well the time in roswell has been great. but its time to have me go the way of the mission and move on. i am getting transferred this week. as always so sad to say goodbye to all the friends i have come love so much. but as alwasy i am way excited for what lies in store for me. i am gettign transferred to the hickory flat ward. i am way excited i have heard wonderful things about that ward. my new companion is elder fox he is still a new missionary he has only been out 3 months so it will be a fun time of good hard work. i am pretty excited. 

this last week we had the ward halloween party and it was way fun. we went as harry potter and draco malfoy. needless too say we were a hit. it was pretty fun. it was so cool because one of our investigators neicy was able to come to the party and the ward welcomed her so well. they made her feel so wanted and loved and i dont think she felt too awkward and out of place. which was a worry for us. but one of the members took her right when she showed up and took her around and introduced her to everyone and got her food. it was great. she loved it. 

i love you all. 

my new address is:

Elder Trevor Ross

3032 Harbor Creek Pkwy

Canton, GA 30115

ps..i love to get mail........(cough..cough...)

Love Elder Trevor Ross

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!!

I hope yall have some good plans for thanksgiving. its a great time of the year. especially to really see all the wonderful things that we have been blessed with and can be greatfull for. with this week being thanksgiving its a good time to reflect. so i want to extend an opportunity for all yall. this week make it a point in all your prayers to express all your thanks, by not asking for anything for an entire week but only giving prayers of thanks. this is a cool experience. ive done it and it is really cool. we are able to see how much we truly have been blessed with. we see all that our loving heavenly father has given us, and in turn we are able to feel his love more in our lives. we recognize more and more each day the things that he does for us and all the happiness that he brings into our lives. we are able to see he is there and he does know each and everyone of us. its a wonderful thing to do and i hope yall try it and feel the love.

so this week we went and met with our investigator Richard. he is way nice old man who has been reading the book of Mormon and gainng a testimony of it pretty uick so we went over to his house and was having a very powerful lesson on baptism and were just about to extend the invitation to him to be baptized and literally seconds before we were going to invite him his daughter in law walked in and she just came out and was asking us what was the difference between our church and hers. and so we told her about the book of Mormon and prophets and authority. and she slowly got super interested. then she kept asking questions and each question she asked would lead us into the next part of the restoration message. until we had taught her the entire restoration without even knowing. and she gladly accepted a book of Mormon and now we are teaching both Richard and his daughter in law Ashley and they are coming to church next week. such a miracle!!

elder fox and i thought that she was going to bash and ruin the spirit that was in the room but it ended up being a great thing.

so we get to play in the turkey bowl that the ward is having on thanksgiving day. that should be a blast. i better come ready to play because i have called out a couple youngmen in the ward and i told them if my team wins then they have to come out and go tracting with us. luckily if i lose there is nothing i have to do. but it would be way fun to take them out tracting with us. lets just say we are not going to lose.

love you all hope you have a great week. And have a happy thanksgiving.

love Elder Trevor Ross

Trevor Ross

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 Today at 1:32 PM

i <3 you all.

so there is moses jesus and this old guy playing golf. moses gets up first he hits the ball it lands in water so he walks over parts the water and hits the ball into the hole. next jesus is up he hits the ball it lands in the water then he walks on the water and hits the ball into the hole. next the old guy is up he hits the ball it lands in the water a frog eats the ball then a bird swoops down and takes the frog the bird drops the frog on the green the frog jumps over and spits the ball into the hole. after this happens moses leans over to jesus and says i hate playing games with your dad. hahah

this week has been really good. it was way different since last week we had a different schedule and emailed on tuesday instead of monday it through eveerything else off and made the week feel very different. it was still really good. 

so we are teacching this lady named christina and her 13 year old brother mike. they are both super cool. christina was taught about a year ago but her friends gave her a lot of crap for it so she wuit meeting with the missionaries but now she says she doesnt care what anyone thinks. she is so willing to learn she loves to just soak in everything we tell her. when we get in with her the lessons are so great, the only hard thing is actaully getting in with her. she works so much and so anytime she gets off she is doing something to catch up with home life. so its very tough to get in with her but she has set aside time to meet with us we just got to be able to help her because the devil is doing all he can to keep us from meeting with her but it hasnt worked yet and wont. her brother mike is way cool he is a beast. way good at football and he is probably the most ripped 13 year old i have seen. he actually invited himself to chuirch this week and to mutual. both of them are so ready for the gospel. 

so our ward has a bunch of people from haiti and so because of that we have like a little french speaking branch. and as the missionaries in the ward whenever missionaries find people to teach that speak french we are assigned to go teach them. this week we had a french speaking guy we went and taught with a member that actually speaks french and it was way weird we went and said a prayer with him and then the member taught the entire lesson in french to this guy because he didnt understand english very well. so we sat there and just listened to the beautiful french language. 

super excited for the ward halloween party on friday there should be a lot of people for us to meet there and hopefully teach not to mention elder potter(elder aubrey) and elder Malfoy(me) will be casting spells all night long. 

i love you all so much. hope you all are doing wonderful. te amo! 

LOVE ELDER TREVOR ROSS

Sep 15 at 2:24 PM

it twas a good week in the life of elder ross. so we were able to go on exchanges this week with both the spanish and the portugese elders. it is always a fun time to see how different it can be in different areas of the mission especially when they are speaking a different language. its fun so pretty much i am fluent in spanish and portugese. kinda sorta.....

today was really cool so it is our p day and this morning all the elders in the zone met up at one apartment and we all had a zone breakfast together and then we had personal study and then as all the elders in the zone we had a companionship study together and we had a really good powerful discussion. it was so cool. it was great to see elders that maybe wouldnt normally say things to get out and speak up and really say something that would bring the spirit really strongly into the room. we talked about pride and how we can eliminate pride in our lives and we also talked about how great the gospel is and why we are all here. it was so cool. the spirit was so strong and i got so many things. the topic of how fast the mission goes by was brought up and one elder said that it was a good thing it is going by fast. because when you are having fun time is always going to fly by way fast. he compared it to when you were a kid at like an amusment park the time always felt like a couple minutes becuase it was so fun and you never wanted it to end. then it hit me at least that i am having fun and it is flying by way fast and i need to use every second of it even more so. i can always do better. the entire thing was a really cool experience and way powerful and everyone got into it the zone needed it and i needed it.

this week are transfers and elder aubrey and i are staying together but its a sad one there are a lot of people leaving the zone and its so sad. i dont like transfers there are always sad goodbyes.

so me and my companion pulled a huge "prank" and it was intended for the zone but then ended up spreading mission wide. it was crazy. pretty much we told them i got transferred to this crazy place and everyone thought i was gone and then for like three days i had to hide from everyone so they thought i was gone. i felt like i was in the witness protection program. it ws funny though. and then this morning at the zone breakfast is how we told everyone it was a joke everyone was sitting around eating and then i walked in the dooor as if nothing happened and everyone was freaking out. they hate us now. haha jk they were mad that we tricked them but they were laughing because they new it was a good one. it was fun. i understand its probably not funny for yall but it was so much fun and hilarious as it all rolled out.

i got to go to a baptism for the spanish branch on saturday. great experience. i didnt understand much....i mean i am fluent so i understood it all... but anyway it was cool because no matter what language we speak the spirit will always be present when you talk about truth and although i couldnt understand much of what was being said i could definalty feel the spirit and thats what truly matters. it was way cool to be able to not recogfnize the verbal language but the language of the spirit is so much more important and i hope to be more familiar with it as time goes on.

i love yall. so darn much. GO STEELERS! i know you all are representing that black and yellow for me.

Love Elder Ross

 

Today at 10:43 AM

So Elder Aubrey and i are trying this new tracting method that has been proven to work 100% of the time all of the time. so what we do is each night as we plan for the day we plan the times we are gong to tract but we dont choose the exact place and when we get done planning the rest fo our day we neel down and say personal prayers asking for inspiration forgivness and help in this work. then after those we say another comp prayer together asking for simailar things when that is done one of us will go up to a map of our area and he will read off 15 street names that stick out to him and the other one will write them all down and then we each get a seperate peice of paper and on those ones we will write down five street names from the list of 15 that we feel good about and then we will compare our two lists of 5 streets and there are always a couple that are the same and so those are the streets we go and tract. its awesome because the lord is preparing people each day and he helps guide us to them as we seek to find them and follow his promptings. so i know he leads us to them as we obey and listen.

so we have put this to the test this last week and each day we go and tract the streets that we have found and when we do we meet people that are so prepared. its honestly insane because we will talk to these people and really i come to know that they are the ones that we were sent there to find. its a great confirmation. we have found some of the best people ever this week. people that have been praying for a change and for help from god and then the next day we knock on their door. things happen that are only labelled as miracles from god. its real. i love it.

it has been a very great week. i have been blessed. we were out this week and we had like 10 minutes before we had to get to dinner so we decided to sstop and tract where we had planned too and we both were feeling towards the end of the road so we went to the end of the road and knocked one door and no one answered then we knocked the next one and thsi nice older guy answered the door and at first he wasnt to interested but then as we talked with him his wife pulled up and she was asking us questins and turns out that she used to know some members of the church and she has always wanted to learn more and she is so interetsted. we just happened to knock on the door on the only good time we were there at the perfect time and it was a great mitracle that we were able to meet them. i count myself lucky to be able to witness it. really though i have met a lot of people this week who have known members of the chhurch and it really hit me even more how much of an example that we are even when we may think that no one is looking everyone is looking at watching so just remember to be the person that god wwants us to be and who know s your example may change someones life for the good or bad that s your choice.

so there was this cool memorial baseball park in our area and they ahve all these different planes and tanks and guns from the different wars throughout history it was way cool. many many memorials for those who have fought for us.

i love you all.

Love Elder Trevor Ross

Trevor Rosswell my loved ones. first thing first the mission has told us that they are no longer forwarding our mail so they told us to tell our families and friends to send our mail to our apartments now, so my

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Today at 1:17 PM

well my loved ones. first thing first the mission has told us that they are no longer forwarding our mail so they told us to tell our families and friends to send our mail to our apartments now, so my address is:

Elder Trevor Ross

13085 Morris Road Unit 9307

Alpharetta, GA 30004-4110

well Elder hales has left me to the land of the lost. but luckily i have a good testimony of the plan of salvation and i know that i will see him again. Elder Aubrey is here with me and he is such a cool missionary. he is so funny and like there is never a dull moment with him. he makes everything so much fun. and boy has he already taught me a butt load of great things.

so this last week we had a week full of meetings it was a long week as it is when you are stuck in meeting all day long. but i learned so much and more importantly i felt the spirit pretty dang strong. we were able to learn a lot fo cool ways to help the zone that we are way excited to use.

President benion is doing amazing things with this mission. its crazy how he sees so many little things that make such a huge difference in the progress of this mission.

willthings are going good we are doing all we can to find some work for us and having some more success still just waiting to see if these people are going to be solid or not. there are a lot that have some great potental. our entire zone pretty much changed on us so weve been running around like chickens with our heads cut off trying to get to know everyone and get them settled in and down to work super hard!! its a blast though! wish i had more but i am trying to see miracles having the faith that the lord will bless us with them.

so this week one of teh days on the way home from one of our meetings the GPS took us home a diffefrent way and on our way home we drove right by the temple. it was so dang awesome. got to see the temple and it made me so happy. it was crazy how great it made me feel jsut seeing it i cant even imagine how great it would be to be able to go into it. i cant wait for that day again.

sorry its so short. we have some great people this week that look so promising we are praying that good things will come. it will be good to have a good full week of missionary work. because last week was full of meetings and before that it waas just running around while elder hales said goodbye and got ready. so i cant wait for this week. good things are instore.

i love you all! have a great week.!

Love Elder Ross

 

Trevor Rossthings are going great as always but how could they not be when you are serving the lord. i was reading this week in the book of mormon and i was reading about charity and i was thinking that that sho

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Today at 10:06 AM

things are going great as always but how could they not be when you are serving the lord. i was reading this week in the book of mormon and i was reading about charity and i was thinking that that should be somehting one of the biggest things that all of us should strive to have. charity never faileth. as we strive for charity we gain that pure love of christ. we gain a love for those around us and are more prone to be able to feel that love expressed through us to others and from others to us. go out and look for opportunites to serve someone. the lord will bless you in your lives and will bless the lives of others through you. as you do you will feel a portion of the love that our savior has for each and everyone of us.

i was able to go on exchange with elder ontiveros thsi week and it was a good exchange. we were talking about how it had been really hard the past few days to get any investigators and both of us were maybe a little bit getting down but we decided to start talking more posoitve and once we started to do that we both felt way better and the next two people we talked with on the street were so elect and ready to hear the gospel. they invited us over and you could just tell that truly were searching for something. we are going to teach them this week. its great when the lord strengthens your faith through a trail and you are able to see him bless you as well, it makes it so much easier to go forward knowing that you can trust him in everything.

we were able to meet with our investigator carlos garcia this week as well and it was a very much needed lesson. we brought a member of the ward which was good they hit it off and got a long well. we found out that he had been taught a lot by missionaries before so we went in and established why were there and our purpose. it went so good. in the past he has been worried about not knowing enough but we told him that after we taught the 5 lessons he would know all he needed to make this step so this next week we are going to use a baptismal calender with him and try to help him progress the best we can so he can truly be ready.

we had a lesson with this guy named tim. a guy we tracted into last week and we were able to go back and teach him this week. it was way cool becuase as we were teaching him his wife wasnt too interested but like she wants him to go to church and have a faith in christ and he hasnt been doing that so she is supportive of him and as we taught him his wife went and got her journal and brought it down and started to read the journal entry that she wrote the night that we knocked on their door. and she had like written down exact words that we said and was quoting us and things and she wrote about how the spirit touched her and what she felt it was so powerful. the thing is she was like teaching and saying all this to her husband so that he would listen to us. it was crazy and amazing all at the same time. the lesson went great and we are meeting with them again on tuesday. cant wait!

I am getting a new companion on wednesday his name is elder aubery i am way excited. i know who he is but i dont know much about him at all. hes been out 3 months longer than me and i have heard he is such a cool guy. i have heard nothing but good things about him so i am way excited for what lies in store for this next transfer. it is defianlty a sad day because elder hales will be going home. no beuno. he is a cool guy and i am going to miss him a lot.

there are some great missionaries coming to roswell and things are going to explode i think. so pumped to see it. i love you all so dang much. stay classsy! be safe remember who are and mind your Ps and Qs. hahaah love you.

ps we got bored this morning and one of the tongan elders gave me a tattoo.. dollar store tattoos and a pen. the things that missionaries doo... dont ask.

love Elder Ross

Trevor Rossboy we have been busy. we were on exchanges pretty much the entire week. i love exchanges its liek the prime time to witness miracles. and we saw a few. well elder castro one of the missionaries servi

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Today at 10:30 AM

boy we have been busy. we were on exchanges pretty much the entire week. i love exchanges its liek the prime time to witness miracles. and we saw a few.

well elder castro one of the missionaries serving in the portugese branch came to my area with me and we had a blast. hes a convert of less than two years from brazil and he straight up taught me so dang much. he has a huge tesitmony and just helped me realize how special even the littlest of things are. he has such an enthusiasum for the gospel and its contagious. its wonderful to just talkk to him. well while we were busy tearing it up tracting we knocked on this guys door named carlos garcia when we first met him we were shocked at how prepared he really was. he had all the golden questions that every missionary wants to be asked and so we were so excited when he told us to come back. as we went back and were teaching him we came to find out that he had been taught by missionaries before and that explains why he knew so much. i guess before when he was being taught he just wasnt ready but as of now he is ready and wants to learn and progress in the gospel. super pumped to see where he goes. god is preparign people that is for dang sure.

we went and saw gloria this week who is a recent convert in the ward and she has luekemia and had to go to new york but got sent back because she got really sick. she has such a kind heart and cant come to church becuase the kids and she cant risk getting sick right now and so we go over and tell her what was talked about at church. she loves it. but the best part is the young men. we take a couple young men with us to give her the sacrament and she cries and loves it everytime. it was really cool too because the youngmen were not to happy that they had to do it after church rather than going home but they did it and she like was crying and bore her testimony to them about how greatful she is and how important the sacrament is and their responsibiility in bringing it. she was so greatful for them coming the spirit was so strong and when we left those boyus had an entire different outlo0ok on why they were there. it was so great.

Elder hales goes home next week. sad day. there are a lot of missionaries that are going home next week that are some of my best friends. missionaries that i have looked up too and now they are all leaving.. sad day.

i love you all. be safe. remember who you are.

love Elder Trevor Ross

Trevor Rossthis week was really good. it flew by way to fast that is for dang sure. latley things have been way tough here in roswell we find p-eople to teach but then we can never get back in to acatually teach

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Jul 21

this week was really good. it flew by way to fast that is for dang sure. latley things have been way tough here in roswell we find p-eople to teach but then we can never get back in to acatually teach them. and or people just have not been home this week. but the lord has really blessed us we may not have had as much success as we wouldve liked but the little miracles that we were abe to see were so great. they made it all worth it.

i was able to go on exchange with elder barnett this last week and that was such a fun exchange. he is such a cool guy i love him so much. it was way cool because we got a long way well could really work hard but had so much fun doing it too. we taught in unison really well together. it was great. he is a dang good missionary. he is a born leader and has one of the strongest desires to do good and be the best missionary he can be.

thsi week while we were out tracting we were haveing no succes one day it seemed that out of 100 doors maybe 3 opened but we kept going having the faith something would come and just when we were about to turn around we knocked on this door of a hindu guy named ravi and he let us in and talked with us and we were able to share the restoration with him and he was so excited as we talked he said to us that he could not deny the book of mormon that even as we just talked about it he knew it was true and was so eager to read it. he accepted baptism and wanted tto come to church sadly he ws not ablt to come to church this week he was faced with some big car troubles but he is eagerly looking forward to next week.

we also were able to meet with this guy we are starting to teach his name is henry and he is a cool down to earth guy from alabama. he has a good heart and a strong desire to follow christ. the cool thing is he recognizes that he has a lot to work on and that he is not perfect and that he can improve. he has some things that he knows are wrong and he really has a desire to beat them to really fully align his will with gods and be the best deciple he can be. i am way excited to see how he progresses and how things go with him.

i love you all!! stay classy!

"jesus trusts his followers enough to share his work with them so that they can grow"

love Elder Trevor Ross

Jul 14

Holy smokes this week really flew by without me even taking time to stop and breath. i feel like it went by in the blink of an eye. well on tuesday was zone meeting so we were in charge of that and so that kept us busy and it turned out to be pretty fun and we had some really good trainings. also that day while the meeting was going on president benion came and had interviews with every missionary in our zone. he started interviews at 7:30 in the morning and he did not even finish until arounf 3:30 it made for a long day for him i can imagine but he really wants to get to know everyone the best he can. he is such a nice guy. i love talking to him. hes so down to earth and can be so serious at the same time its hard to explain. fun fact he was cosmo the cougar at BYU when he ws there. so you know he is a goofball too. love him hes bringing a whole lot to this mission.

sorry its so short. i don tknow much to report on we have been super busy this last week finding amazing people who are super prepared and then we come to find out that they live out fo our boundaries and we end up having to pass them a long to other missionaries. its good that they are ready and getting the gospel but its no fun passing someone that you want to teach to the next set of missionaries.

i love you all the lord is working miracles and i am loving this work. it absolutley terrifies me that i just hit a year i feel like its been a week. just means i need to work harder. i love you all and thank you for the support you all give me. be yourself and stay classy look for your own opportunities to serve others around you.

LOve Trevor

Trevor Rossit has been a great week full of some amazing miracles. well on the 4th of july i didnt get to see any fireworks but when we got to our apartment for the night we were getting things out o0f the car a

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Jul 8

it has been a great week full of some amazing miracles. well on the 4th of july i didnt get to see any fireworks but when we got to our apartment for the night we were getting things out o0f the car and this lady walked up to us and was like are you who i think you are and we were like who do you think we are. she read our name tags and was like YES you are. she started talking to us and we had a good conversation on the atonement and the spirit was so strong. ritght when we were talking to here she got a phone call and had to leave so we gave her a book of mormon and our number as she was walking away and thats all we could do so we just hoped that she would call us. well the next day she did!!! and she wanted us to stop by sunday morning. she gave us her address and she lives just outside our area..... no bueno. but we went and taught her that morning and it went so great. she loved the message of the restoration and wanted to learn more. then we told her that we didnt cover the area that she lived in but that other missionaries like us could come back. so we gave her their number and right when we left her house she called the missionaries in that area and she went to church with them that day. she is so awesome and loved church. so happy about that even if we arent teaching her.

also there was a baby blessing at church last week and the family that was blessing a baby invited someone to come to the blessing and he showed up and we were not able to talk to him at church but we actually ended up tracting in to him this week and he was so happy to see us. we taught him the restoration and came to find out that his daughter is a member in africa he wants to be baptised and is so willing to learn. its just amazing to see how great the lord is and how he is providing miracle after miracle for us to witness. as we show our faith he shows that we can put our faith in him.

we met the new mission president this last week. he is such a cool guy. he is so loving and caring you can feel that love that he has for all of us already. it is very different than the wolferts our last mission president but defiantly in a good way. the benions bring their own things to this mission and it is really going to help this mission do great things. i am so happy to have them here.

i am loving life. doing great. sorry this didnt come yesterday we had big problems trying to find a working computer. i love you all.

Love ELder Trevor Ross

Trevor Rosswell to start things off we have a new mission president. our previous one president wolfert went home on saturday and president benion is here now. i am sad to see president wolfert leave but super p

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well to start things off we have a new mission president. our previous one president wolfert went home on saturday and president benion is here now. i am sad to see president wolfert leave but super pumped to meet elder benion and see whwt he will bring to the mission. we get to meet him on wednesday he is coming and we are having a firseide like thing with him to kind of show himself off to us.

well we had transfers this last week i am serving in the rosewell ward. i really love the ward. they make me feel at home. the people here are way cool and seem like a lot of fun and are so willing to help us out i am way excited to see how this transfer is going to go. Elder Hales my new comp is so cool. he is from central utah a big boy hes way big into baseball and football. and its funny he wants to go into electrical when he gets home so we have a lot in common with eachother. i love him already we have a lot of fun and get a lot work done. very hard worker so i am loving it. he goes home in 6 weeks at the end of this transfer so i got to keep him going hard.

this last week we were teaching this guy named chet and he is way cool adn as we have taught him his girlfriend has been tthere but she doesnt really listen she just is off doing her own thing. but we found out that she really hs been listening after all. she told us how she had been reading the book of mormon and she got to this part where she just couldnt put it down. so while she was driving home she was reading it (not safe at all). anyway she ended up getting lost and she had no clue where she was at. ans as she drove down this road she almost turned around a couple times but something just told her not to turn around and as she kept going and then she came to a road and just got a feeling to take the next left so she did and when she took the next left she turned right into the temple. she said she realized it and jsut started to cry. she knew the lord was aware of here and he loved her and the lord led her there. needless to say she is so down to hear the lessons now and has been sitting in on the lesson with us and actaully participating. so fetching cool.

love you all. stay classy! be yourself and love the lord.

Elder Trevor Ross

Jun 9

hello to all reading this.

sunday was a pretty great adventure. we finally got someone at church and she loved it. between us 3 sets of missionaries in the ward we all had a total of 7 people at church it was great. it was like guiding cattle though as we had to help them all to the right classes and make sure they didnt get lost. luckily the ward is pretty great and helped us and they all made some good friends.

well i learned to play rugby and goodness that is a fun one. thats what we have done for p day today it sure is a blast but that is a mans sport. we only play two hand touch for all of you worrying about injuries.

there is this place in our area i absolutley love going to. so we live in the city of norcross. but there is a place in the downtown its the historic norcross. and it is like all these really older houses that people have really taken care of and the whole city is very popular its just way fun to walk around there and there are always a lot of people there. they are always having these nice community events almost every week so it stays busy we meet a lot of very nice people and a lot of very interesting people. haha they have all these signs around the whole city that give historic information about the city. its way cool.

i love yall as always. be safe.

love elder ross

Jun 2

this week we have finally seen the fruits of our labors. we have really been trying to find people to teach and we have been following up on formers and people we contact ourselves. but we went and followed up on a former investigator that was in the area book from like 2005 and it was in an apartment compleex and so im not saying we were doubting but it didnt seem very likely that she would be there still. but when we did she was there and we were able to get in a teach her and she was nice but she ended up not really progressing this last week but her daughter who was younger and gone in 2005 when she first got the lessons but now she was so prepared and so excited about everything we shared with her. you could see the spirit swell up in her and work his magic.

we had started getting a good teaching pool but then it seemed all at once they all kind of dropped us. but hey that is missionary work and so there time will come they arent ready at this time but the seed has been planted and missionaries in the future will have some good work to do.

this last couple weeks i have real;ly been thinking about how the lord uses us. and how he has the power to do all things and that without him we cant do anything especially in missionary work. i have been going through the book of mormon and finding all the times that the prophets say that they were "instruments in gods hands" because truly we are only instruments he uses. we can not force someone to feel the spirit or we cant convince anyone of truth cant convince anyone the book of mormon is true and that there is a prophet on the earth but we can tell them these things and then the spirit is what does the true work in testifying to them and confiriming the truth of the words we speak. its been a good thing to realize and no matter how hard i work that unless i invite the spirit in everything i do there is not much point to it. its such a great gift we have been giving to have the spirit in our lives to guide us and help us through all we do.

i love you all.i am doing so good. dont ever worry about me. there is no need for it. i am happy.

love Elder Trevor Ross

Hello Everybody! 

 

What a fantastic week. This week we met with our investigator shilaunah so cool! And we are so happy she is getting baptized this Saturday. she came to church this last week and one of the members came up to her and asked her if she believed these things were true and was giving her a sort of lecture about finding out for herself and she looked him in the eyes and with kind of an attitude said sir i know these things are true! Made my day to hear her say that she really does have a strong testimony and has come so far. She has quit coffee and smoking and so many other things all in the choice to follow Christ. She told us this week she know s what she is doing is good because she can feel Satan trying to work his ways on her closer she gets to baptism the harder he tries. Key word "tries" because she will not let him win. It’s awesome to see how strong she has become. So happy!

 

I got to go on exchange with one of the zone leaders this week. And wow! He is a stud. Way cool guy and so dang good at teaching and talking to people loved being able to learn from him. 

 

It was way cool we were out tracting when we were on exchanges and we knocked into this family that was from panama and they were so dang interested in what we had to say it was just awesome. there was a little bit of a language barrier so we told them about the Spanish elders and she was so excited like so happy and wanted to make sure that they would know where she lived and we were trying to schedule a time for them to come back and she was just like we will just come to church and meet them and then there won’t be a problem. So she just invited herself to church and it was awesome to see how excited she was to come to church and to be able to hear the message of the restored gospel. So even though we are not going to be teaching her i am way excited to see what happens and will definitely be keeping up with the Spanish elders as to how she is doing. 

 

Next week are transfers and that means that i am most likely getting transferred so sad to see this place leave but so excited to see what lies in store for me. Can’t wait to tear it up somewhere else and to make my presence known somewhere else in Georgia. 

 

I am so fetching pumped to be able to talk to my family on Sunday looking forward to that. Happy mother’s day to everyone! I love you all have a wonderful week. Be safe and remember who you are. Share with someone what makes you happy. Help make someone’s day this week. 

Love you all. 

 

Love Elder Trevor Ross

 

I love the billboard sign things outside of all the churches. Every time i see one i like i stop and take a picture. 

Hey all,

 

What a great week as usual. A week in the service of the lord is always a good one. If hope all had a good Easter yesterday. It was a great day for us as well the ward made us really feels loved and there were a lot of families that had us over and really made us feel like family. It’s a great day to be with family and remember the wonderful thing that the savior has done for us and made possible for us. What is even better is that we don’t have to just remember that or celebrate it on that one day we can take it each and every day and celebrate every single day of our savior Jesus Christ. 

 

I went on exchange with the Spanish elders this last week and that was way fun. I got to go and teach me some Spanish. Ha-ha yeah i don’t speak Spanish at all. And i learned that even more so on that exchange. I learned how to say "hi how are you?" and "we are missionaries from the church of Jesus Christ of latter day saints. do you have a faith in Jesus Christ?" so i would go up and say that and then i would literally take a step back and point at the Spanish missionary and he would take over and i would be lost as to what was going on. Ha-ha it was way fun i loved it except for the fact that i got told that i was the whitest person they had ever seen. I got told that a couple times and that hit my heart deep. Almost cried. We were literally tracting in the hood too. Like that is what the road was named. Ha-ha

 

We had met with this family that actually requested us from mormon.org last week. and we had another appointment this week so we went and met with them this week and we had a plan as to what we were going to teach them and the entire day elder Bartholomew and i were talking about alma 32 and i couldn’t get it out of my mind and so we go to this lesson that night and we start talking with her and her family and she starts asking about faith and what it is and how she can strengthen it and so we flipped up to alma 32 since that is exactly what that chapter is on and were able to answer all her questions and it went so well. the last time we were there her husband was there just in the background doing something else and not really interested and we taught the restoration and i guess he was listening because when we came back this last week he was there on the couch and participating and even read with us and was way excited to have us there. and they have this 9 year old kid who refuses to read out loud because he can barely read and starts to stutter way bad when he reads but we didn’t know so we asked him to read a verse and he read it perfectly clearly and without stuttering and his parents were freaking out and so happy. They almost didn’t believe it. It was so cool to see so many miracles happen in such a short time throughout that day. The lord is there and he is working miracles in each of us every day. 

 

Well. I love you all!! Stay classy. Be safe. 

His Grace is Sufficient for all.

 

Love Elder Trevor Ross