Happy Valentine's Day

Hey Everyone,

I hope you have a good Valentine's Day. This week was good. We went from 12 degrees at the beginning of the week to 40 degrees today, so that's always nice. Our investigator quit smoking this week. We're so proud of him, and we're excited for him to get baptized soon. We also had a dinner appointment cancel last minute this week. Elder Blotter and I put on our gourmet hats and made a great meal. Normally, we just eat simple things, but we made it all this time. It was pretty fun. The funniest thing I heard this week is something called a "queggestion." It's when somebody phrases a suggestion into a question to appear less pushy, but they're really just being pushy. An example might be "Have you tried reading the scriptures?" (But really though, those do solve a lot of problems.)

We had a cool experience going on splits with some members this week. We had a great experience with it. There's definitely something powerful when members and missionaries come together to do the Lord's work.

So last week, we had dinner with a man from Brazil that went well. We taught the Restoration and he is interested in reading the Book of Mormon. We tracted into a guy that let us in. He wasn't interested in continuing to meet. We asked for referrals at the end, and he said his friend had just texted him before we got there and said he had a death in the family. He said he would give his friend our phone number. Hopefully, he'll call us. Regardless though, it was a testimony of always finding.

There was a pretty good talk yesterday. The speaker focused on the origin of the word sincere. He said the root meaning is "without wax." Supposedly, marble statue sculptors would use wax to fill in any cracks or mistakes they made. It looked as if there was never any mistake, but clearly it wasn't genuine. The only true and "sincere" way to correct any mistakes we make in our own personal "sculptures" is through Christ's Atonement. It can be hard when we look around and see others being dishonest and appearing to be perfect. I can testify however, that the best and lasting way is through repentance.


Love
Elder Rogers