Aloha!
This week in the life of Elder Rogers, I had a horrible experience that scarred me for life. It was in my shoes. Oh yeah kids, it was in my shoes. I went inside to talk to some people, and came outside, and looked down, and saw the monster. There was a full size cockroach. IN MY SHOE!!!! AAAHUSDigWGYDWGUDWUGDBWYGDWygDY!!!!!!!!!!!!! FULL SIZE ROACH IN SHOE!!! HEEEEEEEELLLLLLPP!!!!!
I will never just put a shoe on without checking again. Never.
So, I'm sure the big news this week is going to be that we had a baptism. Yup! So that's fun. His name is Brother Curti. The Wailua Elders have been teaching him for a while, so it was amazing to see him baptized on Saturday.
We went on something called exchanges this week with the Zone Leaders. I got to stay in our area with Elder Klaasen, and we did really well together. I was really nervous talking to people, because I'm still awful at being social, but then Elder Klaasen gave me some really good advice. He said that the Lord called me here to be me, not to try and fake it to convert people. That people needed to hear from me as me. After that we found three new potential investigators, so it turns out he was right. It was a really great confidence booster, but of course we can't have happiness and confidence out here in Hawaii, that would be too nice and effective. So life has to push it's way back in and crush all your hopes and dreams. I didn't want to talk about this next part, but it was a big part of the week, so here you go:
Tyler. Tyler Ramos. I know you're all praying for him, but even so, he's getting deployed on October 10- just 5 days before his baptism. He won't be here for his own baptism. Which means, we were going to have to move it up to the 7th. This was really exciting! He was going to be baptized you guys! But then, this week, he didn't come to church. His wife did though, and that's how we learned that Tyler Ramos has relapsed on chewing tobacco. Yeah, really. It's really sad. We have to move his baptism until he gets back from deployment because of it. It broke both of our hearts to hear that he had relapsed, but it's OK. The Savior's atonement will cover it. Sorry there's not more to say today, but this just happened yesterday, so I'm still a bit crushed by it all.
Aloha friends at home. Pray for Tyler. He needs it.
Also I found this road, and I thought Zac would appreciate the name. It's pronounced just like it's spelled. Yes, really.
Aloha, Elder Rogers.
This week in the life of Elder Rogers, I had a horrible experience that scarred me for life. It was in my shoes. Oh yeah kids, it was in my shoes. I went inside to talk to some people, and came outside, and looked down, and saw the monster. There was a full size cockroach. IN MY SHOE!!!! AAAHUSDigWGYDWGUDWUGDBWYGDWygDY!!!!!!!!!!!!! FULL SIZE ROACH IN SHOE!!! HEEEEEEEELLLLLLPP!!!!!
I will never just put a shoe on without checking again. Never.
So, I'm sure the big news this week is going to be that we had a baptism. Yup! So that's fun. His name is Brother Curti. The Wailua Elders have been teaching him for a while, so it was amazing to see him baptized on Saturday.
We went on something called exchanges this week with the Zone Leaders. I got to stay in our area with Elder Klaasen, and we did really well together. I was really nervous talking to people, because I'm still awful at being social, but then Elder Klaasen gave me some really good advice. He said that the Lord called me here to be me, not to try and fake it to convert people. That people needed to hear from me as me. After that we found three new potential investigators, so it turns out he was right. It was a really great confidence booster, but of course we can't have happiness and confidence out here in Hawaii, that would be too nice and effective. So life has to push it's way back in and crush all your hopes and dreams. I didn't want to talk about this next part, but it was a big part of the week, so here you go:
Tyler. Tyler Ramos. I know you're all praying for him, but even so, he's getting deployed on October 10- just 5 days before his baptism. He won't be here for his own baptism. Which means, we were going to have to move it up to the 7th. This was really exciting! He was going to be baptized you guys! But then, this week, he didn't come to church. His wife did though, and that's how we learned that Tyler Ramos has relapsed on chewing tobacco. Yeah, really. It's really sad. We have to move his baptism until he gets back from deployment because of it. It broke both of our hearts to hear that he had relapsed, but it's OK. The Savior's atonement will cover it. Sorry there's not more to say today, but this just happened yesterday, so I'm still a bit crushed by it all.
Aloha friends at home. Pray for Tyler. He needs it.
Also I found this road, and I thought Zac would appreciate the name. It's pronounced just like it's spelled. Yes, really.
Aloha, Elder Rogers.
Elder Klaasen and I
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