but none of them came. But the good thing was that most there were a lot of investigators that did come. The Luna family had gone out of town for the week so we weren't able to teach them at all. We will have a great lesson with them tonight though and we'll see how they're progressing. It was fun to see that Corbett finally got transferred out of his first area and is going to see the funs of transfers! I love you all.

Ciao,

Elder Rubert

06-jun-2011 letter

Hola Todos,

This last week has been great. We had a chance to have a few choice adventures with the Elders that we live with. Also! This week we have been able to contact again the Luna familia. They are doing very good. We are meeting with them a few times a week and as soon as the daughters get out of school we will be able to teach the whole family a lot more often. We also have some other investigators that are progressing and the district is looking great. Thanks for getting everything figured out with school Mom. I am excited for this next week and the district meeting that I get to give. It's about how to begin teaching and it is basically going over how to make a good first impression and to be nice and make people love you. For some reason I have been luck with that one. I don't have very much voice inflection and hearing me give a talk is about as fun as listening to Bruce R. McConkie talk about radiator on a car. I'm still working on that, but there's only so much progress I can make I guess. We are teaching the english class to the mesa family still and they are progressing very well. I love the people here and am excited for all the time I have to be here. I love you all as well.

Ciao,

Elder Rubert

30-MAY-2011 Letter

Hello Family!

This week we have had a great time and we have been working really hard. We had leadership trainings this last week on top of a bunch of doctor appointments so we were running all over the place and still the missionary work. Because today is memorial day and all of the libraries are closed I don't have a lot of time to write. But everything is going great. This next week should be a lot more productive without all of the meetings. It's good to hear that everyone is doing well. Congratulations to Emily and Jared on the wedding. I'm stoked to meet the new family. Love you all,

Ciao,
Elder Rubert

16-MAY-2011 Letter

Hello,

This week was exciting. We had a good end to the transfer and on saturday I received my last transfer call. I found out that I'll be staying here with Elder Viecco in the Rio Hondo ward and that is going to be a blast. There were a lot of changes in the mission and we are going to see a lot of success in the next transfer. This week I also got to be a taxi driver and drive people to a lot of doctor appointments all over the mission. Good thing I've been here long enough to know how to get to all these places. We are still working with a couple of families and making sure that we are getting the members involved in the work. I love you all and hope you all have a great week.

Ciao,

Elder Rubert

09-MAY-2011 Letter

Hola Todos,
It was great to be able to talk to the family yesterday, and that makes it kind of hard to write today because I feel like I already said everything but here I go. This week we had a great week. We were finally able to get Elder Viecco in for his MRI and we will be going to the doctor tomorrow morning to figure out all of the results. On Friday we had our Multi-Zone conference and were able to go over some of the new mtc curriculum again and also to review a little about what Elder Perry talked about when he came last week. We've had some great luck finding as well. We went to go and visit one of the members of our ward this week that is less-active who we hadn't met yet and his brother was really interested in learning so we started teaching him. We also received a referral the other day from Elders Zuzunaga and Gillenwater (the elders we live with) for a family that is from Columbia. They have lot of potential and are a really great family. Then we had mother's day at church which went really well with a combined choir from the primary all the way to the high priests. Then, of course, we all got to call home which was great. We are going to have a really fast week this next week stock full of meetings and appointments so that should be a fun end to the transfer. Next week we'll be starting the first week of the next transfer. Well. That's about it. Love you all,
Ciao,
Elder Rubert