Introspection

This week was not the week that we were hoping for. This week Elder P and I worked more in our area than we have since we have been together, partially due to miles and not being able to do companionship studies far from home, but either way we worked extremely hard in our area. We started out great reaching almost all of our midweek goals on Monday, and then we just did not have much success after that. We found some amazing people during the week, which we thought were going to be amazing, but we had a really hard time getting back into contact with them. The entire week we tried to introspect, and I think we did it to the point that we wore ourselves out and were looking beyond the mark. We had a huge desire to get people to church this past week, so we invited everyone everywhere to come to church and prepare for baptism, and we had so many people who were committed and excited to come, and then no one showed up. We talked a lot about it after church, and repentance came to mind. We have continued to talk about it, and we feel out of our desire to get everyone to church, we focused too much on the application and not enough on the why, repentance. This week we are going to be declaring repentance the best we can, and making sure that everything we do is tied to bringing people unto repentance, and having urgency to move forward, and not procrastinate the day of their repentance. We did have some amazing spiritual experiences this week. We met with a new investigator who is a Native American Cuban. We hit it off really great because of the things I learned when I was in Okeechobee with the Seminoles, and he even knows some of them. Then in the lesson we had a strong feeling to share Alma 34:32, but it wasn't coming out, and then he asked about the Law of Chastity, and he read the verse before, and after, and he said those were the most powerful sentences he has read in his life, and he now realizes that life is here for us to master our bodies. Later in the week we met with someone who Elder P contacted while he was leaf blowing. He accepted to be baptized, and he is preparing to be baptized once again so he can receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. He is really awesome, and called to make sure that we were coming by. Overall we are doing good. We have done a lot of good things and are continuing onward. I know that the Lord will help us, and he always provides miracles when we have the faith. I love the Lord, and I am so grateful that I can be here to do his work. I love you all so much!

Elder Wesley Christopher Bowen