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

February 25, 2013

Change in the Mission

mom, sorry i didint email you last week. i have a reason and its not my fault.
I got to emial everyone else but right when i was going to email you (save the best for last) the internet in the internet place died. haha. so i saved it on a pin drive. dont worry
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BUT HUGE NEWS!!!!!!!! THEY ARE DIVIDING MY MISSION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :):):):):):):):)
 
LA MISION ARGENTINA COMODORO RIVIDAVIA
 
Which includes from where i started in my mission. Trelew. down to tierra de fuego!!!!!!! the3 end of the earth!!!!!!!!! where i always wanted to go!!!!!!!!!!!!! but i doubt i will finish in the new mission cause they are going to start the new mission two weeks before i leave! :(
 
So yeah haha
big news.
My week. AMAZING. this week we had a super good spiritual weekend. with the spriti that just guided us everywhere.
Saturday, we had a super good lesson with a recent convert. Micol. Gave him a blessing so that he could stay strong and stay away from temptation. then we visited with flia berdum. they are members. we helped them alot with some personal things they are going through. Then on sunday we found a familY!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :) flia Robledo :) Then we taught a super good lesson with flia leal.They are less active but we had a super good lesson with them. he is super hard headed and he things that we as white people run the church. he even told me that he knows he could never break my testimony because of my backround. Being from a family of generations members of the church. But the spirit helped us break into him and help him find what he needs to do to change his life. AMAZING: Lesson. one of the best on my mission. Then we just had alot of success with the memebers cause this week alot of the investigators dont wnat to progress but the memebers told us that we were answers to their prayers. it was a super good week. LOVE YALL
 
elder ayala says hi to everyone and that he loves you all
 
Elder Ross
 
 

February 11, 2013

Que Chanta

que chanta!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
 
MOM YOU NEVER TOLD ME YOU WERE IN THE STAKE PRIMARY PRESIDENCY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! hahaha what the heck. i was reading and i thought. "what? moms in the stake primary presidency? hmmmmm" you never told me ahahahahaha. wow. thats cool.
KAyla yes did informe me with the big news. i am gonig to write him after i write you.
wow sweden. thats super cool .i am super excited. super excited. its going to be an amazing experience. but its kinda a bummer i wont get to see him for 4 years. dang......how does aunt linda feel????? haha i bet she is just nerve racked. but i can give her some council. If my mom could do it, she can do it. i mean....she had two kids go out of the country. haha. CONGRATS AUNT LINDA!!!!!!! YOUR FIRST MISSIONARY!!!!!!! im sure preston is going to have all boys so i dont think it will be her last missionary.
 
This week was super good. we did ALOT, ALOT of service. we helped ariel with building his house and alot of other services. Then at the end of the week we just kicked trash with the lessons. We taught a super good lesson with Juan. the brother of a recient convert. about the plan of salvation. then with hmno muzzio we taught Karina about basicly all the lessons haha. then we had a super good lesson with ariel and we did a fast for him on sunday so he could get his answer if joseph smith really was a prophet but we couldnt see him sunday after church. Then on sunday we were walking down the street and a kinda drunk guy called us over and we started talking to him and now we have a new investigator. also we are teaching two friends of a member here that are super cool. Then on sunday the stake president asked all the members to give us references and we ended church with 12 references which is like a record so we have alot of work to do this week. its going to be good.
 
But yeah thats our week. Last week we played basketball in an area of the professional team here and we kicked trash, had a couple people from the team come watch me hahahahah :) maybe they might draft me. haha
 
LOVE YA KIDS!!!!!!!
 
ELDER ROSS

February 4, 2013

Hello to you

NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!1 preston is for sure going to leave before i get home!!!!!!!!!!!!! NOOOOOOOOOOOO dang it.

but, its for a good cause. haha.
We did have a good week. We did :) My companion yes is a native. He is From buenos Aires. Super bomb. haha.
Im doing alot better. alot. This week was a good week. I have had a cool/interesting experience here with my compaion in comodoro. We decided to focus in showing love to everyone that we teach. As we did this, we were able to see a change. A change in the investigators. A change that he didnt see with his other companion. The investigtors REALLY making the changes to be baptised. For an example, with Carlos. He just needs to get married to be baptised. But we talked with him and showed him that love. He told us later in the week that he had a dream. He had a super heavy load on his back but a man in white told him to keep going and he was going to take off the load. We knew that it was an answer from god. He said it was an answer.

I really do love the mission cause its really given me the opportunity to learn. To be able to be closer to my heavenly father and to help others do the same. We did that as we helped Ariel, another investigator who didnt believe in Joseph Smith. We helped him by understanding the why of the book of moromon but not only that but the happiness that will bring his family as he finds his answer. and why we were helping him get his answer. It was amazing.

I get stuff from sarah every once and a while. haha. but its all good. Ill wait til i get home.

Thanks for all your prayers. I really do feel them :) I will send pics.

LOVE YOU ALL

ELDER ROSS