This week was so great.

 

So a few weeks ago we had a recent convert lady bring her fiancé to church with her. And she is new to the ward so we went up and talked to them and her fiancé is not a member but has been investigating the church for a very long time on his own, and he told us that he is ready to take a step forward. so we met with him this last week finally and we went to go and teach him but it was different because he actually ended up teaching us the restoration and so we invited him to be baptized and he said there is no time like the present. It was an experience like none other. Ha-ha

We went and taught this lesson to a family we are teaching and we brought this guy that just got home from his mission in SLC. It was a way powerful lesson. He showed me that I suck at teaching. Ha-ha he was a really good teacher. He knew what he was doing. Ha-ha I learned a lot. He set us up so perfect for the invitations that we wanted to extend to them. He would set us up and we would invite and they always said yes. It was such a cool experience. We rolled off of each other perfectly and the spirit was a clearly there and the investigators felt it as well. It was a break through. We have had trouble helping them out but this lesson was perfect and what they needed.

We had district meeting yesterday and there is a sister in our district who is done with her mission and goes home tomorrow actually so we had a funeral service for her as district meeting. Ha-ha it was hilarious. Everyone wore black and one of the elders gave a training on the plan of salvation and related it to the mission life and dying and going to the afterlife of the real world. Then the elders got together and sang god be with you tile we meet again and the song from remember the titans "nah nah nah nah, nah nah nah nah, hey, hey, hey, Goodbye" it was fun. It was kind of mean but she was a good sport about it. And we all had a great time.

I love you all so much hope you have a wonderful week.

 

Love Elder Trevor Ross

 

Well it is now settled I have an extreme addiction to zaxbys. I cannot stop eating there its so dang good and it calls my name whenever I am hungry. I have even began to dream about it. I think I need to talk to my bishop..... Ahhaaha

 

This week we had a super cool experience. We were out tracting yesterday in fact. We only had a short time before we had to be somewhere. So we prayed to tract this street the night before, and we showed up to tract it. There were only a few house at the beginning of the road and none of them answered. then it turned into a bunch of empty housing plots but we could see roof tops over the trees so we walked to the end of the road and there was this random few houses at the very end so we began knocking. The first house we knocked on this guy Chris came to the door. We told him we were missionaries sent here from god to share a message with him that would change his life. He was freaked out and began to tell us about how many trials he was going through. He asked us to come back on Wednesday and made sure we had his number and then he asked us what time and where our church was. And then he said that he will go to church with us next week. We were not expecting it and it was so great to witness such and amazing miracle. Chris kept saying this is weird that I am going through all of this and then you knock on my door it is so weird. Way cool for us though.

 

https://www.lds.org/church/news/new-2015-mutual-theme-songs-videos-encourage-youth-to-serve?cid=HPMO122914592&lang=eng

 

Watch this video and apply it in your own lives. It is amazing! What will you give? And how will you embark?

 

I love you all so much! Hope all is well.

 

Love Elder Trevor Ross

01/05/15

Well holy smokes happy New Year everyone!!

 

This week was one of the best weeks we have had in the longest time. We got down to work. So this week we met with our investigator Bucky. He has been some real tough times and we had a really powerful lesson with him on the plan of salvation and gods awareness for all of us. The spirit was strong you could reach out and just cut it with a knife. We taught the lesson and then we invited him to be baptized as well. He was teary eyed and smiled and said yes. He had been waiting for us to ask. It’s been so cool to see the change that has come upon him. He used to just sit and listen quietly whenever we would come over but now he is all smiles and talks to us and is engaged and happy in what we are talking about. It’s been so great.

 

Yesterday at church we had a member come to church and she brought her boyfriend to church and he had a worn book of Mormon in his hand. We got talking with him and come to find out he has been investigating the church for a while now on his own. And so asked us to come by his home this week and begin teaching him the lessons. We asked him what he wanted to gain from meeting with us, and he looked at his girlfriend and said I want the glow and spirit that she has, and that everyone here at church has. There is something in my life that is missing and I believe this is the it is." yeah I had no clue what to say but almighty then we will be at your house on Tuesday then. I am so pumped.

 

We were out tracting and on this one road we had 2 or 3 house each tell us that we should not go to the house that was at the end of the road because it was really sketchy and not safe. So of course naturally we had to go down and knocked on the door. And this nice guy named Donnie came out. You could tell there might have been some things going on. But he was so nice and he actually asked us for a pamphlet. We were able to share the book of Mormon with him and he wanted his kids to hear about it and we gave him some things for his kids to read. We are also going back to just check in on him here and there to help them out at all. It was cool. He was way nice and probably the only one on the street that would benefit and actually listen to us, and Satan was really working hard to keep us from him.

 

I love yall too much. It is sad to hear that the Steelers lost but let’s not dwell on the past because next year when I play quarterback for them I am going to restore them back to their former glory as champions.

 

Have a great week. Mind your P's and Q's!

 

Love Elder Trevor Ross

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

To

randy mountain Ashley Zimmer Bonnie grandpa kent Haylee Young and 10 more...

 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