Yes, I am being transferred! I leave tomorrow morning to go to Cochabamba, the name of my new area is Engavi 2, and I´m opening the area, so that´ll be an interesting experience!! My new comp is Hermana Alvarado, and the interesting part is that she´s been in my Zone in Sucre for my whole mission! She is pretty cool, though we have butted heads a time or 2, so i´m just going to start out the cambio with a goal to have positive thoughts. We actually were both ´born´ here in Sucre, so neither one of us knows Cocha really at all, so it´ll be an adventure for sure! :) I´m excited. I´ve have a lot of mixed feelings actually. I´m really sad to be leaving my first area because i love the people so much here! And Sucre is SUPER beautiful. But I know that it´s the Lord´s will for me to be in this other area with other people. So! The past week:
Tuesday: We had the last district meeting of the cambio, and it was super fun! At the end we had a mini going away party for the zone leader who is dying this transfer. He is actually flying home tomorrow. Wow ¡que trunky! Anyway, in the afternoon we mostly just contacted, but we got lots of good contacts that Hermana Piguave and her new companion (Hermana Saturno from my group) can use.
Wednesday: We had 2 new investigators, and I´m sad that I won´t have the chance to teach them any more! It is a woman who got in a really bad car accident 3 months back and hasn´t been ale to walk since then. (and her daughter) She is really super awesome, and told us that she feels like she needs to change something in her life. So of course we are super excited to be teaching her! (i´ll definitely be asking Hermana Piguave for updates on their progress)
Thursday: All of our plans today were to go contacting. So we went to some of the outer reaches of our area, and we CONTACTED! But it was hard because there weren´t a lot of people who wanted to listen. But! We found one pregnant woman who at first we thought really didn´t want to listen, but I felt like we should keep talking with her, and it turns out that she has a lot of questions that we were PERFECTLY happy to answer! She is super awesome, I´m excited to see her progress. On Sunday we taught her and her husband again, and seriously it was super a good appointment.
Friday: More contacting. This is probably my contacting transfer of my mission. It´s been good practice, but it´d be so much better if we had more consistent appointments. In the evening we had a family night with a recent convert (baptized before I was here) and her sister who isn´t a member. We watched some Mormon messages and shared our feelings. The spirit was so strong in that lesson. In the past I know that this sister was really unwilling to listen to missionaries, but she really opened up. I´m excited for the opportunities that Hna Piguave will have with her. MAN I am gonna have to trust in her a lot. I love the people here SO MUCH, and I really want to be the one to teach them, but I also know the Lord has perfect timing, and maybe I´m a good seed planter :)
Saturday: Today was fun because we got to help set up a baby shower for a lady in the ward as a service project. We left when it started (which the sisters were a little sad about, but we´ve got more important things to do, even though I LOVE things like that and part of me wanted to stay). In the evening there was a baptism of my district leader and his comp, and they asked me to sing at it, so i sang Nearer My God to Thee and I received a lot of very nice complements. An elder who was there told me that that is his favorite himno, and he felt the spirit really strongly while i was singing. I´m so grateful for my talents in music because they´ve really come in handy as a missionary. I have played piano every single Sunday in sacrament meeting, and had the opportunity to sing for a lot of baptisms (and the zone conference). I´m grateful that I can help people feel the spirit not only through lessons and words, but also through music.
Sunday: The last Sunday in Universidad (and I´ve pretty much known that for the whole week). It was good. I will definitely miss that ward. In the evening we had a cita with an investigator named Rafael Nina (who is someone who pensions with the familia Calvimontez Mancilla (my old pension) and in the past he has told us that he is catholic, he doesn´t really want to change religions, all that jazz, but we were having this lesson as a last chance type of thing. He started out by telling us the same old things, but as he was talking he realized how much hypocrisy there is in the catholic church. About a year ago he was investigating the church, but stopped for the same reasons. He told us that maybe it´s for a reason that he is hearing about this church again. He told us that he knows that the Lord´s timing is perfect, so he said he´ll try again, for real this time. And I got to bear my testimony of the Book of Mormon, and that was probably one of the most spiritual experiences I´ve had in my mission. I don´t really remember everything I said, just that I followed the spirit. It was one of those "The Lord will give you what you need to say" moments (there is a scripture in the Doctrine &Covenants about that but i don´t remember where). Afterwards he said he´d read and pray about it. It made me so happy and so excited to hear!! I´m just sad that I won´t get to see more of his progression. Again, planting the seeds.
Monday: Today I´ve pretty much just been packing. We ate lunch with a family from the ward (last chance right?) and pretty much nothing else. But it´s been good. I´m kind of just trying to drink in Sucre for what is probably the last time in my life. (kind of a sad thought right? oh well)
I know that my Savior lives and loves me. He loves each and every one of us. He is our older brother, and suffered for each and every one of our sins, our hurts and pains, and He did it all out of love. One of the ways that we show Him our love is through obedience. Daily scripture study and prayer is the key to feeling His Holy Spirit every day.
Please pray for me and Hermana Alvarado that we won´t get too lost tomorrow haha. Lots of Love from Sucre, Bolivia!!
Hermana Rowe
The air in Sucre. (Because we told her that we have had terrible air quality because of fires)
Jessica with Nelly (an investigator)
The baby shower set up...
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