HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY
I think I've come to the conclusion that this is my favorite holiday. You might say I'm falling in my dad's footsteps and I'd probably say your right! I can remember as if it were yesterday being a little girl on my dads shoulders watching the giant fireworks bloom into color in the big night sky.
This week was so much fun! One reason being.. that is just the way missionary life is #amazing and also because it POURED rain this past week. I got to go on exchanges with one of the English sisters and as we were running back to our car from a lesson I was enjoying myself so much! Sister lemon looked back at me like I was the weirdest sister training leader she'd ever had. It's the little things in this life that make sister Rogers one happy missionary! I think the members and investigators here are really getting comfortable with my love for Ice cream. It's come to the point where meal appointments have turned into Ice cream runs. One of our investigators gave us Ice Cream at 9 in the morning haha. Once again, it's the little things.
Just when I think I can't love this gospel anymore than I already do...I do. MY LOVE FOR THIS GOSPEL HAS SOARED. Yesterday we shared a the new children's bible videos with our members and they hit me super strong. so what these videos are is they are bible stories that children narrate. It hit me as they were talking anout jesus and how much he loves us. How simply they said it but how "fuerte" or strong and powerful it was. I think that simple phrase can sometimes be taken for granted. As a representative of Him I testify of that simple phrase and how much it means to me. Jesus Christ loves us! He truly does. There will never be a moment in this life where you need to walk alone. He will always be with you!! Ponder it.
I also just wanted to end this email by giving my gratitude for the freedom that we have today. the ability to choose. I am grateful that I am able to love God and fall because I'm human..and with the power of the atonement I can ALWAYS get back up and choose to follow Him. I am grateful that we live in a country where we can choose.
Alma 60: 36 Behold, I am Moroni, (Hermana Rogers) your chief captain.( A representative of Jesus Christ) I seek not for power, but to pull it down. I seek not for honor of the world, but for the glory of my God, and the freedom and welfare of my country. And thus I close mine epistle.(email) Hahaha (I like to apply the scriptures by reading it as if my name where in it. ) enjoy your Fourth of July! And thank God for the freedom that we have been given!!
1. Name tag
2.Our first attempt at making a cute booth in the park
3. Morristown High School
4. We felt pretty beachy after receiving a flower from a less active, running to our car in the rain and having it all still be humid
5. We aren't photogenic
6. Icecream @ 9 in the morning
7. Merica
