Tylers latest email

Russ Logan Jess

 Thanks so much for the emails guys. I sure love you guys to death. So you went up north to cut the trees down eh? That sounds like a fun healthy activity. I wish i could have been there with you guys. Things are going great here in brazil. I am receiving my first son. Which means a Greeny. He is coming freash out of the CTM. So we will see how he is. I am pretty excited. He will probably be the missionary that will kill me as well. ( which means that he will probably be my last companion of the mission. The time sure does fly. I wanted to thank you jesse for that wonderful story that you shared with me. it really touched me and i thank you for being inspired to sare it with me. You are all awesome and i love my little brothers with all my heart , I cant wait to see how much you have grown.

  Love

  Elder Rowland

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Ashley's email

Hey guys! That is so great that you went to the cabin. I was looking at the pictures last night of our last cabin trip...This week was really special. I will send pictures next week but this week we had 4 baptisms. Fabio - who is the son of Nice who was baptized recently. And Lilian Gustavo and Felipe.... Lilian was my very first investigator here in brazil. It has been 7 months since i first met her, but i always knew how special she is. She reminds me a lot of mom!! Nice also was one of my first investigators. How sad i was to leave the area the first time, because i knew of the potential they had. What a blessing and tender mercy it has been to see their hearts change and to watch them enter the waters of baptism. These are two families that i will never forget. Fransisco will be next. He is nice´s husband... it wont be long...

 

Jess, i really liked that story. Youare the best. I know how that girl feels....it is easy to think that we are failures if we dont measure up to others standards. But i know if we do our best and endure to the end we will be happy with our efforts and time spent making good choices in the end. Nothing is more sweet than true satisfaction in a job well done.  Youve got to be honest with yourself and prepare well but through this true success is definately possible.

 

This week i remembered MR> HOBBS hahahahaha How grateful i am for that old beatup car. The memories that were made during that time in my life will forever be in my heart.,..as in yours as well. I am grateful for the opportunity to SACRIFICE.  It has changed my life completely         and nothing can compare with the joy we can have as we let go of things that dont really matter in order to gain eternal blessings.
I have seen sacrifice changes many lives here in brazil and what a wonderful experience it has been. I am glad we sacrificed things, because I can share our stories with the people here to strengthen their resolve! It has been so neat!

 

I know you are doing well. I know the lord is blessing our family tremendously!  Keep up the good work. Choose the right DAILY. 

 

Here are some little things I learned this week that I stuck on the wall next to the picture of my marvelous family.....

 

Prepare yourselves daily

Seek to Improve Regularly

 to

Recieve direction from the Holy Ghost

and to See the blessings in your life

 

 

FOLLOW THE SPIRIT
SEARCH THE SCRIPTURES
KEEP THE COMMANDMENTS
and APPLY WHAT YOU LEARN

 

I encourage each of you to write this down and stick them on your wall or mirror where you will see them often. We need the direction of the spirit each day in our lives...

Please pray for my investigators this week. Pray for them more than you pray for me. Remember them in each prayer. I know the lord will answer your prayers and mine.

 

KEEP MOVING FORWARD ROWLANDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I love you all so much. Have a wonderful week.

-Sister Rowland

 

 

p.s. cottonwood ward rocks!

Thanks for the letters YounG Women!!!!! I love you all and pray for you!  Keep being examples to all those around you and never forget that you are beloved daughters of our Heavenly Father. He desires for you to complete this life successfully. Listen to your parents and your leaders and stand for truth and righteousness and you will be successful and happy during these challenging teenage years. I love you all. P.s. emma...i am happy you could use my dress!!! I am positive you were one of the prettiest there!!! And not because of the dress....but because of the girl in the dress! Have a great week girls! Keep up the good work, and remember me and my investigators in your prayers okay???

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boy - this week i have recieved a true testimony of prayer. This week, i think i recieved a zillion answers to a zillion prayers. I recieved a new companion. SIster nunes dos santos. Next week i´ll send a picture because right now i dont have a ton of time. But she is great. We are practically twins. She is from a small town like ours -2 high schools - 4 grocery stores - hahaha 1 university. it is insane all of the similarities. She has been in the mission 3 months and i am her 2nd companion. She is really excited to work and is always willing to try new things. One thing that I thnk is awesome is that she has an incredible testimony. She is here to do all she can and this attitude changes lives. I wish i had time to tell you all of the wonderful little things that happened to us but you will get to read about this week in my journal when i get back to know all of the blessings and tender mercies we recieved. We are already best friends and we feel strength and the power of the spirit with us every day. What a wonderful thing it is to have someone by your side that is creative, happy, and reliant on the guidance of the spirit.

 

I sure miss each one of you - I loved the emails today...logan i sure laughed about that time in my car when i was checkin out my teeth....i laughed so hard my companion and other sister thought i was crazy and i told them about what happened and they were like wow, your little brother is hilarious.  russ, you could have been killed!!! hjahahaha just kidding but wow that lightning is nuts! remember how we would play tennis together?? I thought about that the other day, and it made me smile. Also, my companion love the story about ladies, i have two arms. jesse boy - nothing is as special as the feeling of forgiveness sweeping over you and the love of our heavenly father encircling you as you ask for forgiveness. I was strengthened by your experience and I know exactly how you feel buddy. Way to go. You are great! (i am crying....dang. everyone things i am crazy) hahaha but its okay, i love you so much.  Maddy gooser - - why i outta....hahahaha "Sister Rowland, I think you need to learn a principle" -my president once said that to me as i was telling him about how much I love you and how sorry i was that i didnt treat you good. he said " so, sometimes we have to loose something to learn the value and love we really had for it." I am sad to say that I had to loose much more than my hair to realize how much I love and appreciate you as my sister. And one thing that mom and dad always taught us was that "The most important things in life, arent things."   I never had your talent for quoting movies, but remember in the Old version of Little Women, when jo cuts all her hair off? Her mom says something really beautiful to Jo about how her hair will grow back, but she will never be as beautiful.....blah blah ....i dont remember....watch it and listen and just think about the things that matter and dont.  Dont try to be somebody else....You are so special and beautiful exactly the way you are sis. I love you more than you know -and I miss you like the dickens.... uh? what the???? hahahaha is your new boyfriend a waiter???? Good for you mad, just strengthen your testimony right now and the lord will prepare you for the man of your dreams. I love you mad, have a great week. Say your prayers everyday and the lord will give you everything you seek. I learned this this week. Please go read these 2 scriptures, you will love them! They sure helped me a lot!!!  3 nephi 14;7-8   2 nephi 32:4 Love you to death meem! Keep moving forward! and SEND ME A PICTURE THIS WEEK>  I want to see how much you have all changed....please send me pictures....if you dont i wont email you next week hahahahaha just kidding...but seriously - send me some pictures.

 

 

Mom and dad- thank you so much for all you have given me. positive attitude, the value and importance of hard work, initiative....copasthetic? hahahaha I love you so much. I know heavenly father knew just what i needed in parents and he blessed me with everything he had!  I know that you guys are doing good! President jackson gave a fireside last night and it reminded me so much of home. thanks for the family nights and for the family prayers and scripture study hahahahahaha . wasnt perfect sometimes but sure made a huge gigantic difference in my life!!! love you all so much.

-sister rowland

Tylers latest email

Dear Family

  Mom, Thanks so much for the package, It helped a ton and it arrived right when i needed it. The only other thing that i need it that memory card with the pictures of our babtisms so that i can mail them to some people here . but if it is not going to work out , no problems. I love you so much ! I especially loved the temples that you sent me. I am giving them to families here. This week was pretty good and i am so greatful to be out here doing the lords work.Jesse Boy. So summer is just about half over. i hope that you are enjoying it . Sounds like your living my life a little bit. It seems that the same effect happens to all when you are created in a home with the gosple. I know that some of the greatest lessons you will learn in the next few years. I know that your a great example to your brothers and that you will always choose the right. If you need anything just let me know. I will try and by you and logan and russ a brasil world cup shirt so that you guys can be soccer fans with me! I sure love you jesse boy.

  Linal! Hows it going bro. I totally remember that time that we made up those names. It was pretty funny , i just about started busted up laughing over here! I remember  that our work went a lot faster when  we did that. Its awesome to play around a little bit when we are working. Well i sure love you Linal. I hope you have an awesome summer.

Hey Beat Rut! sounds like you had quite the experiance in tropic. Im glad that you made it through. what else is new bro? Are you in going to be in 7th grade now or 8th?

   Well i sure love you all and i hope that yo u are all doing just wonderful. Love elder Rowland

Tylers latest email

Thanks so much for the wonderful emails you write every week , It absolutly lifts my spirits. I was really surprized that you guys talked so much this week about the atoning sacrafice of our savior. I had a really neat experiance that helped me understand from a very small point of view , how great the atonment is to me. I was at a wedding of one of our members and they told us that there would be pizza and cake afterwords at this really nice Resturant. And it was really good and satisfying to the tast. I enjoyed it so much. But after about 10 pieces of pizza, I realized that i would have to pay for it,( Because people around me started taking about the price) I started to get a bit worried and it got worse every second.. Because of doctor appointments and check ups i and my companion did not have very much money to pay the price. Actually I knew that my companion didnt have any money at all... I started to panic and started to plan who could lend me the amount needed to pay the price. As our 9:30 obedience mark closened i had no choice but to get up and pay the the amount i had on my card would be enough...( though i knew that it wasnt ) As i was walking to the cash register, someone said "elder, I will Pay your bill." I was astonished and i didnt know what to do, but before i could do anything , he took the note out of my hand and my companions to pay our bill. This was a man that i barley knew , he wasnt even part of our ward. But he paid the price for me.

    I started to think a lot about what had just happened. I realized that it fits perfectly in the atonment and how it works. We are not able to pay the price nor do we know how much it is, but someone paid the price for all of our sins. Had i not decided to be obidient to the rules of the mission i doubt that that man would have offered to pay our bill. In the same way , we must pay the price that the savior expects, which is in our reach. One of the most imortant things is that we must except, is that we are not able to pay and we must accept the terms that he has set. We do this through true sorrow and whilingness to repent and do better. And if we do all this, we will have the exact reaction that i had. Amazment and wonder, as to the love that the savior offers you and me, even if we do not know him well. I know that he lives and i will share this great news with as many people as i can in these last few months that i have in the lords vinyard.

   I love you all so much and i want to all to know that i am doing just great. I love the work and i do not know how i am going to get on that plane in 3 months... someone will have to shoot me in the arm with a tranquilizer gun...

   Elder Rowland