WOW I'M A MISSIONARY!! Ok I'll do my best to update you on the last 2 weeks. Loved my last week in the CCM with my district, and I've been missing them quite a bit this week. We left the CCM at 6 pm Monday night and didn't get to Cochabamba until 9:30 am! It was a long hard night on airport benches. I basically didn't sleep. When we got to the Cochabamba airport a lot of missionaries were there waiting for us, and they sang Called to Serve as we walked out of getting our luggage. We ate breakfast at the airport with el Presidente Montoya y Hermana Montoya, and then we went to the mission home. I had never realized that when people talk about the mission home, it is literally a house! and it is very beautiful, right across the street from the temple. And if you look at the temple from the mission home, you can see the Christus in the background!
I will be training in Sucre (which is apparently really touristy and is known for its chocolate, so I'll update you on that next week), because that is where my trainer is (i haven't actually met her yet) and ill be flying there tomorrow after a meeting with el Presidente and all the new missionaries. It would have been last week, but he had to leave to go who knows where that afternoon. So the two hermanas that I've been tagging along with all week are Hermanas Cristobal y Pardo, and they are so sweet and fun! (but i'm also slightly grateful that they aren't the ones training me, since there are quite a few rules that they are super lax on.
Cocha is beautiful! Even though its full of poverty and trash, as soon as i could see it the first morning i couldn't stop staring! I already love the people here so much, and I'm excited to see that love grow.
Everything here is crazy cheap, and bolivianos are basically worth nothing. I think 100 Bolivianos is 15 dollars, to put that in perspective. I haven't bought any souvenirs yet, tho I've been tempted, since i know that I've got a year and a half ahead of me to buy cool stuff.
The first day i was here we were teaching lessons, and even though i didn't really say anything except share a testimony at the end, it felt great! (but we only got to go to three because i almost fell asleep in the last one, so we went home and i went to bed. that was at 7 pm) Seriously tho it has been so cool to be with real people instead of teachers all the time! And even though the majority of what i can do is bear testimony and explain maybe 1 principle a lesson (or share the first vision, since i have that memorized), i still love sharing the gospel!
My first p day has been pretty relaxed, we went bowling with a bunch of other missionaries in our zone and in other zones. And we ate lunch at a members house. His name is Fernando and he was baptized this past Saturday! (he was an investigator of the 2 hermanas that I'm with). So cool to see a baptism my first week!
I will say that this week i have struggled a little bit with loneliness. Hermanas Pardo y Cristobal both speak English, but basically never do, and a lot of the time i don't catch everything they say, and when they do speak with me about things, i have kinda a hard time responding (tho its been getting easier). I also have felt kinda like a dog following the 2 of them this week since I'm not doing much to help out, so I'm excited to ACTUALLY start being trained my my actual trainer. I also feel like I've had a loss of personality because i spend all day listening to people, and not saying much, but little by little its getting better.
Speaking of dogs, they are everywhere!! And it makes me really sad sometimes, but what can you do
This week has been hard on me, but know that i feel a lot better at understanding Spanish than i did a week ago, and that i love seeing the light that the gospel can bring into peoples lives.
Mucho Amor,
Hermana Rowe
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