Hello,
This week has been great. We have a baptism planned for this Saturday that will be Elder Knight and my first baptism here in Cypress. It will be a great day. Lynn is a great man that is a salesman for a big company and is dating a member of the church. We are so excited to be able to see him get baptized and above that I'm stoked because he asked me if I could be the one to baptize him. So this will be a fun week.
I've been studying the missionary chapters in Alma and learning a lot about what I could do better to teach. I hope you are all reading your Book of Mormon and doing the other things that you know that you need to be doing.
I love the mission and the opportunity that I have to serve my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, and invite you to keep feeding your missionaries. They love it.
Love you all,
Elder Rubert
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
16-feb-2010 letter
Hola Familia,
Esta semana hemos visto gran milagros en esta area. We have met so many people this week that it is absolutely crazy. Just yesterday we had a lady that was about to slam the door in our face, and then we said,"Hey! Before you shut that door, there is one more message that we need to tell you." And then we felt like telling her about how she could go on to mormon.org to find out a little bit more about our message. Then she completely flipped a 180. (I think she thought that we were Jehovah's Witnesses for a second) and then she got so excited to talk about when she had gone and visited the Los Angeles Temple because she is crazy about geneological work. Sounds like a couple members of my family! So we talked about that for a couple of minutes and are going to go back and start teaching her this week. It's amazing how strong the spirit tells you sometimes to say things that you wouldn't normally say.
Then other than that the ward here takes amazingly good care of us, actually today one of the members that we teach is going to take us out to a nice steak dinner!!! I'm stoked. I love a good steak dinner as anyone that knows me can tell you. And I've been learning so much from my study of the Book of Mormon and the other standard works, ensigns, Jesus the Christ. They are all good sources of knowledge. And the stake here has a challenge for all to read the book Jesus the Christ this year. And I'm not sure if that was just this stake or a world-wide thing, but I highly encourage you all to read that book. I'm reading it through for the second time and it is one of the best books that I have ever read.
To all the family: I love you all and hope that you all are doing what you need to do to be able to recieve all the blessings that your Father in Heaven wants to give you. Keep reading the scriptures and praying individually and as a family. Love you all.
Ciao,
Elder Rubert
Esta semana hemos visto gran milagros en esta area. We have met so many people this week that it is absolutely crazy. Just yesterday we had a lady that was about to slam the door in our face, and then we said,"Hey! Before you shut that door, there is one more message that we need to tell you." And then we felt like telling her about how she could go on to mormon.org to find out a little bit more about our message. Then she completely flipped a 180. (I think she thought that we were Jehovah's Witnesses for a second) and then she got so excited to talk about when she had gone and visited the Los Angeles Temple because she is crazy about geneological work. Sounds like a couple members of my family! So we talked about that for a couple of minutes and are going to go back and start teaching her this week. It's amazing how strong the spirit tells you sometimes to say things that you wouldn't normally say.
Then other than that the ward here takes amazingly good care of us, actually today one of the members that we teach is going to take us out to a nice steak dinner!!! I'm stoked. I love a good steak dinner as anyone that knows me can tell you. And I've been learning so much from my study of the Book of Mormon and the other standard works, ensigns, Jesus the Christ. They are all good sources of knowledge. And the stake here has a challenge for all to read the book Jesus the Christ this year. And I'm not sure if that was just this stake or a world-wide thing, but I highly encourage you all to read that book. I'm reading it through for the second time and it is one of the best books that I have ever read.
To all the family: I love you all and hope that you all are doing what you need to do to be able to recieve all the blessings that your Father in Heaven wants to give you. Keep reading the scriptures and praying individually and as a family. Love you all.
Ciao,
Elder Rubert
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
09-FEB-2010 Letter
Hola Familia,
Everything here is going great. I am working hard still here in Cypress and seeing the Lord's hand in everything that we do here. The other night Elder Knight and I had an amazing lesson with one of our investigators Lynn. And he is going to be getting baptized on the 27th of this month. It will be amazing. He is always off on business trips for work so we thought that he wasn't progressing, but he has been reading the Book of Mormon like crazy. It's awesome to see his and our prayers answered.
Other than that I know that I'll be staying living with George in Buena Park for at least another six weeks. Not too many changes happened this transfer. A couple big ones are that Elder Horsfall is now my Zone Leader, and Elder Herrera went home. He lives in the Salt Lake area and now that I think about it is probably already home. But we will be having another great transfer and are praying for lots of success and being able to become better servants of the Lord as well.
I hope everything is going fine with you guys. We are having a thrill a second and time is flying so fast that it is kind of scary to tell you the truth. Keep reading your copies of the Book of Mormon and praying as a family and you'll be amazed what you'll find.
Love you all,
Elder Rubert
Everything here is going great. I am working hard still here in Cypress and seeing the Lord's hand in everything that we do here. The other night Elder Knight and I had an amazing lesson with one of our investigators Lynn. And he is going to be getting baptized on the 27th of this month. It will be amazing. He is always off on business trips for work so we thought that he wasn't progressing, but he has been reading the Book of Mormon like crazy. It's awesome to see his and our prayers answered.
Other than that I know that I'll be staying living with George in Buena Park for at least another six weeks. Not too many changes happened this transfer. A couple big ones are that Elder Horsfall is now my Zone Leader, and Elder Herrera went home. He lives in the Salt Lake area and now that I think about it is probably already home. But we will be having another great transfer and are praying for lots of success and being able to become better servants of the Lord as well.
I hope everything is going fine with you guys. We are having a thrill a second and time is flying so fast that it is kind of scary to tell you the truth. Keep reading your copies of the Book of Mormon and praying as a family and you'll be amazed what you'll find.
Love you all,
Elder Rubert
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
02-feb-2009 letter
Hey,
Looks like they are starting to upgrade technology. This is my new e-mail address that you can let people know, benjamen.rubert@myldsmail.net. They just changed the service provider to now I'm basically using gmail. Pretty nice to be able to send and receive pictures and actually be able to keep the pictures and not just delete them right away.
I hope everything is going good for you guys this week and that you are all still doing well in your reading the Book of Mormon as a family. This last week has been really exciting with Elder Knight. Unfortunately Elder Herrera has to go home next Tuesday so today I am his official chauffeur. The mission is going great, and it is crazy to think that it is almost time for transfers again. Another busy week is what we are hoping for.
I love you all and hope you all keep being awesome.
Ciao,
Elder Rubert
Looks like they are starting to upgrade technology. This is my new e-mail address that you can let people know, benjamen.rubert@myldsmail.net. They just changed the service provider to now I'm basically using gmail. Pretty nice to be able to send and receive pictures and actually be able to keep the pictures and not just delete them right away.
I hope everything is going good for you guys this week and that you are all still doing well in your reading the Book of Mormon as a family. This last week has been really exciting with Elder Knight. Unfortunately Elder Herrera has to go home next Tuesday so today I am his official chauffeur. The mission is going great, and it is crazy to think that it is almost time for transfers again. Another busy week is what we are hoping for.
I love you all and hope you all keep being awesome.
Ciao,
Elder Rubert
26-jan-2010 letter
No my address hasn't changed. I'm still living with George in Buena Park. Everything here is going good. This past week has flown by and I can't believe that we are almost at the end of another transfer! But the teaching right now and the work is going amazing and the people here in Cypress (a few of them) are starting to open up to the Gospel.I hope everything is going well. Love ya'll.
Ciao,
Elder Rubert
Ciao,
Elder Rubert
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
19-jan-2010 letter
Hello Everyone,
This week has been awesome. Elder Knight and I have been teaching up a storm and also speaking of storms, the last couple of days we've been tracting in the rain. Oh, how I missed the rain. It was cool. I think it was the first time that I have seen anything actually flowing in Coyote Creek. We just had an amazing stake conference this last sunday that was satelite broadcasted to several stakes in southern California and we got to hear from Bishop Edgley, Sister Matsumori, Elder Holland, and Elder Uchtdorf. It was really sweet. We got to hear a ton of good "get up and go" type of messages as only those speakers can give. Soooooooooooooooooo sweet. This morning we got up way early to wake up some of our recent converts up for seminary. Ugggggggggggh. I forgot what waking up at 5:30 was like. But it was all good, we were able to get them to seminary, now the hard part is they have to start paying attention. For anyone that doesn't know my seminary experience, it reminds me a lot of these boys. I hope everyone is having fun in Florida! Apparently last week Duane, Trina, and the gang were like 5 minutes from my house at Disneyland which is pretty cool. I got some good pictures from them. Included is a picture of our days and I will send a couple of more pictures that are kind of fun.
Love you guys,
Elder Rubert
This week has been awesome. Elder Knight and I have been teaching up a storm and also speaking of storms, the last couple of days we've been tracting in the rain. Oh, how I missed the rain. It was cool. I think it was the first time that I have seen anything actually flowing in Coyote Creek. We just had an amazing stake conference this last sunday that was satelite broadcasted to several stakes in southern California and we got to hear from Bishop Edgley, Sister Matsumori, Elder Holland, and Elder Uchtdorf. It was really sweet. We got to hear a ton of good "get up and go" type of messages as only those speakers can give. Soooooooooooooooooo sweet. This morning we got up way early to wake up some of our recent converts up for seminary. Ugggggggggggh. I forgot what waking up at 5:30 was like. But it was all good, we were able to get them to seminary, now the hard part is they have to start paying attention. For anyone that doesn't know my seminary experience, it reminds me a lot of these boys. I hope everyone is having fun in Florida! Apparently last week Duane, Trina, and the gang were like 5 minutes from my house at Disneyland which is pretty cool. I got some good pictures from them. Included is a picture of our days and I will send a couple of more pictures that are kind of fun.
Love you guys,
Elder Rubert
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
12-JAN-2010 letter
Well this last week has been awesome. We have been teaching a couple of people for a while now and they are progressing more and more each time that we see them. Thanks for the e-mail, and that picture is from the reflections of christ exhibit that was here. You got the other picture of the bike right! Pretty sweet! I was stoked when Brother walker asked me if I wanted a picture sitting on it. I couldn't say no to something like that. I love the people here and the ward right now is doing awesome. George, the member that we live with, is looking at the blog for things written about him so I am going to say that he made some pretty killer waffles this morning. We have stake conference coming up this next weekend so that should be a little different and I hope that there will be an amazing talk given. I am so stoked to be here in SoCal with Elder Knight just serving the people.
Love you all.
Ciao, Elder Rubert
P.S. and yesterday I tried making that Jell-O cake that says "goof-proof" on it and we are going to try it today. I hope that I didn't mess it up?!
Note: I will try and get Ben's pictures scanned into the blog this week.
Love you all.
Ciao, Elder Rubert
P.S. and yesterday I tried making that Jell-O cake that says "goof-proof" on it and we are going to try it today. I hope that I didn't mess it up?!
Note: I will try and get Ben's pictures scanned into the blog this week.
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