Elder Korbin Rogers: Greenies!

So to start of this email it's a little sad, all of district B left for their missions at the beginning of this week and this next week ALL but the Greenies will leave, except for us going to Houston, we've still got another day and a half. I started talking to a few of the Elders that will be leaving though and found out that one of them lives in Ogden and knows Uncle Gary cuz he was his school bus driver! It was pretty sweet. Another one of the newer missionaries was telling me about wanting to work at the Playmill Theater as well which I thought was awesome.

Anyway so continuing, on Sunday we listened to this talk from Elder Bednar called "The Character of Christ." It's an amazing talk but is really hard to find. Another thing is we had a devotional with Brad Wilcox and a singer named Lexi Walker who's FLIPPIN 15! Me and Elder Campbell also got to meet our investigator Linda and got to teach her two lessons. We didn't get to meet the other cuz we had hosting on Wednesday and she was late on Monday to our meeting.

Tuesday we had another devotional with Bonnie C. Oscarson. When she got up I jokingly was like "sweet nap time" but I did listen and I probably got more stuff out of her talk than any other talk, she was a great speaker and it was cool to hear some of the stuff. We've also been doing choir and we sang a different version of "I Feel my Saviors Love" and the Tenor part was really hard, but it sounded so amazing. Small note is that some Elders on another floor were about to leave and were giving away their junk food, and I got popcorn.. life could not be better, I mean it's hard to compete with Popcorn and the gospel.

Speaking of Wednesday, we got to host the new missionaries! It was actually really fun. I only got to host two, in which one of them was a convert of almost two years and is the only convert in his family. Some people's testimonies amaze me. Another thing that is freaking awesome is that two of the new Elders who happen to be companions are Elder MOON and Elder CLOUD! How awesome us that! On Wednesday morning we woke up to do service on the MTC campus and that's when we found out about President Monson. We watched a video in class on his life and that man was an amazing example, I hope everyone can learn something from him.

So on Thursday Elder Campbell got another migraine. I was only able to go to an hour of class before coming back to the residence hall to trade out another missionary but right before I left we were asked to come up with a question and used Scripture to answer it. I wasn't able to come up with a question and find an answer but before I left I was able to share an experience with the same type of situation.

-"Back before I left on my mission I was questioning if it was gonna be pretty spiritual or if it was gonna be stricied and scary. I emailed a buddy of mine who had already left for a mission about the situation (we both went to EFY which was way spiritual) and asked him if it was the same as EFY? After that I read a chapter from the BOM and went to bed. The next day he told me to ask the Lord. A little frustrated at first I went back to the chapter I had already read and told Heveanly father I would read it again for answers, and I did get them."

Pretty great experience and also one of the few that put me in awe haha. Anyway later in the day Elder Campbell went from only having a migraine to getting really sick again. I feel so bad for the guy, please keep him in your prayers.

Friday we found out that one of our teachers will be teaching elsewhere in the building cuz college is starting up again. It sucks cuz both of the teachers are awesome but I'm glad we still have the one. Since I wasn't able to go to all of class it kinda sucked, however we ended up using Skype later and I was able to continue with the class while still in the residence hall!

Anyway sorry for the long email haha, but I just want to share my testimony along with that experience that I know our prayers are answered. Sometimes it is not immediate, and even then I've only had one experience like that, but God does listen and answer to you personally. Love you all! Happy Really-late New Year! Make sure your goals are Legit😂

Elder Rogers the younger