Tuesday, November 8, 2011

Another Busy Week!

A picture of me and elder Gudjenov at the highschool that twilight was filmed at...We had dinner at a house right close by to it last week while we were on exchanges in Longview. 
 

Last night we had a cool experience.  I think it was God kind of giving me a slap in the face:)  ha ha... It was about 7:00 and we had just gotten out of dinner and we had tried a few people but no one was home that we were trying to visit.  We tried this guy who was inactive and he told us he wasnt interested in coming back to church despite us trying to tell him that it would help with the stresses of his life.  After we left his house we decided to knock a few doors.  Since the time change it is darker now and I had never really had much luck tracting after dark so I wasnt really in the mood.  I was thinking that maybe it would be more effective to try some potential investigators or to go by some part-member-families or something.  I was having this battle in my mind when I remembered that we had found a family prepared to hear the gospel about this time of night by knocking on their door.  That thought gave me the modivation to start knocking but then as we were walking up to the first door I got to thinking "so what are the chances that we find someone else like that family?... its not going to happen, there is no way... i dont realy want to go tracting right now..." but I knocked on the door and a 23 year old answered and I introduced ourselves and before I could say anything besides that we were missionaries he said come on in:)  Im sittin there thinking that its a joke because everyone is smiling and im ready for them all to say they are in the YSA or something! we even asked them if they were members thinking that they were but they werent. So we go in and it turns out it wasnt even his house but it was his sisters and brother in laws house so they were a little confused at why there were two missionaries in their home but turns out that they were very open minded and participated in the discussion.  I wish I could tell you all that happend but just in summary we were there till 9:20.  Jesse (the one who let us in) told us things like: I have been praying to have some one to talk to about God and Christ, I have been hoping to get my hands on a Book of Mormon, You two coming by are like an answer to my prayers... It was an amazing lesson even though it was rough at times.  He has a lot of questions from all the anti-mormon material he has received but he also wants to learn what we really beleive and why.  His sister and brother in law were very open and participated.  We all read out of the Bible and Book of Mormon and talked about a variety of topics. Now  I definitely have faith now that God is preparing people to hear the Gosple!
 
The family we have been working with is still doing great! they are planning on getting baptized on the 26th which they were pushing to set a date before we even asked them! Their daughter was getting some flack from her friends at school but now she is already sharing the gosple with them and telling them that she is Mormon!  they are great:)
 
The Elder Christensen Conference is this friday and then next monday as well!  I will let you know how that goes!
 
Have a good week!
 
-Elder Bowen
 

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