Die zwei Weihnachten Räuber

 Hey everyone! This week was super great, but it was crazy! Just to start off and explain my weekly title, Elder Adams and I were going to the church at 6:30 in the morning to meet up with the other
missionaries in the district to play some basketball. Well when we had gotten to the church we were the only ones there at the time. We went inside and from the front doors we noticed that there were two guys with a flashlight who looked like they were working on something. The lights were off, they were speaking German, and it was 6:30 in the morning. It made no sense for anyone to be working at the church, especially where they were crouched down at. They were doing something to a door and from we were they were about 50 feet away. We decided to just flip the lights on and see what happened. And as we flipped the lights on we saw 2 robbers stand up and stare at us. Elder Adams and I started running at them and as soon as we did the went out a door that was just a couple feet to their left. Luckily, as all that happened the other elders had pulled up in their car and had just gotten out of their car when they saw the two robbers bust out the door on the side of the building. After that they ran after them, but lost them. They eventually found two guys that looked like the robbers so we will see if that was them or not.
    Anyways, as you can see we are staying on our toes for now on! We are super lucky that we didn’t get hurt or anything, but would’ve loved to have actually caught them redhanded. I’ll definitely let you guys know if we hear anything about that!
    Also in the week, was Christmas!!!! I can’t believe it was over, it didn’t really feel like Christmas to be honest, but it’s sad that it’s over. It’s also sad that Light the World is over as well! It was great to see all the blessings from that and to be able to do something simple for our fellowmen. I hope that everyone can keep the spirit of Christmas and Light the World in their hearts as we continue on to the year 2018.
    Today for pday we went to the border of Germany and France (which is only an hour away) and we hiked up to a super sweet view at these castle ruins. It wasn’t a crazy long hike but it was still a hike nonetheless!! I’ll throw in some sick pics and let them speak for themselves. Besides that, we are still working with our recent converts to help them stay in the spirit of being converted so they experience more blessings. The holidays are sadly making everybody too busy to either meet with us or just stop and talk with us. We are continuing to work hard and to get stuff done!
    I hope everyone has a super awesome week! I’m very grateful for the Savior, Jesus Christ and that He was sent by a VERY loving Father in Heaven. Because He came, i know we can become clean again, by relying on His Atonement. I know that Jesus Christ also knows the exact pains that we are going through, which means the He is able to comfort us and help us know that everything will be alright! I love Christmas time and the awesome excuse that it gives us to give to others!!
Keep the spirit going!
    -Elder Rogers

Christmas emails

We enjoyed having your awesome Elders over for dinner tonight. Merry Christmas.
Porter family

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Hi Sister Rogers,

I know that you do not know me but your son stopped by our house the other day. He left such an impression on us. He was friendly and personable and great to talk to and a great representative of Jesus. I just wanted to say thank you! Thanks for doing such a great job raising a fantastic son. It must be a huge sacrifice to have him gone but he is doing a great work here in Germany. I hope you have an incredible Christmas and a very blessed New Year.

Love,

Jenna Layton

Christmas!!!!

This week was great!! To start off I will be staying in Ramstein for another transfer! I’ve been here since may and I absolutely love it! Elder Adams and I have been getting along just great!! We have
been talkin to tons of people and it’s been pretty easy with the light the world initiative that has been going on.
     One really cool thing that we did was go to the store and we buy 100 pieces of chocolate, wrapped them, stuck a light the world card on them, and just gave them out to people on the street! It was way cool and tons of fun! Surprisingly a couple people didn’t want to take any chocolate.
     Also in the week, we met with our recent convert Lester and he is doing pretty good. He went through a little bit of depression a while ago, but he is doing a lot better! We had some very spiritual lesson with him and I really hope that what we were impressed to say will help him.
      Well it snowed pretty good and we have had a good time. I have no time left, but I am super excited to skype on Monday! I love the Christmas season and the chance that we have to share the blessings of Christ’s birth with our families. December is always the fastest month of the year which is a bummer, but the spirit of Christmas doesn’t only have to be shared in December! We can always lend a helping hand for someone or bake a simple batch of cookies for a neighbor! I hope everyone has a super great weekend leading up to Christmas and do your best to keep Lighting the World!!!! Have a good week!
Elder Rogers

Winter wonderland

This week was super great!! It was so fast but I feel like we got so much stuff done! We do have transfer calls coming up this Saturday, so I’m getting a little worried about that. But I’m here to do the Lord's work and He knows exactly where I’ll be able to do that work best at. I’m very grateful for the area I am in now and for all of the work I have been able to do here.
  Anyways enough about transfers! Earlier in the week we got to got finding a lot! We went to the university a couple times and it was super fun! It also snowed a ton on Sunday and because it snowed so much on and a half wards got canceled. So we only went to 1 and a half wards which was nice, but driving in the snow was awesome! I miss snow. Sadly it melted and got washed away by the rain the next day.
  We also had two awesome ward Christmas parties on Saturday. One was a brunch that we got a less active to go to! We were really happy to see him there and he seemed like he had a good time. After that ward party we had the second one that night. There was some awesome steak and a lot of nonmembers.
   One of my highlights of the week was when we went on splits with the Zone Leaders and elder Clarke was with me! We went to the Tanner family’s house. Which was super fun, it’s also funny because brother Tanner's first name is Stephen and his last name is Tanner and my first and middle name are Steven Tanner. Anyways just a fun fact, haha. But while we were there we had some edamame beans and elder Clarke ate the whole thing!! If you have ever had edamame beans then you would know that you just pinch the bean on the inside of the pod out and you don’t eat the whole thing, but elder Clarke had no idea and just did his beast to get them down hahahahaha!
  Also in the week we had a super awesome Zone Conference! We talked a lot about the Atonement of Jesus Christ and of course Christmas as well. We learned some amazing things about how we can become comforted through our hard times and also to repent and become clean again! To me there is no greater gift, then Jesus Christ and His Love for me.
   Well that was about it for the week!!!! I hope everyone has a great week and remembers CHRIST this CHRISTmas!!!!!

 -Elder Rogers