So! Not a ton of time to write this week because today we went to the selva! (jungle)
Tuesday: We had a few appointments and TRIED to finalize the contract for the apartment, but they were being kind of difficult and didn´t want to accept the one that the church has pre-made, so we couldn´t finalize today.
Wednesday: We contacted, and had an appointment with an investigator named Hugo. He is 30, a mechanic, and has a lot of really good questions. Sometimes too good haha, but he really is fun to teach. He is one of our only progressing investigators right now, which is awesome, but we are having a hard time getting him to commit to come to church, because he has a young daughter that he only gets to see on the weekends. Any advice?
Thursday: Today was Hermana Alvarado´s 23rd birthday, so I made no bake cookies for her and scrambled eggs with toast for breakfast. (yes, we ate those cookies for breakfast haha) I asked her about how she is getting along with her companion because they had a bit of a rough start. This was her reply... Things are a lot better with my comp. I think before I just didn´t understand her that well, but now I know that if she speaks in a certain way (that to me is pretty offensive) it doesn´t mean that I did something wrong, she is probably frustrated about something or super stressed. I understand her as a person a lot better now and we are actually good friends. (I think know that i´ve gotten to know her she is my favorite comp that i´ve had so far.) We also had a mini celebration for her birthday at lunch, and then we contacted all evening, until 9 when we went to get pizza for dinner (because we have half an hour for dinner every night, so we were using it to the best of our ability for my comp!)
Friday: In the morning we FINALLY finalized things with the apartment contract! Then we did weekly planning and contacted in the afternoon. Contacting here in Cocha is a lot more difficult than in Sucre, so we haven´t been getting new investigators even though we´ve been contacting a lot.
Saturday: WE MOVED IN!! And the apartment is really pretty, and it has beautiful views. You can see the temple and the Christus from our windows! And we spent all day moving and unpacking every thing. We were exhausted at the end of the day.
Sunday: We had church, but my comp wasn´t feeling well so we left early and went home so she could rest. We left in the afternoon to go search for some references, and we weren´t super successful, but at least we were working. :)
Monday: Whoohooooo we went to the jungle! We had to meet up as a zone at 4:45 am so that we could drive for 3 hours to a place called Villa Tunari. It is SUPER beautiful, but it is also SUPER humid and SUPER hot. But I loved it, The coolest part was that we got to go to a lookout point where a bunch of wild monkeys came and hung out with us! They were super used to humans, so they came up to us, grabbed our water bottles (especially if they had powerade) and sat in our laps. It was SO COOL! This was one of the things that I know you would have loved Dad and Emma! What the heck, EVERYONE would have enjoyed it because it was so awesome. The only bad part was that at one point there was a monkey above my head in the trees and it POOPED ON ME!!!!! hahahaha it was actually hilarious, but super gross in the moment. I´m sending pictures, so don´t worry, you´ll get a little piece of the jungle too! We received permission from Presidente Montoya to email late today, so here we are :)
Lots of love, heat and humidity from Bolivia!
Hermana Rowe
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