Que tal mi familia, 
We are in the mission home right now and he told us all to write to our families.  So literally so much has happened in one day. The most important thing that I want you guys to know is that I am loving it so far. I can understand the language of everyone except people from barranquilla. haha. I had great and natural conversations with everyone on my flights. I was the only missionary who did not sit next to another missionary on any of his flights which I can consider a blessing. The person I talked to on the way to Barranquilla was from colombia. She was super nice and we talked together in Spanish and a lot of Spanish as well. Haha, we talked the whole flight and I was able to share my testimony and get her facebook account. It was a blessing for me because I gained a ton of confidence and learned a ton. All the missionaries are super nice and the leaders are awesome. We stayed in a super nice hotel last night. I was with a missionary who was super awesome but was feeling the same way I was feeling at the start of ccm in regards to his testimony. It was cool to be able to help him. It is cool to be around so many people who want to do the right thing. There is so much more but not enough time.  
Love you guys, I was born for this 
Elder Rouse

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Hi all! Mama Rouse here.  Sorry this email isn't coming directly from Colton.  He's trying to figure out the best way to send weekly emails, but it's a bit tough because he does not have access to any computers.  He does have a smartphone that he shares with his companion, but typing emails on it would be pretty tough.  So he used it to make a video this week and sent it to me through facebook messenger.  His hope was that I could email it to all of you, but it isn't going through for some reason.  Maybe because it's 15 minutes long!!!   I finally decided to edit it to two minutes and send it that way.  Sorry you aren't getting the full video, but hopefully this segment will give you a small insight into how he is doing and what he is experiencing.  And fingers crossed we come up with a new plan for next week! Btw - here is bit of info from his 15 minute video ... He's been in Colombia for two weeks and is living in a town called So...
Read more
Image
This one will have to be shorter. I never have time with only the one phone, but here goes nothing... Reactivating familia lopez We have been visiting with the Lopez family for some time now. They are already members of the church, but they have not been coming to the church for some time. We could tell that they had many other problems as well. Now they are a different family. We had a small dinner, lesson, and shared our "American coke floats". They expressed sincere thanks for our visits, and it was a touching moment for everyone. The gospel has the means of changing families. It allows us to become close to on another and achieve happiness in our homes. Señor usted es el mujer de la casa... Jaja. We were in a quick lesson with a family who are members of the church. Normally I like to show respect to the father by saying that he is the man/head of the house and should choose who can say the opening prayer, but as I said the question I messed up the word ho...
Read more

Your eyes are so cute

What's up!!!  So much but I can't say it all so we fixing to fast track this sucker.     This dude was sitting on his porch reading a book and so we simply were like "good evening what are you reading"? He was reading an english book and we went crazy cuz we're two gringos in the dusty old streets of Colombia. We talked for a while and we told him about our english classes in the church. We told him the time of our sacrament meeting too but thought nothing of it cuz he explained that he was catholic. But Sunday rolled around and the dude was there at church. I sat next to him and walked him through everything. He wanted to know a ton more and was shocked that our church is not full of herotics and crazy irreverent worshiping. This man wanted a book of mormon and to know more. Crazy      The other day I got hit on because I was white. We asked this inactive girl to go get her book of mormon, and she comes back wearing a dress which kinda exposed he...
Read more