Bye bye Comp :(

Well my mom left me today ;( (Your "mom" in the mission is your trainer). I got a new companion today, her name is Hermana Pechco. She is from El Salvador and she is 24 years old. She seems like such a sweetheart. We´re going to work this area until it just can’t handle it anymore. (I don’t care that that didn’t make since.) She actually has a boyfriend who is in our same mission. Crazy crazy. But yes I’ve got my eye on those two. Anyway it was really rough saying bye to Hermana Cuevas. She really has taught me sooo much. Things that will help me for the rest of my life. She is now a specialista somewhere in San Jose. She will do great things.

Bye Mommy!

This week went well but our area is still struggling a little. Buuuut really this area has soo much potential. Our Branch President is the bomb. I couldn’t ask for a better Branch Pres. Anyway I’m determined to make this branch a ward and we are going to make it happen :)

My homie!

Oh my goodness I cannot believe I didn’t tell you guys that I had my first earthquake last week. I wish I could say that it was crazy and we ran for shelter and I saved a dog or something buuut no I actually at first thought I didn’t even feel it until I remembered thinking that my companion kicked my bed. So yaa woohoo first earthquake. 

So funny story of the week... we had an animal in our house. One night we came home and the trash that was in the garbage can was everywhere. Just imagine 4 girls who are terrified of rats or any type of creature. It was bad. So pretty much what happened was we all sat on our desks and tried to get courage to find the animal and kill it. We ended up outside our house and calling every couple in our ward we could think of. Unfortunately no one could help us. So then the scripture Joshua 1:9 came to mind. I got this burst of courage and walked into the kitchen. Yep it was a bat. I immediately thought of Dan, Jake, and Sam and thought okay what would they do?? So I got the knife on the counter and threw it at its wing. Then got another knife and threw it at its body. Bye bye bat. I really don’t know what came over me. 

Us hiding from the animal. At this point we thought it was a rat but really sitting on our desks wouldn't have stopped a bat from biting us. I wasn't really crying.

So you know that soup that I almost threw up my first week here? Well it’s like my favorite thing now haha. Bless my heart. Oh and my companion isn’t the only one that holds my hand, literally everyone does. Am I like a dangerous person or what? I don’t understand. But I’m safe crossing the street so its all good :)

This week I learned the importance of being grateful. I realized how much I ask for help and when I receive it I don’t thank my Heavenly Father enough. It made me think about how when times are hard we always pray more, but when times are good we so easily forget to thank our Heavenly Father. How wrong that is. But really I´m becoming more and more grateful for lessons. We used to be able to have lots and lots of lessons and now its rare people let us in or follow through. Lots of times missionaries just care about numbers but really how dumb is that. These are people. Yeah it would be great to have an investigator progress really fast but the most important thing is to teach through love not teach because you need another lesson to tell your district leader that day. I´m very nervous to lead the lessons and teach my new companion this area. But every time I feel scared I need to remind myself that fear doesn’t come from God, and if I can survive an earthquake and kill a bat anything is possible :) hahaha no but really life is good.

Ice cream! Yummy!

I’m more and more grateful for this opportunity every day. Serving a mission is the best decision anyone could ever make. I love this gospel and am so grateful for the relationship I have with my Heavenly Father. I know that missionary work is inspired of God and that every companionship is put together because the Lord knows what is best for us. Thank you for your prayers and thank you for your support!! 

Love always,

Hermana Fowler

P.S. I didn’t really kill the bat hehe.  Gotcha! But there really is a bat in our house. Our walls don’t go all the way to the ceiling so it comes and goes. Pray for me.

Food that my comp made me.