One thing that all the people say here is "Welcome to Fort Stockton, where the wind is blowin, the grass is grownin, and the oil is flowin." and i like to add in... and nothin else is goin.. Cause this town is the most boring town in Texas haha. But there is a high school football game this week that should get the whole town to we here..... probably shouldn't expect to much though cause the team was 1-6 last year haha trash;)
On tuesday we ended up going to brand cows with some straight up cowboys.... non of them were members which was interesting haha probably heard every single curse word in the book up until they knew that Me and Elder Brower were representatives of Jesus Christ... then they stopped haha! We rode around on this SICK dune buggy out on the dessert for like 2 hours until all the cowboys got all the cows rounded up! Lowkey taught this Hispanic dude about families most of the time. He said that he's seen satan before and all this crap and then we gave up cause he stopped listening...... then he rammed this coyote in the buggy! Pretty sweet haha!!
Did lots of service like normal this week..... its almost ridiculous how much service we do compared to anything else!! Our branch would probably fall apart if we weren't apart of their ward.... We bless and pass the Sacrament, i spoke on Sunday for like 30 minutes, we have a family home evening every tuesday night, we do a book of mormon study every thursday night and we give a blessing probably like 3 times a week. It's cool and all but they wouldn't know what to do without us:)
We have knocked SO many doors and only got to teach 2 set lessons.... everyone knows who we are and either doesn't want to talk to us or will come up and talk to us to try and prove us wrong.... stupid haha!! The first lesson we taught was to this Church of Christ minister that seemed super nice and wanted to listen to what we had to say and then boom..... whips out the ole bible and starts bashing with us haha!! he is a super cool guy but just hard to get along with.... we are taking him a BOM soetime this week though... don't know what he'll do with it haha!! The 2nd lesson that we taught was to this lady and her boyfriend. We have been stopping by a ton with her to see if we could finally get a lesson and we finally got one in yesterday cause both her and her bf were there! Their names are Kiara and Paul, some sick black people that live in the hood and it always smells like weed around there appartment haha!! But the lesson was killer and the spirit was so strong. Strong enough that we committed them to be baptized on September 23! And if they follow though this will be the first convert Baptism that Fort Stockton has had in 5 years.... crossing our fingers that they go though with it!!
Besides Kiara and Paul everyone we have talked to has either chewed us out, threatened to sick their pit bulls on us, or gave us a water and kindly told us to leave haha West Texas is pretty weird man!!
This week we moved the Escobar Family and me and elder Brower had to clean out their NASTY fridge..... we both threw up cause it was so disgusting haha.... weak stomachs man😂
Don't forget Jesus suffered and died so that we can become better. Look to him as your Example!! Pray, go to church, strive to do what's right!!
That's all for this week..... love you bye!
-Elder Rose
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| 1. Squishy |
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| 2.Fresh Cut and my Sunny D |
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| 3.Moving the Escobar family |
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| 4. Fixin to be like my hero Jesus |
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| 5. Elder Chicoski... funny dude... Missionaary in Alpine |
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| 6. Sunset |
Hey Momma❤ Just got onto my email for today!! sounds like you guys have had a pretty great week. Looks like the eclipse was pretty dang cool. Was there a ton of people in town like they thought?? I was thinking of Jr last night and remembered that he leaves very soon, he is gonna do awesome!! You should either get me his email, or give my email to him before he leaves so that we can stay in touch just a little bit.The work here is so hard and some days absolutely suck cause we have only taught 2 lessons in the 2 weeks that i have been here, but thats already more than Elder Brower had the last transfer he was here.... he didn't get to teach a single lesson... pretty crazy!! Most of the people here are either way nice and not interested in what we have to say or complete jerks about everything.... haha it really funny how everyone knows us!! We had a bible bash with this one Church of Christ minister.... and that was one of our lessons, stupid... but he is a way nice guy and we are gonna go back and just help him with things around the house because he is almost on his death bed and nobody can help him around his house!!
We get the bash about once a day when we go door knocking....:)
Can you put like 100$ in my checking..... i am going to buy some work boots because i am borrowing Elder Brower's shoes right now and they aren't working.... i have had to pull out like 3 thorns out of my foot because i need boots haha:) love you
i am sending Stockton a package in the mail today!
Tell Ta'lee ill write her cause i don't have time to email!!
Here is my letter to Elder Rose this week. 8.28.2017 :
Hi Elder Rose! 🌹
Hope that you have had a good week! I thought I'd drop a line to you and let you know that Mom and Dad are thinking of ya every day, and hope that this finds you healthy and happy! We went today to Jr.'s farewell and he did awesome! He was wearing the state championship ring from basketball, and he said he wears it every Sunday. It reminds him of the thoughts he had; that he might not even play basketball his senior year because of the hard season you guys' junior year. It reminds him of becoming one; he also thought of what you learned during that senior basketball season - making goals, fighting pride; fighting selfishness; sharing; leaving pride at the door. His whole talk was about Becoming one, and related it to a process which helps us become a well oiled machine, and finding our role in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
He first started off by saying, "Gods love is real. He didn't let me fall.". He then said, "God's love equals being one", and related it to what you guys had to overcome to win that state title. Here are some of his quotes. "We did not tear each other down. We held each other accountable. We kept things simple and not judgmental. We each had a role on our team."
He then turned it to our roles in the church, in our family, in our community and gave examples of what we might be responsible for. Then, he shared John 13:34 and afterwards, said how grateful he was for his aunts, uncles, cousins, grandmas, siblings, mom and dad.
Friends... they were good examples and never pushed him but always loved him. He ended with "I'm a firm believer of the church of Jesus Christ.
Then, he shared the thought about the man who dies, and finds himself on a beach with Jesus Christ, but was only seeing one set of footprints in the pathway of his life at times. The story goes that Christ explains that the one set of footprints were the times that Jesus was carrying the man during those tough times of life. Jr said that God knows us. He knows our struggles. And then he encouraged everyone to pray, and read the Book of Mormon daily.
It was awesome and wanted you to know his words and let you know that it may seem like a long time since you've left. It may feel like a long time before you're home again. It may seem that the work is slow. But, looking back, look what you've already accomplished! I'm so proud of you, Jr., Hayden and Taevin for choosing to serve a mission. I'm proud of those that have their call and are gearing up to leave. Be grateful for the hard times, because remember that's when Christ is carrying you and you will get through it a stronger person because of it.
We love ya, Elder Rose and we are cheering for you... just on a different court now! 😊
Also, Daniel Searcy was the concluding speaker after Jr's family sang Army of Helaman. Daniel did an awesome job, and it was so fun to see him and visit again with him!
Let us know any details ya can, and here is a picture of the solar eclipse. But, I'll also send some other pictures with a letter I'm mailing this week. This picture is from someone that Mike and Julie Vickers know and it was taken up by Warm River.
Love you lots!!!!!
💕Momma💕
I wrote to Elder Norman and Elder Wood to share with them the same thing I did to Elder Rose regarding Jr.'s farewell yesterday and I got a sweet note back from Elder Taevin Norman and
Elder Hayden Wood today:
I hope you know that you have an outstanding son and he is a big reason to why i am out here. Come to think of it we really did become one that year. It's funny to think of the times where we didn't really get along but now we forget about each others weaknesses and use our strengths to help each other out. I love the Roses and always will. Thank you so much for everything you've done for me and my family. We've really appreciated you in our lives.
love you bye
Elder Norman
Thank you so much! and thank you for sharing that. sounds amazing. i'm doing great! i really needed this!
Elder Wood!
I also got a fun reply back from Elder Hyde and Elder Bloxham today!
Hey guys! thank you so much for the email. It is so great to hear from everybody back home and it really helps. I feel the love and support each day. Jaron and I actually were on the same floor in the MTC and it was great to see him and hang out for a bit. I wish we couldve done more of that before the mission. I think we couldve been really good friends. I hope he is doing well, and i hope that you all are well as well. Im doing great here in Georgia. It is a blast.
Elder Hyde
Glad you are all doing great and smiling on! I hope Jaron is doing great. Is his email just jaron.rose@myldsmail.net? Anyways, all is well fam. Take care.
Love,
Elder Bloxham
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