Los Perros, Un El Libro de Mormon, y Las Granadillas

Hey everyone, sorry this one is a bit delayed!

Hola! Me Familia Y Amegos!

                            So I am on week 5 of my 6 weeks I'm not where I would like to be with spanish, but something tells me getting out into the fild is the best way I'm going to get where I need to be. So for the last two week I will be the district leader, but I am also kind of a third member of the Zone leaders too, so that's fun, mybe we should just be "the Leaders". The time came to go out again (Prostilitizing-sp) The place I went this time was verry similar to the first place I went, very very humble houses creeping up a mountain, but this place had less garbage and less stray dogs. Don't get me wrong there are millions of stray dogs in Preú, but this place wan't infested like the othere one was. I gave a Libro De Mormon to a Lady Paster, and got to teach a old man how to pray. I love the pople down here, they are so Kind and humble.

                     So on anoth note Fruit! The only fruit I get to eat is what they have in the little wire bowl in the food line, but there is a new kind of fruit that I LOVE!!! It is called a Granadilla, it is from the same family as the pomagranate. it is a small round orangeish yellow in color fruit, it has a thin shell that you peal or crack open and inside are hundres of little almost slimmey seed things. it is the best! The oranges are really good, we tends to stay away from the apples, and the banna's they feed us are ither hit and miss. The fruit choices out sime are much grater and I cant't wait to tell you all about them.

           I hope you are all haveing an awesome week, have fun Elder Roos.

 

Also, there are some missionaries down there that took a picture of his district

 

The heat of...winter; and very odd food.

Hey everyone!

So I'm just keep'n on keep'n on here in the good ol' CCM. It's a little hard trying to find things to write about, because I do just about the same thing everyday. I wake up at 6:15 and go to the showers, the showers have two temps. scolding HOT and bone Chilling cold. But if you keep turing off the hot water you have about a 5 second window to gwt in the water. anfter that I brush my teath, put my white shirt and tie on compleet the my Elder Roos name plaque.7:00 Go down to beakfest wich never changes much. You scan your card grab your tray, and choose between undercooked scrambled eggs and overcooked overeasy eggs, your choice of some kind of cold cut lunch meat or cheese, grab the suare bowl of liquid yogurt wich despite it's consistancy is not that bad (people down here usually eat this kind of yogurt and pread every moring) wich brings me to the next idem on the menue bread! wich I and the smater Elders use to make a sandwich (I am proud to be an American where you can eat anything if you only put it between two slices of bread). then you can drink boxed milk of some kind of juice from conitraite, or water. 8-12 Then learn the gosple and spanish, most of the time alltogether. 12:00 go to lunch and avoid the soup they make because it gives you the runs. grab one of the tow dishes that almost always have chicken and rice (don't read this incorectly I love the food here.) some sort of egg sid dish with some kind of wird dressing, grab one of the 3 kinds of dessierts, wich most often include wierd jello, some mushy kind of Flaun stuff, and if you are really lucky they pull out the soft seave icecream. 1:00 personal study. 2-3 Phyisical activity, I ussually play volly ball, I have kind of become a favoite team member because I am really bad but I can usually turn this in to a steady stream of jokes. 3-6 spannish/gospel. 6:00 dinner wich is alot like lunch. 7-9 study and teach a teacher pretending to be an investigator. 9:00 plan for the next day 9:20 check the mail box which is always empty ( they say they carry ship the mail on a donkey and that's why it takes so long) 9:25 go to fruit (where you eat a piece of frut) 9:30-10:30 get ready for bead. So that is what I do every day (details very)

 

Love Elder Roos oh yeah and it's winter here and it's still hot!

The CCM

So, this is the medium that I will be using to share Elder Roos' updates with you, so I don't need to post in a million different places. Here's part of the e-mail that we got last week:

the CCM (Peru's MTC) is fantastic the language is hard but I'm not giveing up.  I wish you could see how beautiful Peru' is. there are flowers and birds that I have never seen before, the city is crazy with little building repair, and it is super scetchy at night (I know that from my ride from the airport, but besides that we are just now going to the temple so I'll get to see more then. the food is very diferent, but really good. Fresh weird friut and people. haha Well if you could send me some email adresses and tell, like tyler, and logan and stuff to email I would love you even more. Love you so verry much and I might wright a mass message later.

Love Elder Roos.

Then here's the one he sent this week (If you were wondering about the title it comes from this e-mail.)

Peru is going i to the winter months, so that just means that it isn't going to be hot, no extra rain or anything. The food is a lot, and I really do mean ALOTTTT!!!!!!!! of chicken, rice, potatos, and alot of odd spices. Some times they try to create USA food, but it never turns out quite right. They tried to make a toco one and it was a tortilla, with a slab of some kind of beef and mashed... something inside. You would think that evry one's stomaches would get use to the food but everyone is still haveing long and frequent visits to the restroom, including me. They don't really use any hot sause wich is sad, but there is this hot salad dressing stuff that I put on everything. I miss Milk, all they have here, and I mean peru not just the CCM (MTC) is powdered or canned. My classes are all in Español even the mission prep classes, which makes it kind of hard to understand. I feel like I have falling behind everyone else, but I am one of the only ones with on highschool spanish, or latin perents. The latin Elders, only stay here for two weeks so it was sad to see them go. I have two Companions, Elder Gorman and Elder Morison. all the gringos room with latain Elers, but gringos are comps with grengos

and another one

I had just alittle bit more time so, I will start with my Compramróes. Elder Gorman is a bigger blond Texan, he is also the DL wich we all agree he likes alittle too much. It was alittle hard to get along with him at first, but he is growing on me. Elder Morrison, the Elder that I was stuck in L.A. with is my other comp. (oh yeah Dean if you didn't know I arived to the CCM 3 days late, long story.) He is a black haired, 5'8" workout junky from Utah, he is a computer guy, wich is an undertatement. He created an Android phone App that has broken 40,000 downloads.

I have only had the chance to go prostleysing, it was in a very poor place where the people had next to nothing. Thay all lived in theese depresingly colorfull houses, that would be more corectly called shacks, with dusty roads covered in garbage, and stray dogs. we go out once every two weeks so I will have 2 more chances to go. when you go out, oyu are paired with a latin companion, so this means he talked and I boar my testimony a few times. It really is a diferent world, so around here you have the upper middle class, who live alot like most of the people in the USA do, the middle class who live in grungy aprtments, and the poverty level people who live in the humble shacks I was talking about. They are so poor, you whould not think theese places would be inhabitable, the doors are no mor than two bords stuck together, most houses don't have full roofs, and the are verry lucky if the have a concreet inside. I love Aerica!

The latain Elders stay in the CCM only for two weeks, but it is so easy to love them. we said goodby to them yesterday, and most of them told me that was the worlds single hapies person, and one elder condmed me with sucsess (his words). Well now I really do have to go so I love you all good bye!

Elder Roos

Hope you enjoyed it, if I have time in the incoming weeks, I'll correct spelling.