Hello once again, to my
beautiful family of mine! Its so nice to be able to write you again:) I get so
excited to talk to you all! This week was a little bit of a crazy one! So you
know how sister bean and I eat at a lot of members homes?? Well, in result we
eat a lot of weird foods...we had been getting really bad stomach aches, but were
ignoring them for about 3 days. Then we finally both realized tht something
probably wasn't right. We called our mission Nurse and told her our symptoms.
she informed us that we had food poisoning. She Told us that we had to stop
eating big diets for a couple of days, and to stay in home and rest for a day.
We zonked out for 3 hours! That was so nice. I cannot even begin to explain.
You know you're tired though when not even that helps you catch up on your
sleep...haha it was so strange to not go out and work though. We felt guilty
THE WHOLE time. But that night we got permission to go to one of our lessons,
so we did and it went amazing! We are feeling a lot better now so we are all
good now:) Dont worry mom ;)
Then later this week we got SOOOOOOOOO much rain! I don't even think that i can
explain to you all how much rain is here. Dad probably understands, but you cannot
even undserstand until you are standing in it. Haha. Sister Anderson really
stresses that we are careful in these storms because of lightening. So we have
to count how far away it is every time we see it. We got stuck in Andreina's
home for 2 hours that day. Rain rain rain. Fun stuff! Except for last night, we
went and harvested in it. We put our crocks on, raincoats, and got umbrellas!
It was actually really fun. You find that a lot of people let you in their
homes when its raining. They also think youre crazy for it. haha. hmm..Lets
see, what else is new this week. Sister bean and I got a new car! We were driving
a boat of a malibu before, which was the oldest car in the WHOLE mission! haha
Then we get this call from Elder Bear, the guy in charge of the cars saying
that he had a 2013 Corolla with 50 miles on it waiting for us at the
mission office. Ever since then, we have been rolling in style, using our blue
tooth. Think we are spoiled much?? I think so! Never would I have thought i
would be driving that nice of a car on my mission! MITZI AND MACEY!! I am SO SO
SO excited for them! That fits them so perfectly! I actually was hoping that
one of them would be coming over here to the best mission in the world, but I
guess not:( You will have to tell them how excited I am for them:) Ah!
I hope that every thing
is going great for you all! I love hearing about all that is going on! I am so
sad that you had to say goodbye to Olivia...:( I liked having her there to take
care of my fam! But soon she will be in the best state ever!! By the way, I
cannot wait to come back here with all of you. Just yesterday in church a
missionary that served here a while ago (sister Keller) who which by the way is
basically a legend, came and sang in sacrament with her family. We talked to
her after (I have pics i will send, she is the blonde) but she is now teaching
at the MTC and her spanish is amazing, and she said it was so hard for her on
her mission! I wanna do that so bad! how fun would it be to teach at the MTC! I
hope Zack gets that job! but she is applying for the one in MEXICO! So maybe
she will be maceys teacher! Sister Keller is her name:) She brought her whole
family here though. I wanna do that one day! I want to show you all my friends
here!! President Rocuant was actually in ST GEORGE this weekend! He had a
miracle recovery. That's what fasting and praying does. We knew that he was
going to have a miracle. That family is the perfect family in the world. I want
you all to meet them one day. They speak both english and spanish :) Spanish
this week, lets just say, it took a step up from last week! I am actually
catching on!! I know its because of my companion. She is great at it. I learn
so much from just listening to her talk! I went to church yesterday, and I was
realizing that I was understanding everything! I wanted to jump up and down for
joy. That and I have really been going hard on my studies. I can't wait till it
gets easier though. I was talking to Sister Bean just yesterday about how much
my mission has changed my out look on learning. I love to learn now family! My
personal studies aren't long enough! and we were talking about all these good
books from home, and I couldn't wait to get home and read them! I have gained a
love for learning and reading! I think that you would all be very proud of me:)
I know that, that is one of the biggest things that heavenly father is trying to
help me with.
So S is not getting
baptized anymore. We went over to teach her the other day and she said that her
husband doesn't want to get baptized, and she wont get baptized without
him....So we have to drop her this week. We just dont have time to keep on
teaching her if she doesn't have the desires. It's really sad because we have
had some really amazing experiences with Selena...We did find a family in
return last night while harvesting in the rain! The last family of the night!
They are Cubin and amazing! They are a family of three and their daughter is
18! we are so excited to go back and teach them:) I will let you know how that
goes.
I cannot get passed how
fast that time here goes. I feel like it was just yesterday that I got here.
But yet, it was another Faith growing week for Sister Bean and I.
At the beginning of the
week, we were doing our daily Harvesting. We prayed about where to go and felt
that this one street was the one that God wanted us to be on. As we parked and
started walking, we noticed that it was a more “rich” area, but we continued
having faith that Heavenly Father wanted us to talk to someone on this street.
From door to door, we got doors slammed in our faces. No one wanted to talk to
us. We were walking down the street wondering when we were going to meet the
person that we were meant to meet. That is when we came to this door. We
Knocked, and an older lady by the name of Sandy answered. At first she
was not accepting of the prayer. That’s when you could tell the the spirit
worked on her, because right when she was about to shut the door, she opened it
and stepped outside. She told us that she would like us to include her son that
had died 5 years ago in the prayer. I went ahead and started with the prayer. From
the moment on, I was not saying the prayer anymore. Those words, they weren’t
mine. I don’t even remember what was said. After the prayer, I looked up, and
Sandy had been bawling. Tears were streaming down her face. She looked up, and
embraced me in a hug, and then embraced my companion in a hug as well. She
asked, “Where are you two from?” We invited her to our church. She accepted!
Then we invited her to be baptized. She with out hesitation, said, “Yes!” As we
were about to leave, we asked her if there was anything we could do for her.
She said, “No, you’ve done it all. My son has given me a calling.” My companion
and I walked away from that harvest blessing with tears in our eyes. Then my
companion begin to explain how that was not her companion back there praying.
It was as if I had developed a whole different speech pattern, or as if I had a
prayer memorized. It was blessings straight from our Heavenly Father, and
things that her son wanted her to know. I explained to her that I knew with out
a doubt that her son was standing right next to Heavenly Father as he was
helping me say that prayer. It was the most spiritual moment of my mission this
far. I know that was the spirit.
This week, Sister bean
and I were talking about ever since we have gotten on our missions, that we
understand much more fully as to why we have commandments. Before we didn’t
understand the importance of them. But now, we deal with people that aren’t
keeping them every single day, which leads them to unhappiness. I was reading
in Helaman 5: 12 in my personal study the other day, and it talks about how the
gospel should be the rock of our foundation. If we have the Gospel as the rock
of our foundation, then we will understand the importance of keeping the
commandments and we will not falter, or have the sorrow in our lives, that
comes from not keeping the commandments. That’s what we are here to do! Help
these people in Fort Lauderdale Florida keep the commandments, and build their
foundation on The Gospel! I love every day of it and am excited to see the
miracles happen this week!
Sister Rogers
Love you family!!!
Love you family!!!
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