Welcome back to the group email that is a story of my mission life! This week might have been one of the harder weeks of my mission, but not all the hard things were bad hard things. :)
Tuesday: Had a hard time getting out of bed (because it was so dang cold!!10 Celsius = 50 Fahrenheit) but we got to daily planning at a good time. We found 3 new investigators because we spent the majority of the afternoon contacting, so that was good! We finally had the chance to talk with Pablo, and he told us that he feels really bad and wants to change. In the evening we had a family home evening with the Flores family, and they are super strong members, so that was super fun to talk with them!! It´s always good to talk with members like that because the majority you can´t really depend on, but the Flores family: yes you can.
Wednesday: We contacted for pretty much the whole afternoon without a ton of luck. I´ve felt like contacting has kind of been one of my weaknesses of the mission, so i guess it´s good that i´ve been getting so much practice! But! In the evening we had the chance to visit with a young adult named Carina, she´s 22, and has a lot of questions which is always a good sign! We were able to bare testimony to her of the truth of the Book of Mormon, and I really felt the spirit testifying strongly of it´s truth.
Thursday: We had the chance to help out a member of the ward prepare for their calling (music director) since I play piano every week for the ward. It was fun, and I enjoyed getting a little extra piano practice. We also contacted for pretty much the whole day since most of our appointments fell through. Yay... but it was good practice (that´s what i keep telling myself haha)
Friday: Today we had our district meeting, and one of the hermanas from the other areas in Sucre had to go to Cochabamba for trámites, so we had an extra hermana with hermana Piguave and I. It was fun to go to her area, since we never get to for intercambios, though we spent the most of the day in our area. One of her investigators is atheist, so it was really interesting to talk with him about the plan of salvation, but i felt the spirit really strongly as we were testifying of the reality of God. That night we started intercambios
Saturday: My first intercambio outside of my area! It was super fun, I was with Hermana Jeppson and we had a great time! She really helped me out with some grammar things (because she could explain it to me in English!) and I helped her get some good contacts for the future, so that was good!
Sunday: Church was normal, but Pablo wasn´t there so we decided to visit him after church. When we knocked on the door, we could already smell the alcohol. He was SUPER drunk, and apparently he had gotten in a fight with his brother (that´s what he told us) because he had blood all over his face and is eyes were super red and lazy and puffy. It was pretty unsettling, especially to see in a convert of 1 month. (Actually tomorrow will be his one month mark, my 5 months in the mission mark) We had to just tell him to go lie down, and we left when he was still trying to talk to us. I really don´t know what to do to help fix this, especially considering that we pretty much never see him. I know that it is super important to get the ward involved, and we´ve talked a little about it in ward council, but it just doesn´t feel like enough. We also had a police officer follow us around (though he wasn´t in uniform) after we contacted him, so that was a little interesting... but don´t worry, we are safe and sound and haven´t seen him since!
Monday: Today we hung out pretty much in all parts of Sucre. I got to show Hermana Piguave around the central market, and we bought lots of good fruits that we´ll be trying this week. One of them is green and looks like a heart, but the fruit inside is white, and it is DELICIOUS!! I´m excited to eat more of it.
Ta-da! There you have it! That was my week. Please keep the emails coming, I´ll do my best to respond right away but if I don´t just know that there´s one coming your way in a few weeks!! Lots of love from Bolivia!
Hermana Rowe
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