Elder Jaron Rose: 7-2-18 ~ Rain come down and Floods come up

Hello family and friends,

This week was a pretty good week for us. To start our week we had exchanges here in our area with the Plainview elders. I went with Elder Paquette. He is from Alberta, Canada. The exchange consisted of lots of knocking on doors, lots of lessons fall through, lunch at Costco, and a Bible bash to a guy I gave a Book of Mormon to a while ago in Walmart. He gave us a call so we were expecting something good to come out of it.... But that's how the work goes sometimes.

We did have quite a bit of success with finding new people to teach this week though. With dropping all of our investigators that weren't progressing and giving more time to finding and less active families. We found 2 new investigators through the less active families and we found 3 new investigators through knocking on some doors.... Which is unusual!! We are pretty excited and see some great potential in a couple of them. If y'all could remember us in your prayers this week to be able to be a le to meet with all of them and teach them, that would be awesome!!

This week we also helped a new family move into our ward. They are the Fehoko's, and they are one of the coolest families I have met on my mission. They have tons of crazy sweet things about their family that blew my mind. Here's a couple...... Bro. Fehoko can curl 150 pounds... No joke either I watched him do it..... All of their sons have played in the NFL, and one son goes to the draft next year. Their family is mentioned in The Other Side of Heaven. And Bro. Fehoko is featured at the start of Hawaiian 5' O doing the hakauh. And lots more! But the are super sweet and very very willing to feed us! They took us to lunch after we helped them to this super good Hawaiian BBQ place and told us if you aren't gaining weight with us then we are doing something wrong! 😅

Tender mercy of this week was that I got to go to the temple for the first time in 11 months. Which in the moment I didn't really notice that big of a difference in my daily life. But going to the temple this week was such a refresher. All of stress and build up of everything else going on was almost just gone after I went. There is such a peace that comes with going to the temple that I feel like sometimes we look over, or don't even recognize it. By going to the temple we partake of some of the blessings that Heavenly Father has given us here on earth. I invite all that can to go to the temple this week. Go with a question and prayerfully ask Heavenly Father while you are there and I promise that you will have a greater understanding to the answer that you are searching for.

A scripture that has been on my mind quite a bit this week is Matthew 7: 24-27..... This is what it says---

24 ¶ Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock:

25 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.

26 And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand:

27 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.

Here on earth we have been given every single tool to build our "foundation for our house." Those tools are more important than we realize sometimes. The little things we do are way more important than we realize sometimes. But as we do those things that is continually building our foundation upon that Rock instead of the sand. I know I have mentioned this many times over the course of my mission so far, but that is because I have seen that by the small and simple things that we do.... Our Father in Heaven is shaping us to who we can become. But that requires being humble enough to be humbled. Don't forget the small things:)

Hope y'all have a great week and have a Happy 4th of July!! 🎉

Love Elder Rose🌷