Taufe!! 🤙

 This week was awesome!!! The highlight was definitely Jeffs baptism, but not only was he baptized, but the other missionaries in our district had their investigators baptized as well!! So there was one investigator from each companionship (3) that were baptized over the weekend. It was an awesome weekend here in Ktown, the Lord is really blessing not only us as missionaries but more importantly his children as he put us in the right place to be able to help them find their way towards Christ.
     Before the baptisms, Elder Adams and I have been working hard to find more people to teach! Although we had the baptism coming up, we always want to be teaching people. We have a couple other people that are really ready and we are excited to teach them as well!
     We also had super awesome member appointments. The members here are amazing! At first I wasn’t a huge fan of being over three American wards, but I learned real quick that we get to meet so many awesome people that want to be a part of the work! It’s awesome to see the miracles of their hard work, and it’s even better to be able to learn from them.
     Today we went to Heidelberg for pday and checked out the Christmas markets!! It was super awesome and not too cold, we got lots of pictures too. It’s crazy that Christmas time is already here again! I can’t believe it will be my last one in Germany, I’m really excited to talk to people about Christ’s birth.
      Speaking of which! I just wanted to end by talking about the Christmas initiative that the church has introduced! If you haven’t heard of Light the World then definitely go to Mormon.org and watch the launch video!! I challenge everyone to watch the videos (starting tomorrow) that will be for the next 25 days, and follow the 25 ways you can spread the Christmas Spirit! I hope you all have a great time as you do this! I know that we are all on earth to do good things for others, I know that Heavenly Father will help us out as long as we ask AND act on the promptings that we receive from Him. I challenge you all to pray for the opportunity to do something good and act upon what the Lord tells you!
Have a good week!!
Elder Rogers

Weekly

 Hey everyone!! This email is going to be short because today was Thanksgiving and we had two appointments. Anyways! Besides eating a lot of food today, Elder Adams and I have had a really great week! We talked to some crazy people and some cool people! Elder Adams has great German and he is just 2 transfers behind me in the mission. So it’s been humbling but still great to learn and speak German with him.
      So this Saturday is Jeffs baptism and we are super excited for him! We are very happy that he has made the decision to follow Christ and we are happy that he will continually ask his Heavenly Father and friends for help. Keep praying for him to be able to enjoy this awesome experience! I don’t have any pictures this week, but don’t worry I’ll get some next week so you don’t just have to read my weekly! Have a good one!!
-Elder Rogers

Transfers!!

  Hey everyone! This week was good. We did have transfers and my boy Elder Forsey headed out! It was a bummer to see him leave but this will be his first time in a German area, so that’s good for him. My new companion is elder Adam and he’s a great guy! We’ve already been working hard so there has been no problem getting along. He is also only a couple transfers behind me so his German is great and it’s easy to just get stuff done.
     As far as the week goes, we have been really busy meeting with investigators and members. Kind of a funny story, last night Elder Adam and I decided to go by on some part member referrals from one of the wards here. The member that referred them, said that she had recently talked to the mom and she told us that the mom wanted to have the missionaries over so that she could be reactivated and get the rest of her family to church. This lady has a couple kids that we aren’t sure are members or not and her husband isn’t a member. So the member told us that they just lived across the street from them so we decided to run by!
     Well we get there and they answer the door. All we tell them is that we were friends of their neighbors (the members) from across the street and they said that we should just stop by and see how they were doin! Their daughter said her parents were home so we just came in. Well we get talking with the parents and the one kid and they were telling us about the mission that the husband served in Guatemala and how they talk to the members every day. They also asked why they haven’t seen us at church on Sundays. I had only met them a couple of times, so I didn’t remember that they were active members. In my defense we are over three American wards and it’s hard sometimes to keep everyone straight!! Haha! Anyways, they got some Chinese food for us to eat with them and then we left for our next appointment.
     So the reason why that’s so funny is because the people that we thought we went by on actually live next to the people that we accidentally went by on. So we will be going back to that town to meet the actual people that we meant to visit.
     Well other than that it was just a crazy week and I’m about out of time. I hope everyone has a great week and remembers the importance of Thanksgiving that is next week! I hope everyone can think of something that they are grateful for leading up to Thanksgiving AND after Thanksgiving. I know that if we recognize those simple things that we take for granted or even the big things that we can’t live without, our gratitude for so much will be deepened. And everything will mean more to us. Everyone have a great week!!!
Elder Rogers

Planes, trains, and Mexican food

     Hey everyone!! This week was great and I don’t have much time, but a lot happened so I’ll try to get you all informed!! To start off, last week after pday we went and taught a members son that is currently 9. we are preparing him for baptism, and he is a great kid!! We started the lesson by asking him if he was excited to be baptized and he said no, but as the lesson went on and the spirit got stronger he got more and more interested in what we had to say about baptism. We had an appointment with the Carmichael’s right after so we had to keep the lesson kind of short. The Carmichael’s were awesome and we had a super great time!
      On Friday we met with Jeff and he is super close to setting a baptismal date!! Keep praying for that homie!!
      On Saturday we helped out a little bit with a move with someone in the ward here. They are a really young family that didn’t have a ton of stuff so it was pretty easy compared to the ones we have done in the past. After that we headed over to the Lawerence's and had amazing casserole with them. They are a great family and are always a great time!
      Sunday’s was a crazy day, just like always, but it was awesome! Fast Sunday’s are great and the Spirit is always booming! After church we had an early Thanksgiving dinner with the McLarens and a couple other families. It was sooooo good! I really wish germans celebrated something like thanksgiving. They should just do it for the food because I know they would do a great job at it!! Haha anyway, that was a blast and we ate waaay too much and even took some food home. #overblessed
     Monday night got a little crazy. Monday itself was pretty normal, but when we got home for the day the police knocked on our door and at first we had no idea who it was so we turned all the lights off. But they are police so they weren’t about to leave. Eventually we saw it was them and came outside in our PJ‘s. They were talking to another guy about our car and they asked us for our licenses. They then explained that three guys were going around the neighborhood and breaking into cars and the guy they were talking to saw the guys going through our car so he called the cops quick. Luckily nothing was taken, except for my sunglasses!!! (Which were actually only $15 so it wasn’t a huge deal). I am definitely grateful nothing else got stolen, but I gotta say that these guys suck at stealing things!! Both of our jackets were in the back and they are both over a hundred bucks, our credit card for gas was in there, our GPS was in there. There were so many things and all they took were crappy shades.
     Anyways, the story goes on and the cops called us later and told us they found the shades so we went and picked them up, it was wild and the police were super friendly. The next day we went to Frankfurt and stayed overnight for the elder Sabin conference with a lot of our mission! Elder Sabin was awesome and a very intelligent guy! I can’t believe the memory that some of these guys have! The spirit was strong and we loved it. Elder Forsey and I then booked it for the train and we barely caught our connection to get us close to home, but the train was slow and we were late for our last connection so it took us an extra hour to get home. Anyways, once we finally got home we got some amazing Mexican food. We have transfers next week so we figured we might as well go on our bro date before Elder Forsey dips. Hahahaha man I’m gunna miss that guy, the last three transfers have been bomb!
      Well just to wrap all this up, lately Elder Forsey and I have been listening to talks that I have on my Flash Drive as we drive places. So far we have only listened to three, but they have been so amazing! I just want to simply testify about how we individually are here on earth to help specific people at a specific time. The Lord knows us PERFECTLY, He needs us to always be listening for the still small voice of the Spirit to be there for the people He puts in our path. I know that we can not only help others through their trials but that we can get through our own trials as well! And guess how easy it is. All we need to do is pray and ask Heavenly Father for help and guidance, attend church and listen for the Spirit to whisper to us, and to study and ponder the teachings of the scriptures! That easy!
      I know that when we do these simply things our spirits will be lifted and that great never ending power of the Atonement of Jesus Christ will always be there for us in our hard times. I invited everyone to just try a little harder to say that one prayer or read that one chapter or give church another chance. I know your life will be touched.
Elder Rogers

Weekly

       Hey what’s up everyone! This week was great! I don’t have a lot of time, but I’ll just hit the highlights!! First off, we don’t quite have a baptismal date set just yet with Jeff, we will find out tomorrow on that one! So keep praying for him if you have been! Also, we met a guy named Jim that one of the YsA’s here brought to church and he is a great guy! We were able to talk about the Book of Mormon with him and he said he would get a hold of us if he had questions. Which is great!
       We also had an awesome district meeting and while we were there we learned more about Facebook and how to use it. We also learned about how careful we need to be while using facebook. The big thing is is that we should never be on it while our companion isn’t right there, which is totally true! Facebook has been very helpful and we have been able to save a lot of time because of it.
       Last week we got to go to three trunk or treats that the three American wards had put on. They were sweet and we got to meet some cool friends that members brought! It was also fun to get some good chili and tons of treats. We didn’t do much for Halloween, Elder Forsey's mom sent him some Halloween decorations a couple weeks ago so we definitely celebrated it! Hahaha!
       Well just to close, I just wanted to let you all of you guys know how important it is to be a friend! And I don’t mean just to be nice to family and friends but to everyone! I know that the more we are nicer to others they are more likely to be nice to someone else they come in contact with. So give it a try! It never hurts to be nice! Everyone have a great week!!!!
Elder Rogers

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