Faith, Desire & Action!

So i apologize first off for not getting the emails to everyone. SOmetimes i just forget to send it to all my contacts...
I'm pretty excited about general conference! i love listening to the general authorities and seeing first hand how modern revelation works and blesses us! I will probably be just viewing it at the stake center so itll be exciting! I love the fact that we have the knowledge of a prophet on the earth! how truly blessed are we for this restored gospel! i have been able to learn so much since i've been out here and i'm grateful for all the experiences i've gone through. I look forward to hear the talks from conference and i know there will of course be a missionary talk and everything else they will talk about will be so amazing! it's crazy to think that a year ago i was with elder bobo and we were watching conference in teh east bakes stake center. i remember walking out and there were SO MANY BIG WHITE CLOUDS!! i was just so used to seeing haze and not brilliant white clouds! i took a few pictures of them. It made me feel a little closer to heaven. I love our earth. how beautiful it is, even in bakersfield! i am hoping that it will be cooling down this week but i dont have the slightest clue. I usually ask most people i see and i've gotten so many different answers! I've heard this week it's supposed to get down to the 80's...i've heard it's spiking back up to 100+...i dunno...so now i just ask, not to get the weather forcast because they don't know it anyway, but i just ask to see how many different answers i can get! it's sorta funny...
The month of september has slowly dwindled down and now on thursday it will be octocber! i'm so happy! i love halloween!! like it's top 2 favorite holidays! Unfortunately i can't go to any haunted houses while i'm on my mission but i do get to be a missionary and preach the gospel and that's better!!
This week we were able to finally get 20 lessons! we tried so hard to get it and now all of our work, faith, and desire paid off so we'll see how this week goes! I was thinking about how powerful faith, desire, and action are. If you combine those three then there will be no stopping you! But we need to have all three! We can't just have 2 of the 3! they all are crucial! We need to desire (us for example) to teach 20 lessons, we need to have faith that we can get 20, and then we need to work our tails off to achieve that and this past week is evidence of those three being put into action.
Our recent convert Andres Herrera is the man! he's gone through a rough past week or so but we went over and talked with him and he's living testimony that if you live the gospel it doesn't matter what happens to you, you can have happiness! We saw a little movie about zions camp and i almost teared up! just like they did, we too go through hard times and we can come out of it having proved ourselves! They went through so much and had many hard trials but it's neat to see that AFTER the events of zions camp then the quorum of the twelve was called and presidencies of the 70 were established and 9 of the 12 were in zions camp. We each go through our own zions camp but we need to endure! we dont always know the reasons why God puts us through different things but the end result always is helpful to us!! I love this gospel so much! i have gained so much and developed my testimony hard core!! The church is true, we do have a modern prophet that speaks for God!! i Love you all so much. thanks so much for your prayers and love!!

Love,
elder robison