Hi hi hi family! Thank you for all your emails! I love them, like usual!:) I am getting a lot of requests to talk more about my investigators. I truly am sorry. The reason that I have been telling you Harvesting stories is because those are the most amazing experiences. I am writing a letter home about more of our investigators. We have so many, so its hard to tell you all!! Ah! haha Mom and dad, I am so glad that you got to go and "Harvest" I was indeed at that world wide broadcast! We all thought that China or Cuba would open, or that sister missionaries would be able to serve for 2 years. Guess not;) It was so amazing though. All of us missionaries were bawiling the whole entire time. The whole time i was watching that, I would look down at my name tag and realize that I am a missionary! How cool is that? I am so privelaged. Its amazing.
Tell Kelsey Congratulations for me! That is so amazing. I am happy for her! I wrote Olivia today, but make sure she knows how excited for her I am. I can't wait for her to be in the same state as me! haha FLORIDA BABY! Oh! My branch president and his family are coming to St George July 8th! I told them that they need to come and see you! And they said if I have anything I want to give to you they can meet up with you! I will give them your number and stuff and maybe you can meet them. They are the sweetest people every. And yes they speak english:) I told them all the fun things to do in STG. I am jealous they are going there...haha
Ok, so i have some big news. Our third companion went home. This has actually been quite the long process. she has felt like she needed to go home for a while now? So Wednesday morning at 6 she was off to Califorina. Sister Bean and I are really sad, but we have just been going so hard with missionary work! We have basically a whole new teaching pool! We had a really cool experience that we had with an INVESTIGATOR ;) about 3 days ago. She lives with her husband, but they aren't married, and they have kids. (typical in latin country) so we were teaching her the plan of salvation. It was so spiritual. We were explaining the Celestial Kingdom, and how we can live with our families forever, and not just till death. She loved that idea. Her husband has been acting really strange towards her lately, and she doesn't know what to do. We were talking to her friend, who is a member in our branch, and we think he is cheating on her. We have been teaching this lady for quite a while now. We re-invited her to get baptized, but we said to her, we know that you want to get baptized, but in order to do this, you have to be living the law of chastity. She looked down at the ground, and you knew she knew that was what she needed to do. Her friend bore THE MOST AMAZING testimony I had every heard. She is a recent convert and she told her that this gospel had changed her life. They had been best friends since High school, so she could see the change in her. Her friend then said to her " I wouldn't tell you this if I didn't believe it was true. If your not ready, I understand. But if God was standing here right now, would you want him to say, sorry you cannot enter into the celestial kingdom because you didn't act on what you knew was the right thing to do. or do you want him to congratulate you for having such faith, and doing what you needed, in order to live with him again?" The spirit in that room was amazing. We asked her to say the closing prayer. In that prayer she said "Heavenly Father, please prepare my heart so that I can be baptized." We at that moment were all crying. Again, the spirit was so strong. She knows exactly what she needs to do. She has been to Church about 5 times, and we only need our investigators to come 2 times before they are baptized. They can get baptized on their second time. She's so ready, she just needs to ACT on her faith! That's a really big thing here in florida. Every one has faith, but no one acts. Its been such a blessing to see people change, and realize what they need to do to better their lives. I love missionary work! It's hard, but like I said, SO REWARDING.
I will tell you about more as the weeks go on. If I had 3 hours to email I'd tell you about them all, but I don't :( I am sorry I have been cutting you short of this info! I didn't even realize it...haha
I love you so much family. You're the best ever:)
Have an amazing week! you're always in my prayers!
Love Sista Rogers :)
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