This Sunday made 7 months for me, and I can hardly believe how fast the mission is going!! In only 2 months I´ll be halfway through my mission!! WHAT??
Monday: Last Monday I ended writing at the beginning of the day since we had plans for the afternoon. We went to the airport to say goodbye to all the people going home, and it was probably the trunkiest I´ve been my whole mission, but it was good to say goodbye :)
Tuesday: We ended up contacting a lot since a lot of our citas (appointments) fell through. Something a little hard about our area is that it is super central in the city, and a lot of people feel like they don´t need the gospel in their lives, or that they don't need to go to church to learn about the gospel. Kind of sad, but we´re trying to work through it. I have really been enjoying my time with Hermana Alvarado, something cool is that she reminds me a lot of my lil sis Emma. Sometimes it is a little hard to get a long because she´s not a morning person and not as peppy as I am, but she is still a really fun, awesome person, and a great missionary :)
Wednesday: We couldn´t leave the house because everyone was protesting the president, so we studied idiomas! (and by that i mean we watching COCO in Spanish, and then Moana in English with subtitles) (both of which we have permission to watch from presidente).
Thursday: My favorite thing we did today was make masitas with an inactive member of the church to try to animate (? She is thinking in Spanish which is great but I'm not really sure what she meant) her a little bit with the church. We didn´t take pictures, but they turned out really yummy :)
Friday: We had out first district meeting of the transfer, and it was pretty fun because only 2 people changed in the whole zone, so we all know each other pretty well. We also had to go to the clinic today to see if hermana Alvarado needs glasses (and she does) and that took up a lot of our day since we had to wait a lot, and the clinic is not in our area. In the evening we had a Noche de Cine. Only one investigator came, but it was really good. (we watched Meet the Mormons... I´ve been wondering if maybe they need to change the title of that movie...? haha no sé)
Saturday: Pretty much all of our appointments fell through again, so lots of contacting, but it was good. Sometimes we get so tired of contacting, but I always try to remember our purpose as missionaries when I get a little discouraged or tired of contacting,¨Invitar a las personas a venir a Cristo, al ayudarlas a que reciben el Evangelio restaurado, mediante la fe en Jesucristo y su expiación, el arrepentimiento, el bautismo, la recepción del don del espíritu santo y el preseverar hasta el fin¨. That should more or less translate to ¨Invite people to come unto Christ by helping them receive the restored gospel, through faith in Jesus Christ and His Atonement, repentance, baptism, the gift of the holy ghost and enduring to the end.¨ My favorite part that I quote is the beginning, ¨Invite people to come unto Christ¨. I´m here to help others, I can think about myself when I get home (in less than a year, what??).
Sunday: We had church, consejo de barrio , and we got to visit someone in the hospital, then we went to stake choir, which I will be playing piano for, and we went to a family home evening in the evening.
Monday: Today Hermana Alvarado got her glasses (which took most of the morning) and then in the afternoon we went to a trampoline park with a bunch of other missionares which was pretty fun!
That´s it! Sorry it was short this week but i´m out of time! Love you all, and I love Bolivia!
Hermana Rowe
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