Hermana Adelaide Ross's Mission Blog

¡Hola a todos! Cómo está?? This week was filled with conferences, a trip to Madrid, the temple, and so many miracles!! CONFERENCIA DE ZONA  The Valencia Zone had conference this week and we focused on the importance of members in this work! It has been so amazing to see how members and their testimonies can bring such a spirit into our lessons! Members are so important to our amigos and their lifelong conversion in the Church! We focused on ways to invite members to be active in this missionary work and how we as missionaries should be a constant support to the ward and its members! Hermana Heckmann made reservations for lunch at a fancy restaurant in Valencia so our whole zone enjoyed a Spanish 3 course meal haha VAMOS A MADRID  All three missions in Spain (Madrid north, Madrid south, and Barcelona) had the opportunity to gather in Madrid on the temple grounds! I got to see a bunch of Missionaries from the MTC and my old compañeras! Our mission was blessed with the chance to ...

  Holaaa!!  I don't have too much time so this email will be shorter but WOW this has been an amazing week!! I am so exhausted because we have been so busy! I am learning and growing A TON!! Training life is so much fun and I am learning so much from Hermana León and my trainee Hermana Jones! The three of us are taking over Catarroja and it's quite a grand task!  I truly have learned so much this week about patience and turning things over to the Lord! Like my amazing companions always remind me, God is always in control and we can have confidence in his timing for this work! The Lord truly does have everything under control! A scripture that I absolutely love and we got to share with one of our friends this week was Matthew 11: 28-30  28 ¶ Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.  29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.  30 For my yoke is eas...

SURPRISE!! I am training this transfer!! Which means I now have a daughter on the mission and she is amazing! Not only that but I get to train with Hermana León so we are training Hermana Jones together (in a trio) and it has been such a blessing!  When I started my mission I was trained in a trio by Hermana Gonzalez and Hermana Edwards (shout out to the best moms in the world♡) So now that I get to train in a trio it's like things have come full circle! Hermana Jones is from Utah and already has such a love for the work! The two areas in Catarroja are now combined into one so we are taking over a huge area! This means a ton more amigos and a ton more work to do. This change has been stressful for sure but I feel like I have grown during these first 3 days of the transfer!  This week felt like a whirlwind! I had to say bye to Hermana Peterson who I miss so so much! She was such an incredible first compañera here in Spain and I'm so grateful for everything she taught me!! ...

  Holaaa This was truly the most amazing week here in little old Catarroja!  DANIEL'S BAPTISM  We had Daniel's baptism service on Sunday and it was so perfect! Daniel is 18 years old and from Venezuela! He was one of the first people I taught here in Spain so I truly got to see his spiritual growth!! He is AMAZING! His faith and love for the gospel is so inspiring! He showed up in a whole suit for his baptism which is literally the cutest thing because every sunday he would always wear jeans and a sweatshirt! Practically the whole ward stayed to support him including all the youth! It was the most perfect baptismal service and I am so excited for him and his desire to follow Christ!  Luz and Siskatl  We are teaching Luz and her daughter Siskatl who is 10 years old! Her mother Luz loves the lessons but really wants to know more before she commits to a baptism date, but she really wants her daughter to get baptized!! SOOO Hermana Peterson and I put Siskatl on date...

  Holaaa!!  This truly was a week of miracles!  We had intercambios this week and it was such an amazing experience serving in Valencia for the day with Hermana Squire! It was pouring rain all Friday so we were running from lesson to lesson in the pouring rain!! I was able to see the capilla in the hermanas area of Valencia and I was very surprised to see that the capilla was the parking garage of an apartment complex! We had so many great lessons that day, a few in the pouring rain, in the middle of an orange field and one great lesson in a bar! The work is never boring here in Spain!  The most exciting news is that Our amigo Daniel is GETTING BAPTIZED!! Daniel is on fecha for the 4th of Febrero! I could not be more excited for him! Daniel is 18 years old and it has been amazing to see his conversion story since the beginning! He was one of the first lessons I had here in Spain so I was able to teach him from the start! When I first met him he was a very shy, quiet ...

  Hola :)) Wow this week flew by! We had lesson after lesson and had the chance to find a few new amigos! This made the time fly by!! I have been out on my mission for 6 MESES!!! I feel like I have been a missionary for just a few weeks how did 6 months past by so fast!  As I look back on these 6 months I am so grateful for all the miracles I have seen! Truly there is no other place I would rather be than serving my Savior Jesus Christ! Through him I have seen lives changed! Most importantly I have learned so much and have grown my love for my Savior and his Gospel! He is so good!  This week was full of ups and downs but that's missionary life! We had a ton of lessons but a lot of our friends are having a hard time keeping commitments! We always invite all our friends to act on their faith and progress! Some do but others have a difficult time keeping commitments! This week we felt like some of our friends are not taking the necessary steps to progress! It's devastating b...

  Hola!!!  This week was so much fun and we saw so many miracles here in Catarroja!!  We found a lot of new friends this week and one in particular Michel is progressing super well! He came to church this last Sunday and loved it! He already had an incredible testimony about the Book of Mormon and we are excited to meet with him again this week! He has mentioned many times during this last week that the Gospel brings something different. He described it as a feeling of peace and of love that he has been looking for! I can testify of this same feeling; the gospel brings so much joy and light into our lives!  This last week Spain celebrated Three Kings Day which is basically like Christmas for everyone here! Catarroja put on a giant parade which consisted of marching bands, dances, marvel characters, Disney princess, giant polar bears, and the three kings throwing chocolate coins from giant floats (just Spain things!) During the parade Captain America saluted my very A...