.......I'M GONNA TRAIN!!!!! YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY I'm very very very very very very very very very very very happy about my cambio!! I'll meet my 'kid' on Wednesday, so we'll see!!
Tuesday: We got to do a fun service for a recent convert of the Elders, Hermana Ana! Her brother in law has a toy store, and she helps put together the toys that they order from china in her house, so that's what we spent a lot of the afternoon doing! We really helped her get some stuff done! She was so grateful that she invited us to eat lunch later in the week.
Wednesday: Happy 8 months to me! I seriously feel like I'm still a new missionary, how have i been here for 8 months?? I'm so grateful for the many things I've learned about life, serving, being more like Christ, etc. I know that our Father in Heaven is pleased with us when we give up our will for His. That is honestly one of the hardest things about the mission, because the rules are so specific and there's so many! But He blesses us and helps us to accomplish what He's asked when we are willing, and when we ask Him to help us.
Thursday: We had another service activity in the morning where we helped an older single lady in the ward clean out some of her garage and put up some decorations. Today we ate with Hna Ana for lunch (we thought it was just going to be for us, but she invited the Elders too...whoops). Then we did our last weekly planning as a companionship. One of the things I realized is that even though these two cambios have been SUPER hard for me, I love her. There are a lot of things about her that I'm going to miss too, and there's a lot that I've learned from her. But! I'm still happy to be training :)
Friday: Zone Conference with Elder Fallabella! (he is the area president and a member of the Quorum of the Seventy.) It was awesome to listen to him. He had some amazing insights about how we can contact better. From now on I'll be walking with a Book of Mormon in my hands, and trying to talk with everyone not only when we are 'contacting' but if we've got time also with the people on the way to appointments and things like that. Normally conference is from 9 to 1 pm with lunch, but this was from 9 am to 4 pm (with lunch in the middle :) ) Then in the evening we had a ward activity where everyone brought desserts, we all shared, we played games with food, etc. AND we had 3 investigators come, which I think was the best part!
Saturday: We only had the chance to visit a few people because a bunch weren't home, and because the stake conference was this week (and I played piano for the adult and general sessions) so we had to be at the stake center early. I liked what was said about every member a missionary. That really it's the job of the MEMBERS to bring their friends to church, to get their coworkers and neighbors ready to hear the gospel, and invite them to meet with the missionaries. In an ideal world, missionaries shouldn't have to contact because the members are constantly working to invite and bring others to church. It was pretty cool, I liked it a lot. I also liked that they talked about how really the purpose of ward council is to better facilitate missionary work. Pretty dang cool.
Sunday: Stake Conference! A LOT of good things were said about how we need to sacrifice ourselves and what we want a little bit more. They talked about the parable of the rich young man, and about the stripling warriors. It was awesome. In the afternoon we ran around searching for people to visit (like almost every Sunday because it seems like people don't really like to meet with us on the sabbath... kinda weird, but yeah). We had a FHE with a part member family, and then went home to hear our cambios! We had to wait until after 11 pm to hear! (that kinda stunk, but at least then we knew)
Monday: Today has been pretty relaxed. This morning I was making the agenda for my 'kid' and trying to clean up the house a little bit so that things will be ready for Wednesday when she gets to come home. :) We're going to the airport in 15 mins to say goodbye to the people heading home.
That was my week! I'm so excited to see what this week brings! Lots of love from Cochabamba, Bolivia!
Hermana Rowe
It is a 'thing' to have the whole zone have matching outfits. The sisters in the zone had these dresses made. These turned out much better than when she did it in the last zone.
Joyful Jessica!
assembling toys
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