Come so far, but got so far to go!

HELLO FROM THE CCM!
Just one more week here at the CCM and then I´m out in the field. Which is insane YAY. This week was way good!! I finally started feeling better and we did some cool stuff.
Hit one month out in the mission which is INSANE. Feel like I´ve been here for three years though.
It was a pretty normal week and then Saturday came.
PROSELYTING.
Honestly before we went out I was freaking out. I was so scared.
But IT WAS SO AMAZING!
So they drove us out to part of the Lima East mission and they split us off.
My companion was Hermana Loor and she was so AMAZING! She was from Spain and she was so nice!! She started me right off talking to everyone in the street. The first person we talked to was so nice actually most of the people we talked to were nice. They all stopped to listen and talk to us. I started off really really nervous with the language and I didn't know what I was doing so we pulled off the side at one point and I said a prayer just to get the Spirit and my Spanish flowing.
It was such an amazing experience. The Spirit was so strong that whole day.
The streets are so different here. Everything is so different here. (Supposedly Arequipa is nicer than Lima though so it won't be exactly the same experience. I'm excited though).
It was truly a humbling experience to be out there with these people that have almost nothing. But they were so open to listening to my broken Spanish prayers and testimony.
I was able to teach this one girl a short lesson and also taught her some English.
(so many people here want to learn English)
So I taught her how to say Hello How are you and what is your name. It was way fun!
We taught her how to pray and it was just a very spiritual experience and I'm sad I'll never get to see her again.
I could pretty much understand alot of the Spanish that was said to me
I have come a long way but I got so far to go.
I loved having that experience and I´m way excited to see all that can happen in the mission field!
Only one week left here at the CCM.
Gonna make it count.
God loves yall and I love yall!
The gospel is so true and I love PERU. ( haha hope you love my cheesy rhyme)
<3
Adios friends and Family
Until we meet again next PDAY
-Hermana Howe-
PS all the missionaries in the CCM have started to pronounce my name as (OW-AY)
so that is way fun haha

1 All of the Hermanas in the CCM. Love them all so much <3
2 LAST TEMPLE PHOTO :( No more temple for 17 months :(

HAPPY DAY: ALL IS WELL

Hola my beautiful friends and family.
I was sick for alot of this week. I had a very bad cold and other not fun stuff BUT I´m feeling much better now. SO MANY NEW MISSIONARIES FROM NORTH AMERICA. We went from 16 of us to 34!!! Its been crazy!! But they´re all so great! They all have great attitudes and are always using Spanish even when they don´t know the right words. Its all so amazing!!! I am slowly getting a hang of this language. Only two more weeks in the CCM. Cant believe it!!!
Crazy things happen here.
One of the Elders in My district, Elder Doyle, is crazy. We came back from lunch one day and he had gotten three snails and placed them on Hermana Schmidt´s desk. Then he started putting them all over the room. He´s also thrown crickets on people while they were sleeping.
Its lots of fun.
Honestly I thought the spirit was really strong here the past few weeks but this week blew me away!! I can feel the Lord´s guiding hand in everything thing I do. We also had so many good devotionals and my lessons with my investigators are going so well!! I'm really able to teach in Spanish.
I also gave a 5 minute talk on Sunday in Spanish. It was on Faith in Jesus Christ. That was wayyy fun.
The Second Counselor in the Presiding Bishopric came and spoke to us on Sunday and IT WAS SO GOOD. Made me so excited to get out in the field!!!
We also watched the Elder Bednar devotional on the Character of Christ.
It was so good.
It was all about how the Savior never turned inward. He always turned outwards and Its really something I need to work on.
I also love my district and all that they teach me. Such amazing Elders and Hermana. They're my family now. I love them.
So this Saturday I go trial proselyting!!! They´re going to take us to some place in Lima and put us on Splits with a missionary. I'M FREAKING OUT. I don't know how ready I am for that  but I guess we´ll see.
I absolutely LOVE being a missionary
I can´t believe I've been out for a month now. SO CRAZY! 17 more months to go.

This Gospel is so true and Christ is Our Savior and Redeemer. The Atonement is so real.
I love this gospel and I´m starting to love the Spanish Language a whole lot. <3

God loves yall and so do I <3
Hermana Howe

PICTURES
1-I love to see the Temple. Like alot.
2- Me Hermana Schmidt and Hermana Hollberg who is one of our roommates. I love them.
3-Small Spiritual thought that I loved from Church this week 

CCM HALFWAY WE GOT THIS

Hola my friends and family!!
Peru is still Peru and as crazy as ever.
We are now offically halfway through the CCM! Wahoooooo!!! The amount of stuff I have done is amazing. Always so busy, busy, busy. But I love it. It´s been a crazy adventure. Ive been kinda sick this week so I´ve been struggling a little. BUT I got this. Our investigator this last week was Mateo. He couldnt read which made commitments a little hard but his wife could read so she read with him. He was an awesome investigator and my teaching got much better in the process of teaching him.
Last night I really felt the Spirit in a lesson while reciting the First Vision. Joseph Smith really was a prophet of God. It was a really amazing experience.
Classes are way fun and Spainsh is very slowly getting easier to understand. But I do alot of smiling and nodding and saying Si. But there is improvement.
Still playing lots and lots of volleyball.
Sundays at the CCM are the BEST. The spirit is so strong in chuch and Presidente Moore y Hermana Moore teach alot of the classes and they are so INCREDIBLE!! Im learning so much from them.
(Also If you remember that story that President Monson told about setting the field on fire with the matches when he was ten. My branch presidents house is built on that field and I thought that was a cool fact haha)
I also had the wonderful oppurtunity to be asked to sing a solo in the CCM Chior. I sang most of the first verse of This is The Christ (in Español of course) and Elder Hawkins who is in my district sang the rest of the verse in harmony with me and and it was really fun!
Then I had so many Latinos and Latinas asking me if I could sing for them.
It was lots of fun.

Last night all of the 3 week missionaries, so the Latinos and Latinas and the Americans who were here before I go here all left :(
They were some really amazing people and I can´t believe they're gone!
So today its just been my district which is only 8 of us. So the whole CCM right now is just us.
Everyone else will come tomorrow.
Which means starting tomorrow I´m a Hermana Training Leader!! YAY! Get to help all the new Hermanas out with my amazing three weeks worth of CCM and Missionary knowledge.

I hope yáll are doing well!!
This is the True Gospel of Jesus Christ.
It truly is. 
God loves you and so do I

Hermana Howe <3


1 and 2: I for reals love this temple. Its so wonderful! <3
3: All of the American Hermanas. Just me and Hermana Schmidt (who is the one sticking her tongue out are left here at the CCM. I miss these other Hermanas ALOT already.

Latina

HOLA PALS.
Done so much this week its been crazy!!!!! I have loved being here like a lot but its also been so so so hard. We had to go to Interpol this week which meant getting up at 4 am to drive to a kinda sketchy part of Lima to do visa paperwork and everything was all dark and sooo sketchy. It was like really small and like a jail but hey i got my visa paperwork done.
I have never played so much volleyball. We play every single day. But it´s so fun! I´m definitely getting a lot better haha.Spanish is way rough but its slowly coming. I can pray and say a very simple testimony so its coming along.I´m learning that its hard for me to get along with some people but the Lord is really helping me.
The food is getting so weird. But its still pretty good. I eat a lot of ice cream so its ok.
I also got asked if I was from Spain because my pronunciation was apparently good. I was like uhh no. It was pretty funny so I´m pretty much a Latina. Sorta.
I love you all and I love this gospel!Hurrah for Israel.
-- Hermana Haley HowePeru Arequipa Mission
Pic 1:food. the green stuff was disgusting but the rest were good.Pic 2:Volleyball courtPic 3: Hermana Cruz. A sweet Latina that loves to hug me and try and talk to me in Spanish but i can never understand her.