Welcome to my week! It went my so fast, I can´t believe it!
Tuesday: The last day of birthday celebrations for me (at the pension... I'll send a video. Watch until the end!!) And the ward is preparing some special musical numbers for the special Sunday on the 23rd, so I've been using that as a way to serve (playing piano at practices and things)
Wednesday: We studied and planned all day. We had a really good appointment with Dennys. We wasn't drunk when we showed up (yay!!) so we went to a park with him for a lesson about the word of wisdom and about faith. At the beginning of the lesson he was saying that he wasn't sure if God was really there, if he had faith, things like that. But by the end of the lesson he himself said, ok, i guess I've got a little bit of faith, even if it's basically nothing. So that was really good! Then that night we were going to start intercambios, but...
Thursday: Everyone wants Evo (the president) out of power and were protesting! So we had to be very very careful and decided that it'd be better just to do the intercambio another day. We got to go out a little bit, but we stayed in the house for the majority of the day.
Friday: We had interviews with President Montoya, and OH MY GOODNESS THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE PACKAGE!!!!! I was literally crying. Literally crying. It was so so so so so so sweet!! I ate one of the boxes of hash browns for breakfast today with two fried eggs (and ketchup) and I just about cried while I was eating it! SO SO SO good. And thank you so much for the hash browns, notes, and the gifts for my comp, and for the mini Christmas tree, and the lights, and the candy, and for the nativities to give out! What an amazing idea! Seriously I wasn´t excepting anything, and this really really really made me happy. Thank you so much for the wonderful notes, I actually cried while I read all of those too. The only one I haven't read yet is the one from Grammy and Grandpa because that one specifically said merry Christmas on it, so probably on Christmas eve I'll read that one.
Saturday: We had more song practices and tried to go visit some contacts and investigators. Pretty much nobody was home. WE had a FHE (Family Home Evening) with a widow in the ward and her daughter. We helped them set up their Christmas tree and put up lights. I love that we've been able to help so many people do that this year! I love this type of service, it is the best haha!
Sunday: We went visiting with a woman from the ward to find less and inactive members... and nobody was home. But it's ok because we just kept on looking! In the evening we talked with Jhenifer about her baptism this week. She was saying the she wants to postpone it for the end of January because her life is so crazy right now. In the end she told us she´d pray about it, and let us know mid week if it's gonna happen or not, so we'll see. I think Satan tries to work REALLY REALLY hard on us when we are about to do things that are SO GOOD! I felt that way before my mission. I had a lot of fear, (that i wasn't good enough, that being in Bolivia would be scary, etc) and I know that all the bad feelings and worries were all Satan getting in my head. Now that I'm here I'm so grateful for all the experiences and things that I'm learning! I know Satan is real, and he tries to get to us, but if we turn to the Lord and try to lean on him, he will help us, and let us know what it is we need to do! He will give us comfort. He loves us, and wants to help us. He wants us to do what's right, the things that bring us real joy and happiness.
Monday: We basically spent all day in the cancha again, because we got put in charge of buy fabric for the zone, because everyone wants matching dresses and ties for the zone conference! I hope everyone likes the fabric!! 0:
That's been my week! I hope that you all are enjoying the Christmas spirit like I am, and that you're trying to light the world with your service! (this week is light your community, so i'd love to hear about the cool things you do this week!)
Lots of love from Sunny Cochabamba,
Hermana Rowe
(It won't let me send pics today, so I'll send them next week :) )
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