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!

On my birthday I ate Guinea Pig!

Hola everyone!

Huaraz is great! it isn't raining as much anymore.. the weather here is nice.. it's kind of sunny and hot in the mornings and then it cools down in the night and afternoons... and even colder when it rains.

Here are some pics: 

living cuys (guinea pigs) and dead ones.... I ate cuy for my birthday... it is official... I ate your pet... the big one is named Christian Dominguez and he is a year old, and the other is a baby. They are from the cuy farm that my bishop and his fam have.  The other pic is of the bishop and his family! 

I am so humbled

Hola!!!

Wow this week I have been soooo humbled. Seriously. We now have an investigator that is blind, an investigator that can barely walk due to an accident to his foot that he is unable to pay to fix, and many other people who have houses that are only one room, or houses that I as a little kid would've played house in. But each and every one of these people had smiles on their faces and were willing to help other people in need. Wow. I am really having my eyes opened as Christ's eyes to see the love that he has for all of his children no matter what!

This work is truly incredible and I am sooo thankful for this oportunity that I have to be here and to help light this part of the world!

Thank you soo much to the class of Hermana Heins and your letters! I love them sooo much!! Keep lighting the world and look for opportunities to develop Christlike attributes! Love you all!

Hermana Roe

Trust in the Lord

Hola!

I hope you all are enjoying this Christmas season and lighting the world! If you haven't gotten the chance, watch the light the world videos on lds.org! Each week is different! Send me photos of you lighting the world! I want to see all of you guys out there! Also, the Christmas devotional was just amazing!! I love this season! 

In my personal studies this week I have been studying a lot about putting trust in the Lord! Mosiah 23: 21-29 The Lord chastens us because he knows our potential. He tries our patience and faith in this life to help us to grow and learn and reach our potential. If you put your trust in the Lord he will guide you and lift you up. When you put your trust in the Lord, there is no more reason to fear. When you put your faith and trust in the Lord, he will help you to overcome ANY fear. His power defeats fear (the power of Satan). These are just my thoughts from some studies! 

I hope you all have a great week! Love you all!

fotos

servicio

our christmas tree on the wall

y others :)

Hermana Roe

Loving the new area!

November 26th, 2018

Alyssa didn't have time to write an "everyone" letter this week so I copied a bit from the email she sent me:

I love the new area! I am hiking everyday! So I am pretty sure that I will gain muscle and lose weight! It is colder here and doesn't smell like fish! Woohoo! The first thing I smelt when we stepped off the bus was pine trees!  They don't celebrate Thanksgiving here, but my pensionista gave us turkey without knowing it haha ( I did not think it was turkey.. it didn't look like turkey at all, but yeah..) and then she heard that it was dia de gracias for me and she went and bought us mini apple pies and they were really good! I am SUPER thankful that I was prompted to buy rain boots and bring an umbrella before my mission!!! It rains everyday here! It's like God was telling me that I would be transferred to Huaraz and that I was going to need them! Yeah I will still get packages! They are sent to the mission office and then sent to our areas! I am going to Trujillo tomorrow for council of leaders because I am still a hermana leader! I loveyou so much!! Have a great week!!!

Then she sent these 2 pics :)

My new compañera Hermana Rocha

and my daughter with our matching mochilas!

Changes! I am being transferred to Huaraz!

November 19th, 2018

HOLLLAA!

CHANGES:

 We received changes and I was called to serve in Huaraz! Huaraz is in the mountains and it's cold! Haha I think the Lord really knows me and that I would really suffer in the heat here! Hahahaha Huaraz is also known as its own world.. it's far away from everything and I need to take a bus to Trujillo and then another bus to Huaraz that takes something like 8 hours.... ayayay... in the night too... so that will be an adventure! But I am really excited because everyone who has been to Huaraz has really pretty pictures and I hear it is sooo beautiful! Look it up!! So yeah I will be in Huaraz con Hermana Rocha and we are both going to be the Hermana leaders because presidente is opening up a new area of sisters in Huaraz! We are going to have 6 hermanas! Woohoo woman power!! I am so excited for a change, but also really sad to leave such incredible people that I have met here! .... speaking of.... DAIANA got baptized!! Wooohoooo!! She is the sister of Daniela, one of my other converts!! 

Have a GREAT WEEK!!!!