August 22, 2011

When you have a Tongan Companion, She may ask you if she can do your hair. You may tell her that your hair is straight and thin and it wont curl like hers. She may tell you to let her try anyways cause she is sure it will. You may give in with little hope it might. And then after she has used half a can of mouse, you're both laughing hysterically, and your hair is still straight as a stick you may end up washing your hair again, for the second time that day.

This week has been so good!! We are working really hard with the members to get them involved in missionary work and excited to see their wards grow and love what they are doing!

We had Linda's Baptism which was awesome and exciting to see that happen. When you come into an area and are told someone specific will never get baptized and see that person choose to enter into that Covenant with their Father in Heaven it is amazing. I love this work!! It is an amazing thing to be a part of.

L. Tom Perry Came to talk to us on Saturday and It was such an amazing experience. I love that man!! He is a great person, and to have an apostle of the Lord give us instruction was a great experience.

We are working hard trying to find new investigators because our teaching pool has disappeared.

We are looking forward To Ethyns baptism in about a week, He is 12 and is just amazing. He is like an adult and he knows this stuff. I love finding that amazing investigator we know has been prepared its an amazing feeling!!

I love you all sorry this is so short. I didn't figure my time to well.

Love Sister Rose

August 15, 2011

So this email might be short, Considering we are a little short on time. This week was incredibly awesome!! I love this work It is amazing to work with the amazing People of Oregon. Mom said when you hear about Oregon you hear about the Ducks and the Rain. I have yet to see much rain, But The Oregon Ducks Logo is everywhere. I wont lie its becoming a pretty big part of my life. I love the ducks, but I am not shut down to the Beavers yet, It's the other college here and I need to be open to everything.

The work is still Progressing well. Linda's baptism is this thursday I am so excited for her!! She is getting more excited and ready everyday and cannot wait for thursday. She is so awesome.

We are working really hard right now to get to know the members and trying to invite them to invite their friends and learn with them how to best invite their friends to church. The best missionary tool we are seeing is www.mormon.org It is so awesome. We get to go on there for an hour every week. I love it so much. I wish I had known about it more before I came out here. It is so much easier to share the gospel with videos that relate to people and brake down barriers than to try to get them to read this long book of scriptures at first.

We are working hard and seeing our hard work, faith , and prayers pay off little by little . The most important thing is having faith that God knows what is happening and is aware of everything. I love this work so much. I hope all of you are doing well.

Peace and Blessings

Love Sister Rose

August 8, 2011

This Week Flew By, and it was insane and Crazy and so Awesome I just cannot even explain. Mom email me this week and told me I should write about the people I am teaching more. So I can do that.

Let us Start With Chea. He is so awesome, We started teaching him 3 weeks ago. He had been coming to church with his Cousins for about a month and went on trek with the Ward. He asked the Bishop of the ward how he could become a member of the church. It was so amazing to be able to go and talk to someone who had so much faith and literally soaked up everything we had to say like a sponge. He is the most amazing kid! He is 18, and on our third lesson he prayed and asked for help to prepare him for a mission. I was blown away. I mean for someone with that much faith and power to pray for that was just incredible. He was baptized this last Saturday. I feel so blessed to be a part of his conversion story. He will tell anyone in his own words that God knows each and Everyone of us. That he knows he is exactly where he is supposed to be right now, He has an amazing story, he  has a really rough past and found the gospel and has had some amazing experiences. I just love seeing how the gospel can bless anyone's life!!

We are Also teaching a Less Active/Part Member Family. Linda Will be getting Baptized in a few weeks. Gary and His Daughter are both Members and I cannot express how much I love this family. I seriously feel like this family is why I am in Central point. I feel so connected to them and the lessons we teach with them go so smoothly. Linda is so amazing and she is going to be such a powerhouse for the church! Gary says something every week that just hits me to the heart and makes me know that I was called to this place at this time by an inspired mission president. I love these people so much!! 

Josh and Robyn and their three kids are another Family we are working with. Josh is planning on getting Baptized in September. He is so Solid. He got up and Bore his testimony Yesterday and expressed what a Rock the Gospel was in his life. It is so amazing to see someone come from a very dark past to sharing the gospel with others when they are not even members yet. We are waiting for a divorce papers to be finalized then for them to get married then the baptism will happen. Their two kids got baptized the week before I got here and it is awesome to be able to be teaching the whole family who is strong, but has diversity and shows you don't have to be perfect, you just have to have faith. 

We Work with a lot of Less active and Part member families because those are the people who are usually most open to receiving the Gospel. It is so amazing to be able to go and earn the trust of these amazing people and have them slowly turn their lives around and back towards Christ. 

I love it here, The work is progressing and we are working hard everyday to teach and find more people. I love you all!! I hope things are going well at home!! 

Love Sister Rose  

August 1, 2011

I am looking out the window, Totally dazing off at a Christian Preschool named Noah's Ark. I love Central Point its an amazing Area. The people Here Rock.

This week was a little nuts. My trainer went home and Me and Sister Kaufusi went to work. It was a transition but It was great. The work is progressing. I love seeing the light of Christ Change People. We have awesome investigators getting baptized this month and it is going to be awesome. One Set his date for 9-10-11. I am pretty excited for that.

So President Young is pretty Sweet. He is such an amazing, inspired man. It is so cool to get counsel from him and to listen and follow it and see the blessings. I love it so much.

We are trying really hard to work with the members to get missionary work going a little bit stronger in both wards. President Hinckley has promised us that Convert baptisms will double if the members get involved more. I feel bad for when I was at home and didn't do much missionary work.

This week there was a lot of change. It was a great opportunity to grow and really put my trust in the Lord.

We went down to Ashland Yesterday for a Blitz, We had a ton of members and misisonaries show up and it worked out really well. Ashland is super Hippie town, it reminded me a lot of park city and all of the people there. But its even more earthy is the best word to describe it. It was fun to be with members who enjoyed it as much as we do.

Sorry this is the lamest week I have written. I am a bit distracted. We have a lot of people progressing, and Some that have decided the gospel isnt for them. That has to be one of the harder parts of the work. We got a phone call this last week from an investigator who was reading praying and attending church who decided it wasn't for her. I can't even describe what it feels like to see someone you love and care about walk away from something you know will bless their families.

I love how much this gospel blesses families. And I love being able to teach that to these people. Oregon Rocks, It is beautiful here.

Peace and Blessings.

Sister Rose

July 25,2011

People in Oregon Love my Black Shiny Shoes, I get Compliments on them Everywhere I go. I should have worn them more at home, Maybe people would have liked my feet more.

So this week was nuts. We got word on Monday that we would need to be in Eugene on Wednesday all day for training. Its a 3 hour drive each way, So We would drive up, train and drive home. Anyone Who has ever been on a mission knows you may or may not feel useless by the end of a day like that. We weren't able to talk to anyone along the way about the gospel. But the training was awesome. We were instructed by President Young and the Assistants. It was pretty awesome. The things he taught that day will stay will me this whole mission.

Friday we were able to go to the temple for a Recent Converts Sealing. That is something I have never Witnessed before. We were able to do a session with them before, and it was what I needed. I love the temple. I love the calmness, peace, love, and joy I feel while in the temple. Its amazing. I found out that night that my new companion was going to be Sister Kaufusi. She was staying with us that night cause they came down for the temple, and it was to late to go back. She is awesome, and although she will go home after 6 weeks I am still very excited for her to follow up train me.

Sister losee leaves this week. It has been a crazy week trying to get things ready for her to go and me take over the area. I have been able to feel the peace and comfort knowing the Lord is aware of me and my situation and will guide me in what I need to do.

We are teaching some amazing People. I cannot grasp or describe the love I feel for our investigators. We were able to set baptismal dates with 2 more investigators and it is the best feeling in the world. Knowing that they are taking that step towards making a commitment to make promises to God is amazing.

The mission is Changing a ton! Almost every Companionship has been affected this transfer, it is so amazing to know we have a new president who is inspired to change everything. I am excited to see how all the change helps these area's grow and prosper. I love Central Point and Gold hill. I love the people and I want them to have this gospel bless there lives, and I know these changes will do that.

We had a district meeting today to say goodbye to the district that will not be after wednesday. I just cannot say enough good things. I am so blessed to serve with such amazing Missionaries. I never imagined I would be around Elders and Sisters that had the testimonies of Prophets, and who knew the gospel so strong! They Build and stregnthen my testimony daily. I love that this is a gospel of growing and learning everyday!

I would Love to hear how you all are doing! I miss you all a ton and Think about you all the time. Thank you for all the love and support and Prayers. They help and I can feel it all the way out here in this small tiny town!

Peace and Blessings

Sister Rose

1-Charlene and Randy's Sealing

 2- Me and Gailynn

3- Me, Sister Losee, Levacque, Hoffer, Edwards, Allderman, Milldenhall, Fiatoa. The District.

The Sleep Over 

July 18, 2011

I cannot say enough how much I love this gospel and the Chance I have to share it with people that I love instantly. This last week was so cool. We worked so hard and were being really diligent and trying our best, yet everything seemed to be going wrong. Its a real downer when you work so hard all day and you go to write down what you have done in the day and nothing that is counted really looks good. So Sunday we were worn out, and I was quite honestly ready to quit, but I signed up for this and its going to last a lot longer so I had to revamp myself. I had been praying so hard that someone would show up. Someone who was ready to hear the gospel who would appreciate this amazing things that we are sharing. So here is when the miracles come in :) :) :) I literally yelled and screamed when We got the phone call(s).

First after church we were sitting there just thinking about how we could get the work to move forward in one of the wards we cover I was praying, and my companion had just finished. Then the phone rings. The bishop was calling to let us know that Chea, who had been going to church for the past month asked him how to become a member of the church. It was what we had worked for all week long!! Chea is amazing, His aunt came with us to the Lesson and she just kept saying This is not the same guy he was a year ago. Its amazing to see that God prepares his people, then as missionaries we just come in and show them the tools that will continue to enrich their lives. So we went and Taught him and he is planning to get Baptized the first week of August! I love that he is so prepared, he loves and respects this gospel!

So as we were driving up to Chea's, its about a half hour drive. We got another phone call that another guy in a different ward wanted to take the lessons. We have been secretly working on him through his sister for months, well the missionaries. And he is finally ready. I think the biggest thing I have to realize while I am here is that change takes time. And these people will change when the Lord knows and shows them how. We are literally just here to guide them. It is so amazing to see their love for the gospel grow as we show them how to develop that.

So anyways this place is amazing. I serve in Central point and Gold hill. Gold Hill is a very small town, houses every 1/2 mile or so. And Central point is just a small town. Its so beautiful here!!

The funniest thing that happened this week. So me and my companion got in a fight, first fight. It was awkward we fought, prayed went to the investigators door, who didn't answer and then got back in the car. It was silent because our music is getting copied right now... So awkward. Then this car turns the corner, don't worry all windows up except the windshield. He didn't have a windshield and he looked at us looking at him like "what is wrong with you" I am sorry sir I was a little taken back by the missing windshield. We both tried to hold our laughing in but it didn't work, and our problems were solved.

So today we went up to crater Lake, It was way fun. We just got word that we will be headed up to Eugene on Wednesday so that 3 hour drive should be interesting. Then I will be going on exchanges with the Merlin sisters that night so I wont be in Central point till Friday. Its kinda fun getting out of this area.

So in a week and a half I have the responsibility to take over this area. My companion goes home. It is a little stressful so all the prayers in the world would be welcome!!

I am going to attach some pictures now. I love you all!!

Peace and Blessings

Sister MacDaddy Rose

 Pictures--

Me and Giovani Such a Cute Kid!

Crater Lake is in there

Rogue Ridge. Look at how Green it is!!

Me and Kadyn, Sassiest little 3 year old ever! They are the most amazing family though!!

The Elders at the Map, Those were my babysitters the last week in the MTC. Mom Elder Rose is in there.

Week 7

Every day I wake up and start working and things happen that I seriously cannot believe I am so lucky to be here, to be having these experiences. I feel so blessed to be meeting these families at this time, to be learning so much about so many things. This Work is incredible. I think every worthy PERSON should serve a mission. It is so cool and such an amazing blessing.

So this week has been pretty amazing. Like everyday in the mission is. We have been out trying to find new people and it has been hard. So if you know anyone in Oregon Give them a shout out to come find us, we have the Gospel and we want to share it!

So I seriously this week have been like uncontainable in happiness. Its like everyday I wake up and read the scriptures and find something else that just hits me in a way that I want to go out and share it with everyone I see. I love that about the gospel, you can see how it blesses your life and you want to share that. I invite you all, when you have that want or feeling to share it to not be afraid and to share it with whoever you feel needs it. You will change lives forever.

You all should go read Doctrine and Covenants 136:28 it says we can dance and sing :)

So funny story We serve in a lot of trailor parks. We were in a trailer with these 2 investigators, and there 2 dogs and 2 cats. And the lady starts talking about the neighbor up the street who, don't worry when her animals need to be put down.... She puts them in a box and hooks it up to the tailpipe of her car..... I was shocked, and you know what the lady said, thats how its done in Oregon. I was so shocked I couldn't even move....

Also, So last night Sister Losee and I were waiting for an appointment and we were kinda down cause this week hasn't really been up to par you could say so we decided to go tract and just find as many people as possible. So we go out tracting for 20 minutes. Everyone says no, not unusual :) But were walking to our car and this lady is out shoveling dirt in her swiming suit. So we started talking to her and offered to come help her garden this week. She totally took us up on it and we were so excited our work had paid off right? So we call a member who does landscaping to come with us, and they are neighbors. And he totally freaks out, "you sisters cannot go over there that lady is nuts!" All this stuff about drugs, and Jail and then the final thing that made me laugh so hard my companion had to take over the phone call he said " She is so nuts, I watched her light her sofa on fire!!!" I guess when a lady is out digging dirt in a swim suit, later in the evening with a gooseegg on her head the size of a baseball you might be suspicious. And lets be honest, anyone who knows me knows that I would be the person to find that special lady.

So were going back to help her garden :)

This work is amazing! I love seeing these people come closer to Christ. It is amazing to see the change in peoples lives. I LOVE IT SO SO SO SO MUCH!!!

I am trying to think of anything else so awesome that it is email worthy. Oh so we had this kinda Zone Conference with The mission President. Can I just say my Mission President is the most amazing Person. He is so gifter and so Tender Hearted. I love the leadership he gives.

I just really love this mission. It has changed the way I look at life and at people. I wish so badly that I had had some of these qualities before I left but I am thankful I have them now.

The church is true. We have the tools to read and pray about to know for ourselves it is true.

I love that God has given us a path to follow so that we can return to him again. It is so amazing the blessings we get from being obedient. I love this gospel so much. I love everyone so much!!!

Thank you for all your love and support everyone! I am so grateful to have such amazing people in my life.

Pictures will come next week, when I dont forget my camera cord. :)

Peace and Blessings

Sister Rose