Hallelujah!!!

High 5!

1. I've been transferred! I have been called to serve as a Sister Training Leader and am now in Los Lunas, serving in the Manzano YSA branch as well as the Valencia family ward! My new companion is Sister Ropelato and I love her!

***NEW ADDRESS***

Sis. Emilee Bowen

530 Bosque Farms Blvd.

Bosque Farms, NM 87068

My new house is dubbed the "Hobbit Hole".  Haha!

2. St. Patrick's Day was the bomb! We went with Jim to an Irish pub (oh my goodness!) There were even bagpipe players, haha! 

3. Our stake put on a HUGE Easter Program and it was awesome! We got to go to both of the showings on Saturday. Sue and the Bloom family came! The spirit was really strong :)

4. We have a baptism this Saturday for Jason! He is the fiance of a member and is super awesome! We got to teach him last night and he is really excited! His interview is tonight.

5. I got to meet some ward members yesterday! We had dinner with the bishop and his family and also visited with the relief society president. I can tell I will like it here :)

Down Low, 2 Slow.

1 big down low this week, I MISS MY ELDORADO FAMILY! Shoutout to ALL of you for making the past 6 months of my mission a blast! I love you all!

I am short on time but I wanted to share an Easter message with it being this weekend. This quote was used in the Easter Program and is from Elder Holland. It hit me hard and totally brings the spirit of Easter :) 

"So today we celebrate the gift of victory over every fall we have ever experienced, every sorrow we have ever known, every discouragement we have ever had, every fear we have ever faced- to say nothing of our resurrection from death and forgiveness for our sins. That victory is available to us because of events that transpired on a weekend precisely like this nearly two millennia ago in Jerusalem. Beginning in the spiritual anguish of the Garden of Gethsemane, moving to the crucifixion on a cross at Calvary, and concluding on a beautiful Sunday morning inside a donated tomb, a sinless, pure, and holy man, the very son of God Himself, did what no other deceased person had ever done nor ever could do. Under His own power, He rose from death, never to have His body separated  from His spirit again. Of His own volition, He shed the burial linen with which He had been bound, carefully putting the burial napkin that had been placed over His face "in a place by itself" the scripture says. The first Easter sequence of Atonement and Resurrection constitutes the most consequential moment, the most generous gift, the most excruciating pain, the most majestic manifestation of pure love ever to be demonstrated in the history of the world. Jesus Christ, the Only Begotten Son of God, suffered, died, and rose from death in order that He could, like lightning in a summer storm, grasp us as we fall, hold us with His might, and through our obedience to His commandments, lift us to eternal life. This Easter I thank Him and the Father, who gave Him to us, that Jesus still stands triumphant over death, although He stands on wounded feet. This Easter I thank Him and the Father, who gave Him to us, that He still extends unending grace, although He extends it with pierced palms and scarred wrists. This Easter I thank Him and the Father, who gave Him to us, that we can sing before a sweat-stained garden, a nail driven cross, and a gloriously empty tomb, He is Risen!" 

Love, Sister Bowen