Well hey there my sweet family:]
So..
so much has happened this past week and I wish that I was patient
enough to take the time and write you guys about all the neat things
that I have learned but I'll just throw down a couple and let ya get
back to your crazy lives!
Over
the past couple weeks I have been really praying to know how Heavenly
Father speaks to me. I feel like all the time people will say you need
to pray about it and la la la well I pray all the time and I would still
feel like I was on my own.. so I decided to ask the Big Man upstairs to
teach me how he speaks to me.. and aw man. Some of the experiences that I have had were SO sweet:] I know that Heavenly Father speaks to me
through other people. Which I guess if you look back on my life.. that's
pretty dang obvious but hey sometimes it takes us awhile to open our
eyes and really see that he was there all the time. It reminds me of the
scripture in Alma 10:5-6, I think he really does call us many times but
it's up to us whether or not we really hear. One night as we were with
some members all of the sudden they started talking about marriage and
how their daughter has gone through some really hard things because of
who she choose to marry, and as they were speaking it was like the
spirit was smacking me in the face. I'm so grateful for Heavenly
Father's love for each of us and that he truly does answer all our
prayers:]
We
also got to help out with a youth activity which was super great! They
held this little carnival of life thing, where the games were either
worldly or spiritual. Well haha we picked to be in charge of the nerf
gun one.. duh:] As kids were coming up to play, the other set of
missionaries would try to get them to go play the spiritual games.. as
if. I found it so interesting to see how easy it was to be "satan" and
just distract everybody from the things they really should have been
spending their time on. Gosh, it is so easy for us to get distracted and I couldn't help but feel bad for the other missionaries who everytime
they would say something one of the teenage boys would kinda roll his
eyes at them and then I'd hurry and say you should just keep playing
this game it's so fun:] haha simply put, in the big picture are we
focusing on things that really are going to give us that lasting
happiness or are we merely just being entertained for a moment?
We
also got to go walk the temple grounds with Karen Foreman which was an
incredible experience. As we were talking to her about the importance of
entering the temple and how that's what all of us are working towards
she started getting emotional. She does see the importance of it and she
made the comment, "I don't regret the decisions I have made so far but I
can't help but wonder what things I've missed in not being able to go
in there." Long story short she is working towards getting her recommend
and we should be going and doing baptisms with her soon! I'm pretty
excited about it!
Valentine's
day... we all know how much I love this stinkin holiday... Welp we were
stood up by one of our potential investigators.. so my life hasn't
changed much since last year! haha but seriously. I don't think I have
ever worked harder and been so unsuccessful. At times it gets pretty
discouraging, they'll be days where me and noobhouse will get on our
knees and just cry. I'm not even sure what to do anymore because I feel
like I've tried everything. I'm doing all that i can and yet I still
haven't had one solid investigator in the past 5 months. It can be
pretty upsetting. But that's ok, I'll keep trusting in the Lord and I'll
keep doing what I know is right. Can I just say how much I hate when
people say "don't get discouraged.. you're planting seeds everywhere you
go" ew. save that for the relief society. I didn't come out here to
just plant a couple seeds and call it good! HELLO, I am Sister Bowden. I
work my butt off and miracles happen... haha they just haven't happened
yet.
Well, I love you guys so so much! I hope that you're week is so
great and that you do the incredible:]
Love, Sister Bowden
Ps.. I realize that in these pictures I looked like the most tired girl in
texas.. and well.. that's probably because Katy is sucking the life out
of me and I am tired. all. the. time.
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