Last P-day of the CCM! - April 18, 2018

Wow lots of stuff has happened this week!! So I guess to start off i'll talk about a cool experience I had this week. So one of the maestros, Hermano Sosa (whom we all love so much because he is hilarious!) heard me singing and asked me to sing his favorite hymn, Abide with me tis eventide, and asked if he could record it. I said sure, sang for him, and thought that was that. Now, a few weeks ago, I met one of the other maestras here, who's name i believe is Hermana Gutierrez, and we talked about our families, and i saw that she had a Dominican republic pin on, so i asked her about it. And i found out that she served with Jacob! And then i thought that was that too. But then last night, Hermano Sosa came up to me and said that he'd sent the recording to her, and she had sent it on the Jacob, and that mom was crying about it! It gave me so much joy to remember that communication works so quickly (because he recorded me yesterday) and that my family got to hear my voice again! (even though i mispronounced a bunch of the words)  (We got a recording of Jessica singing Abide with Me in a text from Jacob.)

So fun story from last week, my compañera really really wanted her hair cut, and i told her that i knew how to do it, though i'd never done it before, and she trusted me enough to do it!! So now I've given a haircut, and it turned out really well, and she actually loves it!! 

Another funny story, this same Hermano Sosa came up (seriously he is so cool) to us hermanas while we were eating, and before he left i was trying to tell him that we as a whole love him, but i accidentally told him that I loved him hahaha don't worry though i fixed it, so all is good and well in the world, but still it was pretty funny

On this past Saturday we had the chance to go proselyting with some of the missionaries from the Lima East mission, and it was so awesome! I got to practice my Spanish, the hermanas that i was with were super nice, and i gave away lots of pass along cards, and even gave an investigator a Book of Mormon with my testimony written in it! One of my favorite parts of the activity were that 2 different times, there were people that I stopped on the street, gave them a card, and asked if they'd like to learn about Christ, who actually really wanted to, and at some point this week they are meeting with the missionaries!! It made me so excited to go out into the field, but it also made me realize that my Spanish is seriously not where it needs to be. So hopefully that'll improve a lot more once i'm in the field.

This week we began orientation for the campo! I'm so excited to be heading out so soon! 

I love you all so much! I'm so excited to serve the Lord, and i can't believe i'll be in my mission in 5 days!! Wish me suerte!!

Hermana Rowe

Here is the audio of Jessica singing.  I put it to some of the pictures she has sent in the 5 weeks she has been out.