Your Sons (Random email)

Saw your Elders tonight at a single adult function while wife and I are visiting friends in Deutschland. They are both happy, healthy & thriving. Thank you for sharing your Sons with the people of Germany.

Super schnell weekly!!

       Hey! Well if you could tell by my Weekly title, I got no time and I'm makin this quick!!! Ok so first off, we were able to set a baptismal date with one of our investigators!! (The one with the Book of Mormon scripture on his arm). He is doing really good and is so ready to follow Christ's example and be baptized! We are very happy for him! That will be next Saturday so pray for that homie!!
       Another in investigator said he wanted to be baptized but he wants to see a baptism take place before he sets a date. He is also very ready to follow Christ, so I know that if we get him to our other investigator's baptism next week he will feel the Spirit and know what he needs to do! We are very excited to see the progress of both of these guys!
       Besides that, we have been working with a couple of less active members that are amazing people! Life is hard, and it's not easy to stay grounded in the Gospel of Christ. I hope we will be able to help them as best we can to get them back onto the path towards Christ!
       Other than that stuff, and I probably missed a lot, we...

       Well I accidentally hit send on my weekly, but I had nothin else for ya so have a good week! Hahaha

Libelle und Nerf Guns

 Hey this week was great!!
       We met with a couple of our investigators again and they are progressing very well!! We are very excited to set some baptismal dates here in the next few days, so please pray that those will work out! I'm very grateful for a God that is so rewarding! I know that He is aware of our needs and sometimes even our wants. He wants to help us be happy, so let Him help! He's not there to hurt anyone!!
       Ok so we had a crazy week, but since I finally have some time to write a solid weekly, I'll run you through the highlights. Last weekend we had a split and I was lucky enough to have Elder Clarke come to my area for a day! It was awesome to learn from him and get to know him better! He's a great guy and huge example to me! The funny thing is we lived 15 minutes away from each other back at home! He knows all my cousins and my little bro a bit, but we never met! It was awesome to chat about the good old days in northern Utah and stuff.
       Anyways, after that split not much happened until about Tuesday and we met some cool people on the street! Germans are funny people, especially the old ones! I love talking to the old Germans, but I don't think they like me as much haha! The best way that I can explain it is if you have ever had that crush on that girl of your dreams, but didn't like you back (or if you're a girl then the other way around). Hahaha it's a lot like that!!
       On Wednesday we were super busy!! It's so weird, for some reason our slow days are Monday and Tuesday and then from Wednesday to Sunday it gets so busy!! Anyways, we met with a less active that was really awesome and wants us to help her build her faith! We then met with an investigator that just got back from the states and she is really busy with a bunch of stuff, so we just said hi, but it was great to see her again! Following that, we went to one of the coolest member families in the world, the Parrys! They are such a fun family, I'm soooo lucky to have met them!! We had some amazing fajitas and ice cream and were able to share a little thought with them! After that we went to institute and chilled with the young single adults!
       Well that's about it! We are very excited to set some baptismal dates soon! Our investigators are sooo ready, i'm very grateful to be in this place of Germany at this time to be able to meet these awesome people! I know that the Lord puts us where we need to be and helps us talk to who we need to! Which is amazing! Because of that we meet lifelong friends, help others find Christ, and simply do His will. But there is a little work that we have to do to be able to be a part of this amazing life-changing work, we need to simply pray for the missionary opportunity, study the scriptures, and do what our Heavenly Father wants us to do. I am so grateful for the peace I'm able to find in my hard times and I hope everyone else can find that too!!
       Have a great week!!
Elder Rogers

Me and Elder Clarke

Weekly

       This week was super great!  We were able to meet with some new investigators and a couple of other investigators!!  We met with a young couple that were super chill and are so ready!!  We also met with a young single adult that had a lot of questions for our church as far as what we believe!
        Well I'm so sorry, I wish I could've wrote more!! A lot happened this week, but I just have no time to write it all!!  The members here are so helpful I love it!!  I hope every member, or just simply good person, know that they do a lot!  Sometimes it may feel like we are not doing much and that when we help people it's not a big deal, but I know that we have a huge impact on everyone's lives that we help!!  So keep being the good person you are and just follow the Spirit that's within all of us!  Have a good week!
Elder Rogers

Shoppin for Jesus!

     This week was great!! We had our transfers and Elder Forsey and i will be staying here for another!! We are super pumped to keep working hard and do what we know best!! We also were givin a car! Its nothing amazing, but it is a car so we are super grateful. Our area is super massive, especially that the sister missionaries are not here to help us out anymore. But we are having a great time and meeting a lot of new people in all three wards!
     So last week we were on splits with our zone leaders and it was a great time! we talked to a tooon of people and had some great conversations. One lady we talked to was from the States and was a homie!! She gladly took a book of Mormon. She had just got done shopping so when I put the Book of Mormon in one of her bags she said, "shopping for Jesus!" Sadly she was on vacation here so we told her to look up the missionaries when she got back to the States. She then randomly took a pic of us and put it on Instagram! i have no idea what her name was so I have no idea where the picture would be. Anyways we ended up teaching a couple great people after that and had a great time.
     Well as far as investigators, all of ours are so busy its ridiculous. We are currently working super hard with less active members and its been really cool to see people want to return to Christ! I dont have much time left, but I just wanted to testify of the truthfulness of the Gospel of Jesus Christ!! I know that we can never get too far away from Christ because His power is eternal and always there for us. Im so happy for the knowledge of the Plan of Salvation and that we are able to live for eternity with our families and our Father in Heaven. Christ lives, and loves us so much that he came to the earth to suffer and die for each one of us. He was resurrected so that we may conquer death!! The Church is true, and I know that the Atonement of Jesus Christ is for everyone one of Gods children!!
     Hope everyone has a great week!!
-Elder Rogers

A wonderful missionary and a delight

Hey. This is Wynette Bodily, Carl Jensen's daughter. Your son is in my ward in Germany and I decided to take a picture of him and record his talk on Sunday. I hope these both go through so that you can see them. Brother Rogers is a wonderful missionary and a delight to have in our ward boundaries.
Love, Wynette

Schnelle Woche gehabt!!

       Hey this was a fast week and so is pday!! Like always I'm rushed on time so I'll keep it short! We are working with our tattooed investigator to get him to progress closer to baptism! Sadly he had a schedule change and won't be able to meet with us for the next 6 weeks!! He said he might have time on the weekends, but it's still even a gamble. So we are bummed about that! We see our other investigators when we are walking around, but they never answer their phone or door when we try them. It's just a little frustrating to get people to reply answer and so you can meet but they never answer!
       We have been getting a lot of good work done here, the wards are awesome and very helpful! They always make sure we have enough stuff, especially when it comes to food. So I'm happy about that! Haha! Anyways, we met as a Zone on Monday, but no one took a pic so I can't chuck it in the weekly. But it was awesome!! We learned a lot about finding and how we can improve it by doing a bunch of little things! President Boyer talked to us about talking to the young single adult aged people instead of others. Of course we must follow impressions from the Spirit, but he told us that the YSA's are very great to talk to because they are in an important spot of their life! And I agree!!
       I know that the Lord wants us to reach out to as many people as we can and help them to become closer to Christ. I know that we are all in this together and because of the Atonement of Jesus Christ we are able to share His amazing message with all of Gods children! The world may be forever changing, but our Lord and God will always be the same they have been, before this life, during this life, and following it. Heavenly Father is very wise and completely aware of what we are dealing with every day. He wants to help us and wants to forgive us, but it's our own thoughts and desires that keep us from offering that simple prayer to Him.
       I hope everyone has a super sick week and that you can all feel the love of your Redeemer, Jesus Christ!
Ciao!!
Elder Rogers