More Photos

Keith sent these photos last week.

Attempt at a home made Thanksgiving

 Showing off the calves

 Nasty sweat marks

 Better view of the sweat marks

Mosquito bite

Trying out my Spanish

Hey my beloved family!!!!

 

Trelew is doing amazing as always!!!!! just cause i am here is why!!! ah jk. So for the 26th. I will be "calling" through skype at about 3:00 my time. so i think thats about 11:00 am your time. just fyi. daniel added me so i dont think their should be problems. I am super excited to see you folks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

haha funny story. So we were in Gaiman on Friday and we were walking and i saw this 9 year old driving a huge fruit truck, so i was starring at him (yes its a keith thing to do is to stare, thanks dad) and i was walking and walked right into a metal post. hard. split my head open. BUT........im ok ;) we went to a hermanas house and i bandaged it all up and what not. now just waiting for the scar to form. blood was all over my head. super funny. but i am ok mom. no worries.

 

so my week. tuesday we had interviews with president Peterson. We were there for 5 hours cause president showed up late. i was playing piano and Hermana peterson didnt know i played and she was impressed. Check that out kids. I almost played myself to sleep. But then i went on divisions with Elder Roldan. It was super fun. He is so funny. He is from Mexico. Wednesday we were on divisions that day too. ate some good ice cream in Gaiman with him. Taught some kids at the church. turns out we think those same kids burned the books of mormon that we gave them and threw them on the roof of the church cause we found two books of mormon burned on the roof of the church. but anywho. on divisions we went on divisions with some members. Thursday was planning. Friday was gaiman with elder newey. saturday was divisions with the zone leaders. and sunday we practiced with some members to sing on christmas. ya i sing tenor in the songs. yeah baby! just whooped the dream american voice out for the folks. no big deal. haha. but yeah that was my week. look forward to hearing from ya fam. Love ya. Keep reading and praying. I promise you will recieve blessings.

 

Elder Ross

It's all I have

FAMILIA!!!!!

 

It sure it just wonderful to hear from you folks every week!! so first things first, I think I will be skyping on Monday the 26th. Our schedule is different then it was last year it looks like monday is when we can skype. So just fyi. For sure this upcoming week, so next p day i will tell you the time and all.

Yeah its super hot here. I get these sweat marks on my shirts from my backpack that are all brown and such, i Think i will send pictures, its pretty gross. Yes my feet are somewhat better, they stink super bad. Elder Newey makes jokes about them every night. And the mosquitos here are ridiculous. Right now i think i have 10 bites. In the past week, pretty sure I had around 25. but what do ya do. Its the mission. I hope my package comes today, we always go get the boulsa (mail bag) on mondays in the morning but this morning we had to go pay our rent and power bills. so we will get it after.

How is the ol 7th ward doin? i got a letter from the primary here a couple weeks back. Sister Willardson put a bunch of argentine words, foods, and soccer teams in it. It was super fun to read. Tell her I am a River fan. Not boca jr´s. she´ll know exactly what your talking about. How are the missionaries from the ward doing? i really dont have any other contact with missionaries execpt for hayden and a few in my mtc group.

 

so my week this week wasnt that exciting, someone got hit on a bike outside of our apartament this morning. The drivers here are absolutly nuts and super impacient. on wednesday we went on divisions, i went with elder zamora. It was pretty good. We went to these members house in their ward and their kids love me. they were drawing pictures for me the whole time. I was doing magic tricks for them and all. Cute little kids. but thats about the only exciting thing that happened this week. a really boring week it sounds like but we really do make it lively in our companionship, making jokes and just laughing. The language is coming along. I can finally understand everything people say! and i can talk alot better. Thanks to alot of prayers. The investigators are doing well, we havent seen them in a long while. They always dont show up to our appointments. Buttfaces. Oh well. We love them anyways.

 

This mission experience is somthing else, something I had never dreamed of. Yesterday we had a cool experience, we went to find a lady that was a reference from a member. We knock her house (clap outside the gate) and the neighbor who is a member Hmno Gonzalia looks out his window and says "hey she isnt home, want to come in" so we did and he was just tellin us about the mission and all these super funny stories. He is the coolest member ever. He is like 30 and just a studd and the elders quorum president. Then we start talking about hymns and how much power they have and i start singing my little harmonies like my ol pops taught me how to. And he and my companion were super impressed. so we now want to do a musical number together one sunday. but while listening to the hymns he says "pay attention to those words, wow. What power" and we started talking about gods creations and how we couldnt believe that people dont believe in God. How could someone not believe in God. and again my purpose as a missionary kicked in. Thats what I am here to do. To prove that their is a God. You wouldnt believe the amounts of people that bash on us "Mormons" as they call us. How many people dont believe in God.

Im glad to two amazing parents who brought me up in a home where I knew that everything came from God. All that I had was from God. And that their was a God. And i am here to testify as a representitive of Jesus Christ, Their is a God, he loves us. He sent us here to this earth to see if we loved him enough to keep his commandments, make and keep sacred covnants and return with him. In return, we can be like him. A God. If we live our lives worthily to return with him. I know this church is true. No doubts. Words cant describe the experience i have had here as a missionary, the things i have learned. Thanks Mom and Dad for everything to get me here, I am forever in debt to you. and thank you God for letting me have this experience of an earthly life to live with such an amazing family that i can be with forever.

 

Cuidense!

 

Elder Ross

Our news...what's yours

HEY FAM!!!!!

 

oh such a good week here. as always haha. well it was an ok week, alot of people let us down on appointments which is pretty usual. But we just keep truckin along and keep working. nothing big thats a big story writter happened this week. No I have not gotten your package. Yes i did get dads letter. He like knows my area better than I do. So yes um mom we are comming up on christmas and yes i do get to skype home. Yes that means internet video of me. WE GET TO SEE EACH OTHER!!!!! i am going to set up a skype account today and next week i am going to send you the information. I need your guys information to talk to you. I dont know the exacts of what time and all that but i will talk with my companion about it and tell you next week.

Yes it is smokin hot here. Its usually in the low 90's. nothing too big. but super hot. i have sweat stains on my shirts from where my backpack rests on my shoulders and back. its pretty gnarly. and yes my feet stink a fool. oh goodness. but thats the mission. you just get mission feet. and we are getting eaten alive by mosquitos. just a big ol jumbled mess of happiness is what it is. haha :)

 

Our investigators are mas o menos right now. They dont have a fire desire to be baptised or know things about the church. but we are hoping to change that. we have a cita(appointment) tonight with a guy that stopped us on the street saying he has been waiting for us to come buy so we will see how that goes. A member gave me some Jordans (michael jordan shoes) for free. they said they dont fit him, they dont fit me either so i am going to give them to Elder Brown one of the other elders in our zone.  yes.

 

I had a cool experience this week teaching a menos activo why i am on my mission. I just bore testimony to her that I am here to save souls who are lost and dont know about the truth. I am here to bring their family who had been away from the church for a long time back to church. Thats why we are here as missionaries, cause God provided a way we could learn about the truth to live back with God again after this life. God provided a way to be clean from our sins by being baptised, partaking of the Atonement, taking the sacrament every week. God provided every way to be back with him, we just have to find that way and do everything it takes. The big thing that always runs through my head is this question "If Jesus came this moment, would I be able to say "Yes lord, I am cleanof my sins"." I hope and have no doubt that each of you are living a worthy life but we need to make sure we are always doing good things so we are clean in the last day. I love you family, be safe and take care"

 

Elder Ross