Transfer And New Companions

Saying Goodbye to Uritorco

Two Companions! Elder Slaughter and Elder Bird

Pretending Some Excitement

1/29/12

I love you all so much!!! Sounds like all the family visits are going good. I have been making a lot of changes this past couple weeks. That is so exciting for the ward!! Kyle is going to Hong Kong. He is going to have a wonderful experience. Be sure to tell him the mission is great! It is difficult but if he gives it his all he will absolutely love it!!

I am very grateful for the wonderful support that you have all given me, and also for the support of the ward! I know the prayers are helping me. :) Well transfers came and following the pattern i got a new companion and a new area hahaha :) so this should be pretty good. i have two companions, Elder Slaughter who is training me for 2 weeks and Elder Bird who is my actual companion who will be teaching with me. I was pretty sad to leave Uritorco. I had gotten to know a lot of people, and we have baptisms set up for every week in February, but i know that the Lord wants and needs me in my new area, so i will do just that. :) This day has been pretty crazy, with a lot of running around. i had to get up at 5, shower and then call a taxi, and go to my new area. I then had to go with Elder Slaughter to the main bus terminal at 6 where i was there until 12 or 1. We were helping all the elders and sisters travel to their new areas, calling people and making sure that everyone traveled and arrived safely. it was super super super hot, and i had to stay in my suit coat. I was soaked, and tired hahaha :) needless to say i had a smile and was happy the whole time. i then have a lot of work to do, since there are 13 elders and sisters going home and then 30 new elders coming :) but I am excited to work in my new area and meet the investigators.

I have a ton of things i can do to be better. I pray that the Lord can take my weaknesses and make them strong. I have also started to have a new point of view. Every person i talk with can come to Jesus Christ, and i believe 100 percent that they will be baptized. I love the work and i love to be the Lords Servant.

Spiritual message.. There are three types of people in the world, the servant, the worker and the friend. The servant does something only because he has to, because he fears that if he doesn’t do what he is commanded he will be punished. The worker only does something for an increase. All he wants is the blessings and for this cause he is obedient. The friend, does something because he loves the other. With our Heavenly Father, who are we? I hope that we can all become like the friend, to do what he wants because we love him and we know he loves us.

I love you! Elder Rowse

2/5/12 Dear Family,

Wow this week was fantastic!!! there was a ton of miracles!!! so some of the miracles were the following. First I survived the crazy week of transfers, then the couple of nights that i had time to go work we did a lot of work, asking references from everyone!! Until some people just started to feel our spirit of asking for references that they would just come up to us and give us references :) it was really neat. We also found a family that was waiting for a change. How we found them was a reference of a reference and doing a little of service and that is how we found them. It was awesome!!! :) Sunday morning was a little rough, we went looking for some investigators and they all fell through. None of them could go or wanted to go, we got to church pretty late. We were in a different sacrament meeting and a guy came in that no one knew, so after church my companion and i went up and started talking to him and he told us that he had read the Book of Mormon and prayed about it and had felt that the book was true. So Sunday he left his house looking for a church. He got to one church but no one was there so he went looking for another church building and happened to find us. We talked to him, put a baptismal date and then found out he lives in our area!!! :) yay!!! There has been a ton of miracles :)

There is always a lot of things to do and this has helped me feel lost in the work. My companion is great! I am learning a lot from him and i look forward to continue working with him. So this coming week I need to study a lot about Argentine driving laws and term and the whole new language of car term in Spanish. I have to get my license this week because the only other elder that knows how to drive stick is going this coming week.

:) i love you so very much!!