Familia!!!

FAMILIA!!!

 

Todo esta bien en Trelew, Argentina! Me encanta esté area. Great week here once again. Alot of good things happened this week. and a few sad things but thats ok. so funny story at the begging of our week. so we got done knocking doors and this drunk guy walks over to us. he says how great he thinks we are for studying here. and we told him that we were missionaries and that we dont really study. at least not for school. but we told him what we did and the message we had. asked him if he had a couple of drinks. he says ''mas o menos'' which means yes i did drink alot. even tho he said not really. so we asked if we could stop by his house and he agreed. we asked where his house was. he pointed a direction and that doesnt help us. so we asked for his address. he didnt know so we said we would walk him home. we start walking with him and he cant walk straight, he was running into us and he was just crazy drunk. so we finally get to his house and we set up an appointment for the next day. he agrees and we walk away. walking away i thought we should make sure he gets inside ok. as soon as we both turn around. this guy trips over the curb and goes face first in the ground. we run over. and he gets up with blood just pooring out of his nose and mouth. we helped him up and he was able to get inside ok. the next day we return to his house and him and his wife (so i would imagine it was his wife) hide from us by the window. we knocked (here in south america if someone has a gate in front of their house, you clap outside the gate and they come to the door thats what we call knocking. :) ) but i could see them hiding by the window. crazy people. but its all good. friday i did divisions with elder roldan. he is from mexico. i could only speak spanish to him. it was kinda hard speaking spanish all day but i did it. alot of people here say i am at a way big advantage where i am at in the language, they are super impressed. but divisions was way fun. he is super funny with his little spanish accent when he speaks english. it is soooo funny! i love elder roldan. such a studd. saturday and sunday were obviously conference. me and elder newey watched it in english in our own room in the church. it was pretty sweet. alot of fun. between sessions on saturday me and elder roldan went on splits for an hour to visit a less active lady in our ward. it was a super cool experience. elder roldan is an amazing teacher. so we walk in to her house and she has two boys. we went to see if any of them were baptized is why we went. we sit down and elder roldan asks how long is been since she went to church. she starts to bawl. she said it had been 10 years since she has been to church. and that she had a son die and thats another reason is cause god took something away from here. she feels bad for not going. then we explained the atonement and prayer and how god wants to hear from all of us. how the atonement can heal her pains that she feels for a lost son. we told her that her son was in a good place. she needs gods help. elder roldan shared a touching thing with her. he explained to her that his dad had died five months ago. this was while he was on his mission. but he knows his dad is in a good place. he felt her pain. but he said how much church and the atonement helped in this process of healing for him. and how the atonement helps everyday so he stays out here on his mission. such an awesome experience.

I loved conference. such an amazing thing that we had. the feelings i had and the things i wrote down are unexplainable. my testimony has grown so much. these are the words of god. through a prophet. so that we can know how to live our lives worthly to return to live with god again. what a blessing conference is. i wrote down three questions before conference and all three were answered. very clearly. i hope that you go back and look and study these words on a daily basis. these words are amazing. they have truth. i felt of that truth when they were being spoken. i challenge the young boys in our family who are preparing for missions to study the talk of the japanese speaker on sunday. (sorry cant remember his name) but it hit me when i was listening that that was the most plane, but true talk on how to prepare for a mission. those boys need it. tell them their cousin keith told them to read it. it has helped our investigators with questions they have. study those talks!

we met with our investigators Anaí and Fabian. last night was a very difficult night. we felt like the lord let us down. we prayed with them about if this was the way for them. they didnt recieve an answer. i was hoping for the typical missionary experience but it didnt happen. they didnt get an answer immediatly after we prayed. i was very down about this. they are great people. they want the truth in their life. then fabian throws out this out of nowhere doubt. he said all churches were good. but we explained only one had the right authority, making it the true church. i left that lesson feeling let down by the lord. but those conference words brought me words of comfort. everything happens in the lords time. everything happens in the lords time. not when we want it but when the lord makes it happen. its my testimony to you. i know the lord lives. those are his words for us. if we follow him, we will have happiness and blessings without number. i know this church is true. i wouldnt be out here if i didnt. this mission has changed my life in a indiscribable way. i love these people with an amazing love. this is the only true church and i am here to tell these people that the gospel has been restored and they can recieve salvation.

 

the language is comming along. the food is AMAZING!!!! no the meat isnt everything peole said it was but they do have good food and drinks here. i got some sweet food for ya to eat when i return home. i miss you family. May God bless you as you keep his commandments. so keep the commandments!!!! :)

 

Elder Ross