Elder Ross - 4 Feb 2008

OK it seems that I am not the only one who sometimes has difficulty with technology.  (The picture is of Celia)

Oh I hate his cleint.
Sorry I just lost my letter again. because i tried to add some pictures and closed the wrong window.
So otherwise I am doing good. I had my first baptism which was good. Her name was celia.
We had 10 people at church on sunday which was good. I also had an asueda which was really good. its an agrentinaina asueda lots of meat.
The members are really good here with helping us find people.Man I hate this system of writing letters next week I will try something difrent way. I am doing good
love

Elder Ross - 11 Feb 2008

OK Another one in the wrong order. (This is a picture of Belen)

Dear family, and all others who may read this letter,

I am doing well, Lots of walking so that’s good.
Okay about sending letters and packages to me. Send them to the mission home address. That is the easiest and safest way for me to revice anything. Also on packages send them through national mail and mark the value as little as possible and keep them small. Or else I will have to pay tax and may not recive the package if sent through a difrient courier.
Ya this week was pretty long. Elder Robens of the seventy came and visited us. So we had a special conference for zone conference. It was pretty neat. He talked about the mission in general for experiences we are having. Also let us ask questions about being more effective missionarys which was cool. On Sunday there wasa special meeting for members in my district so that was good. It was all in Spanish though so a little difficult to understand.
About last week we had 10 investigatores at church. So that was good we only had 4 this week because of the conference.
The Spanish is coming along. Everyone says my Spanish is improving every day so that’s good.
I am in 2 Nephi 2 in my scripture reading in Spanish and am understanding most of it.
Okay one story.
                  We are teaching this Girl her name is Belen. We try to have her aunt who she lives with        in the lessons. But she has been really negative towards us in past visits. So we decied to share the Family a proclamation to the world with her. As we talked about the family with her and her goals for her family she really warmed up to us and our message. So it was cool to see the spirit touch her and start to change her wants for her family.

Ya love you all,
Elder Ross Blaszczyk,

Elder Ross e-mail - 18 Feb 2008

Sorry this is in  reverse order, I'

ll try to catch up and then they will be posted properly. 

Good morning Canada,                                                                            Feb 18 2008

In answer to moms email about sending stuff send it to the mission home.
Well this week was really hot in argentina for like four days it was above 35 degrees during the afternoon.
My companion is doing well, he has a sore throat right now but all is well.  It is so cool to see pictures of you guys and now that you are all alright. But ya those hats are cute/ funny looking.
This week was really busy. We have four investigators we had to get ready for their baptismal interview this week so lots of running around. But they are all doing well. Belen’s aunt came to church this Sunday which is awesome. Better, she said she had liked.
Oh so cool of an experience this week. So we, Elder Toone and I, are over at a recent converts house, her name is Maria, and talking to her Daughter, whose name is Veronica, she is 23. She has sort of showen intrest in the church but has not really wanted to commit. But, Elder tone and them are just talking, I still do not understand a whole lot when people talk about other things than the gospel even then I’m not a 100 percent sure. So we are just talking about her job and life. Then she turns to me and realizes that I do not understand anything they are saying. And she mentioned that she wants to learn English. She asked if we could teach her. We were like sure. But you have to listen to our message after. She was like actually I want to hear your message and she just totally opened up to us and we talked about repentace with her. It was so freaking cool. To see the spirit work with her.
Spanish is coming along as it does, Some days I understand a lot others not so much. But ya everyone says I keep improving.
Okay one thing a church that was funny was there was a bird in the chapel. Our chapel did not have power for like the first two hours of church so they had the windows open, and I guess this bird flew in.

Ya so I love you all, Be safe,
Elder Ross Blaszczyk

Elder Ross Letter - 25 Feb 2008

Ross suggested that we post his e-mails on the blog so anyone who's interested can read them, so here's this week's letter

Dear family, loved ones etc.                                                               Feb, 25 2008
 Holy cow this week just about blew my socks off int he busy scale.
So by the photo that you hopefully finally recived, you can tell that our four investigators got baptized. It was so amsome the spirit was really strong, and we had a lot of the memebers out as well. So it was really good. Also the president of the branch´s daughter was geting baptized so they had a party after for all our baptiazes because she turned 8 this week.
Ya this is the last full week of my first transfer so that is crazy! Me and my comp are working really hard. And, yes my comp is related to the whitehead family.
So most of this week was just making sure our investigators were ready for baptism so lots of running around since our mission leader was away this week.
last night my comp and I went and heard elder Holland speak to the youth of Argentina over the satilaite. He is such a good speaker he really empahized the fact that. The youth now are the leaders tommotow which was good.
Ya not a whole lot to say abot this week,
Oh I am now 146 Kgs so I am losing wait still that is good. i might be because we did not have power in our pension for 4 days this week. We do not have power because Elder toone did not know how to pay the bill so they cut our power.
But ya,
Love you all,

One Year Later

So how's this for an entry, one year intervals. Renovations continue and since we don't seem to be finishing the reno's we decided to go to Banff for Family day. Luckily we found a great store with some funny hats. We thought the picture was pretty funny. 

Reno Continues

Heres a picture of the construction zone, safely taken from behind a plastic vapor barrier. Zach's cleaning up some of the remains chipped away from the ceiling. If you hadn't been part of the crew doing the job, it would have seem like no progress had been made. We mostly just did small meticulous jobs like sanding the edges of drywall, cleaning the roof up, and mudding the walls. But dad says a lot of progress has been made, even though it doesn't look like it.
At 5:24 we're finally done for the day. We''d continue except we've run out of mud, and we need that before we can drywall. So we'll leave some work to do another day, and another mess to clean up.

Family Day

Well today is Family Day in Alberta. Today we are working on the house. We had a family home evening lesson on the finer art of drywalling, mudding and taping and put our new found skills to the test. Including sanding as seen by the picture. We look like old age bandits in our get up.