TILLYKKE MED DIN FØDSELSDAG Kaden!!!!!!
Last
time we were together on your birthday we were in Harry Potter world
and you turned 19.... isn't that crazy? Well go dress up like a hipster
and fall in love with a stranger and eat breakfast at midnight because you're TWENTY-TWO-OO OO OOO!!! I love you.
Wanna know what I miss more than anything??
WATER.
All I want in my life is a nice glass of ice water. If I'm lucky enough
to get water, its luke warm carbonated water. Sick. And sometimes the soda tastes like carbonated cough syrup.
Gkalvnasfnvkk.
But if that's the worst thing about my life, I guess I'm doing pretty good!
My life rocks.
Every Thursday
we have sports night, and all the kids and youth and YSA's meet up and
play soccer for a couple hours. Danes are crazy good at soccer... even the little kids rock at it.
So sports night was one of our ideas to help bring the ward members
together and help everyone get involved with missionary work. They invite
their nonmember and less active friends and we invite our investigators
and we all play the night away. And as I'm running across the field I
can't help but think about how SWEET my life is... Playing soccer under a
gorgeous European sky with a bunch of amazing people. Back home, I never had time to go out and meet new people and
make new friends and visit people and talk with strangers. My life was
all about me- my job and my school classes and my friends. And that's why
being on a mission is SO great, because now I don't have time for
anything BUT going out and meeting new people and making new friends and
talking with strangers. Its so much fun. Especially when you look
through Heaven's eyes. Because even though we speak different languages
or are different colors or know different cultures or were born on
different corners of the planet, we are ALL children of the same
Heavenly Father.
So talk to the lady at the cash register when you go to the grocery
store. Make friends with the old man in front of you in the long line
at the post office. Make cookies for your neighbors that live down the
street. Reach out to everyone around you. You never know, the Lord might
answer somebody's prayers through you.
One day Sister Pete and I went to the store to buy a
map so we wouldn't be lost and confused all the time in this foreign
city anymore. But the map we needed cost 200 Kroner and we couldn't
afford it. So Sister Peterson and I were trying to figure out how we
could make it work, and I was like "well, we could just not buy groceries
this week..." and Sister Pete was like "or maybe we could wash all our
clothes by hand for the rest of the month or..." And then a lady that
had apparently overheard our conversation came up and took the map and
said she'd like to buy it for us. She didn't care how expensive it was.
She didn't know us from Adam, but she saw that we were in need and she
wanted to help. So she gave us the map and said "I know you'll help
somebody else someday." And then she smiled and disappeared into the
crowd.
The light of Christ shines through kindness and good deeds.
So
I was pretty bummed that I missed the annual Llama Fest in Spanish Fork
this year.... But. the VIKING FEST totally made up for it. The part of
Denmark where I live was once inhabited by pillaging vikings. How crazy
cool is that?! So there is a Viking Festival every summer out at the old
ruins of an ancient viking village. Everybody was dressed up
re-enacting and camping out there for the whole week! It was like I just
climbed out of the Magic Treehouse (remember those books from
elementary school? they were the best) and showed up in a real viking
village. We made viking bread and tried on all the viking clothes and
pet viking ponies and played viking games and shot a bow and arrow and
wandered through the village of shops and people.... It was a dream come
true!
That night my comp and I cut up a big watermelon for
dinner and talked about our worst date stories and our future husbands
just like any two normal twenty year old girls might do. Because that's
what we are. Just two normal twenty year old girls. Missionaries are
real people too. Who do things like go to Viking festivals and play
soccer and laugh and have fun. Except for our name tags that give us the
powers of heaven and except for the angels that are always around us
and except for the gift of tongues that helps us speak crazy foreign
languages and except for the hymns that are always stuck in our heads
and except for the skirts we always have to wear....... we're just
normal people! Its pretty cool that Heavenly Father trusts us with the
salvation of His children. Its pretty cool to have the Lord answer
somebody's prayers through you. Its pretty cool to help somebody find
and build and strengthen their testimony. And its absolutely amazing. To
be the one the Lord sends to help one of His children find their way
back home. The best feeling in the world.
"I call upon the weak things of the world, those who are unlearned and desised, to thresh the nations by the power of my Spirit;
And
their arm shall be my arm, and I will be their shield and their
buckler; and I will gird up their loins, and they shall fight manfully
for me; and their enemies shall be under their feet; and I will let fall
the sword in their behalf, and by the fire of mine indignation will I
preserve them." D&C 35:13-14
Have a good week! Drink lots of water for me.
:)
Søster Rogers
Susanne was baptized on Saturday! It was the best.
missionary vikings
Dinner
Peace and vi ses!
