This week was pretty crazy and sort of stressful, but some of the first people that I met here were baptized and they are awesome!!  I truly love them so much, and it has been so awesome to see their progress.

Another one of our investigators also told us this week that she is getting married next week! She is literally the perfect investigator, except for that she isn´t married. For the past 2 months her goal has been to get married next year, and we have just kept telling her to continue to try to find a way to talk to her boyfriend. Now, she can probably be baptized the following week because she is more than ready. She also has a little boy, who coincidentally is named Samuel and is 3 years old . It´s no wonder that I love them :)

There was a big festival of dances with all the Stakes here in Cochabamba:

Dressed up as cholitas (what the more wealthy/older/traditional women always wear here):

This is my district. We found all these random hats, so... :

So this week has been really good!  We worked super hard, contacted a lot in the more rural parts of our area (which I love), and found some super cool people. Our baptisms didn´t go through this week, but they´re now scheduled for this Saturday, and I really feel that they´re ready.

The other day we lost our cell phone (okay, I´ll admit it, I left it on a rock in the outskirts of our area), so we were kind of freaking out because if someone finds your phone here, they keep it. But, we decided to say a prayer, and I felt the Spirit really strongly, so we called it anyway. Some guy answered and told us to come to the same spot, and he would give it to us. We were super relieved and excited, but when we got there, he was gone. So we started to walk, and my comp felt we should go to this one house up the mountain a little. We got to the house, and it turned out to be where the man lived. He was super drunk, but he gave us the phone and my planner in exchange for 20 bolivianos. Later we realized that we had 6 or 7 missed calls from other people, but the man only answered our call. We both were super grateful for an answer to our prayers.

We have 2 baptisms scheduled for this week, so I hope they’ll go through and I can tell you all about them next week!

I’m extremely grateful for all of your love and support, and I hope you have a great week!

Love, Hermana Rupp

So this wifi here is pretty hit and miss, and I literally just spent another half an hour waiting for it to work.  Sorry this is, yet again, so short and lame. I have pictures of other letters as well, but I’ll have to send them the next week, probably.  I’ll try now, but we’ll see.
I love you all!!

http://3yearsinbolivia.blogspot.com/2015/10/hugs-from-our-family-visitors-to-bolivia.html

my pensionista is soo nice and made me a cake/ sign (mujer virtuosa haha)

So the internet wasn´t working great, and I'm just starting so I'll have to be fast, sorry.

I´ve learned a lot this week, and Conference was amazing. Every question I had got answered. The main thing I realized is that I´ve used obedience, our rather the occasional lack thereof, as an excuse. And I know that obedience is the first law of Heaven, but the first and great commandment is to love the Lord and therefore others. And I´ve done a pretty bad job with this. I decided I really, truly need to improve in this. And this morning (I was again thinking about this), and my companion brought it up, and we made goals to be more obedient and work harder to meet our goals. definitely no coincidence there. 

I´m so grateful for this time to be a missionary, and I´m especially grateful for all of your examples. Have and awesome week, and I love you all!

Love Hermana Rupp

http://3yearsinbolivia.blogspot.com/2015/09/sisters-conference-sept.html

This week was really good. I´m really starting to feel like I can communicate with the people here and it´s awesome.

We had intercambios and I learned a ton from our Sister Leaders. I tried to apply a lot of it the next day during our weekly planning, and I already feel that we are going to see some good changes. My companion had a little bit of pain this week, but overall we were able to work hard and teach a lot of lessons. I´m extremely grateful that she likes to work and truly wants to share the gospel.

Lately I´ve been worried because a lot of our investigators aren´t really makng it past lesson 2 or 3, and I had been thinking about how we could have the Spirit more when we teach. But then I realized that a lot of the times when we leave the house I´m frustrated because we're either late or something like that. So after the women´s conference, I decided to be better, and yesterday our lessons were so poweful and I could feel the Spirit so strongly (and my Spanish was way better than normal). I also had to give a talk, and I know I got divine help with that haha.

On a different note, the other day we were in a trufi (pretty much a bus) on our way to an appointment, and we had to stop because there were a ton of cars in the street (and there´s pretty much never traffic in our area). So I was thinking that there was a wreck or something, but turns out there was a priest blessing the cars in the street - in white robes (with his sweats underneath) was sprinkling water on the engines of cars and some of their keys as well.

Also, the other day one of our investigators wanted to hear me pray in English, and it was actually really hard! I started to speak in Spanish like twice. So later I was laughing about it, and I tried again in our apartment, and my mind literally went blank. It literally sounded like the prayer of a little kid. I can speak to other gringos fine, but for the past three months I only prayed in Spanish, and it was so hard to switch back. Not a good sign for when I return haha.

It was really sad to hear about Elder Scott.  I wish I had known Justine was singing, because I actually thought about it when they said Cache Valley.  I´m so excited for Conference. I loved listening to the Women's Session in English, especially President Uchtdorf´s voice.

Anyway, thank you for all the emails, support, and prayers. I love being a missionary, and I love you all!

Hermana Rupp

The elders made us breakfast for pday

The mission home is across from the temple so we took a pic after