This week was a little crazy, but it was also super fun! I´ve had people asking me about how my living conditions are... yes, we have warm water. (don´t know about the elders though) We actually live in a really nice apartment, it is almost american level, but it doesn´t have an oven, and the cook stove is gas, and it´s one of the portable ones that you would normally go camping with. The water in the shower is bipolar. It is either super burning hot and you can barely stand in it, or it is FREEZING cold and you can barely stand in it. I have a very weird way of taking showers now haha. We basically don´t have to deal with any weird bugs (except that all the spiders have REALLY long legs and are kinda big). I guess i´m pretty used to the living conditions now. There are no such things as dishwashers or laundry machines or dryers, so that´s been a little different but nothing I can´t handle ;).
Tuesday: Happy 5 Months in the mission! Every 14th of the month is my ´cumplemes´ and it´s been kinda fun to have a date to celebrate every month. Sometimes the month goes by WAY fast, and other times it drags along, but the important part is that I´m serving the Lord! Tuesday we had interviews with President, and I felt like it went really well. I had been feeling kind of at a low point, but I felt like I could get a lot of those feelings off my chest when I talked with him. One of the reasons I´ve been feeling kind of down is my comp. Hermana Piguave is awesome, really. She wants to work hard, and she wants to follow the rules. But she´s human. And as a human, she has faults, like we all do. One of hers is the fact that she is not afraid to tell you EXACTLY what she thinks. It´s often really rude what she says, even though it´s usually true. And this isn´t one of those ´grow a thicker skin hermana rowe´ things. This is one of those ´just hold out til the end´ things. It´s actually really interesting because we laugh together all the time. The majority of the time I really enjoy working with her, and I think a lot of that has to do with her work ethic. When there is nothing that she sees that i´m doing wrong everything is fine and dandy. It´s kinda interesting. Anyways, in the interview we talked about that and I felt a lot better afterwards. The way that she´s been talking to me actually has been affecting my attitude about things (myself as a missionary) and we´ve talked about it in companion inventory, but after 5 weeks it starts to get to you. The good side of that is that I feel like I´ll be changing areas this week, so that´ll be cool! I´ll be super sad to leave my first area and the people, but i´ve also been feeling ready to go for a few weeks now. But technically I don´t know i´m leaving next week. But at the same time i´m pretty sure.
Wednesday: This was a GOOD DAY!! I felt like a dang good missionary (not trying to brag, just stating a fact) because we contacted all day long, and we worked HARD! We talked to everyone, and we got TONS of references for other areas (that part kinda sucked, because we wanted them, but it´s ok , we´re all on the Lord´s team) but we also got 3 new investigators from our efforts so that was way cool! I felt good about the way we worked. It was a good day :) amen
Thursday: We were in Potosí all day because we had zone conference. It´s always a good time at zone conference, even though it was kinda cold.
Friday: We had just about a million appointments, and they ALL fell through, so we did some more contacting. Not a bad day :) I had the chance to share my testimony with an investigator about Joseph Smith, and I felt the spirit so strongly! I really felt like the Lord was speaking through me more than it was my words, and I think a part of that was because I said it in pretty much perfect Spanish without stumbling or anything. I hope he will be praying about Joseph Smith this week :)
Saturday: Another day of lots of appointments (that didn´t fall through). It was a good day. Sorry I don´t remember much.
Sunday: We had the chance to visit with Pablo Saigua, and we came up with some good plans for what he can do to end his addiction for good. I just hope he´ll follow through with them.
Monday: Today we hung out at the stake center and watched Madagascar 2 as a zone. Recently President Montoya gave us permission to watch Coco (but we always had that), Moana, the Lion King, and Madagascar (he didn´t ever specify which, so we figured it was ok) so we figured we´d take advantage of it (especially since we had other plans but it was raining like crazy). Then we bought stuff for this week, and came to internet....
...aaaaaand here we are again, the end of the letter. I hope you all havew a wonderful week. Keep reading the scriptures, keep praying, and keep going to church! These seriously are the 3 things that will help you come closest to your Heavenly Father! 2 Nephi 26: 23-28:
23 For behold, my beloved brethren, I say unto you that the Lord God worketh not in darkness.
24 He doeth not anything save it be for the benefit of the world; for he loveth the world, even that he layeth down his own life that he may draw all men unto him. Wherefore, he commandeth none that they shall not partake of his salvation.
25 Behold, doth he cry unto any, saying: Depart from me? Behold, I say unto you, Nay; but he saith: Come unto me all ye ends of the earth, buy milk and honey, without money and without price.
26 Behold, hath he commanded any that they should depart out of the synagogues, or out of the houses of worship? Behold, I say unto you, Nay.
27 Hath he commanded any that they should not partake of his salvation? Behold I say unto you, Nay; but he hath given it free for all men; and he hath commanded his people that they should persuade all men to repentance.
28 Behold, hath the Lord commanded any that they should not partake of his goodness? Behold I say unto you, Nay; but all men are privileged the one like unto the other, and none are forbidden.
Not sure why there are so many spaces... but hope you all enjoy the scripture! Lots of love from Sucre, Bolivia
Hermana Rowe
Her Zone
Her District
The Zone Leader that she has had for all of her mission so far. He is going home this week.
Elders from her group (I believe she means they came to Bolivia with her from the training center) that are serving outside Cochabamba
The sisters in her Zone.
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