Elder Roses email from Today!! 6-18-18

Howdy howdy everyone. Sorry about the weekly email not going through last week. Not sure what happened there, but yes I am alive and kickin!!
 
This week has been a quick one! To start out our week we drove to Portales for district meeting and then had an exchange with the Clovis Elders. I went with Elder Watts! He is from Kimberly, Idaho! We had a good time! We visited a lot of their recent converts, one of them I actually interviewed for baptism, so that was cool!! We also did some knocking! Always a good time knocking;) like the 3rd house we knocked on we found this 20 year old dude that was super interested! First thing he asked was what church we are from and then said he is all ears! So we taught him the Restoration on the door step and the Clovis Elders will be teaching him more this week! Clovis is pretty ghetto but there are some sweet people there!

This week we also taught lots of lessons and did lots of finding!! We have been clearing out our teaching pool lately so that requires pounding the pavement!! So we have done lots of tracting this week! On our bike day this week we ended up getting caught in a rain storm!! Again haha!! Don't know what it is about us on bikes, but it makes Lubbock get lots and lots of rain that's for sure! But its cool with me cause its better than biking in 107°!
 
Couple funny lesson stories of the week!
So we are teaching this older guy that lives in an assisted living place right now and we went over this week and had he his door open and we could see him sitting in his wheelchair but wouldn't answer...we finally hear him whisper hurry come over here!! And he he this weird dart gun thing.....turns out it was a "salt gun" and he was hunting all the flies in his house! It was pretty dang funny!!

We were also sitting in a lesson with a lady when all the sudden a prairie dog ran out of her bedroom and came and jumped up on my leg and then crawled into Elder Pollock's lap!! Turns out it's her pet, but I totally thought it was just a stray for a minute there😂
 
Over the course of my mission I have learned a lot about myself and what I want to become. One thing that I have learned in my lifetime is that there are people in life that obviously you aren't going to immediately connect with or even get along with. In 1st Samuel 16:7 it says
 
7 But the Lord said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for the Lord seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart.
 
I have learned that as we always look to the positive of things and look for the good in a person and see them as Christ sees them it is easier to love them! Whether they are your best friend or are cursing at you and only trying to get you the heck off their door step! To develop this we have to work on the Christ like attribute we lack! I challenge you all to look for one thing you can work on and to study that! I promise that you will see a change in yourself that will help enlighten your life.


One last scripture from Moroni 7:45-47.
45 And charity suffereth long, and is kind, and envieth not, and is not puffed up, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil, and rejoiceth not in iniquity but rejoiceth in the truth, beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
46 Wherefore, my beloved brethren, if ye have not charity, ye are nothing, for charity never faileth. Wherefore, cleave unto charity, which is the greatest of all, for all things must fail—
47 But charity is the pure love of Christ, and it endureth forever; and whoso is found possessed of it at the last day, it shall be well with him.


Hope y'all have a great week!! And have success workin on those Christ-like attributes!!


Much love,
Elder Rose🌷