We take so much for granted

March 18th, 2019

I hope everyone is doing so well! 

This week I had a really special experience with one of our people with interest. She is from Venezuela. I don't know if you guys know what is going on there but basically it is in horrible condition and everyone is fleeing the country. So basically all of the people that I am teaching here are Venezolanos. They are such amazing people! One of them named Rubi told us her story and her struggles of everything she has had to go through. It has really just changed me so much and the way that I think now. We truly just take so many things for granted. Whenever you want to complain about something think of the people that don't have the little things.

Also last pday we went fishing with bamboo and I caught 2 little baby fish.. it also started pouring like crazy!

I love you all so much! Have a great week! 

Love, Hermana Roe

Trip to the temple

March 4th, 2019


Heyyyy sorry, I'm alive!

I hope everyone is doing well! The work is going strong here in Huarupampa! This week was a bit crazy because we had a trip to the temple and then we had our multi distrito here in Huaraz with interviews, but it was a great week! It was really spiritual and full of blessings! 

Food update:

yeah.. so we ate this food and it looked like meat so I ate a bit and could not finish.. later I found out is was cow brain... how lovely.... never again please....

Here is a pic of my district at the temple! love you all have a great week!

Momma Roe again :-)

February 18th, 2019

Hello hello all!!

I passed my 9 month mark..... she came a bit late, but it's a girl!

I hope everyone is doing well!

We had changes this week! I am staying here in Huarupampa, Huaraz and I got called to be a Mom again! My daughter's name is Hermana Tello, and she is the best! 

This week was a bit crazy with changes and all, but we are here, ALIVE, and doing good! 

Some updates on a couple of awesome people....

Hermana Damne: Damne,  went to visit family in Lima for the month of February, but she is doing soo goood! She is reading the Book of Mormon everyday and studying the Come Follow Me book and going to church every Sunday! She even calls us if she has questions! Woohoo! I cant wait to see her after February! She is sooo ready to make this promise with the Lord!

Hermana Tatiana: She came to church for the first time this week and loved it. She is catholic and she has such big faith. She decided to come to church and we ended up needing to teach the gospel principles class. We taught about faith in Jesus Christ and nearing the end of the lesson, I asked if anyone had any comments or feelings that they wanted to share and Hermana Tatiana started to talk explaining that it was her first time at the church and it was so different from what she had expected. She said that she felt something in our church that she didn't feel in the catholic and mentioned that she belongs to the catholic church but then expressed that she feels that this church is true and that she would like to belong to this church. She said that she is going to pray about it and talk to her parents because she only is 15 years old and so she has to ask her parents. Wow! That was a huge answer to prayer because we had planned to invite her with a date for baptism, but we were a little unsure, because she was pretty firm with her baptism in the catholic church. But now we know that she is ready and knows that this is true. Going to church is so powerful. We can receive so many answers and truly feel the spirit. We are planning on inviting her this week! Now we just have to pray that her parents will give her permission to make that promise with the Lord!

This week has been an adventure full of miracles! I love you all and hope that you are having your own adventures! Take care! Happy Valentines day!! Share your love with all those around you! and the invitation for this week is to pray to be filled with the love of Christ! Love you all! talk to you later!

Hermana Roe❤

We like to climb mountains here!

Just pictures this week! 

pday de distrito y

pday de multizona

....we like to climb mountains here...

Interesting food!

Heyyyy! 

Yeah, I am still alive! Sorry I haven´t written in a looooong time! I am really bad with keeping up!

Food update: yeah so I am still alive.. but I have suffered in eating a soup called sopa de Pescado.. or in other words.. FISH SOUP... my pensionista was so excited to tell me what is in it! It is all fish heads! Ground up and liquidated! the WHOLE fish heads.. like the bones, the eyeballs, EVERYTHING, with tomato, garlic, and apple... The first two times I ate it, it was all liquidated so it was easier and I doused it with lemon so the fish taste wasn't so strong... my pensh kept telling me that I had to eat it because it is really good for you... so then we have the most recent time.. this time, it was part fish and the other part baby shark.... but the thing is, the baby shark was really tough and harder to grind up, so there were pieces in the soup.....ughhhh it was so difficult... I ate as much as i could, but just couldnt Heyyyy! yeah, I am still alive! Sorry I haven´t written in a looooong time! I am really bad with keeping up!

Food update: yeah so I am still alive.. but I have suffered in eating a soup called sopa de Pescado.. or in other words.. FISH SOUP... my pensionista was so excited to tell me what is in it! It is all fish heads! Ground up and liquidated! the WHOLE fish heads.. like the bones, the eyeballs, EVERYTHING, with tomato, garlic, and apple... The first two times I ate it, it was all liquidated so it was easier and i doused it with lemon so the fish taste wasnt so strong... my pensh kept telling me that I had to eat it because it is really good for you... so then we have the most recent time.. this time, it was part fish and the other part baby shark.... but the thing is, the baby shark was really tough and harder to grind up, so there were pieces in the soup.....ughhhh it was so difficult... I ate as much as I could, but just couldn't do it with the pieces there... ayayay... so yeah that is my food adventure update...

Spiritual:

We had another nice lesson with Sister Damne this week. Seriously, I think she understands the scriptures more than I do. We started by asking how her reading was, and she told us that she was reading in 2 Nephi 2 about Adam and Eve and verse 25. She explained how she understood the scripture and that it was part of God's plan that they transgressed. I was speachless. The Plan of Salvation is what we had planned to teach her. It was amazing to see how the Lord is giving her her own revelation on the way with what we are teaching her. The work is really wonderful and I have seen the hand of the Lord so many times in small things! She is progressing quite a lot! She is attending the church and praying and reading every day at 5 in the morning until 6-6: 30 in the morning!  She said that she feels a need to read the Book of Mormon everyday, and she doesn't feel right if she misses a day. Also, we had another lesson with her before this lesson, and I had the opportunity to see how there really are people that need to hear our voices.. my new comp was able to reach a place in Damnes heart that we could never reach. Wow! I love this gospel so much! It is truly amazing when we take the time to open our eyes and heart to see the lord work in our lives! There are miracles in each day! We just have to open up to see them!

Love you all so much! Have a GREAT WEEK! Blessings and prayers!!

Hermana Roe

Scripture of the week: 1 Nefi 21:15-16 (fill in your name for (House of Israel)

I had my 9 months in the mission.... lol

and we climbed a mountain

Set a baptismal date :)

January 7th, 2019

This week we had an awesome lesson with one of our investigators, Antonio. He is from Venezuela and we taught him about the gospel of Jesus Christ, faith, repentance, baptism, the holy ghost, and enduring to the end. We focused in Repentance and how great a gift it is that we have the opportunity to use it in this life thanks to the Atonement of Jesus Christ! It was so great and helped him a lot because he told us how he feels about stuff he has done in his past and really wants to change his life! We were able to give him a baptismal date for 26 of January! Woohoo!

I love you soooooo much!! Have a miracle filled week!!

Love always,

Hermana Roe, Lyssa

Christmas miracle!

 December 31st, 2018

Hello All! I hope you all had a great Christmas! I am doing good! I had a good Christmas with my companion before she ended her mission and I sent her home. I want to tell you about the experience I had for Christmas. We went with the elders to one of their converts houses and they had told us that they were going to cook and have Christmas dinner there but it ended up that the family hadn't even arrived and weren't ready so we waited for like an hour. Then we had to leave cause we had to get back to our rooms by 9 and they lived like 20 mins in the mountain... so we ended up calling our President and asking if we could buy chicken. We ended up buying pollo a la brasa (it's like chicken that is cooked over coals I think) soooooo good) and then we left to our rooms. I was feeling a little bit down cause I wasn't really feeling the spirit of Christmas and then the Lord gave me an opportunity to feel it. We were walking to our apartment and there was a lady outside picking through the trash. We said good night and Merry Christmas to her, but when we passed I felt like we just said it in vane. So we went up to our room and had to take out our trash. I told my comp that I wanted to give the lady my chicken and fries. We went down and I walked up to the lady and gave her the food, helped her with her bags and wished her a Merry Christmas. This was my Christmas miracle because in that moment and the rest of the night, my void was filled and I wasn't hungry. I know that God always makes a way for us to be His hands and to feel His love when we need it! 

I love you all so much!! Have the happiest of New Years! Set goals and stick to them!! You can do it!!

Alssoooo Christmas here is like the 4th of July! They shoot off a bunch of fireworks, everyone from their streets at 12am! It was such a cool experience! And I hear that they do the same for New Years so we will see tonight! haha 

Oh yeah I also wanted to share a quote that I found in my personal study about the holy ghost:

¨We need the Holy spirit as our guide in calm waters so his voice will be unmistakable to us in the fiercest storm.¨ - Elder Larry Y. Wilson

 

Something to think of, love you all!