My Mission Has Changed My Life

Dear Family and Friends,

Wow this is my last letter being a missionary.  Time has truly gone by so fast!!  My mission has meant the world to me and has changed my life.  I am so grateful for this time I have been able to be a representative of Jesus Christ.  The Gospel brings true happiness that money cannot buy.  I have seen how it has changed my life and the life of others.  It is very sad for me to leave the people of Michigan!!   I have gotten to know so many of them and love so many of them.  It is like leaving home all over again :).  It is bitter sweet to leave.  

  

I had an amazing last week of my mission!!!  God is good!!!  District meeting was awesome.  The topic was Christ like attributes and it was amazing.  We all had an attribute to teach on and the spirit was so strong and we all learned so much.  Yesterday at church they called me up to give my testimony, it took me by surprise and wasn't expecting it but it was a great privilege. It was awesome that we had a few more people than last week come to church yesterday.  The coolest thing happened yesterday, one of the ladies in the ward that just got reactivated is the fellowshipper for two of the ladies that came for their first time yesterday. After church yesterday she came up to me and said “Elder Fletcher, thank you so much for finding me two new friends.”  It brought me so much joy hearing that.  

I got to go to Charlotte one last time this week and that was very hard to leave!!!  I got to see a few of the members that I love so much.  Celeste who has been like my mom was so hard to say goodbye to.  I can't wait to see all my friends from Michigan again.  Thank you all for all of the support that you have given me out here.  Thanks for following the last two years of my life and helping me grow.  

Love,

Elder Robson Fletcher 

Departing Testimony and a Full House

Dear Family and Friends, 

This has been a great week here in Jackson!!!!  I got to go on tradeoffs with one of the missionaries that I trained last week and it was so much fun. It was funny bring up past memories and catching up.  We both have grown so much since then. 

It was so hard this week. I had my last zone conference and I got to give my departing testimony on Friday.  I remember at the start of my mission missionaries would get up and say how they didn't want to go home. I didn't get it until last week.  My mission has meant so much to me and changed my life for the good.  It was funny some missionaries asked me before if I was going to cry and I told them I wasn't planning on it but the unplanned happened.  I cried. :)  It is crazy to think this is my last week on my mission. I am excited to see you all soon.

At church yesterday we had a packed house!!!  We had 7 people that we have been working with come to church for the first time.  I was so excited to see them there.  I taught gospel principle class yesterday which is sad because I truly love teaching Sunday school.  It was amazing we had 20 people in class and it went very well.  I was very pleased.  

We have been having a lot of success here and we are so grateful for it.  We have been so busy that we really don't have time to go door knocking, which is the goal.  Well I love you all and miss you all. 

Love,

Elder Robson Fletcher 

Crazy Lady and Yellow Water :)

Dear Family and Fans,

Happy Monday everyone!!!  We had another amazing week her in Jackson.  We had some very fun experiences.  I had probably the craziest experience of my life this Wednesday. We went over to one of our investigator’s house to go help one of them move up stairs.  I was on tradeoffs with a brand new missionary and we knock on the door and one of the ladies answered and said I am so glad to see you.  She gave me a hug and the other lady said she needed to talk to me.  She took me into another room and shut the door.  This is when I started freaking out.  She told me all this things that God told her and things that her dead mom was telling her.  She was going all crazy!  I found out that she is a schizophrenic.  We got out of there as quick as we could if you know what I mean ha-ha.  

I taught my earliest appointment this week, it was at 6 am.  It was the only time that he could meet because of his busy schedule so we had to compromises.  I thought I would be trunky at this time only have a few weeks but every time I sit down to relax I get board ha-ha.  

We got to attend a baptism on Saturday that the other missionaries here had.  It was way cool; it was a part member family here that missionaries have been working with for 2 years now.  It was kind of funny because the water here isn't the best so when we filled up the baptism font the water was yellow. It will be a baptism that I always remember.  I love and miss you all!!

Love,

Elder Robson Fletcher 

Lessons Learned from Bible Bashing

Dear Family and Friends,

Another amazing week in Jackson, we had a lot of learning experiences this week.  I was so excited I got to go back again to Charlotte last week and see one of my favorite Families!!!  It was so good to see them again.  I got to see Deanna, the girl that got baptized when I was there.  I actually get to go back to Charlotte again tonight.  

We are working with some less actives that are so close to coming back to church.  One of the good learning experiences that we had this week was we were walking back from one of our apt. and there was someone walking down the other way.  I offered him a pass-along card and he decided that he wanted to bash with us. He was very smart and knew his bible.  It shook up my comp and we had a good experience reading together Alma 26:27-30.  It was cool at the start of my mission we got bashed way hard one day and I was done and my trainer said we needed to get out our scriptures. We turned to a random page and just started reading and that is what we read it was a very cool experience.  

I love you all and will talk to you again next week.  

Love,

Elder Robson Fletcher 

Schooled by an 18 Year Old

Dear Family and Friends

Another amazing week in Jackson!!!  We are having many miracles here and really enjoying it here. I had a lot of fun this week on tradeoffs.  The 18 year old missionary is a champ; he would have put me to shame when I was 18.  He is really good at solving a Rubik cube.  He was trying to teach me how to solve it faster and I was just not getting it.  It was so funny ha-ha. We have been trying to get to know the ward a lot more and we are having great success with it.  I think I know the names of half the members.  

We have had a lot of opportunities to teach again this week and keeping very busy.  We started teaching a part member family that the kids haven't been baptized and it is really fun teaching kids.  They just soak up everything and you get to have fun with them.  It is great.  We are hoping to get them to church in the upcoming week.  Oh one cool experience we had this week was we were out door knocking and on a lady door step we taught the restoration.  When we got do with the first vision she said that is the most beautiful story she has ever heard.  We are meeting with her again on Wednesday.  I can't wait, she is so prepared.  I love you all and look forward to seeing you all soon.  

Love,

Elder Robson Fletcher 

Look Alike Companion

Dear Family and Friends!!!

This week I picked up Elder Kofoed and dropped off Elder Campbell.  Elder Kofoed is from American Fork and is pretty cool.  It has been pretty funny while we have been door knocking a couple people asked us if we are brothers because they think we look alike.  I don't think we look that much alike; we are just both short and have the same color hair. People think it is funny when we tell them that we only have known each other for just a couple of day’s ha-ha.  

We have had a lot of success this week and have a lot of fun.  It was so hot the first part of the week and I was so glad that our apt. has central air!!!!  We got to meet with the lady that is in her 80s again this week and she is amazing!!!  She invited us to help out at a food pantry at the church that she has been attending.  I have never been to a church like that before.  It was a mega church; it had a coffee shop and a small story.  It was very interesting to see.  

I am excited today I get to go on a trade off today with a missionary in my district that is 18.  He was teasing me about how old I am the other night when we were on the phone.  He just graduated from high school last month.  Thank you so much for all of the letters and the support.  I love you and miss you all!!!  

Love,

Elder Robson Fletcher 

The Power of the Book of Mormon

Elder Fletcher and his companion sporting their superman attaire!

Dear Family and Friends,

This Week has gone by so fast.  We had a lot of things to do this week and had lots of success.  We got to teach more lessons this week than I have ever had on my mission; it was great.  We really didn't have time to go door knocking because we had so many appointments.  We taught an 82 yr. old lady that we were able answered all of her questions with the book of Mormon!!!!  Then we got to teach another family that we answered all of their questions using the book of Mormon.  This week has really been a testimony builder of the book of Mormon.  Almost every question that we were asked we got to answer it using the book of Mormon.  It really has helped me see what a blessing it is to have in our life and how grateful I am that I was introduced to it in my child hood instead of having to wait to find in later in life.  

So many people have asked me when I am coming home so everyone knows I will be coming home August 28th.  I will be picking up my new comp today and it is very weird to think that he is my last comp.  Jackson is doing really well and excited to see what happens my last transfer.  I am so excited because one of the missionaries that I trained is going to be in the other area of Jackson and I will get to see him all the time.  I love you all and thanks for all the Birthday wishes again.  

Love,

Elder Robson Fletcher