Crazy ET

So this week was a good week. We started out the week super pumped after having an excellent week last week. We did not have as much success in the beginning though. We were just not able to find people at home, or get into their homes. We were still really excited because we were hoping for a baptism at the end of the week, and we also had interviews on Thursday. Well Thursday came around, and we were doing alright, but definately not as good as the week before. After the main part of the interview on the area, and if I had any questions, President told me I was getting emergency transferred and going to the South part of the ward with Elder Bj(trainer). So I moved down, then Elder W moved to Riverside, and Elder R(previous companion) received a missionary from the Homestead zone, Elder B. It was pretty crazy. Me and Elder Bj have done some good work this weekend though. It has been a lot of fun. We were able to get into a lot of homes, and a lot of people were accepting baptism, and coming to church. It was looking really good, and we were able to set up some good days this week, but we didnt have the turn out at sacrament that we wanted. The North's baptism fell through too, she had to work, so she is going to take an extra week or so, kind of a bummer, but hopefully it happens soon, she was so excited to be baptized the last few times I had been over there. Hopefully it happens. Our baptisms fell through too because they are teenagers, in a divorced family, and since it was Father's day they went with their dad, even thought it wasn't his turn. So next week is his turn, so we will have to wait 2 weeks for them, but they are super solid, and tons of fun. Over all it has been a really good week and I am really excited to for this last week of the transfer, next week I'll be on on Tuesday again because its transfers. I'm so grateful for the many blessings I receive and all the things my Heavenly Father gives me. I love this gospel so much, and am so grateful I can share it. I know this is all true and that through Jesus Christ we can all receive a remission of our sins and be saved. I love you all so much and am grateful for all you do for me

Elder Wesley Christopher Bowen

This was a pretty good week for us. It flew by. We had some goals as a mission that we conquered almost completely as a mission. We had tons of fun doing it. We just had a lot of fire during the beginning of the week, and we got a lot of good work done really fast. The end of the week wasn't as good, we burned through all the people we knew by Friday so we were kind of scraping the barrell, but we still did good. We grew in almost every area. We also felt like we were being guided a lot of the time. We were truley blessed. We were able to get this awesome family to church this Sunday as well. It was super exciting when they showed up. They are preparing and progressing towards baptism super fast, they loved church. It was funny because we didn't think they were going to come during the lesson becuase she told us she couldn't. We had decided to teach the Word of Wisdom because we had taught about church a lot and we wanted them to prepare in other ways as well, so we did, and the spirit was pretty strong, and she said that she had to go, so she cancelled an appointment that she had set up so that way she could go to church with her family. It is cool how the spirit can really change people. This week I feel like we had a lot of success because of the love that we showed to everyone. Sometimes we can get into a rut where we forget exactly why we do this, but we were focused all week on those we are teaching, and it really brought the spirit into their homes even more. I know this church is true, and I am so grateful for the many blessings that I have recieved. I know that Heavenly Father loves each and every one of us, and wants the best for us. He has provided the Plan of Salvation so that way we can return to live with him someday. I am so grateful for everything. I am also grateful for all that you all do for me. I love you all, Thankyou so much

Elder Wesley Christopher Bowen

Zombies

So this week has been a pretty fun week. I'm sure you all have heard that we have zombies here in Miami. Everyone is calling it Zombieland now, it is pretty funny. It is the first week that we havent heard a ton about Mitt Romney or the playoffs, because everyone is talking about Zombies. We did a lot of good work this week. We were able to improve in basically every area which is really exciting. We just need to get more people to sacrament, that is always our downfall, soon though we should have a lot. We have some really good progressing investigators, and we are really excited for some of them. This one kid we gave a Book of Mormon to he read all of 1 Nephi 1 the first night and got his answer. He is super excited. He also loved the videos on Mormon.org about Brandon Flowers and Alex Boye because he is super interested in music. It is such an awesome website that we are learning how to use better and better now as a mission. We are super excited to go out and keep helping people here. The hardest part about where we are now is it feels like we have basically knocked everywhere there is Spanish, because we knock 1-2 hours everyday, and after 2 1/2 transfers, we have covered a lot of area. So now we are running into a lot of English which is good for the other Elders, but kind of a bummer. For some reason when you pass people it just never turns out as well for the next companionship. We have passed a ton of awesome people to them, then they can never get a hold of them, and sometimes viseversa, which is a super bummer. Here we have just had a huge problem with reuniting with people so it just makes it even harder with passing them. But it is all good, the Lord knows who is prepared, and we will always be guided to them. I know this church is true and that the Lord guides it through his prophet Thomas S. Monson. I know that we can all live in eternal families and live with Heavenly Father some day. I love this work, and I love you all. Thank you all so much for what you do.

Elder Wesley Christopher Bowen

Rain!

So the rain is back, which is fun. Different being in a car this
time, but we do a lot of biking now so its all good. I also cant
write to much because I hurt my left wrist yesterday, and it doesnt
quite work yet for typing. We have met some pretty funny people this
week so ut has been fun. We also had a good training on Mormon.org,
and how we can use it as another companion. It is pretty cool, but it
is not all the way in Spanish. It doesnt have the videos about people
in Spanish yet but they will in August have it, so it will be really
fun. We also talked about declaring repentance, and how we can
fulfill our purpose all the way, and using the Book of Mormon even
better. It is pretty funny now because there are a lot of people that
talk about Mitt Romney with us and we just have to steer it towards
the church. This one kid walked into thbe church after our training
talking about him, and he came to church for the English Elders, which
is really cool. Nothing else really crazy happened this week, sorry I
couldn't write more, but I'm running out of time, and one hand is much
slower, haha. I love you and thank you all so much

Elder Wesley Christopher Bowen

Mangos!!!

So this week we had a little bit of trouble, but we also had a good amount of mangos, haha. It was a fun week. Success wise, we didn't do so well, but it is all good. We will be doing better this week, I can just feel it. Transfers was fun, Elder N left our apartment, and Elder Bj is now our District Leader in our apartment. It is pretty fun to have him back again in the apartment, we get to talk a lot about all the experiences that we had together, it is so much fun. Finally here the mangos are ripe, so we have had so many lately, it is awesome. Elder Bj showed us this way to eat them, basically we mash them up, then we open a whole, and suck out of it. It is like have a mango drink, and it isnt as messy as cutting it. This week we just havent been able to get people to open the door for us, I dont know why. We have also been finding a lot of English too, which makes it hard for us, because we just have to pass them. Where we are, there is one area of really concentrated Spanish, and we have knocked it all, and missionaries in the past have really worked it too, so we have been trying to spread out, but it has lead to a lot of English passing. We might have to go a little bit more back to the complete Spanish area, but hopefully we will start finding more success where we are working, becuase we feel really good about actually branching out and working these areas that have not been touched for a while. We are pretty excited for this transfer, it is definately going to be a fun one. I will try and be better at sending more pictures. I thank you so much for what you do for me. I love this gospel, and I love this work. I know that it is the work of the Lord, and that he has called us to go and preach his gospel. I know that with Jesus Christ we can conquer all of our challenges, and have eternal life. I love you all so much, and am grateful for your support and letters.

it has been raining so I took some cool pictues with my camera, I only sent one of the rainy clouds, but there are some really cool pictures.  We got pretty wet this week, we did a lot of bike riding and there was plenty of rain,Elder Wesley Christopher Bowen

Mother's Day

Fun week for us. We didn't have all the success that we were really hoping for, but it was still fun, and we found some awesome people that we are really excited to get back and teach now. So for transfers, everyone in the district is changing, but me and Elder R. We were all kind of off on our predictions. There was one companionship we all said one stayed the other went, and it was the other way around. The one that is staying is a Spanish missionary in an English area, and his trainee, whos an English missionary is going.

We were stumped. But we are excited to have a new Elder in the apartment. This was definately a fun transfer, and I really hope that it sets us up for a lot of success this transfer. We did a lot of knocking this transfer, and finding, and now we have a pretty big pool of people to go check up on, but it is still going to be a lot of knocking to start this next transfer. We just have not been able to get into a groove of teaching a ton yet. But I'm sure it will come now, the Lord know's who is prepared, and he will lead us there.

After talking on mothers day, we went knocking some more, and we met a Spanish family, that all accepted baptism right away. We are super excited to get back and teach them, it was cool, because it was another, one more story kind of thing, and we had already had 2 experiences like that that day. Another one we were talking about how we always need to go one more, street, or house, or whatever, but sometimes nothing happens, and we just know that we will get indirect blessings. Well as we were walking away from the "one mores" that we did(which was like 5 or 6 houses) we were talking about that, and how we just need to trust in those indirect blessings, and then this guy came out and told us his family was mormon and that he wants to talk to us, so we should be seeing him soon. It is funny how the Lord works though, because if we hadnt done the few more, we would have walked another way back to our car, and he wouldn't have seen us, but it all was timed and placed perfectly. So another 6 weeks here though, it will be fun, we have some good plans. I know that this gospel is true, and that God has restored it fully again on the earth so that we may recieve all the many blessings he has for us. I know that Jesus Christ is our Savior, and he wants us to come unto him and take upon us, his yoke. I love this gospel so much, and I thank you so much for your support, Love you all

　

Elder Wesley Christopher Bowen

Baptism

This was a pretty fun week for us. We had a challenge in the district that we completed at like 8:51 pm last night. It was fun because everyone would text in as they completed part of it, and we just kept on going and going until the last minute basically. It was tons of fun. We also had a 2 baptisms in the ward, one for us and one for the other Elders. It was cool, we had one service early and one late on Saturday, both were super spiritual, even though the one at night, the other Elders was during a youth dance. It was cool, we couldnt hear it though during the actually baptism, spirit blocked it out for us, haha. But it was awesome. Ours was a 10 year old kid, that came with some reactivation that has been going on for a while, and we did it on his birthday. The other Elders guy showed up at church like 2 weeks ago and said he wanted to get sealed to his wife in Peru, and they said they could help him. It was really cool, she sang a song for us over the phone "Asombro me da" or "Oh How Wonderful it is" in English.

We spent a lot of time contacting and knocking doors this week (it had to do with our challenge) and we had a lot of fun doing it, we made it a super priority to complete our goal so we really worked hard and were focused on what we were doing. We also had an exchange this week so we took some good pictures, hopefully I can get most the computers sent over. Thank you all so much for your support, and for remembering me, it doesnt seem like I am really 20, it just feels like time should be completely stopped and I'll come back and be 19 like before, but I guess not. I love this gospel so much, and I know through Jesus Christ we can all be redeemed from our sins and be able to make it to the Celestial Kingdom with our families. He sent us here to gain and learn experience, and he has given us the preisthood here on the earth to preform all the saving ordinances that we need.

I love it so much, and I love you all.

Elder Wesley Christopher Bowen