~ 12/11/2017 ~ Hey Team.

Que paso?

This week was pretty great...despite it snowing 5 inches and being on foot!! HA blew my mind! Almost felt like I was home for a while!! We went on an exchange with the ZoneLeaders which was pretty sweet. Got lots of work done!! This week we probably decorated like 8  Christmas trees.... I am about Chrsitmas Tree'd out haha

This week we did a lot of knocking and found this guy that seemed pretty interested and actually invited us back.... rare occasion;) 

So last night we actually went back and met with him for almost 2 hours!! He gave us his whole background and holy cow.... he is legit!!! When he was 21 he was given 3-6 months to live! He decided that since he was going out already he was gonna live life up! Long story short he ended up in prison for a long while!! He grew up having a Grandpa that was a Episcopal Preacher. I asked him why he invited us back and he said that it was because I said that we focus on the Living Christ. We taught him that Restoration and he accepted everything that we taught him. He promised to read the Book of Mormon and to pray to know if it was true. It was an awesome experience, and we have more lessons with him this week!! Sorry my email today is pretty boring, but I really just wanted y'all to pray for Eli Ponce that he will accept the gospel and to keep the commitments that he has made with us!

Hope y'all are doing great and striving to Light the World this Christmas season!!

Love you bye- Elder Rose

Churches on every corner...literally

Me & Elder Moline

Makin snow angels;)

The Awesome old ladies at the Sr. Center

The Awesome old ladies at the Sr. Center

A letter Home to his Mom this week:

Hey Momma, Thank you SO much for all of the presents you sent! I already opened all of the cause I couldn't wait any longer haha!! Sounds like you guys had a great week. This week was pretty dang good!! I got asked to instruct District Meeting... I think it went well ha! After that the Zone leaders came down and we went on exchanges with them!

Elder Moline, the one in the picture is awesome! He is from Canada and actually going to UVU after the mish too!!

This week we picked up 2 new investigators and actually taught a lesson last night that went SUPER WELL!!!! He committed to be baptized once he knows it is true for himself!! I am super pumped! Transfers are next week, and we get our call on Sunday night!! I honestly kind of hope to stay... never thought I would say that, but I just want to keep seeing Fort Stockton improve! I have seen it turn completely around and now want to keep teaching our INV ELI PONCE!! If you could pray for him that would  be  awesome!!!

Hope you have had a great week this week!! I will let y'all know what the verdict is next week! So don't send anything else because I might not get it!!

Also the hair clippers are so SWEET!!! Thank you so much! Love you Momma!!!

Love Elder Rose

~ 12/9/2017 ~ Friends in Texas :) ---An Update from Elder Rose's Mom

We received a text yet again from The Olsen's in Texas. This isn't the first text from them, but it's so thoughtful that they snap a picture after feeding our missionary with his companion, right before they head out the door.

Elder Rose giggled at me for sending gloves and ear warmers to him a few weeks ago. I told him it's better to be prepared, and he said, 
"Thanks for ordering that stuff for me!!! It was actually 94 on friday😅"

I can see that he was maybe he was happy he had a mama send him stuff to keep him warm anyways! 
haha

Elder Rose had an adventure last weekend when he wrecked his bike. So Monday, 12/4/2017, he and his dad emailed back and forth about what part he needed. The bike shop in Lubbock, Texas was awesome, and got Kim hooked up on Amazon with the part that we needed to order. 

Then, another friend in Texas texted with Kim to touch base about Elder Rose's bike, and he said he'd make sure that if Jaron needed help that he'd get the bike up and running with him! This guy was funny about the weather, and texted this picture below with his comment~ haha!

This is a friend Elder Rose has met and she and our family talked on Thanksgiving Day. She is awesome, and has a cute little one that Elder Rose has a fun time with!

So Grateful for many wonderful people in Texas taking care of our boy, as he tries to take care of them!

12/4/2017 ~ Blessings and Broken Bikes ~

Santa baby

Que tal chimacos?

Riding off into the sunset

This week was pretty good!!

On Thursday we went up to Odessa for Zone Conference!! Learned a lot and got to see some of the buddies i have throughout the mish!! This week we also got the opportunity to give like 4 blessings!!

One morning we got a call from a super random number, so I answered and the lady was asking for me. She just got out of a super sketchy situation with her husband, but he left her and never paid rent! She was going to be evicted from her apartment! So I asked if we could meet with her at a less actives house to talk with her! We went over and the only thing we could think of to help her was give her a blessing! So we taught her a lesson and she totally accepted a blessing. We still haven't heard from her since but I was a very cool opportunity to teach and give her a blessing!! 

Last night we also got a few calls from some member that had been pretty sick, so we treked our bikes on a 10 mile bike ride out to their house ot give them a blessing, on the way home we stopped by some innactive member that I have never met and we were finally able to sit down and talk with them! It was sweet! Hoping that we can get them to commit to come back to church. 

After we were on out excursion to the boonys we were riding through this park to see if anyone was balling up at the courts! It was like 8 at night and SUPER dark.... we were haughling through the park and I took this turn pretty sharp and the next thing i knew my wheels were flying out from under me!! Haha I ate CRAP! We had a pretty good laugh about it all until i realized that my bike was brok, and we had to walk 7 miles home ha!! 

So we went to like the main road so that there would be some light, cause all the sketchy stuff goes does here at night.... we were walking past Dickey's BBQ Pit and apparently an inactive member is the general manager and brought us into feed us!!! We met a guy in there that is huge into bikes and totally taught him a little and he offered to help me fix my bike!! So we left getting enough food to feed us for 2 days and picked up a new investigator!!!! God works in mysterious ways haha!!

Hope y'all have had a great week. never Forget that this is the only true Church!!

-Elder Rose

Our XMAS Tree

Rose

Legends

Me and My Son:)

Got em

Knocking

11/27/2017 ~ Be Thankful ~

Howdy Howdy mi amigos.

This week was a pretty relaxing week in all honesty.... not much more than knocking on lots of doors and lots of people telling us that they already have found Jesus. This week we were riding down this street and saw this guy in his car. Started talking to this guy and he said how grateful he was that we turned around to talk to him!! He wanted to get over his alcohol problem and knew that we could help him! He invited us over for Thanksgiving Dinner and we totally thought we were in Kolob... not Fort Steezy... since that never happens here ha!! We totally thought that we were gonna have a baptism here in a few weeks haha....... so we show up to the guy's house after going and smashing a TON of beer bottles to make the side of this raod look nicer..... we show up and he is already drunk ha..... he is a legend! We continue to eat and enjoy our time with him, but he just keeps getting crazier and crazier!! He put down 3 mason jars of vodka with like an ounce of juice ha!! It was pretty dang exciting!! 

This week we also were able to hang out with Father Hatch and volunteer EMS like 3 nights in a row! Got to be down on the field for a football game and much more!! Super great week!!

Hope y'all had a very Happy Thanksgiving!!

-Elder Rose

Happy Thanksgiving Chumps

Our boy Louis

Trollin the Streets

The sign says it all

Another sunset pic;)