Trust in the Lord - 10/2/2017

Permian High School... Friday night lights

This week has been a great week here a mile past the middle of nowhere ha!:)

The newspaper from last week!!

This week was transfer week and me and Elder Brower found out we were getting another Elder down here in Fort Stockton. So Tuesday we took the drive up to Odessa to pick up Elder Sawney! It's always kind of different going to the city and see all the people there cause there isn't even close to half of the people out here haha!!

Also learned a new skill while I've been out here.... I learned how to make a tie!! So we went to Hobby Lobby when we were in Odessa to get some material to make some sweet ties!!:)

So after going to Odessa on Tuesday we got back at like 9:30 that night had a packed schedule on Wednesday and found out we had to go up to Odessa again on Thursday for a trainers/trainee meeting!! It was great and I learned quite a bit for a possible time when I could be a trainer!!

Friday we went down to Alpine to help the Elders from Alpine out with some service for this lady that is starting up a dog shelter.... and boy was that the adventure!! I was mixing and pouring concrete for like 2 hours until that was finished and then we were digging a trench to run some hot and cold water outside... long story short we hit a water pipe and it knocked the water out on the whole side of the mountain.... so we were messing with every possible way trying to figure out where the valve was that we could shut the water off.... me and Elder Chicoski were finally like, "Lets inquire of the Lord!!" So we said a prayer asking to shut the water off and helping us finish this project with safety. Right when we said amen the water shut off... It was such a testimony builder!! Crazy how much Heavenly Father cares for us!! Also, not 10 minutes less than that we were messing with the wires in her house that got ripped out some how... and I got shocked!! My whole arm was locked up but nothing else happened!! Don't know what would have happened if we wouldn't have asked for safety,and to keep us out of harms way, in the prayer we said 10 minutes before that!!

Conference was great!! What I mainly got out of it was that we all need to put more faith in Jesus Christ and the Lord!! When we have trials that stand in our way, Heavenly Father will help us!! When we stand with faith and a firm foundation, our faith will diminish our doubts and fears!! Faith always defeats fear! Fear comes from Satan. There were also many talks that were on Service!! When we serve others we forget our problems and come closer to Christ and walk the path that He did. The Book of Mormon is true; studying it every day has helped me in every aspect of my life and I promise that it will do the same for everyone of you guys if you prayerfully study it everyday!! You will find answers to questions you have been pondering and You will be blessed for your efforts to become more Christ-Like.

Love you all and hope everyones weeks go great!!

-Elder Rose

When it rains... IT pours... been rainy all week

The boys

Everything is bigger in Texas... 

Note to his Mom this week: "Elder Swaney is doing good! He is from St. George. He ran XC and Track so we kind of have some things in common. This week was kind of different..... it flew by and feels like we didn't get much done in our own area. But this past week we went and built some new pig pens for President Hinkson, killed and skinned some more chickens, and went down to Alpine to help Elder Chicoski and Brandow with some of their service because this lady is putting together a dog shelter and it ha to be done by Monday...... But I mainly was laying concrete and I did some plumbing too!!

The branch Is doing so much better from the first week that I got here!! It's crazy. They are definitely moving forward and progressing!"