This has been an awesome crazy super full week, but i´ve talked with a lot of people this week and i´m out of time so sorry!! (I guess this is starting to be a common theme... yikes rip sorry sorry lo siento y lamentoi mucho no soy perfecta pero estoy tratando mejorarme!!)

To start out the week we had the zone conference which was awesome!! I love Presidente Montoya, he really knows like everything! (She said he knows the old testament really well and has a great understanding of gospel principles.  He had a question and answer session and she said he explained some things in a way that she had never heard and it made perfect sense.)

Then we also helped out some of the sisters in the zone to switch houses, and I got to help a little even though with latinos feminism isn't much of a thing so a lot of the latino elders didn't want me to help with the heavy stuff, even though i´ve got it... but whatever it´s all good :)

A sister that is going home this week stayed with us for a few days which was fun!

Today we went back to the same water falls from a few weeks ago, but with other people. Still fun, but i´m tired :)

The person they were teaching and hoping would be baptized this last weekend had to travel for work so they are hoping he will be baptized this weekend.  Sister Curtis is being transferred today and Jessica will get a new companion but that is the way it goes with missionaries...  Jessica is still doing well on her goal to contact 10 people everyday.  The woman they found last week through this extra effort couldn't meet this week so they are hoping she is reading the Book of Mormon and that they can meet with her in a few days.)

Basically my week! Love you all! Hope it´s a great week!

Hermana Rowe 

Happy 1 Year to Me! - March 18, 2019

This week I hit 1 year in the mission! We made french toast for breakfast that day to celebrate, so i´ll send a pic! 

We´ve been working really hard at contacting lots, which has been awesome!! (My mom will fill in some blanks here... sorry!!)   (She went to leadership council on Tuesday.  It is where the Mission President meets with the zone leaders, assistants and the Sister Training Leaders.  She said it was a great meeting and that the meeting the President said every missionary should be contacting at least 10 people everyday.  So she and her companion have been working hard to meet that goal.  Since it is a goal they have really worked to talk to everyone.)  WE had consejo de lideres, y yo canté con una otra hermana ---- aaah sorry Spanish. I sang with another hermana, and it just so happens that we have the same clothes from missionary mall, so we dressed up the same. She is going home in a week, her name is hermana Ballard. (She´s the best!!) 

We´ve had some awesome lessons this week (mom... sorry!) and we´ve just been rocking the area this week! When we show the Lord we are willing to work hard, he uses us REALLY WELL :) And it´s the best. (They have a man that they have been working with that is scheduled to be baptized this Saturday.  There is a possibility that he will have to travel for work and they are anxious to find out if it will happen this weekend.  Her comp will be transferred next week and may miss it if it has to be postponed (as often happens with missionaries...)  Also another sister that has worked with him would be in their area (because she is going home this transfer) and could be there for the baptism if it happens this weekend.  One of the great discussions she had this week was with a woman they met as they were pushing to make their contacting goal.  As they taught her about the restoration and Joseph Smith she starting crying.  She was also so excited to learn about the Book of Mormon.  She serves in her church and is dedicated to Jesus Christ.  They are so excited to meet with her and teach her more about the gospel.  Jessica is seeing instant rewards from being obedient and opening her mouth to talk to everyone.  She said she and her companion are still trying to work out how to do it some days.  If they stop and contact on the way to appointments then they are late so they have to set aside time to contact.)

(She also said that she was so excited to be able to do laundry.  There are sisters that are in the area next to theirs that have a washing machine.  So they went over and did a couple of loads.  They don't have dryers there and everything is hung up to dry.  So she said they go over and do laundry while studying in the morning.  Then they do their errands and go to the internet cafe.  On their way home to change and get ready for evening appointments they stop by and pick up their wet clothes and take them home and hang them up to dry.  She is also feeling much better.  She has finally kicked whatever illness was lingering for 2 weeks.  I asked about parasites and she said they have them there and lots of missionaries get them.  They have been given counsel about what to eat and drink but sometimes members give them things made with regular water (instead of bottled) and it is rude not to eat it.  She said she is fine and doesn't have one but she said she has eaten a few things that her system did not agree with...)

I know Joseph Smith really is a true prophet of God, and that the Book of Mormon is true, and that it really changes lives.

Con amor,

Hermana Rowe 

Jessica and Sister Curtis

Jessica in a trufi (local cheap transportation)

This Week:) - March 11, 2019

This week has been pretty crazy, but I talked way to much today (like every week) so the letter will be short again, but Mom told me that she´ll fill in some stuff, so that´s good. :)  She and her companion had a scary experience this week.  They were in one of the other sisters' zones for the day.  On the way home they had some guy follow them (they didn't realize that until later.)   When they got back to their area and were walking toward home this man approached them and started talking (which she said is unusual.  Men don't approach them and try to talk unless they are drunk.)  Her companion recognized him as the same guy (from when she served in the other area) that she had had a run in with (he acted inappropriately...)  They immediately ditched him and called their district leaders.  The Elders told them to come to their pension and not go home.  As they redirected where they were going they saw that this guy and turned and was on a path to intercept them if they had continued the course they were on.  They made it home safely eventually and they haven't seen any sign of him in the area since.  They are definitely on high alert.  Jessica hasn't ever had an experience like this so it has opened her eyes.  She (and we) are very grateful for the Lord's protection and the Spirit that warns of danger!

I was pretty sick throughout the whole week, but we still went out and worked hard, so that was good  (but maybe not for my health haha). We went to the clinic to get more meds, so now I´m getting better little by little :) She said she has been to the clinic 3 times and been given different medications each time.  She has had a bad cough (exacerbated by climbing hills in her area) and it moved into her sinus.  She is finally felling better and is happy to not have that distraction.

I´m grateful for the little miracles that God gives us everyday. Really we can find people if we just open our mouths and talk, and God really does protect us. I´m so grateful for my many many blessings. I know God loves us, and wants us to be happy!  She said that they have a great girl that they are teaching.  She has lots of thoughtful questions and they are excited to continue teacher her.  They have a few others learning about the church that seem to be interested but maybe aren't too serious.  So they are always looking for more people to teach.

This week for P day we had a zone activity where basically we hiked and then we had a barbecue. It was fun! I´ll send a pic of the whole zone next week if I can get it.

I´m grateful for the mission and the many things the Lord is teaching me :)

Lots of love and weird weather from Cochabamba, (She didn't say anything about weird weather so I'll have to ask her about that next week.)

Hermana Rowe

She said... 

since we can wear pants. one day this week we decided to dress up like the elders,

 and they gave us ties to take the picture haha!!

The group picture is all of the missionaries from my zone that are going home in July.  

And that is just my zone.There are a lot of missionaries going home in July!!

(Her mission pres gave her the choice of coming home a full transfer early so that would

be July 31/Aug 1 or to come home mid transfer in Aug. I think she has decided to 

come home a whole transfer early.)

So fun I was SICK (literally) - March 4, 2019

This was a pretty fun week. I started it out PRETTY sick, and actually was sick all week (she said she was achy and feverish.) Sick enough that I had to go to the clinic to get antibiotics (and they gave me a shot... in the butt!! I didn´t know they even did that anymore!!) so that wasn´t super fun, and I was pretty achy and had a fever for like the whole week, but it was pretty fun because we did 2 intercambios! The bad part is that we were working HARD this week, so i didn´t really get time to rest up. The bad part about my area is that it is one big hill, so my body has been working a lot. I´ve been nonstop coughing for the whole week too. BUT! It´s not getting me down. 

I think one of the things i´ve been realizing about myself is that I really have the spiritual gift of bearing a very firm and strong testimony. I´m grateful for the spiritual gifts my heavenly father has given me. I know he has given spiritual gifts to everyone, we just have to search them out!

Amo la obra misional, estoy tan agradecida por mi compañera y por este area. Sé que este es un gran obra, y ¡¡cualquier persona que quiere participar está bienvenida!!

Hope you all have a wonderful week! 

Hermana Rowe

We got to visit with her again this week.  So Great!!  It is Carnival so they have to be a little more careful.  She said it wasn't bad over the weekend.  Just that people in the streets randomly spray you with colored foam (or maybe silly string?) or water.  She said they like to go after the gringos even more.  She is having fun with it.  She bought her own can to spray back.  HA HA.  She said they expect today (Tuesday) to be the worst of it and so they have been told to stay in all day today.  She bought some ingredients so she could cook something great and make some no bake cookies.  Apparently that is what the missionaries there make (most likely because their apartments don't have ovens.)  She talked about how much she is enjoying this companion.  They are both pretty easy going and they don't have to work on getting along.  It comes naturally.  She LOVES that this comp is obedient and they don't have drama and can just focus on the work.  

I asked a little more about her area.  She said she is about 20 minutes from the temple it isn't in her area.  She said it takes about 20 minutes to walk from one side of her area to the other.  She loves this time in her missionary service.  She has a grasp of the language (but is still trying to learn and improve.) She loves her companion.  She is a seasoned missionary (although I don't know that she would use those words to describe herself) and she loves the people of Bolivia.  I have reminded/asked her to continue writing longer letters so that you all can still get insight into how she is doing.  I think we are still adjusting to the new communication guidelines and she is also feeling that her mission is winding down and it is natural to write less.  

On P day they had other sisters who are serving around them come over for breakfast.  They made pancakes.  Apparently one sister was disappointed that Hermana Rowe wasn't making eggs (because she is known in the mission for her love and mastery of making eggs many different way.) :)