Tonight, I'm going to talk to you candidly!

It sounds like Elder Holland's talk was one of Elder Bowen's favorites from his title! 

Elder Bowen could use some letters this week, if you find time to write him, I know he would appreciate it!

Wow what a powerful weekend!  As missionaries, General Conference was like Christmas to us.  My only regret is none of our investigators came to the church to see it.  Hopefully they were able to at least catch a little bit of it at home.  Some of the messages we felt were made for our investigators and are really going to try and encourage them to see it.  The temple announcements were very exciting.  Provo temple #2 sounds amazing, and all the others sound really exciting.  This week has been an interesting week.  Elder B suffers from Chronic headaches, which can get really bad during the day.  So this past week he had an appointment at with a doctor on Tuesday, and then he had an EEG on Thursday, which is really cool.  Today he will get an MRI and is doing a sleep study tonight.  So that has kept us a little bit off the street.  But we continue to do everything we are committed to do.  We invited someone to be baptized everyday except  Saturday and yesterday, due to obvious reasons.  We are up to 3 dates now, whereas just a week and a day ago, we had 0.  The invitations have really been spiritual experiences.  We also spend at least an hour every day knocking doors.  So besides the doctor on Tuesday, we only were able to have one more appointment.  Then Wednesday was a day of dropped appointments.  We went to go see a member referral we hadn't seen in a week or so.  Her place is really hard to get into because there are 3 security guards and gated all the way around, so we can only get in with an appointment.  Well we didn't have one, but decided we needed to try.  Somehow the security guards phone wasn't working and since we had the address he let us go in.  When we got there she had just walked in the door.  We couldn't come in because there was no man there, but we sang a song and set a solid appointment for Friday.  After that we stopped by a few houses and no one let us in.  Then we got a call from this awesome investigator saying she was toooooo busy.  AHHH man that killed.  We ended up going to a former investigator instead and had a great lesson.  He had always been saying we are all on the same team before and just let us in because he liked our company kind of thing.  But so we went in with 2 Nephi 28 in mind, and read it.  It isn't the nicest chapter, but he really responded to the not so feel good message.  We boldly expressed the difference and invited him to be baptized, he said that he needs to pray more to receive an answer about the  Book of Mormon.  It was really powerful and exciting because we left and he was now considering getting baptized for real.  This week we have also been getting dumped on.  My planner is destroyed.  It has been fun though.  Thursday we went to the EEG which is where they put all these crazy electrode things on your head and tell you your brain activity.  It was really fun to watch.  Then everyone that said they would meet with us Thursday, didn't pick up their phones.  We did get into a house for knocking though, so that was cool.  Then Friday President Anderson and his wife came and inspected our apartment and had interviews with us.  They went well and Sister Anderson really expressed her gratefulness for our area books.  We then went to the member referral we had set up on Wednesday, and her daughter, who referred us to her, was there.  We had an awesome lesson about the Plan of Salvation, which ended in talking about the temple.  The daughter bore powerful testimony of her love of the Gospel and how she knows she will see her Father some day again.  She then accepted a date and is going pray to make sure it is the right time.  She is so ready, and she has a lot of support.  Saturday we were stuck at the chapel all day for General Conference because it was out of our area.  Then yesterday was great because we had general conference and had a great house that we had knocked on a couple weeks ago.  We visited with him, and he really felt the spirit.  We are coming back in  a couple days and he said that he really cares for us now.  We met a lot of amazing people this week.  One day we talked to a guy who worked for the CIA for years.  Later that day we talked to a man who had been the best teacher in Cuba.  He had all these Soviet Union diplomas and stuff.  He was kicked out of Cuba though for writing books about how his students needed more resources in Cuba.  Then at the EEG the doctor was 75.  She was just about as good at technology as someone at her age can be.  She was quite good with her touch screen phone and really enjoyed the usefulness of her computer.  She was from Venezuela, and she came here when her brother flew her over because he was in the MLB.  Now he is the only Venezuelan player in the Hall of Fame.  There really are some amazing people here.  Today Elder B is getting his MRI.  We told him that he should bring some kind of animal with him and have it bite him while he is getting it done, so that was he can get its powers.  It started out being a Spider, since Spider Man is where we got the idea, but then we told him he should bring a Cheetah to be super fast.  It was pretty funny.  So that has been our week, pretty fun.  It is crazy that we are almost on week 5 of this transfer.  Time can really fly here.  Thank you all for your support and love.  I love you all and the gospel.  I know the words of the prophets and apostles are true. They are very powerful and exciting.  I know that bringing souls to Christ is very important and how we can feel some of the greatest joys.  I know Heavenly Father loves us, and cares even about little quarters on the ground for us.  I'm grateful for this gospel and all the love I can feel from my Heavenly Father.  I know this church is true and that the Book of Mormon is a testament to that.  Thank you all again, and I hope to hear from you soon

Con Amor,
Elder Wesley Christopher Bowen

Florida Fort Lauderdale Mission

7951 SW 6th St Suite 110

     

Fort Lauderdale, FL 33324