SMILE!

Hey!!
Where do I even begin!? This week has been pretty epic.

Monday, we went to Bradgate Park with an amazing member. It was SO cool! Quick history: it's where the ruins of Lady Jane Grey's manor are. Lady Jane grey was King Henry's 5th wife. She was quite the character of world history...  (see pictures) 

We've also seen some pretty cool miracles. Let me describe 3 of my favourite moments of the week to you.

1) Sitting with P3, teaching him about temples and family history (we'd felt prompted to teach that lesson). As we began talking about baptisms for the dead we mentioned that it was talked about in the Bible. As we started to pull out our scriptures, he said "I know, it's in 1 Corinthians 15, I've wondered why nobody practices it today since it was practiced before" KABOOM. It was amazing! He had a special light in his eyes as we talked about baptisms for the dead, missionary work in the spirit world and how baptism is just the beginning of our covenant making and keeping. There was such an amazing spirit in the lesson. Its so cool as a missionary to teach that this is the the same church which Jesus Christ established, and which has been around since the beginning of time! 

2) At the stake picnic. There were carnival-like activities outside and everyone was out playing games, talking and having a good time. Then all of a sudden- a torrential downpour came upon us! Everyone ran into the stake centre and all the missionaries were frantically running around getting everything inside. Welcome to England! :)

3) Church. It was a wonderful wonderful time. That's why we go to church, to take the sacrament, be uplifted, learn, and be with others who share our faith. We sang my favourite sacrament hymn (169) and as I looked around me, I had P3 on my left, Sister Curtis, S5, M2 and robertR4 on my right and then L1 and her 3 kids in front of us I was filled with love and happiness for these amazing people I have been blessed to work with! Their faith strengthens mine. It was just such a cool moment, to see everyone sitting there in sacrament meeting.

I LOVE being a missionary SO much. It means everything to me that I am able to serve the Lord in this way at this time. I am especially grateful for the Savior. When he is the centre of everything we do, all else falls into place! 

Some of the ruins

Yep, that little figure in the arch is ME! We hiked up to this tower which was probably about a mile away from the manor

 A picture of Sister Curtis and I with Alice, and amazing young single adult who took us to the ruins with her.

I hope you have a good week! 

LOVE YOU!

Sister Roscher

We ARE His Children

This letter is from June 9th, I was just slow getting it posted :)

Family!

This week has had quite a few firsts for me (even after being out for a whole year!) One of them was teaching 3 Iranian women who have been in the country for less than a month English from the Book of Mormon. It made me realize how little I know about how English works. And the Book of Mormon is old English,m so we'll have to switch to using something else to read out of. Any tips you have on teaching English would be much appreciated! The women are so so nice though, and they're Christian, which is pretty cool. Another first, we've been teaching quite a few Muslim people, and it's actually been really strengthening my faith! I am so so so grateful for our knowledge that there is a prophet on the earth today and that we receive revelation from him. I am also ESPECIALLY grateful for my knowledge that Jesus is the Christ,that he overcame death and sin for US, and that he gave his life up on the cross, voluntarily so that we could follow his example and be resurrected! I have a great respect for the Muslim religion, but I am truly grateful to know Jesus Christ is my Savior and that I am a child of God! These are very important doctrines to know and understand! 

P3 is doing really well! He seriously makes my day. He is reading the Book of Mormon and is doing amazing. Our main struggle with him right now is helping him commit to baptism. He is having a hard time seeing the need to be baptized again, because his previous baptism meant A LOT to him. Keep him in your prayers please! 

All in all, things are going really good. I LOVE learning more about the gospel and applying it more into my life. I love these people here. They are honestly AMAZING! 

Sorry this is short, I ran out of time!! 

 

This is a picture of the canal/rover thing that we pass through on the bike trail to several ward members homes. Isn't it beautiful with the arches??

 Love you all!

Sister Roscher

YOMO

Hi Family!!!  In case you are wondering about the strange title of my email, YOMO (you only mission once), is a funny spin-off the missionaries here use based off of YOLO (you only live once).

This week has been one-of -a-kind and we've seen many miracles. 

P3 came to church on Sunday, and he LOVED it! He thought it was amazing. It was fast and testimony meeting and it was actually really good. We had quite a few people there because of a baby blessing and there was a strong spirit. Paul has really come a long ways this week. He committed to live the word of wisdom without the blink of an eye and has been diligently reading the Book of Mormon. He learns SO much when he reads and asks so many questions! The things that he learns from reading it are amazing. Sometimes I think he learns more from his studies in the Book of Mormon than I do! haha He loved King Benjamin and also enjoyed reading other various parts in the Book of Mormon. His testimony of the Book of Mormon is such a testimony of the Book of Mormon (if that makes any sense)! 

Everyone else, Yang, T6, D2, S5, R4, and C are doing well too. This should be an exciting week for them! 

Now, a couple other cool things that happened. M2 is a new investigator from Poland. We actually thought he was an African potential we'd been contacting for about 5 weeks now. We'd scheduled an appointment with him but he kept on canceling. We had rescheduled to meet on Saturday and he actually made it! We were pretty floored though when we found out it was not the M2 we thought he was. Turns out he is an old potential from August. But guess what? He is way cool, and needs the gospel. He's having some life troubles right now and has decided to turn to God. So we walked up to the church and guess what? There were members there cleaning, one of whom was able to sit in on our lesson (and we were actually able to go into the church with him). I've done a terrible job explaining this experience, but basically what I learned is that Heavenly Father cares a lot about each of us. Enough to have us accidentally come across M2 again and to have member  at the church when we got there! 

I'm very grateful for the many amazing people there are here in England (and everywhere)! 

This weeks is short and sweet, sorry, ran out of time because of District P-day! 

Love  you!

Sister Roscher