OK! I did it! I made it through my training and I´m officially a normal missionary!! (except not... because I´m still learning Spanish and I´m a gringa... I don´t know if I´ve mentioned this before, but I can´t tell you the number of times a week I get whistled at just because of my hair color... it´s interesting). My comp Hermana Padilla is being transferred to another ward in Sucre (which usually doesn´t happen, usually they get sent to Cochabamba) and actually will still be in the same district as me, so that´ll be kinda fun! :) My new comp is Hermana Piguave, and is actually from the same group as Hermana Padilla, so she has 6 months in the mission. Apparently she is super serious, but I guess I´ll find out tomorrow! Here´s what happened this week-
Tuesday: We had district meeting and afterwards we had a testimony meeting as a zone, since about half the zone is leaving to go to other zones this transfer, and one of the elders is dying (mission lingo for going home) tomorrow. It was awesome, I love my zone tons. And we all are super good friends because there isn´t anyone else to hang out with on P day haha. Also: it was pretty cold on Tuesday.
Wednesday: Don´t know why (I think it was the cold) but I was having muscle aches all day, so we went out to lunch, went to 1 appointment, then went home to rest because my muscles were hurting THAT BAD. I don´t know what´s happening, before Bolivia I didn´t ever get sick this much.
Thursday: I actually felt tons better, I think it´s because we took time to rest on Wednesday. Thursday was cool because we had an appointment with a recent convert, Antonia Condori, and she is the cutest little cholita. (I need to take a picture with her, she is so sweet, and always gives me the biggest hugs when we see her at church) She speaks Spanish pretty well, but understands Quechua a lot better, but doesn´t know how to read either one. We had planned to give her one of the retention lessons, but felt impressed to start teaching her to read. We discovered that she REALLY wants to read the Book of Mormon, and we are going to have one of the ladies from the ward that speaks both Spanish and Quechua continue to teach her so she can start reading the Book of Mormon. We are so excited to see how that goes. :)
Friday: Happy Friday the 13th! We had our correlation meeting with the ward mission leader, and did a lot of contacting, but it was super good! We got 2 new investigators, one of them is a 10 year old named Valedia, and she is awesome! She goes to her church on her own every week, and has a lot of faith. She actually came to church this week and said that she really liked it, so I hope she will keep coming!
Saturday: I had my third baptism of the mission this week! He´s named Pablo Saigua, and he´s had a long journey to getting to baptism! He originally started meeting with missionaries 8 months ago, but has had problems with his addiction to alcohol. But he is no longer addicted and is a member of the church!! So cool. He has a super strong testimony, and he wants to do what´s right. We are SO SO SO happy for him :)
Sunday: We spent most of Sunday visiting members because it was Hermana Padilla´s last week. It was super fun, and we had some good spiritually strengthening lessons.
Monday: Today Hermana Padilla has been packing, and I´ve been helping. For breakfast we went to the stake center and made quesadillas with our district. There´s is also a fair type of thing happening right now in Sucre, so we went to that, and it was pretty cool. And that was today :)
Ta-da! There you have it :) Thanks for all the love and support! Lots of love from Bolivia!
Hermana Rowe
Weird popsicles called lenguix that when they start melting are the texture of a tongue... I didn't love that one... ha ha
Pablo and his daughter Patricia who was baptized 4 months ago, and us!
Me and Hermana Bouwhuis (who has become one of my best friends in the mission, but is going to Cochabamba tomorrow) (RIP I will miss her ha ha)
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