Our house, in the middle of our street.

This week was a really good week. We have been working really hard. I feel like this is my final exam of the mission to see if I really have learned how to work.  I know I mentioned this last week but I am in a struggling little branch up in the mountains. There is an attendance of 50 people more or less. We meet in a house. This week however we have been really getting to know the members and we have been working with them. They said that the members don't like to work but I found that to be false. If the members don't want to work with you it's not the members fault normally, it's the missionaries.  We have been able to find lots of new people that are positive. We have also been applying more fully initiatives that we have in the mission. The first is "Familia vista familia contactada" (Family seen family contacted). We have been talking to a lot more families in the street. That can be rough sometimes but it has resulted in more families found. Interesting huh? You talk to more families you find more families. The second is "#GraciasaqueElvive" or #BecauseofHim I think it is in English. We have been watching the little video with a lot of people along with one of the Bible videos of the Atonement. It has resulted in some really spiritual lessons. I've been reflecting a lot more on the Atonement this week and it really is marvelous and incomprehensible. I also finished the Book of Mormon for the first time in Spanish. I love El Libro de Mormón. It really is the word of God. I love the scriptures and I know that we can have spiritual experiences every day if we read them every day. How long should we study them for? President Spjut has given us a good council. Study the scriptures until you can feel the Spirit and then a little bit more. 

Thanks for everything.

-Elder Rowberry

Attached are photos of my house. It's small but nice.

There used to be two companionships in Apaneca but now there is only one so we had to move a bunch of stuff from one house to some houses in Ataco, a town that is nearby because it didn't fit in our house. Attached is the picture of the "moving truck." #Salvadoreanstyle