Hermana Rogers: 05.10.13 | Week 4

Hola mi marveoso familia!

How's my family doing?? I love you all so much and I get so excited to be able to e-mail you and tell you all about my week here in the MTC. Its litterally the most crazy / awesome / hard / overwhelming / spiritual place ever, like I have explained before. Every day there is a new experience waiting for me. My emotions are ALL over the place! I can't decide if that's a good thing for me considering that I already have that problem as it is...haha But no..this week was one to remember. I learned so much! The District above us didn't get their visas so they got re-assigned. Except for one sister Hermana Tanner. She is actually from STG! She went to school with Mike at Desert Hills. She was the only person in her distict to not get re-assigned. SO! They made mine and Hermana Petersons companionship a Tree-o. She Wasn't sure when she was going to get to leave. She was with us this whole week, and then two nights ago she got re-assigned to Louisianna Batton Rouge (dont know how to spell that) She leaves Wednesday:) I thought it was going to be really tough to adjust to having one more person in our companionship. Its already hard enough to have to be with one person 24/7 but three is another story. And she was also coming from a whole different situation. She was super sad that her whole district left her and it was kinda hard for her to come into a class that was two weeks behind her in spanish. Ya know it really has occured to me that EVERY LITTLE thing happens for a reason. She may not have needed to learn something from us in this week and a half, but we DEFINITELY needed to learn something from her. She is such a good teacher. The way she has helped us teach our investigators have opened our eyes tramedously. I KNOW with out a doubt that she was meant to stay here for a reason.

Like I said, this week has been one to remember. I had the most spiritual lesson with one of our investigators Catarin. We had been teaching her for quite some time now. We actually had already invited her to baptism but just was not ready. So we made sure she knew we understand but would love to keep on teaching her. She agreed. Then came one day we were teaching her about how her Heavenly Father loves her and wants her to be clean here on this life so that she can return to live with him again. She had gone to church that week before, so we also talked about the sacrament and what it can do for us. We were baring our testimony on our struggles in life and how we have come to know that we can be forgivin, and in Heavenly fathers eyes we are clean. I remember distinctly, I looked up and tears were rolling down her face. It hit me so hard, that the spirit was most definitly in that room. I looked at Catarin, it was quite for a couple of minutes. We just sat there and pondered about what was said. I went on and asked her, "Catarin, Que sentie?" (what do you feel?) she came up and said, I feel really good. really really good. I went on to explain that, that good feeling she was feeling, was the spirit. Heavenly father loves you more than you know. He wants you to come unto him. She was still tearing up. Another couple minutes went by and I looked up at her and said, "Segira le ejemplo de jesucristo y ser bautizada, por alguien que posea la autridad de sacerdocio de Dio?" (invited her to be baptized) She looked at us and said, "Si, Yo quiero que" (yes, I want that) We all just sat there and cried. Every one of us had tears in our eyes. We expressed how excited we were for her to follow the example of her father and be baptized. We asked her to say the prayer for us and while we were praying with her, as we were kneeling, i felt Heavenly Fathers pressance with me in that room. I felt him put his hand on my shoulder and say, "Good job Sister Rogers, Good job" I came out of that lesson with a feeling that I wanted to have for the rest of my mission. Its so cool to rememebr that that is my teacher I am teaching, who is playing an investigador. She didn't make herself cry. She was crying because she felt the spirit so strongly. I love this work more than anything. My testimony has grown more than I could have every imagined it would. I cannot wait for that to happen to the people in Florida, whos lives really are going to change because of this gospel.

As for today, we went to the Temple this morning. We did initiatories (?) It was honestly so cool. I had never done that before. Such a cool experience. The whole time I was doing it i couldn't help but think how lucky we are to be able to have this gospel, and the temple in our lives. I cannot wait till the temple in Fort Lauderdal gets dedicated. I want those people of Florida to have a temple so badly. I have been so spoiled to always have at temple near by. Mom, in your letter you said you could just sit there and look at the temple all day. I agree completly. Its so beautiful.

I want you all to know how much I love you, and appreciate all of your letters. They mean the world to me. Every time I read them, I just rmemeber how much I am blessed to have a family back home supporting me while I am here serving the lord. I leave in like a week and 3 days. I CANNOT believe it. the time is such an odd thing. I love everything about the MTC, and i have grown to feel so comfortable here. Haha somtimes I feel like the MTC is where I am going to be serving my mission. But nope, I get to go to florida soon! We will be getting our travel plans soon and I am so excited:) I will probably be on the plan with the gardener girl fromi grandma and grandpas town:) shes super cute, I have seen her around here a lot. So that will be fun:)

I have not written your letters this week yet, but after I do, I will get back on the computer or whenever I can today and send pictures:) I want you to know how grateful I am for you. When our teachers ask who we look up to I just want to tell them that I look up to every single person in my family. I HAVE THE BEST FAMILY IN THE WORLD! not a doubt about it. I love you all! I also cannot wait to talk to you in a week and three days in the airport:) be prepared! ;) have a FABULOUS day and know that you are always in my prayers :) don't worry about me. I am in the best hands anyone could ever be in. Heavenly Fathers....

Con Mucho Amor, Hermana KACEY Rogers