Hermana Rogers: 05.17.13 | Week 5

Family!!

P-day is the greatest day of all. I love being able to e-mail you! Thank you for all your emails. I am literally crying right now. Every thing is going to well for everyone. There is no other way I would want to leave you all. I am so blessed to have all of you as my family...I know I say that a lot but I am being very serious. I only have 3 days left here in the MTC. I don't know how that happened...honestly. Time FLYS. It's so bitter sweet. I have grown so close with everyone here. My district is my little family away from home. It's going to be so hard to leave the sisters that are going to Denver Colorado. My companion and two of the three elders are all going to my same mission. So we will be on the plan together:) Yesterday we had In Field Tranning. Its basically a 8 hour class for all the missionaries leaving this next week. It was SO long! but also very helpful. We learned how to really gain a relationship with the ward mission leader and the bishop so we can use members on our missions. Just like the missionaries do with dad:) I wish I could have dad as my bishop in Florida;) haha but we also learned how to contact. We have been doing that a lot this week. ITS SO SCARY. haha the idea of walking up to some random person and talking to them and sharing a message about our church IN SPANISH, gets me a little tiny bit nervous. Haha I have definietly learned how to rely on the lord in situations like that. I will be getting a lot of experience with contacting while I'm flying to Florida! Wahoo! Maybe I'll get to tell you a little about while I talk to you ON TUESDAY!!! AHHH! I cannot wait to hear your voices. Maybe I will bare my testimony to you in Spanish:) Mom, I can get a calling card here:) If I end up not being able to get one, I will write you and tell you in my letter today! Thank you for thinking about me.

Wow...I am just a super happy happy person today. I just got back from the Temple. It was so peacful. It was like you explained mom, sometimes you go to the temple and you never want to leave. Such an amazing place. I'm a little sad that was my last time attending the Provo Temple on my mission. I made sure I got a lot of food in the cafetiria for my last time:) That food is so good. When we were walking out of our session, some lady asked if we were missionaries, we said yes, and then she said that President Monsons wife passed away this morning......I'm sure you all heard but that just made me so sad. I began to think about how he was feeling, and I thought wow he is probably so sad...Those old men and their wives are the cutest. But then I thought so more about it and thought...if out of any one in the world. I bet President Monson is so happy that his cute little wife is with our father in heaven. She is where we all want to be. The other day at dinner my district and I were talking about how we think the second coming is near. Some of us were talking about how we dont want it to be, but we believe it is. Why else would we all be able to go on missions at such a young age? We are preparing the way! but we were all like I want to have a family, and experience all those fun things. But we thought more about it and were like, if we knew what was in store for us, we wouldn't even care about those things. We'd want to get straight to heaven. It's crazy how people don't know what more there is out there. We don't know exactly, but we know enough to be able to do our best here on earth so we can recieve the great blessing of living in our heavenly fathers presence.

I have had such a great week like I said. I have learned so much. It's been our review week. I finaly think I am beginning to understand things! I can pretty much say most things that I want to say. I learn something new every second. Its amazing. I am so glad that I am learning spanish. I am humbled every single day though. I have never needed help from my heavenly father like i have here. It's not easy. but I am so glad I have this oppertunity. I think that it is really going to help my accomplish so much in life. I am gaining the confidence that I never thought I could have. Its amazing. I love it.

I am a little nervous to get to Florida...Except I know that it will be just like the MTC. I did not like not knowing who my companion was going to be or what the food was like or how hard the spanish was, but It is all amazing. I have had to grow so much from everything, but I know I am givin everything I have and have gone through to strengthen myself. I LOVE IT! and I know the mission will be just like that. I get butterflys just thinking about it:) I start packing in a couple days. Wish me luck!! Also tell Jodi, Grandma Bullock, and Grandma Lucy thank you for the packages. You are right, I am so loved here. I love my family so much. How did I ever get so lucky? Love all of you so so much:)

I got the oppertunity to Host this week. Hosting is the Elder that helped me with my bags at the drop off. I was that person:) I cried every single time someone said goodbye to their families. haha I am such a baby. but its sad! can you blame me? It was so fun to be the first person that the sisters saw and talked to in the MTC:) I got a little lost. This MTC is a lot bigger than you'd think. haha I stay in my two buildings, go to the mail room, book store, lunch and I am good. So that was funny:) I'm a little blonde sometimes. We all know that though. Well family, I will send you pictures today and I will write letters. Know that I am so happy and so excited to wake up at 2;30 and get to the travel office at 3:00 AM on tuesday:) I cant wait to hear your voices. Just be ready to answer the phone at all hours. I'm not sure when I will have the chance to talk. It could be at like 6 haha. I know you love me so it wont matter

The next time I talk to you all is in the airport!!! yay!:) ok well enough of telling you how excited I am, I will let you all go. Have an amazind day my dear family. Tell tripp and coup hi for me. I miss them so dang much. I hope they havent forgotten about me. Maybe I can talk to them too on tuesday;) Ok, I love you all so much! never ever forget that. You are all such big examples to me<3

Con mucho amor, Hermana Rogers

Que Tenga un buen Dia!