1.
We had our first interviews with President and Sister Guffey this week! They
went well and they are so in tuned to the spirit! I can't believe I am putting
this in here but stay tuned for my official return date...!
2.
Catlyn is a 16 year old we are teaching. She was super excited to have sisters and
is loving getting to know the young women in the ward. She is so eager to be
baptized. We are shooting for the end of this month but pray extra hard for her
mom's heart to be softened so we can make it!
3.
We got in contact with a less active recent convert this week who cried when we
knocked on her door. She is going through some HARD things so we got some
elders to give her a blessing and it was a super spiritual experience for all
of us.
4.
Raquel is our G O L D E N investigator! She is the wife of a member and is on
fire! I think she studies more than we do...and that is A LOT! She will be
baptized on September 10th :)
5.
Yesterday we had a Face to Face meeting with the Guffey's for all the trainers
and trainees :)
1.
We were expecting like 5 people at church and got 1 :(
2.
We are pretty much starting over as far as our teaching pool. Pray for us!
I
don't have a lot of time this week, but someone asked our mission president why
he chooses to wake up every morning and do what he does and his response was
the Parable of the Prodigal Son.
The
father in the story is symbolic of our Heavenly Father. He gives all of us, His
children, agency, He anxiously waits for us to "come home" or turn
towards Him, and when we do, He RUNS to us. So many of our brothers and sisters
are lost and need to be found and God gives us the privilege of being
instruments in that process.
Along
with this parable, Luke 15 contains the parable of the lost sheep. "What
man of you, having an hundred sheep, if he lose one of them, doth not leave the
ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is lost, until he
find it? And when he hath found it, he layeth it on his shoulders,
rejoicing."
There
is no greater joy than that which comes with missionary work. I invite each one
of you to watch this video and ponder how you can contribute to "finding a
lost sheep". Rather than ""hope" for their return, let us
"help" their return.
I love you all! God speed!
Love, Sister Bowen
(Service Project)
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