Real American Food - Subway!!
Mission Office
3/4/12
Dear Family
My companion is elder bird :)
pajaritos hehe. We get along great. sometimes (hardly ever) we disagree. he is
from Utah and well he likes to work a lot. Like me! so we are usally pretty
anxious to leave and work at 5 every day. The name of the area i am in is Villa
Belgrano. And the cool thing!! THE TEMPLE IS IN MY AREA!!! well.. at least the
ginoumous hole thats in the ground :) but its great for doing contacts. Its
also fun because there is a older couple that are here incharge of the
construction, and well the wife makes food from the states for us every other
sunday :) they are from ARIZONA!!! thats why i asked if you knew the Fenn´s
because his brother served about the same time as dad :)
This week was good. A little
difficult because trying to wrap up the visa things and also getting ready for
the transfers. I am super grateful for the letters you have sent. i hope that
you have been able to get my letters, and if not, please let me know. I want to
respond to all of them :) you are my family and i love you very much.
We have the same investigators. Well
one of them was baptized :) so now one less investigator and one more recent
convert to help YAY!
the main people we are working with
right now is the Alegre Family César (who was recently baptized)
Ana - his wife who is a little rough
Carolina - who has come to church but needs to keep coming and Maxi - who needs
to come to church. We also need to find
more new people, or we are going to baptize everyone and have no one left. ;)
I love you!! Elder Rowse
p.s. they have scorpions here too!!! i was soo
happy to see one!! no need to worry, i am safe. just thought i would comment my
joy to find an insect that also exists here.
The JOY of serving a mission!!
Service Project - planting trees at park with ward members.
3/18
This week was pretty crazy but we
were able to get some good work done. The new elders that were coming came
super late. Some came on Tuesday, others Thursday and others Friday. Darn visa
problems hahaha. so it complicated the week but luckily i have a companion that
has a good desire to work and whenever we found time to leave and work we left!
One night we were running in between appointments and my companion stopped to
contact a house and it happened to be a family that had listened to
missionaries 15 years ago and they even remembered their names. They had
recently had a lot of family members pass away and well now we are teaching
them. The same thing happened with another guy that we contacted, his friend
had died the day before and so we taught him and he actually came to church!!
:) A lot of the families that we were working with have told us a lot of
things. A different day that we left we passed by the Alegre family (Cesar,
Ana, Carolina, Maxi) and the mom stayed for the lesson and they told us pretty
much everything that happened. It was a "wow only as a missionary"
experience. A grown family talking with 19 and 20 year olds that dont even have
families and yet they trusted us and told us. We invited them to pray as a
family and they totally changed by the end of the week. So lots of miracles but
we still need a lot more. This sunday i realized that miracles are worth a ton
more that just 2 meals. Its almost a guarantee and i would fast for more days
but i also need strength. :)
What you had mentioned to me about
the temple is exactly what i have been feeling when i got here. I should be
giving another talk in about 3 weeks (my first talk i wanted to talk about the
missionary work because they were alittle behind) but I then want to help the
ward realize the great blessing they are going to receive to have a temple so
close, and how it will require a little more consagrasion.
Things have changed a
lot. They missionaries were getting visas for 2 years (just enough) but then
they recently changed them to 1 years and well... the last guy organized everything
pretty good but now i just need to get it done. :)
I love you soo much!!
Little Lady, Nancy, likes to dine with the Elders.
Nancy is this sweet old lady that lives in the apartment above us. she invited us for lunch.
4/9
The families we are teaching are
going good. I sometimes feel inadequate to teach these things. These are real
people with some major real problems. I know the gospel can change lives; i
just pray and hope the spirit can help me know what to say. That is the help i
ask for. In specific, how i can help an investigator Paola Radicci. We found
about 4 new families this week, but no one came to church this Sunday (Mom,
looks like we were feeling the same thing yesterday) It hurts. I know they will
be blessed. I then think, if me, with my little capacity i have to love, ache
when they don’t come, How does my Heavenly Father feel, him with an INFINITE
love. If he sees you helping his children, think of his INFINITE gratitude he
will have. I invite you to think of someone, (it may be someone you home teach
or someone). Put your arm around them, and guide them. :) I promise you that if
you do that and tell me of your efforts, i will be making extra efforts in my
work here. The Lord needs me to be effective. The Lords needs his sheep
found.
I love you all, I love this gospel.
There is nothing more beautiful or more marvelous than this gospel. We have a
Heavenly Father that loves us and will bless you as you keep your covenants. I
love you
Elder Rowse :)
Home evening with the ward (barrio) and Cesar's son.
Notice picture of new temple on the wall (left side).
The week was alright. Pretty normal
actually so that was great! Monday we played with the zone the rest of the
weeks we were able to leave every day at 5 and get some good work done. There
was a really neat lesson that i really needed. We were walking towards a visit
and we decided to knock a door. (we did a really really catholic approach
hahaha) we said. HEY! We are going around blessing the houses, would you like a
blessing for your house. The lady said sure! So we went in and we started
talking. While we were teaching, i am 100% positive it was not me, somehow
everything clicked and while we taught and testified the spirit was really
strong, and it filled me with a happiness that made everything worth it. I now
want to go out teaching because i know it can fill me with this joy. :) Her
name is Adreana and i am pretty sure that with some more lessons like that she
can get baptized the 12 of may :)
We also had a family home evening
with the barrio on Saturday (i will be sending pictures) and it turned out
great. The whole Alegre family came!!!! Even ANA!! (Honestly at first i was
pretty bummed because there were only 2 member families but then after 20 min
they showed up and i was way happy!! Sunday, Ana didn’t come but the two kids
did. That was also another fun moment. We were in the supper getto getting a
family to go with all their kids (mind i had a talk to give) so we were there
until about 9:32 until we realized what time it was (church starts at 9:30) so
we told the family we would come back in a little, we ran out of the villa (the
van was parked out of the villa and in a safer place, mostly because we didn’t
want the family to ask us if they could go in the van because we are not
supposed to take people) so we ran out the getto got in the car, got there just
in time to take the sacrament and then give my talk while my companion left
with a different elder that was not giving a talk. I was a little discouraged
because the whole family didn’t want to go to church, so when we arrived at
church i was a little down but as soon as i saw Cesar passing the sacrament and
then saw his two kids it made me super happy!. The talk went really well.
I think i forgot to tell you but
last week we did a musical number and it turned out really well :) um... lets
see i cant remember too much else. and i want to write sherry and Teresa so
take care i love you all :)
I hope you know i am working as hard
as i can and with as much excitement as i can (it is super draining, but it is
definitely worth it) I LOVE YOU ALL!!
The Cordoba Temple - This is the beginning!
Kevin is serving in the area where the temple is being built. He talks much of
preparing the people to have a temple in their midst.
Kevin is about the only Elder who knows how to drive stick, so he drives the mission
van when needed and keeps it clean too.
