But, a little bit about the last 7 days! On the weekend we did some service for a German family that had a ton of wood in their driveway and they needed it in their garage. After we moved a ton of wood we went finding for a little bit longer before our dinner appointment with the McLaren family. They are way cool and brother McLaren does tons of family history work. Actually, the member we met with the day after that also does a lot of family history! It’s way cool to hear stories from them about their ancestors and stories that they know now.
Sunday was crazy! A couple members in the ward were at dinner a couple nights before Sunday and one of them was wearing a BYU hoodie. Their waitress was interested in their hoodie and told them that she wants to go to school there but doesn’t know if she had to be a member or not. But she also said that she believes what the Mormons believe in! It was crazy! So she made it to church, she is a super cool girl that can speak 4 languages and is way mature! She had a couple questions about the church, but the Spirit was able to testify to her about what we were saying. It was so awesome to meet her and we gave her over to the sisters since she’s a single young woman.
Earlier in the week we went finding in this city called Linden and this city was insane! We got there and we just started knockin doors and everyone who answered would just wave us away. Which was no big deal until we ran into this cat that was pretty much possessed! This cat just followed us around and kept meowing at us all weird! Elder Adams was super scared for some reason, but it was more funny than anything. Eventually the cat stopped following us and we were able to talk to some cool people. No one had tons of interest, but a couple were willing to at least let us in and hear us out.
Wednesday was awesome, we had an awesome district meeting and the senior missionaries, the Jacobs, made us an awesome lunch. They are such great people and I am waaay glad I was able to serve alongside them. After district meeting we met with a couple people that sadly asked us to kindly not come back but were grateful we stopped by and chatted. We had German class and were able to talk to the young men about how to teach as missionaries. We definitely aren’t perfect at
it, but it was awesome to be able to talk with them and give them pointers on how to reach teach by the Spirit.
Today we visited a castle in Heidelberg and thinking about it I think I visited the same castle my first pday on the mission, that’s crazy!
But just to close out one last time, I’ve been thinking a lot lately about success and becoming who our Heavenly Father knows we can become. I realized that our success/satisfaction comes from our
personal conversion to the gospel of Jesus Christ. This conversion propels us to keep going and keep looking forward. As we do this we can’t help but let our example beam out like a light for others to
acknowledge.
I know the gospel of Jesus Christ is true. I know the Book of Mormon testifies of Jesus Christ and has that power of conversion within its pages. All of life’s big questions can be found and
answered inside the Book of Mormon. I also know with my whole heart that the healing, redeeming, never-ending power of the Atonement of Jesus Christ is needed for us to be able to put our bad habits and sins in the past and follow our Savior, Jesus Christ. Don’t be so quick to run from the outstretched arms who’s hands were scarred for your eternal salvation. Because Jesus Christ went through such a hard (to us impossible) trial for each one of our sins we don’t have to be sad throughout our life on earth. I know this to be true because I have experienced this power in my own life. Be positive, know that there is happiness coming, and look to Christ for comfort and council!
I hope everyone has a great week! I’ll see you next week!
Elder Rogers
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