Owens, Caiden

I decided to do my email a little differently this week so I did a voice memo! Love you all - Elder  Owens

This is a very very merry Christmas! Brothers and Sisters this is amazing! I get to spend my Christmas with the Lord in Stafford! I am serving with the Lord every day and have had amazing peronal experiences and that has been a huge testimony builder for me! I had an amazing experience with a part member family this week. Everyone-please pray for Angel! Angel is a 12 year old boy that has had a very hard past couple months. His mom passed away in Texas and he is now living in Virginia with his aunt and uncle. His aunt is an inactive member with a very very strong testimony. I don't have much time but here's a little explanation. She had a very hard childhood and came across the church and learned to read The Book Of Mormon when she was going through hard times. She had wonderful experiences and says that now she will never doubt her faith. She married a Catholic and he is a wonderful guy whose name is Tym. Tym and his kids are all very strong Catholics. They are wonderful peopl...

It feels like I wrote my last email yesterday! Time is going by so fast!! My second transfer ends in 2 1/2 weeks which is just so so crazy! This week was just wonderful which is sad cause it was so fast!!!  On Tuesday we had our exchange. We ended up doing service all day so we didn't have time to do much actual work-so they want to do another exchange. That is crazy because normally you have 2-3 exchanges and we will end up having 7 by the end of our transfer! It's been amazing to work with other missionaries and learn things from them and how they work. But I realized that that has been an important answer to my prayers. I've wanted to learn from a lot of missionaries and unlike most missionaries, I have had the opportunity to actually be with other missionaries often-so that's amazing! But the downside is that we don't have as many days to work in our area and we are so so busy! It's amazing but also hard with less days. Wednesday we had the wonderful opportu...

This was a very busy week! Unfortunately this week was so busy with exchanges and meetings and moving that we were only able to do 2 lessons and 10 referrals. BUT! It's been one of my biggest growing weeks on my mission yet! We had an exchange Monday night to Tuesday night last week and it was amazing. I was with Elder Buckley and wow I learned a lot! He is a wonderful missionary and taught me a lot about persevering. We had some wonderful talks that really lifted my spirits. He told me that about 14 months into his mission, he decided to be as obedient as he could in all the little things. He was an obedient missionary before but then he was obedient in all the little things. There is a huge difference. I have been an obedient missionary but have decided to be obedient in all the little things. That has been really hard but through that effort, I have seen many many blessings. We taught a family where the father has been not wanting anything to do with the lessons and would mumble...