Another week in Paradise:)

10/3/2016

Dear Family,

This week was real good! On Monday we went on a sweet hike and just generally enjoyed life. 

So instead of giving you a daily play by play, Im just going to share an experience I had with a dear investigator, David Fortson, and my insights from General Conference :)

So we met David Fortson a few weeks ago tracting. He didn't seem too interested, but he invited us back and so we went. That appointment went so well, the Spirit was so strong, and we committed him to baptism. The next week he cancelled his appointment with us for family reasons, but we felt that we should go see him, so Saturday night we stopped by and talked with him. He had had a really hard week with some family issues and also some health scares so it was so special to be able to bare witness of Christ's love for this man and God's awareness of his problems. We were able to give him a blessing of comfort and he said that because we had stopped by, he would be able to sleep tonight. The next day we were able to watch conference with him. It was such a tender mercy to be able to hear from David how this message is helping him out. I am so grateful to be a missionary.

So This weekend, as many of you know, was General Conference!!! It was my third out in the field and my 2nd to last as a missionary, so I tried to pay close attention. Because I stayed up late making a cake for Elder Mccleves birthday, I fell asleep during one of the Sunday morning talks haha but besides that, It was good. The three biggest things I got out of Conference was that 

1. I need to improve my prayers, and the way the Spirit told me to do that was too say a prayer of gratitude every day and to pray ten minutes before I go to bed. It was so cool to receive revelation :)

2. Be ambitious boys, Be ambitious for Christ. Elder Yamashita gave a great talk about being better and striving for Christ and his doctrine.

3. I also got the chance to ask the Lord what I needed to work on (what I lack) and I received the prompting to have more gratitude and to stop complaining, even jokingly. 

Another thing I got from conference was a sure witness of the Prophets and the Restoration, and that I need to be bold in my testimony of the Book of Mormon. So make no mistake, this is the true Church of Christ. I know that Joseph Smith was a prophet of God. I know that the Book of Mormon is true. The Doctrine of Christ is what the this life is all about. Have faith brothers and sisters. Don't forget the joy you first felt when you had ears to hear and you partook of the fruits of the Gospel. Nothing else will give you satisfaction, and nothing else will bring true and everlasting joy. 

I love you all,

Elder Rogers