¡La! ¡Laaaa! ¡La mejor zonaaa!

So here´s a cool story that happened. Yesterday I woke up with a monster headache and a really bad cough. To top things off it was raining. But we still went out to work. First we went to visit our investigator Fidel, who is going to be baptized this week! We went with him to church, and he´s super ready! then throughout the day, although I wasn´t feeling 100%, we kept working and visited all the people we had scheduled to see. Even though the day was super normal, I felt awesome. I´m starting to actually, really truly love the mission. Even when I have a cold, I´d rather be out in the rain and cold working than sitting in the house. But right now during this time of the year, it gets dark really early, around 6 in the evening. It was getting pretty cold and Hermana Lobos wasn´t feeling good either, and we had already visited all our apointments, and so we decided we would go home about 15 minutes early. As we were walking, we felt we should knock one more house. And so we did, and a middle aged man answered, and we had waved hi at him earlier that day! He told us to come on in, and we shared a little bit about oursevles and our beliefs, and they are awesome! At the last minute we found amazing people to start teaching! Heavenly Father will always test us but if we past the test and are steadfast and immovible, the law irrevocably decreed in heaven demands that we recieve blessings for our faithfulness! It really lifted our spirits a lot and we ended up having an awesome week!

Me and Hermana Lobos are doing awesome! We´re getting along super well and are trying to improve a lot. It´s hard becuase we both have less than 6 months in the mission (I have 6 months two weeks but the first 6 weeks were in the MTC), and so we really in a lot of ways have no idea what we´re doing. It´s a little bit hard, because Hermana Lobos has kind of an obidience problem. It´s nothing gigantic or difficult to deal with, but it makes me feel really responsible for everything we do, since I am the senior companion. So I´m trying to do my best to help us improve and be obediente without being commanding. Every week I love the mission more.

Thanks so much for everything you´re all doing for the church and for writing and supporting me! Love you all! ¡Hasta la próxima!

Sister Ashlee Bowling
♥ from Chile!