So a lot to write and little time. This week was a week of miracles. The young couple I told you about last week straight up told us that they want to be baptized. We also found another family.....Saturday.....that have everything!!! They´ve gone to church, they are going to be married the next Saturday and baptized. It was a HUGE MIRACLE.

Saturday it was like I could feel the love and prayers from every single one of you guys. It was wonderful because I didn't even think about you guys at all. hahahaha I know that sounds bad but its how it was. I loved not thinking about you guys. ( Just so you know Hermana Ross's younger sister got married on Saturday and we all prayed that Hermana Ross would feel comfort during that day.) 

So I got  the package on Tuesday. It was exactly what  I needed to get through the week. I'm working. I'm going to be sending pictures today. Love you all,

love, Hermana  Ross.

 

look what i got in my emails today. its why my email is going to be so short......

DEATH LETTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  ( the email from the Mission Pres. telling her when she will be going home.)

November 19th, 2014 She will be coming home!!  But you can tell she is not excited for this!!

this is a family night that we did with The young couple. The father is on the left of me and the mom is on the right.

Dear family,

 I'm doing good, I'm working. What else can I do?. Well our investigator is seeing the storm from his dream. The dealers that were selling him drugs before were arrested. Well the friends of the drug dealers think that our friend is who tattle taled, because he stopped buying the drugs. He needs to come to church one more time to be baptized, and he has found that the men follow him, threatening him. The elders are trying to help him but he´s struggling. Pray for him. Elder Anderson is still my zone leader, now another elder came to be his companion. Elder Bell and Elder Anderson are both elders that came in my group. Elder bell is one of the elders I got know in the airport in Utah. 

The young family that I told you about in my last letter, they are struggling. It is so sad. They are very very poor, and there isn't a lot of work here in Piribebuy. Most of the peole will travel from here to the city to work, selling things or small jobs, Nothing permanent. We passed by their house yesterday to go to church. Well when we got there the dad had left to work in the city and the mom and little 2 year old were eating water, mixed with a little bit of sugar for breakfast. AHHHH its hard. The dad needs to ask god if this is true and he hasn't. The mom told us that she knows this is true but she wants to do all of this with her husband. That she can't do it alone. And yeah, that's true. 

Keep them in your prayers. 

So this is the week of crazies. Hope you all know I love you all and I am thinking of you this week, but I'm only thinking a little bit. I need to work. Much love,

Hermana Ross

Hey family,

So im good and i just recieved an email from president that i wont be leaving this area this transfer. He told me that my companion and i are waiting for some serious miracles. It will be interesting to see what happens in this new transfer.  My companion had  a break down a couple nights ago asking if i could help her learn how to be patient. hahaha I think i remember mom telling me before coming on the mission that i would definitely learn how to be patient. I'm learning mom, I'm learning. 

Well this week we are working and its been really warm the weather really. We saw some seriously awesome miracles. We´re teaching a family, a young couple and they have their little boy who is two years old. They want to be baptized. Well the wife does. She prayed and told us she received her answer and now we are helping her husband see these miracles, and have the same desires. Tonight we will be watching the Testaments with them and it will be awesome. Sunday while we were in church we heard this huge screaming noise outside, my companion and I left to see what it was and it was a monkey!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It was huge too. It looks like a baboon. I wish I could send you the pictures i took. They are pretty awesome. I havent heard anything about the package yet, im sure it is because of the transfers that will be happening this week. Wow sounds like all of you are super stressed. I dont know what to tell you all but that I love you, and I'm pretty sure that I'm just about as excited that this month ends as you all are. Just relax all of you. Everything will work out fine!!!!!!!!!! Im praying for you all. Sorry my letters short again. Today we went to a part of our area that is called Chololo, there are some huge waterfalls there. its beautiful. Well love you all,
Hermana Roass

These are the monkeys that live 3 houses down from the church.

One started to follow us.

Living the Crazy life!!

Wow sounds like you all are having fun. And sounds like you are all helping in this great and marvelous work. Sorry I'm afraid that the letter will be a little short today. Today will be our district activity where we will be going to play soccer in the home of  one  of the families in our area. So this week was interesting. 

Things are good. Its cold, really cold, we lost the hot water in the shower, and transfers are next Wednesday. I don't have any idea what will be happening after this week but it will be interesting. But i do know that i wont finish my mission in this area. I haven't heard anything about my package yet. The type of cake mix that they don't have here is cherry chip. I'm really good.  Sorry its going to be kind of short the letter. 

So our most recent investigator didn't come to church this Sunday but very few came because of the rain. Pray for him. He paid his tithing and fasted. that much i know. 

I'm seeing miracles, and sounds like you guys are too. Its crazy how this works in the gospel. We can only see these miracles in the gospel of Jesus Christ. 

Love you guys with all my heart. 

Hermana Ross

BAUTISMO GUAZU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Wow this week was crazy for you guys and for me. Where to start......oh yeah. So Tuesday we had our district reunion and guess who showed up.....THE MISSION PRESIDENT.....AGAIN!!!! I feel weird. He´s sure sticking around Piribebuy a whole lot. But anyways. In every single district reunion we go and write down all of the investigators that are progressing and how we are helping them to be baptized. The Elders from the branch went up and started to talk about THE MAN WE CAME IN CONTACT WITH LAST WEEK....You guys  aren´t even going to believe just how big of a miracle this man is. So he had told the elders that last Wednesday he had received a dream......where there were four missionaries standing and knocking on his door, two sisters and two elders. They told him that they were representatives of Jesus Christ and they were inviting him to be baptized and to repent. He told the elders that he couldn't recognize the faces of any of the missionaries but he remembered ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! He remembered that I was the one that invited him to be baptized. He also said that behind us four missionaries he saw a huge storm, that was black and scary. The missionaries explained that it probably meant the temptations that Satan would through at him after being baptized. So he had this dream last Wednesday. We contacted him in the street Thursday, where he recognized me from his dream and was in shock when I said the same words to him in real life that I had in his dream. He accepted, and you guys know this part, but what we didn't know is what he was doing this day. He was walking to go and buy drugs from a house very far away when we contacted him. He has been addicted to drugs since he was 13 years old. He had gotten to the house and nobody was there and was coming home when we contacted him. He in that same moment was praying that someone would stop him from going to buy those drugs. And he told the elders that the invitation to be baptized was exactly what did that. While we were talking to him, the man who sells the drugs drove by on motorcycle signaling him to come back to the house and he would give him what he wanted. He told the elders that instead of turning and following the motorcycle he followed us, and as of today he has yet to take drugs. He has read in two weeks to the second book of Nephi and he came to church and our baptism Guazu on Saturday. He is a huge miracle.

Well second off we had a Huge baptismal service this week. Our district baptized 11 people on Saturday. Not one were from my companion and I but the we were able to see huge miracles helping the elders in our branch baptize their family. Lets just say that the elders are very grateful to have sisters in their district. Because the two families that were baptized this last Saturday were married and then baptized. hahahah The elders couldn't plan a wedding without us. They called us up on Friday asking if we could help them. We knew they would. But the families were baptized. 11 people in total. The spirit was so strong. Seeing every single one of those people enter into the water was such an amazing feeling. They were so happy. 

Something that I've learned as a missionary is that almost nobody can have a perfect answer about the gospel before being baptized. I remember reading in the Book of Mormon.....I think that it was in Mosiah....that says those that come unto the waters of baptism, without obstination are very blessed. If we waited for all to be baptized after they had their answer that this was the true church  very few would be baptized and the church wouldn't grow. This is why we receive the gift of the Holy Ghost after we are baptized that will help confirm that what we did was correct. Don't worry about if the family have a perfect testimony of the gospel before being baptized, because after receiving the gift of the Holy Ghost and having the help of a loving ward, they will be able to grow in the love of the gospel. If they can understand the principles that the missionaries are going to teach them things will work out fine. Take the parents of my companion for example. They were baptized when her older sister had 2 years of age. They accepted without a problem, but they never went to church. My companion was actually baptized in the catholic church. hahaha not until later in life did they truly remember what it was that they accepted and are now active members of the church and their two children are serving or have served missions. 

I also had to laugh at hearing that Trent was enjoying the rain this week. Because I was too. I didn't have a single pair of shoes that weren't wet this week. Well, we keep going. The gospel doesn't stop for anything. 

And we will be seeing each other in only 20 weeks......by the way I only know that because the elders in my district remind me of it every time they see me. Its crazy to see how fast is flying the time.

love you all with all of my heart,

HErmana Ross