Well this week was quite interesting! First off I have indoor plumbing! In my bathroom I have a switch that I have to turn on to get hot water and if I want it hot I have to let it only drip a little! ha ha so I have cold showers a lot! Blessings and sacrifices right? The toilet and sink are normal. I just cant flush toilet paper! My apartment is really quite nice. I have picture I want to send you but I cant! Don't worry much about my packages. I will receive them for Christmas!!! hahahaha The only reason I was able to send pictures last week was because Elder Castro from Mexico let me borrow his usb memory card thing! So much thanks to him! Also you can post my photos on the blog! Thanks for all! Also I wish I would have bought boots in the states. My boots are just clogs and its not really that fun to proselyte with those suckers! This week has been un poco crazy!
Wednesday we went to the mission home to have a trainers and new missionaries examine!!! Dun Dun DUN!!! ha ha it wasn't that bad. But president Agazanni and Hermana Agazanni when they saw me immediately started talking to me about my birthday! That was super sweet. I am really very blessed and watched out for! On the bus ride to the mission home we got stopped by the police! I was on the bus with my whole district. Well I guess this is normal for the police to do this! And when they do this everyone has to give them their identification and they will go and process it! Well guess who didn't have their identification! ME and My companion! My companion knew nothing about this! Well the policeman got to us and looked at us, waiting! I was about to pee my pants! The other policeman came up behind him, shook his head and they left the bus! Both looked at our badges and said nothing! Just walked right past us! One of the elders in my district is from Paraguay and said that this never happens! If a person from Paraguay doesn't have their identification with them on the bus they go to jail! Family! GOD PROTECTS US MISSIONARIES!!!!! Wow it was seriously a blessing. But needless to say I have my identification on me from now on!
My birthday was good! We had a ward activity where we cleaned the church and had a barbecue! It was delicious! They all sang happy birthday to me! And my companion woke up at six and made me a special breakfast! And gave me little gifts! it was a good day! BUT...... Silvio wasn't baptized. He will be baptized this upcoming Saturday because he wants his mom who lives in a totally different city to come and see. She isn't a member. But all of his brothers are. They all live in Argentina! I don't know much about his mom. But his dad was baptized when he was 15 and after a while got the wrong set of friends and got to drinking and smoking! I think that this is why he hasn't come back to church. But he told us that if this is what Silvio wants he can do this! And he also mentioned that he would also let Silvio serve a mission one day! He knows the church is true but its hard for him!
I know nothing about the husband of Natalia! I haven't met him, and I don't know that I ever will. But Natalia assists the church every single Sunday. And the first Sunday she asked us if we would help her pay her tithing!!! She is amazing!
But this Sunday...... No one came to church with us! IT WAS SO SAD!!!!!!! We walked almost all of our area for all of our investigators and none wanted to come. Not even Silvio. Well, Silvio wasn't at his house. But after sacrament meeting Silvio came to church all by himself! It made my day! He is so prepared for the gospel!!!
Today I'm going to clean the temple with my zone and tomorrow we have zone conference. Intonces I don´t have a whole lot of time to write!
Thank everyone for all of the birthday wishes! I got a lot of emails I need to read and I can't print all of them off today!
Love you all and every single one of you are in my prayers! The language is getting a little better. President told me that I sound like I'm from Paraguay when he called for my birthday! HAHAHA he also told me to prepare to train in the next cambio!!! EEKS!!!! Pray for me please!!!
Love Hermana Ross.
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| My 21st birthday in the mission field! |
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| This is Hermana Cortez, Silvio, and Me! |
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