Time is getting short

FAMILY!!!!!!!!

so this week was crazy!!!!!! I had my last interview as part of my missionary work with president this week. (cause every other transfer is interviews and this transfer is interviews. haha) Hey before i forget......when is my farewell and what is my topic? President told me in the interview "well elder, how is the family?" then i told him and he says "well elder, work hard, see ya in three weeks" hahahahahahah nooooooooOOO!!!!!!!!! i about cried. hahah i cant believe its coming to a short end. The people here have been sooo good to me. 5 families have promised me Asados (which is like a bbq but not even close hahahahah ) ill explain when i get home with pictures. haha. Alot of people told me they want to do a party before i leave. haha its so cool. I can just feel the love of the people its amazing. Last night before the sweet devotional that they had (which by the way i was suuuuper upset cause Everything they talked about last night i have been stressing to the members for 2 years and they just dont listen hahaha) I was talking to a member that we are super good friends and he asked me what i was thinking about cause i was a little spacey and he said "elder, everything is going to work out just fine" haha i told him that i was pretty scared cause i have nothing planned and i have no idea what i am going to do or how its going to be hahahaha and he told me "just make some personal goals of things you need to keep doing and things you need to start aftert the mission" so i am going to work on that this week. That family went to the temple to be sealed this week. About half of the ward assistance went to the temple this week (35 people). Its super cool to see the members really seeing now why the temple is important. Yeah that was this week. haha. Super good. We will be seeing ya next week when i have 2 weeks left. haha LOVE YA ELDER ROSS

Missionary success

This week was full of miracles. Especially this sunday when i was able to really see the fruits of my labors. it literally was a miracle and


a tender mercy of the lord.We started off the week going to Flia Diaz`s house to organize a FHE with them and their family. When the hermana told me "elder, for years i was looking for help about how i could bring my family back to church, the liders of the church always told me that i needed to pray more and thats it. But i realized that i needed help, someone else to help me. When you gave your testimony your first sunday here, the spirit told me "thats him, thats the elder thats going to help your family go back to church" you boys came over and since that day my husband hasnt missed a sunday" The hermano in this story hasnt been to church in years and now, he hasnt missed a sunday in 5 weeks, this week i was able to see him bless the sacrament :) Then I was able to do divisions with fabian and work out the problems we had. it was incredible. In the divisions we were able to give a blessing to a girl that her mom commited suicide and the spirit was suuuuuper strong. We had never met the girl before, its a friend of a member. The on sunday summed it all up when we were able to see 19 people that we have been working with (less active and recent converts) in church. La famila Martinez, La familia Herrera, La familia Diaz, Benicio, Juan, David. IT was like a miracle as i was laying in my bed last night and realized what had happened that day. ITs amazing what the lord does for us. God is real :)

ELDER ROSS

Good things happening

This week was a week of miracles. At the start of the week it was good to be able to talk to some elders about the mission, alot of them realized that i had little time so I was able to share some advice with them. When My comp got here, everyone said he was "the mission handbook with legs" so i thought......oh boy......here we go again.........but things changed. We were able to help eachother out as we talked about our differences, a member, Fabian was about to help me out with my stress and was able to lift some of my stress. Then at the end of the week we saw the miracles. Saturday we did a fast for fast sunday that we had this week. God answered my fast on sunday as i was able to thing in sunday school the things i had to change. The spirit iluminated my mind and i was able to humble myself and get revelation on what i need to change. Then during sacrament meeting i was able to here so many good testimonies from members that are going to be going to the temple this next week. I was able to count of 9 people (less active memebers) that came to church this sunday because of the help we have offered them this week and the invitation to go to church. My spirit was full to know of the sacrifice i made that helped the people. Then sunday we had a amazing lesson with a less active family that have the goal to get to the temple as a familiy the next temple trip here in the ward. The spirit was super strong as we talked about the importance of celestial marriage and the goals we help them put to make it there. Then the contacts we did in the street were absolutly inspired. EVERYONE was ready to hear the gospel. incredible contacts. then we had an amazing lesson with a couple that are new converts that are disanimated cause the ward isnt working how is should and i was able to share a personal story with them that changed how they thought and changed COMPELTLY their attitude. Then we were able to give a blessing earlier in the wek to a less active thats trying to stop doing drugs. The spirit was also super strong. This week has been an answer to my prayers. The lord knows who we are and what we need. We just need to be instuments in his hands. :)

ELDER ROSS

New Companion...

MOTHER!!!!!!!!!
  So......yeah my comp left hahah. it was super weird cause i took him to the mission home and it was like i was just getting to the mission. Memories flowed into my head. i remember the same bed i slept in the same night. it was super crazy. I was a sad goodbye. super fast but sad. my comp taught me alot of things. he is the only member in his family. i hope everything goes well for him. He told me he doesnt know how he is going to get home from the airport. he live 6 hours from the airport in guatemala. i offered to give him money but he said no hahaha. punk. My new companion is Elder Hunt. He is from arizona. He has like 9 months in the mission but 3 months here in argentina. I hear he is super funny and super super short. like kayla!!!!! haha no joke. Our conference with elder cook got canceled.........so on sunday Elder Zeballos gave a talk at the stake conference that we had. it was a big bummer for all of the mission. Preston is going to be great. I can just imagine him working hard. what a studd!!!!!!!! he is going to make a great addition to the missionary family. Im sure grandma and grandpa are super proud of us. that almost all of us have served missions. Thats gotta be a great accomplisment. CONGRATS GRANDPARENTS! YOU DID A GOOD JOB IN RAISING YOUR KIDS!!!!!!! Maybe they dont want to take the credit but i have seen a real testimony of that here in argentina. The parents have a BIG BIG effect on the kids. I promise. I have seen it time and time again that the parents dont have FHE or read scriptures as a family or pray and then they wonder what happens with their kids. Obiviosly their is exceptions when kids have their own agency but i ts true. THANKS MOM AND DAD!!!!!!!!!! and grandparents and all of the family!!!!!!!! things are good here in the mission. Just finishing up my last 6 WEEKS OF THE MISSION!!!!!!!!!!!! holy moly!!!!! its passed by way too fast. hahahaha. so yeah. just finishing up the mish haha. its been good to me.
 LOVE YALL ELDER ROSS