Hermana Adelaide Ross's Mission Blog

  Hola Amigos y Familia,  Well I'm here!! I have been in Spain for the last four days and WOW it's amazing! Such a huge cultural adjustment but I love it! There is plenty of fresh Pan and chocolate caliente to keep me happy!  I left the Salt Lake City Oeste mission early Wednesday Morning and I am so grateful for the miracles that I experienced and the people I met! That mission is filled with lifelong friends and I will always consider the Salt Lake City Oeste mission as family! For all the peeps in Salt Lake City, I love you all so much! Please email me and join my Google photos!! Please keep in touch I love yall praying for the Salt Lake City Oeste mission Siempre :))  I had an amazing missionary experience with an older Lady named Mary on my second flight! We started talking about religion and she said she was catholic but was interested in what missionaries do. I shared my experience being a missionary are the blessings I have seen! She then shared her experienc...

  Hola Amigos,  Wow this week has flown by! This was my last full week in the Salt Lake City Oeste mission and I felt like I barely got to enjoy it lol! We were super busy this week with lessons and mission meetings as the transfer is coming to an end!  This week we have had so many amazing experiences with those we are teaching! It seems like everyday we see miracle after miracle! The spirit has filled the rooms of those we are teaching and my compañera and I have seen hearts being changed! It is heartbreaking to leave this Thursday but I am so glad to be leaving our friends with a love for Christ!  A fun surprise this week was I got to see my BYU college roomie Dani!!! She totally surprised me and I was shocked! To see a familiar face before I leave the states was such a blessing! Dani is literally the best and got me all the American Chocolate I could dream of! Love you ♡♡ We also got a brand new Mission car!! My companion and I are very happy and thankful with th...

  Hola Amigos,  This week was so busy and there is so much information to cover! I'm going to try and keep this short and sweet! First and foremost I AM LEAVING TO BARCELONA SPAIN ON NOVEMBER 16TH!!!! This week I have experienced so many mixed emotions because it's heartbreaking to leave this mission, these missionaries, and my Amigos from my areas! But, I am so excited to get to Spain and meet the people there!  Now for the events this week…. ZONE CONFERENCE  I had my last zone conference with the Salt Lake City West mission! It was so amazing to see my favorite missionaries and be spiritually uplifted! We focused on the importance of Repentance, and I learned so much about Grace and the Savior's Atonement. HALLOWEEN  Honestly we didn't do much on Halloween and we had to be in the apartment by 7pm. We bought candy and snacks and just played games all night so it was fun!  CONSEJO DE ZONA We had our last Consejo with our Zona and it was super sad to say bye...

  Hola!!! This week my compañera was sick which means we were in the apartment for most of the week. Pero, I got some amazing moments to study while trying to stay busy and I learned so much from countless conference talks, Bible videos and Scriptures.  I will also be with new companions for this next week while my compañera heals! So please pray for Hermana Elias and a quick recovery!!  These are some of my study notes from this last week!!  Over these last 3 meses on my mission. I have seen this Power: the power of God, change me and those I am teaching. I would describe myself as a person who fears and is afraid of a lot of things or almost everything. Public speaking, learning a new language, speaking a new language, trying new foods, riding a bike or almost any kind of change I can't control. This pretty much describes the mission. Constant change and constant stepping outside of my very comfortable, comfort zone.  But as the scripture in 2 Timothy 1:7-8 sa...

  Hola Amigos :) This week we have seen many amazing miracles with finding! We have found 6 new amazing amigos and every one of them are progressing so well. Everyday we are excited to teach them and learn from their testimonies!  This week I was able to see all the missionaries from my last transfer!! We had a Spanish missionary conference with all the Spanish missionaries in our mission. I was able to see my old compañeras and old district! It was so fun to see everyone again and hear how my old friends are doing!! I'm so grateful to have the most amazing examples to serve with! We had a noche de cultura en nuestro barrio! It was so amazing, our ward had traditional foods from Venezuela, Colombia, Perú, México, and Cuba! Each place performed their countries traditional dances. The dresses and dances were so beautiful and more importantly it was a great activity to invite all our friends to. We had four amigos come and we were super busy teaching shorts lessons during the pro...

  Hola Amigos, No the caption is not clickbait we did in fact get the cops called on us by a very delightful old man. But that story will be at the end, first Milagros!!! We have made amazing progress in this area!! We have some strong Amigos and it's so exciting to see them progress!! We don't have to look, bike or walk far to see the people the lord is preparing! It seems like he is placing those amazing people in our path and we have the privilege to teach them! But truly I have come to realize that the Lord is working day and night, harder than any missionary ever could to prune his vineyard. I'm so honored that he trusts us, "servants of the Lord [to] go forth in HIS POWER to nourish and prune his vineyard" (Jacob 6:2). He trusts us with his divine hijos y hijas and I will do everything in mine and HIS power to bring them safely home.  We have had a couple freezing cold days here. Biking in the freezing rain is not my favorite thing to do, but even on days wh...

  Hola Amigos, This week we had transfers and it has been a huge change! I have a new area, new district, new companion, new barrio, whitewashing our area and a bike! So much change all at one and especially after my first transfer I was quite shocked to say the least.  We had to say bye to all our friends and barrio and this Broke my heart! I LOVE our amigos so much and having to leave them made me shed some tears (a lot of them!) The whole day before transfers we went around and met with all our friends and break the news! Having to say bye to my amazing companions Hermana Edwards and Gonzalez along with all our friends was so hard! I have grown so close to all these amazing people and I'm so grateful God gave me the opportunity to learn this amazing gospel with them!  Our new area is well… special! We have gotten many rejections and I know that comes with whitewashing, but I can feel the potential! We have seen so many miracles just in the four days of being here!...

  Hola Amigos, Being a missionary during General Conference Weekend felt the same as Christmas morning! Being in Salt Lake our main mission this week was inviting every person literally EVERYONE to watch General Conference! We handed out flyers left and right and got as many tickets for our amigos as we could find! Truly there is no better environment to learn and feel the spirit than listening to words of living Apostles and Profetas!  This week we had plenty of service opportunities with helping two families move. And I had an amazing Intercambio with Hermana Jensen and Reyna! Hermana Reyna just recently got her mission driving card. So we had a new driver on the road and the three of us are all trainees! Super fun experience figuring out missionary work together!  The highlight of the week was General Conference!! Being in the Salt Lake City West mission we had the blessings of receiving tickets! I went to the Sunday Morning Session with my Companions and an amazing gr...