A new week!

 

Thanks family for all of your love and support. I'm OK! I love the work! We are trying our best to help those people in this area. Oh yeah I forgot to tell you guys that I met Elder Walsch the day that Elder Christofferson came! He seemed to be doing good! Family I didn't know that my area is "hard" until people in the mission started telling me that. I wish they wouldn't have told me that! I have 6 people that I love so much that have been baptized in this area. I didn't know that that was a lot. I thought that was little. But I'm only here to try and do my best. I didn't know that it was thanksgiving this week! REALLY? Mom are you preparing to do  some black Friday shopping. 

So Silvio is as good as ever. Remember our dear sister that we baptized? She is struggling with her husband and isn't able to come to the church. It breaks my heart. I didn't have the opportunity to visit our latest baptism this week because he and his mom were sick with the flu. This week!!! Ismael came to church yesterday in a white shirt and blue pants all by himself. Lucia isn't in her house very much right now. She is living with her grandmother that lives in a different area. I am so grateful for this gospel! I cant believe that I'm here and that I only have a year left. This time next year I will be with you guys. I don't know how I feel about that. 

My companion seems to be doing a lot better this week. I long to do the work like normal. I feel a little spiritually drained. It was a hard week. I feel like president is going to be super sad with the work that I did. Or in other words the work that I didn't get to do. I feel so lost. I read Jesus the Christ this week. I know that He is my Savior and redeemer. I am so so so so grateful for his opportunity I have to serve the people in Paraguay! I cant even believe that I'm here. 

Sorry family I don't have a whole lot to write this week. But know that I love you tons and am so very grateful for everything that you all do for me. I'm ready for a new week to do the will of the lord.  I love you all tons and tons and tons.

 

Love Hermana Ross.

 

The Words of an Apostle are so Powerful!

 

Hello family,

So I'm perfectly fine! Our 11 year friend was baptized Saturday. His mom doesn't want to be baptized yet but today we found out why. She has a lot of hurtful feelings for her ex husband that left her. She doesn't want to be baptized when she is feeling like this. So we are working with her. But she told me that she is going to be baptized before I leave the area. And at his baptism she told me that she doesn't want many people to be at  her baptism. ha ha. 

So when we are able to hear the words from the prophet it was so powerful! He promised us that our families are going to be blessed and reading your email today was like a confirmation of that. It truly is a great blessing. I love you all so so so much.

 

Other than that I'm good. We´re good.  I also know that I will be leaving this area the next cambio. So 18th of December I will have a new area. I love you all so much!! 

 

Love always,

 Hermana Ross

Our newest member!!:)

 

QUE CALOR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hola familia, ?como estan?

Everything here is super good. Were working like nothing else! Today we are going to the offices to practice singing! Tomorrow Elder Christopherson is coming to speak to us. Its practically going to be a whole day of craziness! And this past week were Cambios! My new companion is from Bolivia. She is from Chucabumba. Its where the temple is in Bolivia. She has been in the mission for three months. So I'm the senior companion. She just ended her training.   She is 19 years old, super sweet! She can speak English! She comes from a pretty well off family in Bolivia! Her father is the stake president there. She only has one sister that is four years old.

Our 11 year old friend is going to be baptized this week. YAY!!! Everything is planned and ready to go. All he needs in the interview! His mom told us that she knows that Joseph Smith was a prophet of god!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The first time that we taught her she didn't even want to see the Book of Mormon or "The book that Joseph smith wrote" and want to know how she said that she knows he is a prophet of God? She said that she came to realize this when she read DOCTRINE AND COVENANTS!!!! Normally we don't give investigators this book! She told me that she will be baptized before I leave the area! AHHH!!! WHY NOT NOW? I really have to work on my patience. She is super difficult but super amazing also. She came to church the past Sunday with Joshua! They are super amazing! 

Here they don't celebrate thanksgiving. It doesn't exist here. I cant believe its November. It feels like July with the way the weather is here. I left our apartment with a water bottle that was pure ice. In 5 minutes outside it was water and it was luke warm. Its insane!!!! We are trying so hard to find people!!!! Its difficult! Its definitely out of my comfort zone! But its a lot of paying real close attention to the spirit! I'm learning things that I know I couldn't learn with my previous companions. I love you all so much! I hope you guys will get my letter soon. I can hardly believe that in one week I have six months in the mission and in one year I will be home! But I know that this is where I need to be! Everything here is super amazing in the mission. I feel super close to my heavenly father! I look forward to hearing how things are from all of you.... hint hint!!! I love you all tons!

Love Hermana Tiffany Ross

This is a photo of my new companion. She is the one in the middle. The other is from Chile. She was the second trainer . 

All good things come to an end........But the work still goes on!

Wow my last p day with Hermana Rojas. It's sad really. But she is amazing and the best part about it is that her house is only two hours away from this area. She has it in her plans to come to the baptism on the 16th. So many things are happening in the mission. Its so crazy! Thank you for buying the bug spray. It really will help me! Have you guys received the letter I sent you guys with my pictures of my first day here? And Jared did you receive your letter yet? Let me know.

Well where to start....Last Monday we went to the offices to practice in a choir. Hermana Rojas has a beautiful voice! GORGEOUS!!! So those assistants called us to be in this choir... Well this performance is going to be the 13th of November. She wont be here. So I'm going to be in the choir and my new companion, whoever she is. But the part that is super cool is the part of why we have this choir. Elder D. Todd Christopherson is coming to speak to us. We are going to sing Santos avanzad. Super super cool! I'm super excited. And just so you guys know it is super hard for me to speak in English. I never thought that this day would come! HALLELUJAH!!!! 

So we are seeing miracles in this area. Really life is just crazy right now because Hermana Rojas is going to be ending her mission. The ward threw a farewell party for her. I had no idea that this was going to happen. Those elders in our area are the ones that planned it. It was Friday in the night. Those elders told us that they had a reference for us that was going to meet us in the church Friday at 8. She wanted a tour of the chapel. Well I believed them because I had actually found some one like this before. Well we showed up about 30 minutes early because we didn't want to miss this girl that was supposed to come. Well we showed up 30 minutes early for this surprise party!!! HAHAHA Elder Castro was super mad! But oh well it's that thought that counts and we were super surprised! 

Another miracle of the week. We were doing contacts in the street and this girl started to walk by us. She looked to be Gothic. Well we started talking to her. We told her that we were missionaries and the first thing she told us is that she doesn't believe in God. Well this girl is not Gothic. And she is drop dead gorgeous. She is practically Mormon in her living standards and she doesn't believe in God because of the way that her family, who are catholic, live their lives. She is 20 years old and after we talked a little bit standing there. She asked if she could walk with us and talk. Well we walked and talked for a good 2 hours. It takes someone special to walk with two missionaries for two hours. She is so super special. And she lives like right next to the chapel. She is super amazing. Even if she is atheist. We are definitely going to try to work with her. 

Today is not a p day. We are going to be going to the mission home of the North Paraguay mission. Because where Hermana Rojas lives it is a district. So the mission president is the one that does her interviews. So today that's where we are going. Tomorrow we will know what is going to happen to me.
I only have to pay for the package if it is super big. For example I only had to pay for the package with the quotes the package with my birthday cake I didn't have to pay for. 

Sorry guys my mind is in a whole lot of different places. Today is a little crazy! I love you all tons! I will let you know the next week what's new in my life as a missionary. In one month i only have one year left int eh mission. Crazy! 

 OH I LOVE YOU GUYS SO SO SO MUCH!!! 

Love Hermana Ross.

My zone.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 This is my zone, and the missionaries in our ward.