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12/19/13

 

Sent:	Thu 12/19/13 11:50 AM

Hello family I will be calling Tuesday at or around 5 my time in Paraguay. So keep an eye out for my call. I'm opening area and training. My companion is from El Salvador hermana Hidalgo. Cant wait to talk to you guys Tuesday. I will not be writing Monday because I will be calling Tuesday. My area is called Ettiene 1.3

Hello from the heat of Paraguay!!!!! I love frozen water bottles... It's good thing it's not grape juice...

Hello family. So much to write.  So this week was super super super hot. I have lost a lot of weight. I'm at the same weight that I was before I came to the mission. And I know that I will be losing more. Its like my stomach shrunk. I don't have the desire to eat a whole lot. I only want water. This week Our 11 year old convert's mom was baptized. We set the time for her baptism at 5 30 and she wanted to wait for the my old companion to come to see her. Well we thought that she was coming to the baptism and we waited for her for two hours when we found out that she was stuck in traffic and wouldn't be able to come.  Well to say the least we had the baptism and Sunday it was so super amazing to see all of the members support her and sustain her as a member of the church. I was so happy Sunday. I was sitting next to 3 of my converts. They all were in their Sunday best and to see them there brought me to tears. It hurts too because right now 3 other converts are not very active. Silvio is trying to help the two young ones and he is going to be such a great missionary one day. Which reminds me, it sounds like I have to little brothers that are seriously going to be some awesome missionaries. Keep up the good work you two! So some cool things about Paraguay. It is so so so hot. Today is supposed to be 46 grados celcious. This is about 108 in F. Thank heavens its p-day. Sorry my thoughts are super scattered. I have so much that i need to do today to be ready for Wednesday. But some ideas for food. Yeah empenadas are here but the empenada in Clearfield are nothing like those from Paraguay. Some different things that you could experiment with on google. So pa de Paraguay, Or a fruit salad with Mango in it. I know that might be hard for you guys to find right now. Chipa, but this is super hard to make. Some of the people from here cant even make it but this is only from Paraguay. Or empanadas. Ha ha you guys can have fun with that. I want to buy a nativity set from here. They are so cool. The stables are hand made by the Indians here. They are so legit. And all of the characters are made of clay and by hand. This is definitely something that I want to bring home. It may look a little catholic but I want it. ha ha. So I will probably be taking out some money. Oh other thing we went to clean the baptismal font and guess what was waiting for us..... Frogs.... Three of them. They were just little but we see them all over the place here. Tons of them and they are huge and disgusting. Well I killed the frogs with a broom. I think that if our dear sister that was getting baptized knew that there were frogs in the baptismal font before we put the water in she wouldn't be very willing to get in the water. Because when the frogs pee its like poison. Interesting. They are more like toads. oh so something else. If you guys could go into my facebook settings and change it so that anyone can see it that would be great. I have a couple of people who want to talk with you guys and practice their  English. A couple members that i have would also like to be my friend on facebook and you could talk to them too. Just need to use google translate. Another cool experience. Our newest convert prayed in gospel principles yesterday. SHE NEVER PRAYED WITH US!!! NEVER! So the only thing that she said in this prayer was things that she was grateful for. And she said ¨thank you for putting the missionaries in the street to find me¨ I love them, and I am so grateful for them. HA HA I wanted to cry! I'm super happy but I don't know if I'm excited or scared to leave this area. We´ll have to see what happens.

Love you all,

 

Hermana Ross

Me killing the frogs.

Cleaning the font again.



This is why I am cleaning the font.

 

It's weird to think it's December.......IT is so HOT!!!

Sent:	Mon 12/09/13 7:57 AM

Hello family,

I love you all so so so much. I cant believe that is December and that I'm in a place where we are at about 42 degrees Celsius which is about 105 degrees F. I want to die. The air in our apartment stopped working. In Utah When its hot in the night it cools down really fast. Well here its hot  allllllllllllllll night longgggggggggggg. And our window doesn't open to let in some air. So its hot and humid and all we have is a little fan that doesn't help at all. We are going to call the office to have someone come and fix it. I put like 10 different water bottles in the freezer so that I can sleep with them in the night to help with the heat. Yesterday I used 3. I am drinking so so so much water. Its crazy. Someone told me before we came to Paraguay that its so hot that you won't ever have the desire to eat anything. I know what they mean now. All I want is cold water. Trying to eat something that is hot in this weather is like trying to burn your body from the inside and out. I have lost weight. 

 

 I love you all so so so much. I can't believe that its December. So I need you guys to create a skype account for me. I can't find out where I will be skyping but I know that I will and that it will be in my new area. How am I supposed to find out where I'm going to skype if I don't know where I'm going yet? ha ha I am super excited to talk to you all. 

I don't feel like its Christmas here. It really has been a great blessing. Our young mother that was supposed to get baptized will be baptized this Friday because she had the opportunity to have a job interview the past Saturday. So after her interview our district leader told us, she wont be baptized this week. We were like freaking out and then after she told us that if I am going to pay my tithing I need a job..... hahahahahaa We had the chance to do divisions with the sister leaders this week also. I know that they came to see us because our numbers are TERRIBLE!!! Well I had the privilege to leave my area and work in their area. I am so ready to see new people and work in a new area. I'M SUPER EXCITED!!! It was so awesome. The spirit was so strong this day.  I was with Hermana Whitmer from Tooele, Utah. She is so amazing. So absolutely spiritual. Well sorry that this is going to be short letter. I haven't received your package yet. But I'm sure it will be here soon. Thanks for everything. I love you all. I am going to try to send you all a package, but I know that you guys won't get it for Christmas. It really is not that easy to send things to you guys from here. I love you all. 

Hermana Ross

I totally didn't know it was Thanksgiving this week!! Iam totally lost in the Mission...

 

 

 

Sent:	Mon 12/02/13 8:05 AM

Hello family! I'm so very grateful for the many blessings that I have and hope you all had a great Thanksgiving. I cant believe that I didn't remember when it was. And its even crazier to think that I will be home for the next thanksgiving. I have less than one year left. I don't like it! No I have absolutely no idea how to use skype and I don't have an account. I don't know how this is going to work but we´ll find out. And yes I'm like 99 percent sure that this cambio I will be going to a new area. I will have more than 6 months in the mission in this area and I haven't heard of anyone having more than this amount of time in one area. I'm excited to go and meet new people but I will miss my converts here. My heart is breaking to think that I will be leaving them here and I probably will never see them again in this life.

I saw many miracles this week. We had a lot of rain which didn't help us in our numbers. Its all good. We´re going to have a new week.   I want you guys to know that I'm not perfect. Well you guys know that already. This night we were to have a lesson with an atheist that I think I told you guys about. (yeah we found her and taught her this week) MIRACLE!!!  We went to her house to teach her. She told us I'm atheist and I don't want to waste your time. Well we couldn't find her for like a month. Her cell phone was turned off and one day when I was stuck in the house I felt the impression to call her cell phone again. So I called her and she answered and we taught her Monday. So when we were half way through teaching her the restoration she started to cry and said that she knew that god existed and that she wanted to know why she was here where she was going and that she wanted to be next to god when she died. I couldn't believe it. After this my companion broke into tears and bore her testimony that we knew the answers and that she knew that the church was true. It was super spiritual. We went for a walk to the church after this and sat down in front of the church and said a prayer.She thanked us for calling her and is super excited to have the lessons from us. MIRACLE:

I don't have a whole lot of time left to write you guys but you will never believe the other miracle I saw this week. Thursday we visited the boy we baptized last month and his mother. And his mother told us that she wants to be baptized NOW!!! She will be baptized this Saturday the 7th!!!! CAN YOU BELIEVE IT? My joy is like the Alma and his brothers. 

I love you all so so so much and I am always thinking of you. Well, not always because I'm kinda busy but its all good. Keep strong and I will talking to you in a little less than one month!!!

Love you all, 

Hermana Ross