What a week!
It was sad saying goodbye to
Sister P after being attached to each other every second of every day for
4 months straight. She was more than my companion and more than my best
friend.... she was like my right leg! My other half! We worked so hard
and learned so much. But now I've started a whole new chapter of my
mission... Being a trainer is so exciting and sooo challenging and so
much fun! On Thursday
morning I got to meet my new companion, fresh from the Empty Sea- the
beautiful Søster Madison Grant from Alpine, Utah! In my meeting with
President Sederholm he shared with me his spiritual experience where the
Lord sent Sister Grant specifically to me for a specific reason. I
already knew that was true... the Spirit confirmed that to me the moment
I met her. I'm so excited to serve with her and discover why we are
here together. I know that she's going to teach me so much more than I
could ever teach her. What a blessing that I get to serve with a brand
new missionary and witness the very beginning of the miracle that's her
mission. We're already best friends and I love her already!
On Friday
Sister Grant and I had an appointment scheduled with a cute mom and friend. A member in our ward invited her to church a few weeks back,
and she's actually come twice now! The second time she even brought two
of her little boys. So we've had this appointment scheduled for over two
weeks now, and I was soooo excited to finally meet with her. But the
night before, she canceled. I was super disappointed, and decided to
call her back and see if we could still just stop by with some brownies.
She was hesitant, but she wanted the brownies! So she agreed, and said
we could bring by the treats and just talk outside for 2 minutes...
So that day Sister Grant and I baked delicious homemade brownies.
They came out of the oven looking absolutely perfect, and we even
frosted them with chocolate frosting. 2 minutes before we needed to
leave for her house, we went to put a plate of brownies together
for her. But when I cut into the brownies only the very top layer was
cooked. The rest was all gooey gooey gooey brownie batter! (apparently I
left the oven on the wrong setting... danish ovens are confusing...)
Ahhh we were horrified! And had nooo idea what to do. The only reason
she even agreed for us to come over was because we said we'd made her
treats! So we grabbed a plate and some tin foil and booked it to the
grocery store with hopes of finding something that looked homemade. We
bought a package of brownies that said "som hjem lavet" but when we
opened them up they were perfect little cubes individually dipped in
chocolate....dang it. HONESTY IS THE BEST POLICY. Lesson learned.
When we were biking up to her house it started pouring rain.
More like dumping rain. Like I could feel giant rain drops rolling down
my face... and taking my make up with it. (Welcome to missionary life
Sister Grant!) But she had pity on us when we showed up on her front
porch with dripping hair and drenched clothes. She let us come in!! And
what was supposed to be a 2 minute brownie drop off turned into one of
the BEST lessons of my whole mission. We enjoyed herbal tea and store
bought brownies and talked about the gospel. She told us how her
little boys haven't stopped talking about primary, and how they ask if
they can say prayers every day! She told us how much she loves coming to
church, and then- get this- she asked if she could speak in sacrament
meeting sometime! She wants to talk about faith and she asked if we
could help her prepare a talk to give someday. We gave her a list of the
best faith scriptures in the Book of Mormon and she's super excited to
start studying.
Holy cow. She is so prepared.
I hope you all had a good conference weekend!
It was amazing to sit in a chapel in Copenhagen Denmark at 6:00
at night, listening to the tabernacle choir sing and thinking of how
the exact same music was filling the walls of my own home that exact
same moment on the other side of the world!
It was exactly a year ago that my whole life changed. Exactly a year ago that I found out I could serve a mission.
The
first page of my journal begins on October 6th 2012... It was that day
that all of my prayers were answered. It was that day that my Heavenly
Father spoke to me through the voice of our living prophet. It was that
day that my whole journey began, leading me to where I am right now. My
testimony has grown so much and I have grown so much over the past 6
months that I've been on my mission, and over the 6 months before that,
when it all began.
I know that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is
true. I know that Jesus Christ lives, and that He knows and loves me
personally. He's with me. He's been with me every step of the way.
I love you all and hope you have another great week!
Share your testimonies. Live them too.
Jeg elsker jer!
MKH,
Søster Rogers
