This is a mandarin (a cutie, south american style... they are SUPER good! and bigger and green)
Ok so another week has come and gone. On Tuesday last week we weren´t allowed to leave the apartment, but every other day we´ve been able to do proselitismo. I have received questions about how my stomach is adjusting to the food, and I´m doing great! I actually had a harder time in the CCM than here, and I think that might be partly because comida peruana is a little different than comida boliviana. (Bolivian food is pretty tame, I haven´t really run into much that I thought was gross or that my body couldn´t handle) (But in the CCM I DEFINITELY did).
Thursday was a little weird because in the early morning we were told that we wouldn´t be able to leave the apartment at all, because the night before there had been a riot and the police shot and killed 2 college students who were a part of it. Then about 2 hours later we were told that we could go to lunch at the penisonista´s, but we had to wear P day clothes (which Hermana Padilla and I both enjoyed), and after we got back, we had a weekly planning session, and in the middle we got a call from our zone leaders that we could go out and do proselitismo, so we visited some families in the ward that lived near to us.
There is this one family, la familia Flores, and they are so cute! There is a 10 year old boy named Javier, and he absolutely loves me! He always practices his English with me, and is always interested in what I have to say, even if I can´t say much. There is another family, la familia Alaca, and they are super fun! It´s kind of a Volmer situacion, because there are like 4 different familia Alaca but they all live right next to each other. Its interesting because some of the families are all members, others are half, and some are only a few, but there´s a ton of them. And all the kids (when we went and visited them) were asking me whats this or whats that in English, so that was pretty fun. A lot of people have asked me if I´ve been to a Justin Bieber concert. Not sure why they think HE is the type of guy I´d want to go see, but eso si que es haha.
This week has been pretty chill though. Pretty much everyday this week when we´ve gone out to do proselitismo we´ve taken Ronald Mancilla out with us, which is pretty fun. Up until recently, he has been an inactive member of the church. He was baptized 3 years ago, but moved out of Sucre for work, and there was so ward in his area. But now he´s been back for 3ish months, and he has decided to reactivate himself because he wants to serve a mission. He´s fun to have around, and i see great potential in him to be an awesome missionary. Most of the time he just bears testimony, but sometimes I feel like he is a better missionary than I am! (I think part of that comes with fully understanding what people are saying to you). He´s the one in the picture from last week (with the Salchipapas), and I think I have another picture from this week that I can send.
One of our investigators is named Blanca, and she is very sweet. She came to church this past week, and she has been progressing really well. We are hoping that she`ll be baptized next Saturday, but we`ll see. Other than her for the most part the work has been really slow, but part of that is because we haven´t been able to work in the same manner as usual. And also Hermana Padilla wanted me to meet a lot of ward members this week, so we spent a bit of time this week doing that.
Another woman that we met this week is named Dora, and she seems VERY prepared to receive the gospel, so we are hoping that she will progress quickly and follow through with compromisos. (commitments).
Sunday was awesome, I got to meet the ward! (officially). The Bishop asked me to share my testimony (which went fine) and since there is nobody that can play the piano, I played for Sacrament meeting. I also found out that starting this week I´ll be teaching group piano AND English classes, so please wish me luck with that one.
I finally got to have my first district meeting this week! My district seems super fun, especially since 4 of the 7 gringos in Sucre are in my district, and both the district leaders are gringos. It made P day a little bit easier today because I was able to speak English! It felt good haha, but I also am starting to enjoy figuring out Spanish (even though my brain is exhausted every single night). And my brain isn´t the only thing that´s exhausted! My legs are going to be BUILT by the time I get out of Sucre, because no matter where you go, at some point you will hike up a hill. Even in the centro, it´s hilly. But like I said, my legs will be beautiful by the time I leave, so that´s a plus haha. Our Pday today was wally ball and mini indoor soccer, so it was pretty fun, and afterwards my district and the zone leaders all went to lunch (the zone leaders came with us I think probably because we have the majority of the gringos haha) and Hermana Padilla and I got Oreo milkshakes! (SO what I needed! And they were SUPER delicious)
Love love love you all! Please send me pictures of what`s going on in your lives, as well as memes! (Extraño memes!)
Hermana Rowe
The milkshakes!
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