Compañero Nuevo

Buenos tardes,

                    so I was happy to hear from mom, that my letters are okay, but I will still try to keep improveing them.

                    I hope you are all enjoying the weather down there because, yes it is starting to get very cold in this part of the world. It was a good week, my companion is the best, he is the first ¨normal¨companion that I have had up to this point in my mission, and he may never stop to make me laugh. It feels good to laugh with my companion, it´s something that I have really missed. He is a hard worker and we have seen a lot of success in just the first week that we have been together. We are working very hard to help Katy and Jorge get ready for baptism. They are starting to get a really firm testimony of the church, and they have been come to church every week. This week they ended up coming to church a little late, and we were into sacrament meeting, when there was a big ¨boom¨outside the door of the chapel, and everyone including the current speaker stopped and looked at h¡where the boom had come from, and when we all heard a little girl start to cry and a little boy yell it wasn´t me, we knew that Katy and Jorge had arrived. However little Margarita who hit her head on the door was just fine, and we all hod a good time at church.

 My Companion is from a place called Cajamarka, which is near Cuzco, and is about 15 hours in buss. So he is not super close, but the funny thing is where he is from there are al ot of white people, so we usually say that we are from the same place, He is my 3rd companion from Peru, but I think he might be my favorite. I love you all and Wish you all well. Love Elder Roos. 

This saturday Sister Saturnina, and Sister Benancia were baptized. It was an incredible experience, My companion baptized Benancia and the brother of Saturnina was able to baptise his sister. The most incredible part about the baptism of Saturnina is that her brother, Nolburto had an accident about 7 years ago, and does no have full use of his legs, and is only able to walk with the use of crutches. But with the simple help of a chair and my companion, he was able to successfully preform the baptismal ordinance. The testimony of Saturnina, and Benancia were two of the purest and most powerful that I have been able to witness in all of mission. Sister Banancia as I have mentioned before does not speak very well in spanish, but with the help of her daughter (who is member) she was able to express her feelings in a very moving way. There may or may not have been tears. (I have pictures, but I will have to send them next week)

                               The other interesting thing that happened this week, is the change of mission life, Transfers. I am still here in Imperial, Cañete. So that means that I will spend one fourth of my mission in this area, but that´s okay because I love this place. My new companion is named Elder Morales, he is from Cajamarka Peru. He has about nine months in the mission, and his is a very powerful missionary. Mom asked if my comp. goes away will I be District leader or will they change me too? The answer to that question is, the will send another one in. Elder Morales is District leader, and honestly I´m okay with that, but it is possible that I will go to my next area as District leader, but I am happy to just be focused on the people that we have to teach.

                              I am excited to see what is going to happen this next change, and I truly hope that we can work to our full potential this transfer, because this will be my last in this area. My new companion is really cool, he is relaxed, but he knows how to work hard and where to focus his energy. I think that the time we spend together is going to be an awesome experiencia. Something cool about Elder Morales is that he is a sketch artist, and he is really good, he drew my face and I felt like I was watching a camera. Well I love you all have a good week. Love Elder Roos.

Por Fin

7/9/14

    I hope that you all enjoyed the Fourth of July, here the day of independance is the 28th of July, but really it's only a big deal in the schools, Everyone knows what day it is, but nothing super big happens, but most of the men do use the day as an excuse to drink untill they can`t stand, like they do for any other holiday.

                      this week we the two baptisms this week, The baptisms of a Sister named Saturnina, and another named Benancia. Both are in their older years, but are very young in spirit. We have been working with saturnina off and on for about three months, she has such strong faith, and is ready to take the next step to advance in the gosploe, but she can`t read so it has been very dificult to learn as quickly as she would like. Sister Banacia also is super powerful, and she has an added problem, that she she can`t understand Español 100%, because here in Peru many people speek the native language called Kechuwa, and she can`t read in Kechuwa or en Español, but she is progressing so quickly. Theese two sisters are such an inpiration to me beacuse they are so humble and so willing to follow our father in heaven, and Every time that I hear Benancia pray in Kechuwa, I can feel her love for god and her willingness to do all she can to enter into the kingdom of God. I hapy to be in this area, and hope that in the comeing trasfer that I can stay here for 1 transfer more.

                      The wether here is getting a little colder, and I found that I have gotten use to a wamer kind of weather, and my husky Idaho gruff for winter weather has gon back to Idaho. I love you all and hope you are all doing well , Love Elder Roos.

6/30/14

  Bien, so mom told me that on her weather app  it says that there is rain in Lima, but it doesn´t rain in this part of Perú very often, but for the past few days it has been raining...but do you know  why? it is because we placed 3 new baptism dates, and God is prepareing the for what would have been a water shortage....that`s just a joke, but we really do have three more baptisms planed and it really has been raining. We are getting ready for Transfers this comeing week, and we are pritty shur that Elder Izquierdo will go because he will have six monthers here. But other then that no big news, my companion and I are getting thiner every day... I don´t know why because we eat a ton. Katy and Jorge are learning slowly but shurly, and we finally place a bauptism date on one sister that we have been teaching off on on for theese last three tranfers. I hope you are all doing great, sory for the short Email. Talk to you all next week. Elder Roos.

6/23/14  

    On my part I am doing well, the work also is doing well, we are have a little bit of trouble have the baptism part, but every day we are working a little harder to help these people over come their problems and concerns. I have grown to love the word ¨Problema (problem)¨ because it is a god given moment to learn and to grow.God has blessed us so much, in so many ways. We have found and taught over 30 new people in the last two weeks. We are working with some families that have true desiers to follow christ, and the Branch here is impoveing well.

                               Today I learned how service is important for missionary work. My companion, the sisters and my self, were riding in a taxi to go to our P-day activity as a zone, I was talking to the Taxi Driver, and to be honest it wasn´t going very well, it wasn´t bad, but it just didn´t feel like there was alot of progress in the conversation, when all of asuden, we ran out of gass. Here in Peru they use gass or gasoline. it went something like this... ¨¿Que paso? we ran out of gass, (but it just so happened that we were right next to a gass sation), ¨I use Gass not Gasoline¨ Oh, and where is the next gass place? ¨more than three Kilómetros ( I don´t know what that is in miles). We can push you ¨no it´s really far¨no we can push you. Then Elder Izquierdo and myself left the car and started to push...and push...I don´t know how far we pushed the car, but it was a really long time, but we never stopped, and it felt awesome. The streets here are always paked with people in justabout any time of day, and I don´t know how many peopel we passed, but they all saw what was going on. They all saw the moron missionarys pushing a caxi through many bussy streets and inter seccions. I hope that some one who saw that will one day have the chance to see to Elders standing at their door and will think ¨well they can´t be that bad, I saw two of them pushing a taxi the other day¨and then let them in to hear the message that they have. Now I don´t know if that will ever happen, but after we finally got to the gass place, the driver got out of the car and the first words he said was ¨Where is your church¨well we were more then happy to tell him, and we gave him a pamflet, and wrote down his information and commited him to come to church this week and find the missionaries there (becasue he lives in a diferent area). I flet really good, not only because we got in some really good ¨Cardiovascular¨ work in, but because, before we pushed his car, he didn´t care who we where or what we had to say, but we spaked his intest just a little, and I learned just a little more how to truely live life. ( mosiah 2:17) I love you all, have and awesome week! love Elder Roos.

6/16/14  

Okay so who are joge and Katy. They are a couple that we found about two weeks ago. One day after companionship study,after the closing prayer, Elder Izquierdo looked up at me and said ¨lets go visit Walter (a old investigator) and I said, but we alredy have plans for today, we just looked at eachother, and then we prayed again so that we could both know exsactly what to do. After we ended the prayer we looked at eachother and, ÿeah lets go! So we went to walter and when he aswered the door my companion told him that we were here to visit him, but fist ¨what families do you know that us three (including walter) could visit? Something that you should know is Walter Has a very strong testimony of the book of mormon, but has not been baptised because, if wife doesn´t want to get married and he doesn´t go to church. Anyway, just then a family walked by walter´s house and walter said, talk to them....and we did and they are a Famtastic family and they are getting married this week, and then we will baptise them.

                   But really They are a Super nice family, and they have gained a testimony so quickly, when they when to church, Key said that this is the place that she has been looking for for a long time. I love this family.

                   Other then that, it has been an interesting week, we had a lession in a pig pen...that was fun. But all is going well. I know this church is true and that it changes lives, I hope you are all doing well. Love Elder Roos