So I hear good ol´cousin Andy´s finally home! I emailed him a few months back and he seemed to be doing well, so let him know that I say hi :)
Tuesday: We got to help our district leaders move to their new apartment in the morning with our district which was fun! Then we had our district meeting and had lots of appointments in the afternoon. In the evening we had an appointment that was kinda rough. It was with an investigator that´s been progressing pretty well, but he just kinda wanted to argue that night. I think he had talked to one of his friends that doesn´t really want him to be a member of the church, because he kept saying that we were using good strategies to convince him of these things, and that he read a book about it and that we were doing literally all the things that the book said! (At least we know how to communicate well with others i guess...?) So that was a little hard, especially on my comp. That night was super hard to stay on topic, and at the end when we were walking home we both felt terrible. And then we started intercambios and went our separate ways. I think it was a well placed intercambio.
Wednesday: All of the intercambio. I was with Hermana Polanco, who is my ´grandma' in the mission (the trainer of my trainer) so that was pretty fun. I realized that I need to have less fear about talking with people in the street, and that i´m missing out on lots of opportunities to talk with lots of willing people:
Thursday: Had an evidence that I need to be contacting in the street more: we were walking to an appointment, we were kind late, and we said hi to a girl walking in the street. We passed by her, and then i felt like i should talk to her, and even though we were late I knew that i needed to do it since i had just made a goal to do it more. And when we talked with her, she said that she had met with the missionaries before and was really interested in learning more. We´ve got our first appointment with her tomorrow :) Today was also really hard because my comp seemed really really mad at me and I didn´t know why. I felt very alone. In the evening when we got home I went out to our terrace and I seriously just prayed out loud. The first time in a long time that i´ve done that. I cried. I missed my family. I missed home, i missed being with people that have the same culture as me, everything. I just wanted a hug from my parents. But all I could do in that moment was pray. So I did, for an hour until i had to go to bed. SUPER hard night, i´ve never really done that before in the mission.
Friday: In the morning we had companionship inventory. It lasted for 2 hours (that´s REALLY LONG for those of you who´ve never done one before) but at the end everything was worked out. She has been going through a lot of things that i didn´t realize, and I felt very selfish and self centered after that. But we worked things out, so that´s what´s important :) It was kinda a hard morning though.
Saturday: We got to watch a special broadcast from Peru! With Pres Nelson and Elder Stephenson and their wives. It was JUST for missionaries, and it was AWESOME. I felt very inspired after that. And something really cool is that Elder Thornton from my district in the CCM gave the opening prayer! It was fun to see him, his Spanish has improved a lot haha :)
Sunday: President Nelson (and Elder Stephenson and their wives) spoke to all of Bolivia from La Paz! It was super cool. AND!! Pres. Nelson spoke in Spanish!! I didn´t know he spoke Spanish!! It was really cool to see (and also kinda funny... i felt bad for laughing to myself a little bit since he´s the prophet, but his accent was VERY gringo).
Monday: Today we went to the cancha to buy fabric because our district is making matching dresses and ties for the zone conference, and then we went to a Ecuador party (since my comp is from Ecuador). That was pretty much it today :)
That was my week! It was kind of the worst because of the crying fest that I had, but it was also kinda the best because it felt like general conference take 2!
Lots of love and sunshine from Cochabamba,
Hermana Rowe
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