Elder Jaron Rose: 5-21-18 ~ Y'all are fixin' to get wet

Good morning y'all. First off hope everyone enjoyed my weekly last week...... took way to long so don't be expecting one like that for a while!:)
This week was pretty wild. To start out the week Elder Pollock and I drove to Clovis, NM to go to that districts District meeting for the week. Which when we do that, it consumes up a good portion of our day because it is pretty far away plus the time change. So after the long flat drive back to Lubbock, I had to take a Van driving class. Because for transfers they always have the Lubbock ZLs help with the driving everyone around. The training was pretty lame haha basically taught me not to drive like a Texan (mad man)...... So after I got all the training done and passed the test we headed to Rosa's in the big 12 passenger van to meet a member for lunch! I thought people looked at us weird just in our truck haha we got some pretty crazy looks driving that thing!
The next couple of days were filled with helping the assistants move, helping a lady in the ward clean her mess of a backyard and helping the Holiday family move out of their house. Moving the assistant's was worse than us moving that's for sure.... they had twice as much stuff compared to us.... and they lived on the 3rd floor!!😅 But helping out the Holiday's was sweet because they went to school at BYU-I for a while and had a connection with my Dad's cousin so that was pretty cool!! Super small world.
This week we also had quite a few pretty sweet lessons. We had this referral for a guy named Latron Harris. So we went to take this guy his bible and a complementary Book of Mormon:) we show up into this pretty ghetto apartment complex hoping not to get shot by this guy sitting in his car jamming and smoking a blunt. We go knock on the door and ask if Latron is here and they pointed over to that car. We go over and talk to this guy and he is one of the coolest guys I've met out here. He just had hip surgery, so he wasn't trying to walk like a gangster his hip just hurt.... ha thats what he said! But he wanted to say a prayer for us before we left! So he starts going and all the sudden he says......."Lord, Father God I am out of words now so I'm gonna pass this off to these guys now.......So start talking boys"😂 probably the best prayer I have ever heard!! And yes I jumped in and closer it off for him!!
We have also been teaching this lady for a couple weeks now and she is soaking it all up!! She has committed to be baptized on June 9th. Pretty soon, and the only problem is that she lives in Crosbyton. Which is an hour away and she works on Sundays. But the lessons that we have had with her, we have just gone over to her work ( McDonald's in Wal-Mart) after she gets off work. She also had found us 3 more people to teach so she is pretty sweet!! If y'all could pray for Brenda Martinez that she will be able to continue to read the Book of Mormon and get Sundays off that would be awesome👌

This week we also had heard that it was a possibility that it could put down some rain, but we didn't think much of it.... because Texas. So we are out knocking doors and visiting less actives on bike day and we see these big dark clouds rolling in. And at this point we are like 8 miles from the truck so there is no turning back now. Someone actually yelled at us whims We were riding y'all are fixin' to get wet haha. We get caught in the middle of this rain storm and it rains for like 2 hours on us. But we were enjoying every minute of it, because that was definitely better than 100 degrees we have been having. So now the crazy part of the story!!! A couple days later we are out aways in the more country part of our area and see the biggest cloud I think we have ever seen, and hear it's gonna be a good one. So this cloud keeps getting closer and closer, but we are still out trying to visit people. By now it is raining pretty good and only going to get worse. On the way home it was raining so hard that the roads were flooding. And there were people parks under the overpasses because the hail was bad just minutes before we got there. So we finally make it home without drowning, and we find hail no joke the size of golf balls!! Our neighbor found one bigger than her palm!! Turns out that there were lots of cars driving through it and came out with broken windshields from it all!! Pretty crazy. And it was almost like we had just a little umbrella over us the whole time getting home. For us it didn't seem bad at all....besides the roads were rivers it was just barely sprinkling.
This made me think about the time that we are in now! We are in the middle of the storm. We have been led and given advice of what to do. On our way to our eternal home there are overpasses that we can have protect us from the storm. Things like church, reading the BoM, and praying. But we still eventually have to get on the road and push through the storm. Sometimes in life it is easy to get caught up in the fast lane and crank the music louder. But those people were the ones that ran off the road or got hail damage. We sometimes just need to slow down a little and do what we can to protect ourselves from what the adversary is throwing at us. Just like Heleman 5:12

12 And now, my sons, remember, remember that it is upon the rock of our Redeemer, who is Christ, the Son of God, that ye must build your foundation; that when the devil shall send forth his mighty winds, yea, his shafts in the whirlwind, yea, when all his hail and his mighty storm shall beat upon you, it shall have no power over you to drag you down to the gulf of misery and endless wo, because of the rock upon which ye are built, which is a sure foundation, a foundation whereon if men build they cannot fall.

Put on rain gear and grab your umbrella, and continue to build that foundation of Christ. Hope y'all have a great week!!
Love, Elder Rose🌷