Elder Jaron Rose: 102°F👎 ~ 5-28-2018

Ball so Hard....literally

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Elder Zeagler and his foot

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Hello everyone, this week was a busy one that's for sure. To start the week I went on an exchange with Elder Henderson. We had a pretty good exchange. Lots of contacting..... but there was kinda a down side to all that!! All of the good contacts we found we had to refer to other missionaries because they didn't really live at the house we knocked on and lived out of our area!! So that was a bummer. Also had some crazy people we found......But that's how it goes sometimes. We found these 2 guys that were so high and gave them both Word of Wisdom pamphlets ha! they didn't seem too upset so Maybe they will call us back??🤣
Once we finished up our exchange me and Elder Pollock had a nice day full of lessons set up..... but sadly not a single lesson went through! The only thing that didn't fall through that night was eating dinner with the deacons of the ward! And boy was that a treat haha. Honesty probably the craziest meal appointment of my whole mission so far. There are some wild 12 and 13 yr olds here!!
This week we also had an exchange with the other Lubbock Zone leaders, which was super fun. I went with Elder Zeagler. And he is hilarious. We visited a less active member and Elder Z. Convinced him that he was born and raised in South Africa and to become a man he had to kill a lion with his bare hands! Glenn want very happy when he found out that Elder Z. Is from North Carolina haha!! On our exchange we also did tons of contacting too because all of our lessons just keep falling through. But we found some sweet people in the hood we met!! We had a lesson with our investigator Brenda at McDonald's where she works. Before we went in we prayed that we would be able to bear testimony of the Book of Mormon.
When we got in there and we found out that she ended up getting a longer shift and couldn't meet today..... so we were just about to head out and people just started flocking to us and just bombarding us with questions! It was madness for a minute! That day we came out of McDonald's placing 3 Book of Mormon's and having 4 potential investigators!! It was a pretty cool experience and a smack in the face to remember that he is there and listening to our prayers.
Before our night ended me and Elder Zeagler were walking back to the truck after another lesson fell through ha. There were these young kids playing ball across the street so we decided to go show them what's up ha!! We walked over there and they instantly started swearing and us and being disrespectful. So we challenged them in a game and if we won they have to listen to our message about Christ and is they win we would just walk away......(There was eight 12-14 year old boys that we were playing with hah).... these kids didn't expect 2 white boys to be able to ball or something cause they were mind blown when we could dunk on a 9 foot rim!! So after we swatted and dunked over them a couple dozen times we had a good come to Jesus moment. It was more like a be like Jesus Christ thought and stop swearing!! Defiantly a fun time, besides Elder Zeagler spraining his ankle and going to get and xray at the ER after..... I'm good though Mom😉

Saturday we also had to take a spontaneous 2 hour drive out to Clovis to do a baptismal interview because an investigator after investigating the church for 12 years wanted to be baptized. He has super bad anxiety and said it's now or never. It was well worth the trip out there..... even though we are like 300 miles over our limit!:)

This week me and Elder Pollock also have been weeding out our investigators that arent progressing enough to waste or time on. So if y'all will pray we will be able to best help the people we are working with and also....We have an INV whose name is A.B. he is a sweet guy! We have been teaching the whole time I have been here. He come to church every week, loves learning more and more about the gospel....but there are 2 problems!! We are working on getting him and his GF married and helping him stop smoking. He also has an 8 yr old boy Amoni. He is super ready for baptism first. If y'all could pray that A.B. will be able to do that that would help him makes those stores steps faster!

This week I have been thinking so much about the importance behind the Book of Mormon. President Nelson gave a talk in the 2017 fall session of conference that focused on the BoM. He asks in the talk what would your life be like without the BoM. And I really thought about that. I realized that without the BoM, I would not have near the knowledge that I have right now.
I wouldn't know about the plan of salvation.

I wouldn't know that my family can be together forever.

I wouldn't know that when we are resurrected that we will be able to be made perfect and live with our father in heaven.

I wouldn't know the importance faith, prayer, and repentance.

I wouldn't know of the things that our Heavenly Father expects out of us.

I wouldn't know that God truly does love each and everyone of us, and that I am a child of God.

I wouldn't know that through faith, patience, and humility that Heavenly Father will bring and life us from our trials.

I wouldn't know that my Savior went through every pain, sickness, affliction, burden, and so much more, just do that we can be redeemed of our sins. And the reason he did that is because he lives us.

I wouldn't know that this is the only true church on the earth without reading it and praying to know if it is true for myself. And I challenge you all to do the same. I know sometimes that it may seem hard to make time to do it. But the Book of Mormon will lift and bless us here in earth. It is the play book in the game that we are in. I know that the Book of Mormon is true and will help you in your life also.

Thank you for all your prayers and support.
Love Elder Rose🌷