by aubrirobinson | Apr 3, 2022 | All Member Stories, Callings/Leadership, Service
Bishop Mark Adkins, Stake Conference, 26 April 1998, Sunday Session I was sitting in the bedroom watching TV and the forecast. The sirens were going off. My daughter kept saying, “I think we should go downstairs.” I kept looking out the windows and saying, “It looks...
by aubrirobinson | Apr 3, 2022 | All Member Stories, Callings/Leadership, Ministering, Service
December 9, 2019 Shortly after we moved to Rochester, Francis and I were assigned some families to visit as their home teachers. After visiting some of them once or twice, I decided I had had enough and refused to accept an assignment as a home teacher for several...
by aubrirobinson | Apr 3, 2022 | All Member Stories, Service, Trials and Challenges
Stake Conference, 2019 Good evening. Today I received a package. I love packages; this package was three pounds of bees–hundreds of the little bees. I opened them and shook them into a hive–into a large open box. Yes I said shook them, I know right,...
by aubrirobinson | Nov 29, 2021 | All Member Stories, Service
Last summer was our first summer here and I was impressed with how fruitful this area can be. It was fun to watch the growth of the farmer’s fields and to see so many successful gardens in my neighbors’ and friends’ yards. It was fun to grow a few plants...
by aubrirobinson | Nov 14, 2021 | All Member Stories, Ministering, Service, Trials and Challenges
As I have thought back about times people have ministered to me, I have repeatedly thought of two experiences that both involved a sister in the ward I lived in several years ago – Kay Hall. Kay was a few years younger than I. She was born with a rare heart problem...
by aubrirobinson | Sep 26, 2021 | All Member Stories, Faith, Service, Temples, The Spirit/Promptings, Trials and Challenges
How do you journal about someone like Todd? We first met Todd in the summer of 2012. His wife, Jennifer, had come to church with her brother, Corey, a couple of weeks previously. Todd was already well into a sickness that would eventually take his life in...