Howdy Folks!

HEy family!!!! MOTHER!!! :)

Things here are very good. We just recieved some really big news in the past few minutes here. President has decided to take the sister missionaries out of our area and if i understand right, i will have the two areas for my last transfer. AND....the assistant to the president called me to ask if i could sing in the musical number that missionaries are going to be doing for our conference this weekend with elder Cook. :)

The holiday activity went super good. We made empanadas with the members and then i played outside with the kids behind the church. maybe about 25-30 people came. not a whole lot.

My birthday here was the best birthday i have had in the mission. It was suuuuper cool. In the morning we went to get my hair cut and then all the afternoon we were with Fabian and we made empanadas and had a party just between us and his dad. :) he made me a suuuuuuuuuuper cool cake that should be on facebook. the pictures should be on facebook. check on my profile. It was super cool. And he bought me a CD of one the the music artists here that i really like!!! Fabian is a super cool guy. They did throw flower on my, not eggs luckly but flour yes.

On friday we taught english classes, Sister Lyman and I were able to teach lesson 1 in english. it was super special, we were able to feel a super strong spirit as we taught these kids and the teacher. They loved it, to finish we even did a kneeling prayer together and sister lyman prayed in english. super special. We are super good friends with all the kids in the english classes. they love it when we come.

Im also helping a kid in our ward learn english apart from what we do. He is the son of a sister in the ward and he isnt a member. Maxi. He is super cool, we play guitar together and what not. we are trying to start teaching him the lessons. Little by little.

These last few weeks with my companion have been good. he goes home next week. I think on sunday he goes home. So yeah haha. Just trying to take advantage of our last days together. He is a really good guy. he is the only member of his family that is member of the church. Super cool guy. We have fun together.

Thanks for all your support. Give preston a big hug for me and a smack in the toosh and say "get to work boy!" hahahahaha. LOVE YA PRESTON!!!!!!

ELDER ROSS

News from the B-day Boy

hey mamà!!!!!!!

te amo ma!!!!!!!!! Things are just chipper here in argentina! this week was super good. on monday we went to neuquen with a member to a buffet and then we went and bought some music to take home. then on friday we started english classes and it went suuuuuuuper good!!!!!!!!!!! they loved it! their are 8 people but only 5 were there. they love it. this next week i told them i would play the guitar and sing them some songs. :) they are super good. we are going to start teaching some of the lessons in english, the lessons that we teach as missionaries. i gave the teacher live 5 pamplets to read in english. Then we didnt end up doing the talent show, we did an activity on the spirit where we set up chairs and they had to listen to my companion hitting a key and go to the noise. they were blindfolded. only a few members came but we hope this next week that it will be better. 

This weekend is going to be a holiday here. 25 de mayo. they are going to have an activity here in the church and me and fabian are going to play guitar for the members. 

and this week is my birthday........   :) im getting old. 21. wow. mom can you believe that? your son that is your youngest son is 21. que tal. hahaha WOAH! fabian said he has something planned for us to do that day. the common thing here when someone has a birthday is throw eggs and flour at them haha so next week you will see how it came out. 

thats going to be our week. haha. i will let you know how it went next week. LOVE YOU GUYS!!!!!!!

ELDER ROSS

Skyped with the Elder!!!

it was soooo good to talk to you guys!!!!!!!! that was soooo much fun being able to see that you guys are doing good and what not. I didnt realize that i had like a mexican accent when i talked hahaha. my buddies in the mission havent even told me that. haha.

Well our week was good. I didnt really get a chance to tell you about our week. My companion had to go to bariloche on friday and I did divisions with the member that let me use his computer for skype. Fabian. He is a single ex missionary, he is like 40. super bomb. we do alot of things with him. but divisions was really good, we had alot of success. one of the things we have planned for this ward is to visit alot of the less active families and bring them back to church and we are going to be doing alot of divisions with the memebers, in specific fabian and the ward mission leader who is also pretty young, like 28, he is an ex missionary too. During divisions we felt the spirit super strong as we were able to teach some families.

My first sunday here i told the memebers one of my goals is to bring more people to church and thats what has been happening, this week we had about 70 people in church. its been a record for me. we had three investigators in church. that was super cool. we are working with an investigator family, flia salazar, they are progressing a little bit but not too much. we need to visit them. 

we are trying to look for new investigators but its kinda hard. but we are going to keep working, we need to get the memebers to church before the investigators. 

This next week we have a talent show with the ward and me and this member fabian are going to play a few songs on the guitar. and next sunday i am going to help do a musical number in church with the hmna lyman from delta and a girl in the primary. they are going to sing i know my heavenly father loves me.....i think. thats what we practiced yesterday. 

A lady stopped us in the street during divisions and asked me if i could go to her english institute to teach her students english. So maybe this friday we might start with english classes and might get some new investigators. that should be good. Im super excited. 

So yeah, it was a good week. Thanks for everything family. LOVE YOU ALL!!!!!!!!!!!

ELDER ROSS