Another Transfer gone

Well, that was a fast transfer. Elder P became assistant at transfer meeting this week, so that was pretty exciting. He was a fun Elder to be with, we got a long super well, it just went by too fast. Elder S is amazing, my new companion. He was trained by Elder F, my first Zone Leader, who told me my second transfer when he was training him that we would be companions, pretty cool. He is from Orem, Utah, and also went to BYU and stayed in May hall. We have a lot of fun together. We did have a little rough of a beginning though. We did not have to much success finding people at the beginning of the week, and we actually ended up leaving more blessings than either of us have ever left before in a week. It was kind of sad because we just did not find many cool people out of it. We had one day where we left 11 blessings, and either no one was responding , or they were Spanish. The Sisters in our area were able to capitalize on the Spanish we blessed and they have some cool people to teach now. But finally, after a long time of knocking doors and talking to everyone we could see, and getting a lot of negativity, and then finally on the 12th blessing, we saw a miracle happen. We found saw a home with a truck, and Elder S said it looked English, and I said no, it looks like a Spanish home. We went up to it, and we were both right. They were of Spanish decent, but spoke English. She opened the door, and then her husband drove up as we were talking to her. They both were excited for baptism when we extended, and have been looking on where to go, they just moved in, and had a new baby. We are super excited for them. It was a good weekend, where we did a lot of looking inward, and finding how we can improve. We saw so many miracles as we humbled ourselves, and just put the Love of others and of God before anything else. I love this work, and I love how it makes me grow. God always has a plan, and he works in mysterious ways, that always seem to make us grow in amazing ways. I know that Jesus Christ lives, and that he knows us, and exactly what we go through. I love him. I love you all, and the example you give me.

Elder Wesley Christopher Bowen

This week has been a crazy one. We did not quite do as good on finding as we should of, but we still saw some miracles happen. We had some people preparing to be baptized this Sunday, but slowly they all started to fall. One was not doing so well because he had some problems with the Word of Wisdom, which we taught him early in the week, so we knew that General Conference was going to be pivotal to him. We came and talked to him about it right before again, and he set aside everything he had planned to come to General Conference. He came to every session, which was a miracle because Elder P and I had been praying to have someone come to every session. After the final session, we sat down and talked with him for a while with our Bishop. Bishop bore pure testimony to him, that with ours and that of the prophets and apostles, he knew he needed to change. He got baptized right afterwards, we had started feeling up the font before hand. It was an amazing miracle. The baptismal font had not filled up all the way, so we had to do the baptism on our knees, it was an amazing experience. Right after we went to his home and took anything and everything that was his that had anything to do with the Word of Wisdom. He was completely changed from when we had taught him it originally. He is doing amazing now, and has already started sharing the gospel with his friends. It was so amazing that we could be apart of his life. In the zone we have seen a huge need to revamp the teaching pools of everyone. This month we will have a giant focus on New Investigators, and we have a lot of good plans to help followup. We learned a ton in Zone Leader Council about how to improve all of our trainings, and we have come up with some ideas to uniform our trainings together, still allowing plenty of space to follow the spirit, and also how to be more prepared for District Trainings. We are so excited for this month. I love this work so much, and I am so grateful that we are able to be apart in others lives to help them come the Jesus Christ. I know that He lives, and that He loves each one of us, and He wants to forgive us. I know that He has His prophets and apostles here on the earth, leading us now. I love you all

Elder Wesley Christopher Bowen

Miracle Week

This week was a week of miracles for us! We were slightly discouraged at first, because we hadn't had anyone in sacrament for 2 weeks, so we went out and found people right away. We had a lot of good things happen. We decided we wanted to go out and declare repentance to everyone, and to also serve everyone and everything. We had multiple amazing experiences. One family we had been teaching for a little while, but the girls had only come to church once, we were having problems reaching. We stopped by on Saturday for one more try, and the mom was home. We happen to ask if we could clean her car, and she said yes. We cleaned her car and talked to her for a while. It was awesome. She really opened up to us. She then went and picked up her girls and let them go to the Young Women's Broadcast on Saturday night. The girls had an amazing time, and then were baptized the next day after church. It was such an amazing experience. Then we had an investigator call us on Saturday morning and tell us that he couldn't come to church because he couldnt leave his pastor, and he asked us not to stop by anymore. We were heartbroken because we had an amazing experience meeting him, so we told him to Pray about it. He did and he called us back like 3 hours later, and asked us to come by. We came by and he expressed how excited he was to come to church, and new that God had been preparing him for this baptism. We are so excited for the amazing miracles that God is providing, and we know that it is him guiding the work here.

In the Book of Mormon I studied a lot about the humility and diligence this week, really trying to understand even greater those principles. I also read a little more around, and read in Mosiah 4:11 an amazing verse. I was so excited when I read the verse. It all started to connect a little bit more for me. It made me think about the training Sister Anderson gave about gratefulness, and I realized how intertwined being thankful and grateful are to humility and diligence. I am so grateful for the time that I am able to serve here, and will keep giving it my BEST!

I know that God loves us all, and he wants the best for us, and is always giving us the things that we need, even the trials we need, to be able to grow and become as he sees us. I love this work so much and I know that it is the greatest thing that I have ever done. I love you all, and thank you so much

Elder Wesley Christopher Bowen