Weekly Update 11-10-14

Beautiful Sisters!  Sister Barney and Sister Rogers.

Hey There champs!

How are all of you today? I am doing pretty good. This week was a definite adventure to say the least. Twice this week I had to get on some sisters for disobedience! I don't like when I have to be all stern and stuff! But I guess it is part of the calling. One thing I know though is that I have so much respect for my mission president and his wife. They deal with this stuff on a daily basis! It's pretty stressful at times.

Besides that stuff, the week was really good. like 9 of our lessons fell through but good things happened. We got two new investigators. One is Virginia and the other is Deng... He is from Sudan and is way cool! We set a baptismal date as well for our other African investigator named Ngor for December 13th! He wants to come to church next week. Cool story that happened on Friday... We didn't have anyone to teach so we went knocking doors! That's not the cool part. We knocked on this one door and met this guy named Brad. He was wearing a buffalo bills beanie and so initially I struck the conversation by talking about Ryan Fitzpatrick who used to be the QB for em... THANK YOU HIGHLAND. So anyways, we were talking to him for a good 15 minutes about sports and his work at lots of casinos and his service in the military and all of these other cool things. Anyways... it transitioned into a conversation about how the Atonement of Jesus Christ can change us. We shared a few verses out of Alma 36 with him and we think he really enjoyed it and was totes feeling the spirit. He was just lovin it! After we shared the scriptures and bore testimony to him he paused and thought for a moment and aked, "So when will you be back in Ames?" We of course said that we were here everyday... So then he said, "Are you here for Thanksgiving and Christmas?" "Yep!" then another pause... "Do you have plans for Thanksgiving?" "Nope!"... and finally an even longer pause.... He said, "Well how about you two stop by here on Thanksgiving and have thanksgiving dinner with me and my family!!" and pointing at the Book of Mormon in my hand he goes, "... and bring that book!" It was so cool! We had just met this guy like 20 minutes prior and he invited us to come have thanksgiving with him and he wants us to bring The Book of Mormon. What a tender mercy. 

Hope that brightens up your week! I love you all! See ya in a few!

Love

Sister Rogers