Week 73 - Bent?? (3/19/2018)

So this week has been a really fun week!! To start off, I have stayed in Rupert!! I beat the odds and have stayed another transfer!! And finally, with the same companion!! Elder Cooke and I are going 3 transfers together!! My longest companion!!!! It's awesome!!!! I'm excited!!! All day Tuesday we were anticipating transfer calls and we were all on edge. I have to say, I was pretty close on my predictions!! I think next transfer, I'm going to Boise Spanish and reopen it to Elders! ;) That would be my dream!! Wednesday we had a lot of good productivity which was good. Not a lot of good success as we were going around. A lot of our appointments fell through. It sucked! We had a lot of good things planned, but none of it happened!! Gosh dang it!! I love Rupert don't get me wrong. It's a fun place to find people. 

Wednesday and Thursday it rained and it was pretty cool!! On Thursday we got to go to Twin for Transfers cause we hauled some luggage up their with my trainee Elder Blaisdell as he was being transferred out. I'll definitely miss him. We got to Twin and it was cool to see some familiar faces and then make our way back here. It was pretty cool! We then tried some people later that night and almost everything fell through. We then got a text from one of our ward members and he offered to take us out to visit some of the Hispanics in the Stake and we tagged along with him. It was awesome!! We got to meet a lot of new people that hopefully will come to the new Spanish Group right here in good old Rupert. 

After our bike ride

Friday was a really good day!! We decided to ride bikes and it was the best decision we made that day. We contacted a lot of people and ended up dropping quite a lot of people. It was worth it. The first few minutes were pretty rough cause it had been awhile since we had done such a thing, but after that, it was pretty good. We had a good bike ride. Afterwards we had gone back to our car cause it was getting really late so we needed light. We tried some more people, but no answers. We did stay diligent though. Gotta look at the plus side of things. 

Saturday I think was the best day for us. I was able to get permission to go to the temple with one of the Recent Converts I knew back in Declo. His family was going to go with him to the temple, but since not all of them are members, they would be waiting in the waiting room. Our Mission President gave us permission to go and be with the family, which is what I wanted. During the entire time I got to talk to the wife and teach her the importance of the temple and why it's possible for all of this to happen. It was such a neat experience to talk to her cause she is so strong in the Gospel. She's got a testimony of these things! It's awesome!! We came back and by the time we got back we just caught a few people home before we had to go to dinner. It was pretty cool. We then went to Stake Conference and got spiritually fed and it was incredible. 

Yesterday as well we got spiritually fed and it was incredible. We had a lot of good moments yesterday. It was awesome!! We tried some people and yet again, appointments fell through. We did catch a family at home and it was pretty cool. We had a good sit down with them to see if they would be interested in us explaining the Gospel to them and they agreed to have us over next Sunday. It was sooo awesome!! 

This week has been great and I'm excited for the next few transfers!! This will be soo awesome!! I love you all!! and I miss you all!! Hope everything is good for you back home!! Oh and I guess to explain the title. So on Saturday, we got home and we were using my phone to make some calls. We did and in one of them I noticed my case wasn't on all the way. So I took off the case and noticed that the back of my phone was popping out as well and I took that off and the battery had expanded and bent the phone!! We were trying to figure out how cause the phone had been in my suit pocket and also in my shirt pocket all day!! We were sooo confused!! It still works, but I feel like it's going to blow up on me. That would suck a lot. But yeah!

Love you all!!

Elder Ruesch

Week 72 - Slow Ride (3/12/2018)

Caught my comp taking a nap

So this week felt like it went by soooo slowly. To start out it was really slow. We got to work hard on our preparation day by playing ball and it was pretty fun...except for the fact we almost had the entire zone present and that was a big no. Felt chastised for it big time. That night we tried contact so many people it was crazy how many people didn't answer the door. I was amazed, but it's whatever I guess. The week went on and we had interviews with our Mission President and they went very smoothly. It was really nice to talk to him and see how we can help the Spanish people. Luckily with this Spanish group talk that is happening, things will be so much better. Had the opportunity to also go on exchanges with my former companion and trainee Elder Blaisdell and we had a great time together. We were in Rupert so we did pure Spanish work and it was just an awesome grind. We worked so hard, had good results, and then some bad ones, but in the end it was a good day. 

A cloudy day here in Rupert

As the week went on, we continued working and it felt sooooo long!! It was just insane!! I don't remember much, just the fact that it was sooooo long!!! We had a lot of appointments cancel and a lot of things fall through, but we noticed that being in the right place at the right time, yields a lot of good things. One of the appointments that cancelled, we didn't get the memo. We showed up and the mom of the family, just got released from the Hospital and as we arrived, she asked us if we could give her a blessing. So I think it was a good things we didn't get the memo. 

So a crazy thing that happened this week. So the Elders we are housing in our house got called a bunch of times along with us saying how unlivable the situation is. So they've been panicking trying to find a house for them, but when we housed another set of Elders they were completely fine with it.... Pretty weird if you ask me. But we've been searching for a house for them and luckily at one of our dinners, we were able to find out they want to start housing missionaries in their side home. It'll be temporarily until their house is finished and then they can move into it. Pretty crazy how God does answer our prayers!! 

Well that's my weeks summed up since I can't remember a lot of it. But I love you all and I hope you have a great week. Elder Ruesch out!! 

Elder Ruesch Sosa

P.S. if you want to send letters feel free to, but transfers are this week. I don't think I'm being transferred, but we shall see...

Week 71 - The Epistle of Elder Ruesch Chapter 2 (3/5/2018)

A breakfast we got this week
from our Ward Mission Leader

So this week has been a very good and interesting week. I made it alive and that's all that matters to me. There has been a lot of craziness that went down and I don't know where to begin. So I guess to start off with the craziness.

Something we decided to do...
bad decision

So we helped some Elders move out of their house and guess where.... On our floor! So yet again we have Elders living on our floor. But this time, they literally have all of their stuff. It's pretty crowded now in our house. It'll be a fun few months... Transfers next week and I'm kinda confused, but I got the feeling that I'll be staying. We'll find out though. The rest of the craziness started at Zone Conference. It was really cool, but I felt like it was really long. A lot of questions asked and a lot of answers given. Everything seemed so self explanatory, but I guess not. Oh well the life of a missionary. We also got to help out our Ward Mission Leader with flooring his house. We did a lot of moving around in his house trying to put floorboards in and then get the actual flooring in. We didn't get to cause we had other things pop up. 

 A sticker I got and put on my tag

Now on to the Spiritual side of things. We did go on exchanges and I stayed here in Rupert. We had a lot of good things that came from it. We were able to meet with some of the people that we haven't been able to meet with for awhile. It was really awesome to be able to meet with a lot of these families. The only thing that was bad was that I had to be on my own. The Elder I was with is an English speaking missionary so I was on my own for literally everything. It was good. It really taught me to rely on the Spirit a lot. The same day we helped out our Ward Mission Leader with his flooring, we gave one of the Sister Missionaries in our Stake a blessing. It was a really cool experience and the Spirit was so strong!! I'm loving it here in the mission and there is nothing that I can really complain about. It's amazing how much the Lord has taught me this far in my mission. I can't imagine what other things that I will learn. There has been a lot that I can't really put into words it's a little difficult. 

Honestly there has been a lot of good this week and it's been really cool. I honestly can't think of anything else to send home. Today marks 17 months since I've been out. Time is running out, but with what I have left, I'll use it to serve the last stretch of my mission. I love you all and I hope things are great for you all back home!! 

And I Elder Ruesch, closes this Epistle to Family and Friends, whom he loves dearly.

Elder Ruesch Sosa