Email 7/22/2013

Elder Holmes, Halee's District Leader, finished his mission and went home this week.

Got a new companion in their trio this week- Sister Wiest from SLC!

Fam!
Yo! So its another week down, here in Mt. Veezy! Things are going so swell and the work is progressing thanks to many great tender mercies and miracles from God. A lot went down this week so let me try and fill you in!

As you know, on thursday was transfer meeting! We got a third companion! Her name is Sister Wiest! She is from the great city of Salt Lake. She's been out for about 6 months, served in the MTC with Sister Murphy. She got sent home 4 months in for medical issues and got surgey so now shes back! Shes way cool so I'm stoked to have her in our companionship!

On thursday night after we picked up Sister Wiest, we had an appointment with a media referral we had received. His name is Caleb, we didnt really know too much about him. But when we got to his house and started talkin to him, we found out that he's a marine! (He's got some way sick tats) He is in his mid-30's probably and his best friend from the marines is a member of the church. So we were planning on teaching him the restoration, but when we asked him what he knew about it, he pretty much relayed the whole lesson to us! HAHA! We also found out that he's been going to church with his friend in provo for like two months straight! GOLDEN! Not only that, but he's started to read the Book of Mormon on his own! So we read a little bit with him and then asked him what would be hindering him from getting baptized and he thought about it for a minute and then was like.... well nothing really. HA IT WAS NUTS! So we invited him to be baptized and he accepted and then we invited him to pray about a baptismal date and he also accepted! So we concluded with a prayer and asked if he would offer it. He said yes and then proceeded to give like the most wonderful prayer I have ever heard! This guy is so solid!!!! IThe Lord is blessing us so much and I know its because of all your prayers back home! They are totes working!!!:) Hopefully we will have a date set with him on Thursday!!!!

Alright, best thing for last.... i know youre thinking, "it gets better??" YES IT DOES!!!!!! So we stopped by Mitchellann's house on friday to introduce her to sister Wiest and teach her but when we came she was just so grumpy and having like the worst day ever. So we left there feeling pretty bad and wanting to help her. So that night Sister Murphy got revelation that we should bring her cookies the next day! So we did and she was feeling much much better! We started talking to her a little bit about the doctine of Christ. I reinvited her to be baptized and she said probably.  So we kept talking to her and after a while of talking I invited her to set a date for her baptism. I told her that, we as a companionship, had been praying about a certain date a lot.  She said she had a date in mind for herself.  But she wanted to know what our date was first.  So we told her August 17th and she was all well I was thinking my anniversary which is August 18th so that would work out just perfectly! IT WAS AMAZING!!!!  We had the same date!!!!! She put it in her calender and everything! Im so excited for her!!!! We gotta teach her a lot still to be ready by then but we know she can do it!!!!!

Well that's pretty much everything exciting going on this week. It has been so great and humbling! We are headed to the Nauvoo Pageant for my birthday tomorrow!! I'm so stoked!!! Also, today I have been out exactly 2 months!!! haha

I love you guys so so so much! And 
I talk about you guys all the time! I miss you like crazy and thank you so much for all your letters and packages! I'll have to do shoutouts next week!

But seriously the church is true!

Love,
Sister Halee Rogers