Wednesday, February 16, 2011

February 16, 2011

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~ Everything´s good over here. I think I might be staying for another transfer, but we don´t know yet. I´ll let you know next week. For our district meeting we tried to prepare elder kap for finding a wife and getting married, it was hilarious. Thanks for everything. Let me know if there´s anything i can do.
elder ross

February 9, 2011

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~ Thanks everything went great in the baptism, another investigator came and everything went good and now it looks like she might get baptized, the spirit was super strong. I can´t wait to see some of the clips of Jimmer going crazy. This march madness is gunna be insane. I´ll start praying for BYU to have a good tournament. Right now we´re on Tenerife doing splits with elder Slack and Scott and it´s great to be here to visit them and the people here. Elder kap goes this next week so I´m not sure what´s going to happen after that, I hope I stay here for another transfer but either way it´s all good.
Everything is going good, let me know if there´s anything I need to do. I sent a letter with my last S.D. card that I filled up and I hope it makes it ok because it has a lot of pictures from Fuerteventura. Thanks for everything I´ll see you later.
elder ross

February 2, 2011

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~ My major is exercise science. That´s good that i´ll have time to sign up for classes and everything. I still don´t know what i´ll do about finding a place to live cause there´s a lot guys I would like to room with but I don´t know how I could coordinate all that so I could be with them. Maybe I could just sign a contract for only the fall semester and then for the winter I could move.
So the baptism of Pablo went great. All the missionaries were there and there were a lot of members and the talks that two of the members gave were really good. Pablo gave a great testimony, and kept saying that he feels an overwhelming peace but at the same time a strong sense of responsibility, so basically we couldn´t have asked for anything more. Then we had zone conference and it was amazing also, it always gets everyone so excited about the work. President and his wife are great people. We did exchanges with the elders from Lanzarote and I was with one of my roomates from the madrid mtc who´s a native of Barcelona and it was awesome. Yesterday we had exchanges with the elders from vecindario, and this morning we all took Pablo to the airport to send him off to paraguay. He´s going to be a strong member. the young single adults gave him a present which was his own triple, small hymn book, principles of the gospel, and true to the faith, and then we gave him some liahonas as well so he´s got some reading material in his more than a day long trip to paraguay.
So this Sunday Mirzza who also is from paraguay is going to get baptized, and they want me to baptize her, so i´m stoked about that. So many awesome missionaries have taught her and we get to see her get baptized. She also is amazing. The next goal after baptism for her and her husband is to get sealed in the temple.
Everything is going great, I hope byu does good in their game, and I hope the Steelers do good too. let me know if I can do anything.
elder ross

January 26, 2011

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~ Hola Familia, I don´t have much time this week because right now we are going to teach the kid named Pablo who´s going to get baptized today at 6, and then I have to go to an interview I have to renew my residency, and then we are going to have p-day with all the missionaries who are on their way here from the other two islands and we´re going to visit the northern part of this island, and then we´re going to have the baptism, so we left early to right emails. You have to thank Jonathan a mountain for sending me his fantasy football winnings, I´ve been out of money since the middle of this month because I didn´t send in my receipts to be reimbursed last month, and the money that he and the Hollyoaks and the Orozcos sent me has saved me haha que buena gente. Pablo is golden, he´s ready to get baptized, we look on the internet at his address in Paraguay where he´s going to live and there were like 40 chapels within his province, so i´m so excited for him to go over there and see how strong the church is. He´s gunna be a strong member. I forgot to tell you guys, last week we went up to one of the pueblos in the mountains to visit a family in the ward, and we ate palomas. Palomas both dove and pidgeon, it´s the same name, and in our case they were pidgeons. And they were so good. One day we visited them and they had one pidgeon in a cage, and I was thinking how strange to keep a pidgeon as a pet (even though I have done that before), and then I asked them why they had it and they told me you eat them, and they said that it was even better than chicken and so from then on I wanted to try them. So he has a friend who does studies on palomas and he gives them palomas every once and awhile and so we planned on going up one day and eating pidgeons and we went up and he showed us how to kill them, clean them, and cook them, and they were amazing. so now when we see pidgeons in the street we get hungry. That´ll be the first canary dish that I make for you guys. have a great week!
elder ross

January 19, 2011

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~ Things are great! Something that Elder Caussé taught us was that there is a greater joy that comes when we are instruments in the Lords hands in comparison to the joy we receive when we achieve something on our own or for ourselves. It´s so true. It´s awesome to be with Elder Kap and see him work as a consecrated servant of the Lord and to also see the blessings that come to those who are dedicated and obedient. We are going to baptize a kid from paraguay on Monday, and he´s another amazingly humble and super prepared Lamanite decendent who´s listening to the voice of the Good Sheperd. He´s 27, and it´s been so cool to teach him and watch him grow. He´ll be a great member, when he talked to his mom who is in paraguay she told him not to get mixed up with the mormons, and he told us that he sees that as just one of the trials that comes when we decide to follow the Savior. We´re super excited for his baptism. And then we taught another couple who are from Paraguay. He is a member but she isn´t, but the missionaries have already taught her all the lessons, but she couldn´t get baptised because she worked every sunday but now her schedule has changed, and she wants to get baptized a.s.a.p. and so we set a date for the 6 of February. it´s awesome to see the work of other missionaries, who left not knowing what would come of their labors, bring forth fruits. she is also super humble and super prepared. So everything is going great, I´m trying not to make fun of my comp, too much, about him going home in 33 days but sometimes I just can´t help it haha. That so awesome Jimmer Ferdett is Rippin it hard for the Y. I wish I could see him play, you gotta record some of their games. Anyways everythings good, thanks for everything, I´ll probably get the letter this week, and i´m going to send you a letter with pictures, send me the address of Jake Elison!
elder ross