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