I´m officially out of my training and I´m with a new comp! (Did I mention last week that I have 4 months in the mission now?) Still in my first area, but it´s been really cool to see how I have to take the lead a LOT, even though I´m the junior companion. Hermana Piguave is AWESOME! I have absolutely loved this week with her. She actually is what I think having an american comp would be like. Her trainer was american, and she is super rule oriented. We had our first companionship inventory this week, and she said that a lot of the other latinas don´t take the mission seriously, but that she was here to work, and that she knows we are here on the Lord´s time. I´m super excited to work with her! Of course she´s not perfect, nobody is, but for the most part she is a lot more serious about missionary work than Hermana Padilla is, so i´m really excited!
Tuesday: Spent a lot of the day waiting with Hermana Padilla for our new comps to come from the airport (since she just got changed to another ward in the same zone) and spent a lot of Tuesday helping Hermana Piguave unpack. (Or trying to help... she´s pretty independent and didn´t want a ton of help, but I sure was offering haha!)
Wednesday: We spent a ton of time walking because I accidentally put us on the wrong bus! We were trying to go to Tejar (one end of our area) and I accidentally put us on the bus to Aranjuez (the other side of our area). I felt pretty bad about that, but it gave Hermana Piguave some good opportunities to get to know a lot of our area! In the evening we had an appointment with one of our best progressing investigators, Marcelo Martinez. He is seriously so awesome, and he was originally a reference from our district leader, because he is cousins with their pension. We always feel the spirit SUPER strongly in lessons with him. He says that he´s been looking for more peace and tranquility in his life, and he feels it every time he meets with us. It´s super cool.
Thursday: Yeah... I´m blanking on Thursday. Just assume we working so hard that we forgot everything that happened haha :)
Friday: We had our first district meeting of the cambio, and it was super awesome. I always love what my district leader, Elder Fisher, has to say. We met with a lot of ward members on Friday which was great for Hermana Piguave to get to know more people.
Saturday: Today was super long. So remember our investigator, Marcelo? He decided to start taking action to find more peace in his life, and decided to move to Santa Cruz to be with his wife and child (he was only in Sucre for work) so we helped him move out of his house (with the help of the elders) pretty much all day long, and he´s going to continue meeting with missionaries in Santa Cruz. We are sad to lose him, but super happy that he is starting to really see the importance of family. We also met with some inactivos in the afternoon (inactive members, sorry i´m used to using the Spanish for so many of these mission terms) and went to a baptism of some elderes because they wanted me to sing for the special musical number, and Hermana Piguave gave one of the talks. (I´ve actually sung for a special musical number like 3 or 4 times for baptisms, it´s cool that i can use my talents to help uplift and edify others)
Sunday: Basically all of today was church and appointments with families, so that Hermana Piguave can get to know them better, but it was a super good day :) I´m also running out of time to write
Monday: Today was the usual, woke up, studies, cleaned the house, ate breakfast, went and played soccer with the zone (and all the hermanas showed up so we could actually play, which was awesome, since we can´t play soccer with the elders). We bought groceries and ate lunch, then came to email. Ta-da!
There you have it. It´s been crazy, but it´s been good. Thank you all for your love! Keep up the good work, and always keep doing the small simple things.
Amor,
Hermana Rowe
Day 1 with Hermana Piguave
Part of her area in the background
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