Letter from PDay 1-29-10

Dear Family & Friends,

How are you doing?  I truly hope that this letter arrives on Friday for you.  (It did!)

Anyway, I suppose that I'll tell you about our service project that we performed on Saturday.  The English Elders (the two that we live with, you know :D) invited us to assist them in performing service.  We met this older (70's) man living alone names Raymond.  He embraced each of us when we arrived.  We raked all of the leaves in his backyard (that was big!) and, afterwards, he wanted to take us to eat lunch.

He told us that he had never known anyone to have done anything so kind for free!  We enjoyed talking with him...he's so funny and n ice.  He has a son who's moved to California.  He's house is also sooo close to the ocean that when we were raking leaves, we kept raking up sand!

Anyhow, I've enjoyed talking and meeting the new people we've teaching.

Elisabeth is a woman from El Salvador.  We knocked her door by accident.  We talked to her and set an appointment.  When we arrived, we couldn't teach her because no man was home.  We finally spoke to her for the first time since then.  We taught her the first lesson.  She's curious, especially because she had never before even heard of us (many don't).

The members are super supportive!  Every night, except for P-Days, we're fed by members!  They share everything with us.
For example, when a member was writing a number for me, on a sticky note, he then gave me the whole stack of sticky notes and insisted that I keep them.
However, we have to equally be p repared to share with them.  It's completely diffferent with traditional New Yorkers.

Anyway, despite the fact that I'm not serving in the city, I'm really enjoying the people and church in Bayshore, New York.

Soon, we'll be going back to work at 6:00.

Next week, for P-Day, I really want to visit either Walt Whitman's birthplace (in my area)!  Either that or the Fire Island Lighthouse.

My focus, is on the Lord's work.  I've lived all my life with the comfort of the Gospel to answer life's most important questions; it's my duty to share it with the world!

I love you all!

Love, Elder Roberts