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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