One Great Week!

Email from today:
    The baptism is on for the Saturday! We are really trying to keep in contact with her all week! I am again running out of time so I will again write you a letter! Sorry! I am just so dang irresistible that I have to write a million emails every Monday morning!
Keep in touch!
Love Y'all!
 Elder Cade Joseph Robinson

I'm not going to complain much about the short emails, though, since we all got a nice letter this week (including Oreo, the dog!). Here is the letter:

10/21/13
Mom,
     It sounds like everyone is doing well! And I have already started seeing more people write me HaHa. And sorry I wasn't able to email you! We were told by President Batt to spend some time looking through the Church websites in Zone Conference. Speaking of which it was great. Pres. Batt and Sis Batt are awesome along with the District leaders, Zone leaders and Assistants to the President! I have learned so much so far and I am only a little over 1/12th of the way done! It's crazy to have come this far in this short time. It kind of scares me...What will I be like when I'm done? And what scares me even more is wondering how slacking I was before and how much further I have to go!
     We have seen so many miracles while I have been out here. It has been crazy! I won't even attempt to write them down because it will do none of them any justice! But it is definitely been a testimony builder for sure!
     So I haven't met Jen's nephew yet. That's kind of on the opposite corner of the mission. Maybe I will eventually. And I have not received the letters from her Achievement days yet. But  am looking forward to them!
     So, yep I have dropped some weight. But it is good so far. One of the Elders in my district keeps ragging on me to walk on the BYUs team.  He was a center there and says their team could use me. It sounds pretty enticing, but I'm not quite convinced yet.
     Anyways, all is good here!
Love ya!
Elder Cade Joseph Robinson
P.S. If it is convenient, maybe you could send my gray suit?

Good week!

My email yesterday consisted of this: "Mom, I just printed your email, but I ran out of time to write you so I will just write a letter for you later today. Elder Cade Joseph Robinson". Hmmm. Good thing that he had written the family a letter earlier this week!

Sister Cook sent some pictures of when she had the boys over for dinner on Saturday. It was Elder Sobczak's birthday! How fun is she in putting this party together?!

Here is the letter from 10/14:

Dear Fam,
     So you know quite a bit about this past week already because of Sister Cook, I'm assuming. She is so great! Along with so many other people here. I can hardly wait for you to meet some of these people when you come to pick me up. Like Brother Riffey. He is the High Priest Group Leader. He is always looking out for us and takes us out to lunch every Tuesday. And so many others like him. I would love for you to meet the Pixlers as well!
     Well, today seems to be going pretty good. If the rest of the week goes like today, it will be pretty good. How is school going for the kids? How is the football team doing? Anything new at home?
     Like I was saying, in Farmington this week the one kid was the QB for Madison, another was a halfback and was built like no other. So the three of us got along great! I really liked the other guy as well, but he just didn't play football.
     How is the rest of the family doing? I haven't heard from anyone except grandma and grandpa and Rochelle. How are Colton and Brooklyn? Rochelle said they are getting married in January now? Tell that turd to write me! Ask Jim and Jen where their nephew is serving. have Craigy and grandpa gone hunting yet? How are Craigy's ribs?
    Riss, where the crap is my CTR ring? HaHa! I just got back from the trading post here and the Navajo jewelry is beautiful! Their culture is so interesting! The second counselor in our Bishopric is Navajo. His name is Brother Largo. He is way cool! He was a professional team roper before he became active. They made us real Navajo tacos the other day. It was awesome! But with all the great food we get here I'm down to 270 lbs.
    Anyways, write back soon!
Love you guys!
Elder Cade Joseph Robinson

Time in Farmington

On Tuesday last week, Sister Cook texted me to let me know that Elder's Robinson and Sobczak were headed to Farmington to the mission home for a few days. Elder Sobczak was diagnosed with pneumonia and needed some time to recuperate. They did make it Farmington and were back in Cortez by Friday. We wish Elder Sobczak well!

Sister Cook delivered our conference package to Cade and kindly sent us a picture!

First is the letter dated 10/8/13:
Dear Fam,
   So, as you could expect from my previous email, last week royally sucked. I'm hoping this week will be a ton better though, because we have a service project for everyday. Yesterday was pretty nice but only because we spent it with the other Elders throwing tomahawks and knives at a member's house. After throwing we went to dinner which was really good. We then went and loaded, moved, then unloaded 80 bales of hay for a member which was really relaxing in all reality. The member we did it for is so cool. He raises donkeys, mules and horses, and is really into archery so we get along great.
    So as for the Pixlers, they keep getting set back because the dad (who is actually baptizing his wife and son) works in Alaska for 2 weeks on and 2 weeks off and because they are hurting for money he put in for a week over and won't be home until the weekend of the 26th.
    Steve moved back home from the nursing home and so we had to turn him over to the Elders in the 1st Ward.
    Other than that we have been working with a ton of less active members. Some seem to be coming
along really well and some are just straight up lazy!
    Anyway, I'll just keep tucking my head down and plowing through. Thanks for the awesome packages and letters! Keep them coming!
     Love you guys !
Elder Cade Joseph Robinson
BTW: I have gotten a haircut since that last picture.


Here is the email from Monday:
Mom,

Did you get my letter from last week? I'll send another one today, so i can be more in depth with you guys. Farmington was pretty fun the Elders there were so awesome! Elder S. says he is feeling better but he isnt acting like it. We are trying to make up for all the work we missed last week and quite frankly I feel like a chicken running around with his head cut off. I am so lost in what we missed aand what we are trying to accomplish. Tell Sam that that is hilarious, and tell Caleb to just have fun with this year. And also tell Caleb to involve the Lord in that decision, it is right for some people to wait and it is also right for some people to go right away. I will go home and write a letter with some more details!

Love You Guys!

Elder Cade Joseph Robinson

Conference Week

We finally got some pictures! It looks as if Cortez is beautiful!

Hey Mom,

 We actually watched all 5 sessions at a church building here in town. The conference Package was great! That's awesome about the moose! this week we have a service project scheduled for every day starting tonight at 6 we are going to help load and unload 80 bales of hay I'm super excited! My comp on the other hand is not, we had a pretty big fight this week and it ended up going nowhere. I was hoping one of us was going to get transferred this week but we aren't but Elder Rich who has helped me out a ton is! it is a bummer but hopefully things get better! Tell Sam congratulations on being a perfect loser and the other thing.

Love Y'all

Elder Cade Joseph Robinson

Super Happy

We actually have 2 letters to post this week. We got an email today and also a letter today that was wrote last week and just got to us. Enjoy!

Mom,

The weather has dried up quite a bit this week. We aren't really teaching anyone new, I sent a letter telling you more about our investigators. We did go to the temple this morning. It was awesome! I talked with President and Sister Batt for quite a while, along with Elder Bowman. This past week I went on exchanges with our DL Elder Rich and he is so awesome. Him and I get along way better than Elder Sobczak and I but its ok. I am starting to chisel away at him soon enough we will be having loads of fun!

Love you guys!

Elder Cade Joseph Robinson

Here is the letter that we received today:

9/23/13
Dear Fam,
     Since I was cut short on email time, I thought I would write you.
     It has been really weird down here weather-wise. There is a thunderstorm like once a day. And the rain is awesome! But it could be a completely clear day then about 3 o'clock rolls around and it starts again.
     I don't know if I've told you about the other Elders that we live with. Their names are Elder Rich and Elder Taylor. Elder Rich is really cool. He reminds me a lot of Jaxon. He is from Liberty, UT. he is the district leader and one of a few Spanish speaking Elders in this mission. Elder Taylor is from Missouri, but he has like no accent. he has been out for 8 months and Rich has been out 18.
     Elder Sobchak has been out 8 months. I am his 4th companion and his 2nd trainee. He has served here for 2 months and the rest of his time he has served in Blanding, UT. He speaks highly of Blanding and hopes I will serve there some time as well.
     As far as investigators go, you know quite a bit about the Pixlers. They are awesome, though the Adversary is working on them pretty hard right now. But they are holding strong. I told you about Tyler Willbanks today (who seems so golden I literally thought he was a member messing with us!). But I haven't told you about Steve Jenkins. Steve basically found us. We put on a little sacrament service at a nursing home, and as we were going to get people to come, Steve stopped us and said "You're Mormons, ain't ya?" We said yes and continued to talk to him and eventually convinced him to let us come visit him on the following Thursday. That Thursday we taught him the first lesson. And we could definitely feel the Spirit. He told us he liked what he heard and to come back, so we did on Sunday (yesterday) where we taught him the second lesson. he then opened up to us saying he was a Pentecostal minister, but he no longer believed that religion. So on Thursday, we are going to visit him again. Steve is early to mid 60's I'd say and he is completely mobile and fully functioning. he just checked himself in because he has a bad heart. But, lately he is doing fine.
    I just finished writing Becca back. But other than Becca I've only heard from Brittney Harman and Sariah Hunt. That's cool about Sariah's mission call! Bernie's uncle is actually the mission President over there! Which is really funny because he was just waiting for someone from Twin to get called over there!
    Tell Craig that Wyatt, Colton, Ryan, Grandpa, him and I could have filled all our tags within one herd of deer I saw on Tuesday and Saturday. And all of them were 4x4 or bigger! The deer are monsters down here and they are everywhere!
     Anyways, love y'all. Let me know what is going on up there!
Elder Cade Joseph Robinson
   

Busy Missionary!

We got a nice surprise this week in the form of a sweet sister in Cortez! We got a picture text on Monday night with some pictures of Elder Robinson and his companion. Not only that, but we got to learn a little more about the area and the people of Cortez (more than our one paragraph letters!).

Here is this week's letter:

The Cooks and Pixlers are great though we are going to have to push the baptism back a week now because they couldnt make it to church yesterday. You may just have to keep the elders there updated on me I'm running out of time and I dont have their emails on me. Everyone in the ward here is really catching the spirit of missionary work and that's what we are shooting for. The Cooks may have a new investigator for us which will be cool because we don't have to many most of the work we are doing is reactivation into the church. There are a ton of less/in-active people and we visit alot of them but it is great. We were tracting on Wednesday and found a guy who seems golden, he said that he has been hoping to run into missionaries and that his family came across with Brigham Young and he didnt know how they fell away. Anyways, can you send some Pickles seasoning down here that would be great. We have been getting a ton of rain down here and it is cold it has been hanging around 50 degrees the past couple of days but no complaints! I am having trouble sending pics but ill really try to figure it out next week.

Love Ya

Elder Cade Joseph Robinson

 

He desperately wants some letters! His apartment address is:

219 W Montezuma Ave, Apt. A

Cortez, CO  81321

 

or email address:

cade.robinson@myldsmail.net

 

Please send packages to the mission office, not his apartment.

400 W Apache

Farmington, NM  87401

In The Field!

As you may have noticed, we have had a small hiatus from this blog. Elder Robinson returned home for two weeks for a unique set of circumstances. While home, he was released as a missionary, but knew that he would be returning to the mission field within 2 weeks. He continued to live by mission rules and returned to the field on September 9, 2013.

This is a picture of the Elders from his MTC district.

This a picture of Elder Sobczack (pronounced sobchack), his trainer, Elder Robinson, and the mission president, President Batt. Cade arrived without his luggage, but luckily it was on the plane behind him. We received his first emails yesterday, so here they are:

 

Yeah my luggage came about 7 that night. So far so good out here! I told Riss about the Pixlers, the Family that are getting baptized. so ask her. My companions name is pronounced sobcheck, he is from roseville cal. he is pretty "by-the-books" kind of guy which may drive me nuts, its so hard to keep a conversation going with him. he is pretty reserved i guess you can say, but so far so good out here, it is so beautiful and the member support is outstanding! The elders we share an apartment with are hilarious One of them is the district leader but he is way cool!

Love you guys!

Elder Cade Joseph Robinson

PS If you are wondering you can write letters to me any time of the week. and i can write back just send all the letters to the mission office and they will forward them to me.

This is his letter to Myrissa:
This week has been pretty stressful for me as well. getting into the swing of things. My comp is super spiritual, I think, he thinks that things have to go right the way books lay it out for us, but you know me and that is not quite the way i run. The family that is getting baptized is in a couple weeks. Their names are the pixlers. They are catching on to the gospel so fast! the dad was actually baptized when he was 8 but hasnt really been active since. Yesterday he recieved the aaronic preisthood, so he can baptize his wife and kids in a couple weeks. The dads name is eugene, his wifes name is shannon and they have a 14 y/o son named gary and a 12y/o daughter named cheyanne.
It is so beautiful where i am serving now and there is great member support. i had to go up in sacrament yesterday and bear my testimony and after that everyone was wanting to shake my hand. We have a few other investigators that we have some pretty high hopes for, but we will see.
Love you!
Elder Cade Joseph Robinson
P.S. where are my letters? i havent got one in the mail and i have been here a whole week!
send it to the mission office in farmington i think its like 400 apache

So obviously, Elder Robinson is needing some emails and letters!! His email is cade.robinson@myldsmail.net and his mission office address is:

Elder Cade J. Robinson
New Mexico Farmington Mission
400 West Apache
Farmington, NM 87401