Hello Hello! I hope that everyone is
having a good day! Oh! and Dad, I hope that you had a wonderful Fathers Day:) I
am glad you got my card, and the text from my ward mission leader! He came up
to us sunday and said, he let me take a picture and send it to your
dads! We were all for it! Well today has been a really fun day! We went to this
place called the Swap Shops. It was like a big huge yard sale outside! Had a
farmers market, then had shops inside too! It reminded me a lot of Seattle, but
a lot lets nice, and a little more ghetto.....and hot. Haha Its getting really
really hot here. Joy:) Then we went to our favorite place called La Costa and
ate Honduran food called Balliadas. Ask Jodi if she knows what those are. We
eat them EVERY Pday! Thanks for updating me on everything that is going on in
your lives! I love hearing from you all so much:) Don't be afraid to write me
letters if you ever get bored ;) I wish I had time to e-mail you all back, but writing
president back takes up half of my time....i'm sorry:( Just know that I love
you all so much and Love hearing about your lives!! Oh I got bitten alive by
misquitoes last night!!!! I have them ALL over my legs. I am wearing a long
skirt right now because I am so ashamed. I look like i have a disease. Haha no
joke. If you have any oil remidies that you wanna share with me. I will take
them! I have just been putting lavendar on them. but I don't know what else to
do....They are horrid!
Ok...So as for my week. Woah...Where to begin.
I actually had a pretty hard week to start off with. I felt like there was just
so much more that I could be doing to be a better missionary! I was getting
really impatient with myself, and I felt like my companions weren't as focused
as they should be. Being in a tree-o is hard. It's a crowd, and sometimes
really hard to focus. My emotions were all over the place. One day during companionship
study, I broke. I expressed how I felt, and I then texted the District Leaders
for a Blessing. We went over to the church later that day, and Elder Harris
gave me a blessing. Just before I had briefly explained to him how I felt.
During the blessing though, I had never felt so much peace come apon me. Things
that I had been feeling in my heart, came out in the blessing. Things that I didn't
even express to him about. I was bawling. It was the most amazing blessing.
Since then, I have been so much better. My week has done a 180. I have really
studied patience in my personal studies. It has been such a blessing. Patience is
key. Especially when you are learning a language. I have gotten to the point
with my spanish where I am learning more, so I am realizing all that I am doing
wrong. Its really hard...So yesterday in Relief society, some lady was talking.
I wasn't really understanding anything. I was just sitting there thinking to myself,
am I ever going to be able to understand these people..? Then before I knew it
I was getting this story from here how she served a mission, and was called to
speak English. She thought that she would never be able to speak English. she
was stay up crying every single night. This is when she really came to realize
how much she needed to rely on her heavenly father. I understood every single
word she was saying. It was like she was speaking English. Right when she was
done sharing her experience, I didn't understand anything. It was the craziest
thing. I knew that, at that time, Heavenly Father wanted me to hear those words,
to give me hope. She then bore her testimony in English, to a lady in there
that didn't speak spanish. she spoke perfect english. I know that Heavenly
Father is going to help me. That was his way of telling me that he wont let me
down, as long as I put my half into it. I also got my first REAL baptism! Her name
is Stephanie. She is 14 and living with a lady in the ward. Her mom died 1 year
ago. We were eating dinner at the ladies house and met her. We then asked if
she wanted to hear the lessons from us. We taught her in a week and she was
baptized the next :) It was so awesome. We got to teach her in english too!
haha i love those opportunities. Except it makes you realize how little you
know in english. The lessons are so much easier in spanish, because they are
simpler, since we only know few words. Its really interesting actually. The
baptism was yesterday:) It was amazing. So spiritual. Well family, I don't have
much time, and I have to be exactly obedient, because like mom said, you only
recieve blessings when you are exactly obediant. Its so true! I love you all so
much, and even though I can't write you all back, don't think I don't love you!
I am always thinking of you!!
Love Sister Kacey Rogers :)
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