October 30, 2012

    Well this week hasn't been the best but that just means great things are coming! right? We'll start with the not so great stuff then end on a happy note! So first Chelsea the investigator that had teh dream and we have had some great visits with. On thursday we had another great lesson with her and taught her the importance of prayer and scripture study. She has had trouble praying and we took her to the chapel and had her pray there. She said it was so easy to pray there and that she felt the spirit way strong. She also said she was still good to be baptized so we showed her the font and everthing and It ended on a way good note. Then friday came and we text her to see when she could meet with us again and she asked us to leave her alone... We're pretty sure it was her new boyfriend telling her to do that. Oh I hate boys! We're calling her wednesday to check up on her and hopefully get her to start meeting with us again.

    This week has been a lot of knocking cause we lost 2 investigators but luckily Heavenly Father knows that this girl needs to be entertained! So we got to try a potential and this old guy answers and starts talking with us about stuff. Then he starts saying that God told him he was going to die in a few days and that he needed to give us a message to share with the world. He asked if we would pray with him. During the prayer about half way through he starts jib jabbin I dont know what he's saying im thinking he's having a stroke! then he just stops... and is like now you know the message he wanted you to know is that you can go and walk in a room and heal everyone in the room. Then he starts going off how if you get a i Phone keep a cheap phone in your pocket so people steal that one. Oh my heavens he just walked in the library! Oh gosh! this is awkward! anyway so then he puts his hands on our shoulders and starts talking in tougnes again then says there now you have the power... So pretty sure he tried to give us teh preisthood... SO that was an adventure. Oh gosh I cant believe he just walked in here...

   Anyway So we are also teaching this kid Aaron! he is super legit but super ADD. Just an example half way thru Joseph Smiths first vision he just walked off and changed he pants then came back like nothing happened.. and he's always like you guys cold? I can shut the door. haha He is probably my favorite person to teach! anyway so we had a bap date with him for the 10th of november... yeah he got put in jail this week so he wont make it to that. so the 4 bap dates we set 2 of them dropped us and 2 of them have problems so they cant... But the 2 are still going strong and wanting to!

  And Last of all! how I was an idiot! so me and my companion were talking and I was like this whole Jinx game is so stupid what kind of idiot cant say stop within the time you count to 10... and we were both talking for like 5 minutes about how stupid you would have to be... well guess im that stupid cause the next day she jinxed me! and I couldn't make the word stop come out of my mouth for the life of me!

  Well fun fact the gospel is true! I love it so much! its crazy how I have seen it change peoples lifes! I'm so jealous that Utah got snow! I bought a coat this week and I was like yeah I cant wait for it to be cold enough to wear it! so it got down to like 47 and i was like im doing it! If it aint cold enough here I'll just pretend!

So this picture is what I ate for lunch yesterday.. dont wanna get behind on instagram! and the other is of my district!  Love y'all and thanks for the letters and support!

October 22, 2012

This week has been an adventure! So last monday after we left the library our car broke down.... the battery was dead so we jumped it and went to Wal Mart then when we left wal mart it was dead again! luckily I have experience with cars that dont like working... RIP Donny.... So I said to my companion we need a new battery... but we got it started again and it was great but I knew we still needed a new battery cause this was not going to work. So we went to the church to play some volley ball for a few hours then we came out side... it was dead again but this time it wouldn't jump and I said yup we need a new battery. But the elders didnt have time to help us at all so we had to get the car towed! luckily I brought my AAA card with me or else we would have had to find another way cause we are so far away from lubbock the mission office didnt really know how to help us. Seeing the Felix our car on the tow truck brought back many Donny memories. We got a new battery and it was all good... or so we thought! the CD player was broken and we couldnt fix the fuse for like 3 days so I used my talents from my Featuring Beulah days and we made up songs to sing while we drove around! It was a hoot!

Then the week just got better! we had a lesson with Hope! we taught her the plan of salvation which was great! she is already reading Mosiah! and she understands everything she has read! When we asked if we could start the lesson with a prayer she was like yea I'll say it! It was an awesome prayer and after she was like ya that was my first time praying in public! it was awesome! then at the end of the lesson we asked her if she would commit to repent everyday and she was like I actually read about that so I have been doing it the past few days! she is just so awesome! Funny story about her lesson. I was putting the spirit world picture down to teach her about that and all the sudden... I was on the floor!!! I didn't know what had happened! one second im on the chair next im on the floor! aparently the folding chair decided to fold up and drop me on the floor! So me and my companion start laughing and Hope and Sis. Fields are wondering if im okay and Elder Fields is just staring probably thinking holy cow these are the girls teaching people? oh it was hilarious!

We have had trouble talking with chelsea this past week so we decided to ask her if she would teach us Tae Kwon Do. So we met her at the church and she started trying to teach us. Thank heaven for those times in Young Womens we took self defence classes! I was trying so hard to do it and she looked at me and was like Sister Rose I would point and laugh at you if you were in my class.... well thanks for that confidence booster chelsea!

We got a few refferals this week that seem pretty legit that we are excited about! Oh I just love the mission so much! this is seriously the greatest thing of my life and wouldn't trade it for anything! Its crazy how much I have learned about the gospel! Im almost done reading the Book Of Mormon and I started in the MTC and its crazy I actually understand whats going on! right now im in 3 Nephi when Christ is preaching to them its amazing! I totally wish I would have read and understood this earlier in my life im pretty sure my life would have been so much easier! not that it was hard to begin with but still! I love this gospel so much and I get like way to excited talking about the Book Of Mormon now im pretty sure I might scare people off because of it! This church is true and it will bring y'all so much happieness just read the book of mormon its so awesome! Even the war chapters im like holy cow I cant put this down! its crazy! love y'all so much! I love getting your letters and i'll try to write back!

So thats Felix getting towed, me being Rose on titanic and the best sign ever!

October 15, 2012

I cant believe its been another week already! This week we had a lot of interesting slash cool things happen. So starting tuesday we were knocking and this lady names Gail (not oprahs best friend...) comes up to us and is like hey! I wanna talk about God with y'all come to my house on thursday! so we did. oh she is a HOOT! She has 4 kids and had them all by the time she was 21 crazy crazy! She loves helping bring people closer to Christ and she looks up sermons on youtube and every sunday puts them on and the whole apartment complex comes to listen. She wanted to get our view on things to help her teach them.... dont know how that will work out. anyway we are going to see her again this week! also on tuesday a few minutes after meeting her me and my companion got a strong impression so go visit Betty our San Angelo grandma. She is going through such a hard time and it sucks because she is just the sweetest lady in the world. She just found out 1/2 her income is being taken away so she has to move out of her hosue. Not to mention her lungs got infected during her surgery so she hadnt been able to work the past 2 weeks so the Antique store had been closed. When we went to visit her she said she was hoping that we would come and if we didnt come soon she was about to call us and tell us she needed our help with the shop right then! so we went around and dusted and moved some stuff for her. Oh I just love her so much! we actually taught her a little about how families can be together forever and she loved that! none of the missionaries have had a chance to really teach her and we dont know why everyone just feels like its not her time yet but she always says that whenever she's in trouble God sends her a mormon! so she's getting there for sure!

So this week we also met Shelby on campus! she's pretty legit! she goes to a biker church right now but it super open and has accepted everything so far. we are meeting with her again tomorrow and she says she has been reading and praying. Oh my we asked her to say the prayer at the end of our first lesson and sidenote im not making fun of her but this was pretty funny. Her prayer was all good then she ended with. Welp im going to read the book of mormon now.... bye... haha it was great! She's so cute and funny. Then we also met with Chelsea this week she said her family was coming into town Nov. 3rd anyway so she's plannin on getting baptized then! which is awesome! We also met with Hope. oh I love her! Everytime she text us me and Sis. Neilson get so excited! so is so precious! she just got two new cats that she loves texting about! I cant wait to meet them and I dont even like cats but since there hers im pretty sure they are adorable! oh we just love Hope so much!

Funny story of the week... we may or may not have knocked a mental institution.... our bad... So we go knocking and we get there and its apartments that look so cute and adorable! and this little lady comes up to us and is like oh your with God! I wish I could do that I'll show you the apartment thats needs you. and so we start following her and shes waddleing along and she's like there that one right there! they are fornicating getting drunk and doing all sorts of stuff. then she starts going off about how theres a spiritual war in these parts and that these people are seeing demons and we need to help them. Then she was like can I say a prayer with y'all? of course!!! so we stood and help hand and she gave the sweetest little prayer in the world! then we start knocking.... first door this lady just kinda stared us down and shut the door... next door this guy obviously on drugs or something and after him me and my companion got the worse feeling so we hauled it out of there! Then we were talking ya know a lot of the time you get used to the spirit being with you and you dont notice it as much. But once it leaves you it makes a huge difference and all you want is to have it back! And thats how we felt all we wanted was to have the spirit back and of course eventually we got it back and we were so happy but that was crazy!

Anyway theres a girl in our branch Katrina. she totally knows Elise! So that was a way cool!! anyway hope everyone has a great week!!! and I love y'all! and Love getting your letters!!!

October 8, 2012

This was the best week on my mission by far!!! So first to start out with a funny story. Monday! we were at the local Wal-Mart and there was a lady in scrubs and my companion said lets go ask her about this medicine she must be a nurse... oh no no no! my mother wears scrubs all the time! and is she smart.. YES is she a nurse? nope! anyway I laughed out loud for sure! Then the week got better on Tuesday! we had our first lesson with Hope! Her boyfriend is a member and has been coming to church for like 4 months but just barley accepted the lessons... well she's getting baptized on the 27th! the spirit was amazing Im sure I looked like a 12 year old meeting Justin Bieber or lets me honest me meeting Justin Bieber cause my smile was so huge! So we have been working with her and she came to conference and took notes and loved it! Also on Tuesday the Elder had a prompting to go get nuggets from mcdonalds (boy was I jealous!) anyway while they were there they met Chelsea and since she is YSA we got to teach her. So we set up an appointment and decided to meet with her at the church on saturday night. We were planing on going to the Relief Society room to teach her but my companion was just like hey lets just go to the primary room... and good thing we did! Right when we sat down and started talking she was like wait no stop.... I had a dream this exact thing happened like 4 years ago. I always wondered what that dream ment but I was in this room and two girls were talking to me and I really remember you, and she pointed to me! I was like oh my gosh! I heard stories like this all the time but I never thought it would happen to me! and she had the dream 4 years ago! thats before I was even thinking about the mission! Chelsea kept saying I know im here for a reason and we told her well yeah! God gave you that dream cause he knew its how you would know what we are teaching is true! It was an amazing experience! knowing that Heavenly Father really does know whats going to happen and to know that my mission call was suppose to be to Lubbock and im needed in San Angelo even if its just for her is amazing! And she totally agree'd to be baptized after conference yesterday! we dont have a date yet cause she wants her mom there but she should be awesome! She's really open when she is texting us but in person she closes up a little so we have to help her with that. 

So conference!!!! holy cow!!! the anouncement for missionaries is crazy! I know I wouldnt have been prepared to go at 19 so for all those ladies... Cassi and Megan ;) that do go then will be my hero's. Oh my another miracle that happened this week was on monday! so we go to FHE with the ward everyweek. So we drive up and get out of the car and this car with two guys pull up and is like hey do you guys have an appointment? my companion was scared and kept walking and I was just like um no... we are going to FHE wanna come. and the passenger turned to the driver and was like I TOLD YOU!  after talking with them more turns our that the driver Morgan is a non member and Tyler is a member and they drove into town looking for a place to live 2 hours before. While they were driving Tyler was like hey its monday night I bet my church is doing a FHE thing somewhere with free food. but they weren't looking for it but guess what THEY FOUND US!!! cause they missed a turn and turned down that street. So now Tyler and Morgan or going to start coming to branch activities and stuff! I mean its like 17 miracles up in here this week!!! Sorry back to conference! Elder Hollands talk was... well he's the boss! I couldn't even take notes I was so glued on the screen! It was amazing! watching conference as a missionary is way different! at home Im not gonna lie I was fallin asleep a lot here I was like only 4 hours a day! thats not enough! it goes by way too fast! 

So on a sad note... I hear Donny O was sold for some cheap cash... not gonna lie when Cassi told me the news I shed a tear or two... or maybe a whole lot. so of course another miracle! my companion had Donny Osmond Christmas.. so yea we celebrated his life by listening to that for 3 days! I also was lucky enough to go to a house with a guitar tuesday night and played the Donny Song for people. they loved it I loved it... the world loved it! I have been telling stories about him all week. He was the best car a girl like me could ask for. So here's to you Donny O! I'll quote the song to remember you by. " When I got in in 08 I knew these years would be great...and the night with the bat, never got you mats. washer fluid kept you clean held me up, I aint lean" The best of times were in that Jeep and I will always remember you. RIP Donny... RIP

I love hearing from everyone! sounds like the family is doing fantastic! Conference was amazing! (even the midget in the choir... yup i saw her) The spirit and talks helped me for sure! This church is true and I know that anyone who really reads the Book Of Mormon will be blessed in their life. Even if you dont think you have time a chapter a day or even a verse a day will help you so much! I know we have heard these things our whole life and just put them in the back of our mind a lot of the time. but even right before my mission through the hard times I was going thru it wasn't untill I started really reading the book of mormon everyday that I got out of the sadness and really knew that I could be happy and that Christ knew what I was going through. I also know I had to go through stuff in my life to help prepare me to become a better missionary! 

Im using Ya'll all the time now even in my head so im pretty legit.. now I just gotta see if theres a way I can say howdy without sounding stupid... LOVE YA'LL!!!! 

October 1, 2012

So its been a pretty great week here in San Angelo it rained so the streets were all flooded and whatnot but thats good cause apparently this town only has a year of water left.. so obviously we went back to campus to walk people. we met a girl names courtney that seems really interested so we will see where that goes.   P.S. Just a reminder please send letters to 6310 114th street. Lubbock Tx, 79424 I get the letters from the other address but its harder to get them and stuff so my bad sorry. ummm this week while we were knocking we found the coolest lady in the world! So her name is Mertle that itself makes her like #2 on the cool list. but she's like 60 and she comes out all gangster dressed and stuff like the hat to the side big long baggy shorts with a huge basketball jersey on. Oh it was fantastic! then she started telling us that her mom passes away a month ago so we went into the plan of salvation a little bit with her and she was like yo yo hold up I gotta run to the doctors but come back for sure and we can talk more I just cant miss this appointment. So I loved her but because she isnt a YSA she is suppose to talk to the elders and they have gone and talked to her a little more dont know how its going but man was she awesome!

 Also Dale got baptized! it as so awesome! he's the one in the gospel band which P.S. court... we need to start one of those. anyway its crazy how you can just see the light in them once they get the holy ghost. we went to visit him and he just looked so happy where before he looked lonley and like he had no reason to be here now he looks happy healthy and excited to live. It really is so amazing! WE are also teaching Quincy. He is making progress its slow but its happening even if he doesn';t realize it so thats way good. He has had all the lessons and everything so tonight we are teaching him a little about temples to see if he wants to go with the branch on their temple trip. It would be cool cause the temple president would come out and talk to him more about the temple and stuff. We also think General Conference will be huge for him if he can come. It stinks cause he works from midnight till noon almost everyday so he is super tired but he always trys to make it to church and stuff but he jsut falls asleep. so we are hoping that General Conference he will be able to stay awake and listen carefully. I think last week i told you about Hannah and Isabel they are still learning and stuff they read the B.O.M but just like random verses we think isabel took a "how to talk to mormons" class they have a lot of those down here to try to prove us wrong cause the ones they looked up were random but dont worry because our church is true we could explain them all. So we are going back to visit them soon. Also Hope! oh my hope is amazing! she has been coming to church for like 4 months with her boyfriend but has never really wanted the discussions and she told us this week that she wants to learn then! so we are going to see her wednesday I think to teach her! It should be pretty awesome!

So the institute class we go to is church history and heaven knows I love church history. so its made me want to read more pioneer stories and stuff so if anyone has any favorites and wants to send them I would love that! Thanks for all your support! Love all you guys. P.S. in my head I totally said ya'll so im pretty much legit... but not really apparently you have to be born in texas to be a legit texan... but whatever. anyway thanks for the letters and everything and remember to change the address to the 6310 114th st. Lubbock Texas. 79424! thanks!