High 5!
1. Another AMAZING week in El Dorado! We attended a child's
baptism this week and had 3 investigators there and a less active family! One
of the non-members has been hesitant about meeting with us but after the
baptism was SO excited to set up an appointment and start the lessons. She
expressed to us that she could feel something different there.
2. While we were helping a family move this week, we ran
into a family who recently moved in near by and wanted to talk to us. We took a
break from hauling stuff up and down the stairs and taught them right then and
there! They are a super cute Navajo family with 3 young children, and have been
looking for a church! Pray for the Mann family!
3. We have recently started teaching a part member family in
our ward and they are doing SO well! Brother Williams was recently remarried to
a wonderful women from Ecuador and she is super interested in our church! She
loves reading the Book of Mormon and in her best English says it makes their
home feel better! She is preparing for baptism and he is preparing to baptize
her.
4. We are teaching our apartment manager!!! Weird, huh!? She
is SO awesome. She stopped us one day and asked what we did and then asked us
to meet with her on a weekly basis! She has a very good relationship with God
already and will make a great member :) Pray for Darleen!
5. We went on splits with members multiple times this week
to cover all of our appointments and had a lot of fun :)
No down lows this week!
3 Nephi 14:13-14 "Enter ye in a the strait gate; for
wide is the gate, and broad is the way, which leadeth to destruction, and many
there be who go in thereat; Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way,
which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it."
My companion and I were talking about these verses and
trying to picture the differences between these two gates! There is one gate
that is broad, shiny, and attractive to the world, but it leads to a path of
thorns, sharp rocks, and the great and spacious building! The happiness that
comes from walking this path is temporary and cannot last beyond the gate. The
other gate is simple. It's narrow and not appealing to the world, but behind
it, it widens to endless possibilities and complete and lasting
happiness.
I know as we keep the commandments, our choices open up and
we will be confronted with open doors and more opportunities to become who
Heavenly Father wants us to be. May we use the greatest gift we have been
given, our agency, to stay on the straight and narrow path which leads us
safely home to our Father's presence, through the second gate I described. All
the blessings you can imagine will be yours to keep!
God speed!
Love, Sister Bowen
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