Eggs and Flour... - Dec 3, 2018

Yup! You heard right, I´m 20! It feels super weird. But at the same time, normal. I guess it´s just a big number. I´m officially not a teenager, WHAT?? 

Tuesday: A normal day. We had district meeting, we had a lot of appointments, but people weren´t there, ¨weren´t there¨ or didn´t have time. The usual. But! It doesn´t matter, because it gives us more time to find people who DO want to hear the gospel. 

Wednesday: Hermana Muñoz has immigration things, so we spent a few hours doing that, then we had a service project in the morning, and went to lunch. I was feeling super sick (achy, runny nose, all that) so we stayed home in the afternoon and I rested. (It was a good thing we didn´t have appointments that day, it almost never happens! It seriously was a miracle)

Thursday: Thanksgiving!! (haha not actually, but this is the day that I had thought was thanksgiving originally, and I have a bunch of drawings in my agenda for thanksgiving, turkeys and things) We actually went and searched a lot of people. In the evening we got to talk with Dennys. He told us that for us, he has tried to have faith, but that he just can´t anymore, because all of the hard things he´s been through. We just tried to follow the spirit when we talked with him, so we´ll see. We said a prayer with him, and he was trying to hide his tears when it ended. We´ll see. He really needs the gospel in his life, so I hope the Spirit can really work in him. He is trying to quit drinking though, so that part is awesome!

Friday: Similar to Thursday. Actually almost identical, just with other people. We got to visit with Jhenifer, and she really wants to be baptized! She said that she knows that this is the true church, so hopefully next Saturday will be her baptism!! :D We are very very excited for her.

Saturday: We got to do a really cool service with the ward, we went and visited an old folk´s home! I got to talk with an old guy who is from France, but he also spoke English, and also understands some Spanish! Very smart guy. Apparently he flew fighter planes in WWII, and in other wars too. All of these things I learned from his son, because he mostly spoke in french and made weird hand motions, but it´s ok because he seemed happy :) That was the highlight of our day. I really felt like we were bringing some Christmas cheer for these people. I´m so glad it´s Christmas time now!! 

Sunday: Happy Birthday to me! I´m 20, that´s weird. But it was a good birthday. The Relief Society sung happy birthday to me, then made a line to give me hugs and well wishes! So cute. And then of course, we had an awesome lunch at the bishop´s house!! It really was a good birthday. We got to visit with a bunch of people. Oh! And Hermana Muñoz made a cute birthday banner for me! AND we finished putting up our Christmas tree! It was fun :)

Monday: So we spent basically our whole day in the Cancha. I bought a guitar, finally! It´s blue, super cool. I´ll take pictures this week. It was 550 bs, which is SO CHEAP!! (that´s like 80 bucks, and that included the case, the tuner, the capo, and the picks!!) But it´s still good quality!! Then we went to a ´birthday party´ of missionaries for hermana Padilla, since her birthday was the 30th, and then it turned into a little something for me too! (It´s a tradition in Bolivia that when it´s your birthday, they through eggs and flour all over you, so right now as i´m writing i´m COVERED! But I didn´t have time to shower before internet, so here we are haha!

And that was my week! Hope it was a great one for all of you, and that the next on is great!!

Hermana Rowe

PS I think it´d be great if each one of you could watch the new Light the World video from this year. It´s super great, and it has a lot of ideas for things we can do to be a little more like the Savior this year. He lives, and loves us. :)