Hola!
Florida. Oh man, do I
love Florida. ITS SO AWESOME! Ok but really, I want you all to come here and
see how pretty it is. Dad knows. Like I said, the skies are amazing. I have
like five billion sunset pictures. Oh! and then after it rains, rainbows! So beautiful.
I feel like I am so close to heaven. No joke. Spanish still gets to me, but I
really have to step back and realize how far I have come, and that I have only
been out for 2 weeks. I like to get ahead of myself sometimes. haha
So I told you a little
about Harvesting. Harvesting is like the most spiritual thing. I wish every mission
did it. I don't know how anyone else does it. My companionship got the highest
number of blessings given this week (Harvest) we got 50! Out of the entire
mission we got the most. i'm not trying to brag or anything but its pretty
cool;) anyways, we have had some pretty cool experiences with this. We were in
this neighboorhood walking around one day, and we see this kid on a bike. I ran
him down so that we could talk to him ( haha don't ask where I got my boldness
from ) We found out his name was Gary. We asked him if we could pray with him.
He said yes. Then we asked him ifthere was anything in specific that we could
put in the prayer that he wanted. He basically just asked for help with school,
and family. What most people usually ask for. It was my turn to offer the
prayer, so I went ahead and started the prayer. As I was prayer, I felt the
spirit stronger than ever. Gary hadn't really given us much information about his
life, but i had felt prompted to say "Heavenly Father, please bless Gary
to know that his dad is in heaven right now, watching over him. He is so proud
of everything that he has done. He knows its hard not to be with him right now
on Earth, but he loves him so much and is always wanting the best for
him." After I finished the prayer, we all opened our eyes...I looked at
Gary, and he had this HUGE grin on his face. We asked him how he felt. He was
like " Wow, I opened my eyes from the prayer and things just got
brighter. I am so glad that you stopped me today. How did you know that my dad
died a couple years ago?" I explained that I had just felt prompted to say
that, and that I had no knowledge of it. He was so happy. We invited him right
then and there to be baptized, and he said " YES! Where do I need to go to
do this?" Holy cow. The spirit at that moment. I cannot even explain. That
experience right there made my whole week. We had to pass him off the english
single adult missionaries, but they say that he is just awesome and is doing
great. Things like that make missionary work the greatest.
About my companions.
Yes I have two for sure now. Sister Bean is my trainer. She lives in Bountiful
Utah but went to BYU for a while before her mission. She has been out for 8
months, and her spanish is flawless. She is so fun. My second companion is
sister Felix from Cali. She is origionally a Puerto Rico Missionary, but since
she got in a car accident, and has a bleeding disease, she got sent here. She was
here for temporary, but is permanant now. It was really hard to be in a tree-o
at first, but I have spent a lot of time on my knees, asking help from heavenly
father for our companionship to work. He has definitely answered my prayers.
Our companionship now, is a companionship of best friends. I have so much fun
with them! The other two sisters in my room are amazing too. Sister Smith is a
military brat, which means shes lived basically every where in the world you
could even think of. She's super cool, and also the one with oil love like I have;)
Sister Chavous is the other. She is from Philly. I LOVE HER. She's crazy. but
so fun. Our apartment is so fun because our beds are set up in on big room.
Sometimes its hard to sleep because they talk all night, when all I wanna do is
sleep. haha I may invest in some earplugs;) but yes. That's my companionship
and roommates:) I really am super blessed. I knew Zack would think she was
cute. That's ok though. She is super cute:) I couldn't have been more
lucky.
Well, family. I love
you so so much. I'm sorry I won't be able to write you indivualy but know I
love you to the moon and back:) You're all the best!
Mucho Amor, Hermana
Rogers
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