Trabjando Siempre

9/29/14

This week we saw another work of god's grace, and we went up by two in church which really is amazing because for the past six months or so they have been dancing around 25 or 30 members in the church. Something funny about this next week is the country of Peru will not go to church. Next Sunday it will be illegal to have a church meeting, because of Elections. When they have political elections here in peru it is mandatory that everyone votes, and in they don{t vote they have to pay a heft fine to the government. So I don{t know how I am going to be able to go a whole week without inviting people to go to church. Life here is scary during election time and it is really funny. It feels kind of like the part of high school when people ran for class president. people are running around in the street basting songs that sing about why people should vote for a specific person, and there are thousands of bill boards and a lot of other things that I don't want to take the time to explain, but yeah that is life here for the moment.

                 We are seeing some really wonderful things passing with some of our investigators, we are working with a sister named Birtha who has been talking to us for some time, and she has just gone full blast into the gospel, and she is taking her whole family with her. She and her husband have baptism dates for the 18th of October, and her 19 year old son now wants to be baptized, because his mother is sharing the book of mormon with him, and all three of them went to church. We also found a sister named Sandra, who was really excited to hear our message, and came to church practically on her own (I say practically because we passed by her house to remind her) but she was already getting ready to go. We are seeing the members light up and they are starting to get addicted to missionary work. Oh boy I love this gospel.

                   We are working hard, and putting on sunscreen almost everyday because the sun is starting to get hotter. Me and may companion are starting to cook more in our apartment, and I am going to be a pro at cooking rice and chicken. I love you all and hope you enjoy the wonderful colors of fall, because they don{t really have that here, it's just like Summer and Cold Summer. I love you all and hope you are happy and healthy. Love 
Elder Roos. Chaú

9/22/14
Hola Familia,

                  It was a good week. We saw a lot of mericals this week, starting with a few wonderful new investigators that god led us to, and A lot of progress with some of the less active members. They have said that if the ward doesn't grow by December they are going to close down the branch here, so we have been praying and working very hard to see the members come back, and to have, well success. The first week I came here we had, 31 people in the church, second week, 32, third week, 32 again, but this week we had 50 people who attended church! It really was a merical! 50 is the goal that the ward had set to maintain the branch here in Independencia, and in one week it happened. I would like to say that we have been working our tails off, but really rally all things came down to the Grace of God. I feel so ready to keep working and to keep seeing things like we have seen this week. Well that is just about everything interesting that happened this week, I love you all so much and thank you for your prayers and thoughts. Love Elder Roos.