July 2011 - July 2013
Current Location: El Comodoro, Argentina

December 31, 2012

Miracles this week

FAMILIA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Alright, first off, sorry for not calling back like i said i would. I thought the church office was going to be open, but i was wrong. We tried to look for a place to call but as you know, it was christmas. haha kinda hard.
Second off, im the only missionary out now!!!!!!!!!! haydens home!!!!!!!!!!!!!! holy moley. i bet things are weird.
Third off, my trainer got married this week. Congrats Hayden Newey. Boom.

So this week was a mas o menos week. It was a little difficult but it was an amazing week. Why? CAUSE WE HAVE A BAPTISM NEXT WEEK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i will explain

We had a miracle happen this week, Freddy, in our lesson with him got his answer. I was reading a liahona the other day and one of the stories of a memeber in Ushuaya got his answer in the lesson with the missionaries and i thought i might use that same way to help him out. The spirit told me i needed to use that way to help him. So we wrote down the prayer freddy needed to say, specificly and he read what i had wrote down and then we just waited.  he told us after we had read d y c 9 that he had felt something super warm in his head. he told us that that way to pray was different from all the other times he had prayed. He had gotten his answer. After crying for a while he asked us if that had ever happed to us before. We said yes. We are preparing him to be baptized on the 6th of January.  :)

Diego is super close to getting his answer. He just needs to do a prayer and come to church. He has all the reasons to be baptizedc and everything. He understands exactly why he needs to be baptised. Super capo.

Irene is having a bit of trouple with some problems with her health. But she promised us when she was doing dialysis that she would call us and that we could go talk to her to help her with her answer.

So yeah. that was our week. we have planned to spend new years with yoni and nancy, a newly married couple here in our ward. Its going to be tight. I love the mission.

LOVE YALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Elder Ross

December 18, 2012

Starting to look like Christmas....in Vernal

FAMILY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

WE had a CRAZYYYYYYYY week!!!!!!!! but one of the best weeks i have had in my mission!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Me and elder clark (obviously with gods help) are kickin trash!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The adjustment with elder clark is good. It just felt like we were on divsions haha. but its all good. Its suuper good. We put a new fetcha this week. With irene, she is the mom of a recent convert. Freddy didnt make it to his fetcha but he is workin on getting his answer. BIG NEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WE ARE GOING TO BE ABLE TO HAVE BIKES IN OUR AREA!!!!!!!!!!!!. so we are in that process of looking for memebers who will let us borrow their bikes.
MY FOOT IS GOOD MOM!!!!!!!!!!!! ;) I promise. its super good.

SO.....sorry to break the news to you guys but the thing is Elder Clark cant call his family on skype and i dont think they have it here. So....im not going to be able to skype.......BUT i am still going to call you guys. We are thinking about calling at like 2 in the afternoon here. so im not sure what time that is for you guys. I have written down i think like two of the numbers. Cell phone numbers. I hope thats ok for you guys, just email me the numbers to be sure. Sorry to let you guys down but i gotta go with my comp.

So yeah. i am suuuuuper excited to talk to you guys. I doesnt feel like christmas. but it will be good to talk to you guys and talk a little in spanish. haha. yeah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

LOVE YOU GUYS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Elder ROss

December 10, 2012

Transfers and new Companion

hey!!!!!!!!
news. big news. haha transfers!!!!!!!!!!! So...pay attencion. So their was two areas in El bolson. Now their is only one. with the missionaries being. Your son, Elder Ross and his companion Elder.......CLARK!!!!!!!!!!!!! The other elder that was in the other area. My mini and elder frost left and they made the two areas one. HOLY AREA!!!!!!!!! its HUGE!!!!!!!! so yeah. me and elder clark are now comps. He is from Ririe, Idaho. He is suuuuuuuuuuper cool. he makes me laugh all the time. He is a farm boy from Idaho. He worked in a Potato plant before his mission. How ironic. hahahahaha. So i will be his second comp in the mish. we are going to rock it up

This week started as a good week. We have alot of investigators now that we have both areas. So it will be nice. we have a couple people getting ready for baptism that arent completely ready but almost. Freddy who is a bolivian and his girlfriend is a member. He has his date for the 15th of december. or this next week. Then we have jonathan who we havent taught him in a long while. but he should be getting baptised soon. I really am looking forward to working with elder clark. He is a super good elder and super obedient.

Their is a saying in a video we have as missionaries called Preach my Gospel by a missionary called Elder Bott. He says "the last six months of a missionaries mission is his time to really shine" I am really looking forward to shining. Really getting to put into practice what i have learned this past year and a half and putting it into practice. All of it.

LEt me know what the deal is for christmas. Elder Clark is going to call on the phone i think cause his family doesnt have skype. but we will see. let me know what you guys can do and give me the numbers i would need to call.

LOVE YA KIDS!!!!!!!!!!

Elder ROss

December 3, 2012

Monday's E-mail

HELLO CHILDREN!!!!!!!!!!1
 
just another AMAZING week here in argentina. I love it here. haha i really do. Its so cool to just feel like you are at home speaking another language and everthing is just normal. wake up and talk to people like its nothing. haha. Well this week was GREAT!!!!!!! we had a suuuper good week. Taught alot and had alot of succes. ONe of the things was that we were able to see a miracle with vanessa. We taught her the sabath day and the importance of coming to church and i promised her if she would talk to her boss, he would give her the day off or that someone would give her another job. She got another job offer this week. :) she has a job interview today.
 
I have learned alot this week about the spirit. ITs been suuuuper cool to see how the spirit works. I never understood suuper well stuff about the spirit. I love it. I LOVE THE MISSION!!!!!!!!!!
 
The family nahuelpan are doing good. didnt come to church this week but we couldnt go visit them either. BUT jonathan has a baptismal date for this month!!!
 
This week we found 5 new investigators. A family. Familia Landaida. They are super cool. Then we taught a cool bolivian kid named freddi. he is super chill. He loves it.
 
The truth is.....the mission is changing my life "line upon line, precept upon precept" its like a talk i read today by elder bednar. the change in my life is like a rising and setting sun. it´ll take two years but i will be able to see the difference. I love the mission. These people make me so happy. these times are when the mish is just amazing. Its not easy all the time but it so worth it. I have learned more in this 17 months than i ever did in seminary and stuff. It helped but i have been able to learn on my own as i help others. I love IT:) LOVE YA KIDS!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
Elder Ross