Elder Tanner Rogers: Evangeline

Howdy

It's been quite a while since our last P day, and MAN our pantry was EMPTY. This turned out to be a blessing in disguise though. Yesterday we were out knocking on some doors and we were on our way back when we saw a lemonade stand. We decided we would stop. When we did we started talking to the parents a little, and they asked us if we had lunch yet (it was about 1:00) we said we hadn't and they said, "Hey come in on and we'll grill up some hot dogs for you." 40 minutes later we strolled out of an awesome time with the Kidd family, who apparently had just returned from a vacation to Colorado where they had some cool experiences with the missionaries there. We snagged up their phone numbers and we're friends now. He wants us to come play basketball with him and 10-15 of his friends and said we could talk to them. Unfortunately playing basketball with people isn't allowed... Maybe we could be the halftime show.

We had another cool experience when we called through the paper area book. We got in contact with a man named Jim who hadn't been in contact with missionaries for six years. We had an amazing lesson with him - probably the strongest that I can remember from my mission (My memory is kind of bad though) and it was just so amazing. You always hear stories of people who are just meant for you when you go on a mission. When we met Jim I felt like I was in this area specifically to meet him. It was such a great experience. He still didn't show up to church this week though... We've been doing a lot with our other friend Jim as well. He is slowly growing closer to the Savior, and it is so amazing to see. Every inch of his house is covered with workout equipment. We have been helping him set up lots of different machines, and talking about the gospel with him. If there is a workout machine out there, he probably owns it.

They said that now our job as bike elders is pretty much over, and they want people to start buying their own bikes again. This is bitter-sweet news for me. Because of this, we bike part-time again, which I love, but Elder Brinton does not.

Lastly, we had an amazing mission tour Monday through Wednesday this week with Elder Bassett, a member of the 70. It was amazing and filled with powerful experiences. I'm grateful that I was able to be a part of it. It also meant that P day would be moved to my birthday so that was nice. Anyway, have a great week! The small things we do can make a big difference, go and serve someone today!

Keep Striving,

Elder Rogers