Hermana Kobe Bower: Crackers and God sustain me

Welcome to the infierno...

When your shoes melt and your hair catches on fire, you know... you just know Hades is nearby.

This week was interesting, got my first sunburn this week (I know, its hard to believe it took a month and a half of being in Argentina for that to happen),

Proof of a suntan

The burn is real!

Went swimming... I even got all dressed up for the occasion too. Pure ratchetness! My hair in a Girls Camp Flashback (frenchbraids) and my rain jacket pulled tight around my face... and yet I still heard the chant of Rubia! Like come on people!! you cant even see my hair!! Geez... I started to float away in all the garbage that was floating across the street that this mother of all rainstorms was bringing down on me. Or at least my poor, shattered heart was floating away in the garbage. I still haven't found it. My heart has taken a beating this week.

One of our recent converts - three toothed, one toe Maria, or Maria z as others call her. Well let me break this down... She lives in a house with her daughter. But also she lives with this guy Andres and his nephew Cristian. Well Andres wants to be baptized really bad but first he needs to get married or move out and also... also.. he killed a man once so he needs to talk with our mission president. hes the bomb though. And his nephew is a weetheart and is like 26. He calls maria tia and helps her and holds her hand. He's gone to church twice, has a baptismal date, and wants to change his life. But like many hes's caught up in the gans and drugs but he loves hearing about God and just repeats everything you say with a wonder. Well... FREE AGENCY SUCKS!! Yeah it does! You might think, wow this is great, i can choose for myself. hahahaha... NO!

We went to go teach them, and we were a little concerned because they weren't at church. well... Maria was bawling when we saw them. In the middle of the night, Cristian stole their money and stuff and ran away. Yeah.. my heart... for this family and for Cristian! I hope wherever he is, he remembers what we taught him and that God loves him no matter what. No matter how far you´ve fallen, theres hope. Gods waitin gfor you to look up so he can rasie you higher than your burdens. I know this is true.

The Stake Center

Also... this Sunday we had 22 people at church. 22! We have a ward, but you wouldn't know it... it looks like a struggling branch. I love these people so much they're breaking my heart! So prayers for this ward would be awesome. Also on the 26th after lunch, all the leaders in this ward and us are fasting until after lunch on Sunday. These are people you'll probably never meet but that shouldn't be a factor, everyone needs to be brought back to the fold of God and to feel His love. You don't need to fast for that long but if any of you want to, this ward needs all the help it can get. We can't go out working with investigators until the we've working on strengthening the members. We're just not sure how to go about helping them. I told you.. my heart is broken!!!

One of our fave investigators gave us bread she made as we were running through the rain. It's not important that she put it in a really dirty bag or that I pulled hair off of it. It was made with love. She's awesome-sauce. Also, I was hungry. #noregrets #kinda haha

But in happier news, apparently we're the Bishops spouse... he told us that. and sadly for America...Everyone here thinks the DONALD TRUMP is the spokesperson for America.... Uh shoot people.. we need to fix America because people keep quoting Trump here and Im just like wow.... Okay America... wooo.. we're sad. Please somebody fix this while I'm gone because this is just embarassing.