Tranfers...

We are both staying again!!


On Friday, I got a text from my mission President saying that he wanted to call me. So I responded and we ended up talking Friday night. He told me that he had received a strong prompting that I needed to stay another transfer. It felt like he didn't know why, but he knew I needed to stay here another transfer. I have seen many examples of him listening to the spirit and being truly guided. This was another testimony builder in my trust for my mission President.


We had an interesting week. For those that remember, a couple weeks ago we were having a hard time finding people. We are starting to see this problem again and this week we did everything we could to stop that. We had only one new person, but we spent a lot of time focusing on preparing for next week and the weeks to follow. We made some strong plans to try new things and are already starting to work towards that!


I have been thinking very deep in my personal studies recently. For most of my mission, I have focused on the spirit. I have focused on making sure I am being led-so this week I studied more on the spirit. I found some thoughts that I really liked. One was the fact that when we are trying so hard to work with the spirit, we get used to it. This is wonderful because then we get used to working in the will of God. I have noticed that I have found myself there often. I have gotten nervous because I feel that I'm not being guided anymore, but I've now realized that I'm just used to working in God's will but at the same time still willing to change through the spirit. One scripture a member showed us this week (and I just loved it) was Ether 4:12 which connected to a scripture that I have been sharing with people. I invite you all to read this scripture and ponder what it means when it says, "And whatsoever thing persuadeth men to do good is of me." Apply that scripture to yourself this week and you will see blessings!


Love Elder Owens


-District Pday
-Branch Men's Night



Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Supreme Lessons.

Image
We had an amazing week!  We had an awesome lesson with Angel about commandments and different things like that and he was super into it. We also asked him how he was feeling about baptism and he said he was super excited. But he also said he was nervous for one thing....he's scared to get his hair wet. He gave us a little scare but it was pretty funny. We also had a lesson with Mario and Omar and they are so awesome! We talked about prayer and the spirit and they had so many questions-it was great! At the end Mario told us that his wife needs to hear all this (they care for someone and can't leave at the same time) and gave us her number to reach out and that has gone great as well. We also got to make papusas with them which were delicious!!! We had an exchange with our Zone Leaders this week and that went great. It was super fun to see them again! This last Saturday was 2 years since my friend Dallin passed away and that was hard to think of, but it is helpful to know the won...
Read more

Temple!!!!

Image
We had 3 temple trips this week!!! We worked two shifts for the open house of the Virginia Richmond Temple. The first started on Wednesday evening and it was amazing. I just loved feeling the spirit there. We were able to take some older people in wheelchairs through, it was a blessing. They are amazing and have great testimonies. Thursday morning Elder Moye and I got to the temple early and we were able to go inside when no one else was there and take a tour. We then got to sit in the Celestial room alone in a silent temple! What a miracle it was. I am so grateful for that experience. Sorry this email is a quick one I don't have much time. Saturday morning we got a text from Brenda (Angel's aunt) saying that they could go to the temple! It was the only day they could go! Another temple miracle. We had an amazing time with them and Brenda told us afterwards that she had to stop herself from crying before she walked into every room! Love, Elder Owens Pictures
Read more

Ummm EARTHQUAKE!!

Image
The mtc is wonderful! I am so busy all the time and it's awesome to be busy but I'm so tired! It's been a wonderful p-day, so nice to relax. I have been so surprised with the love that all the workers have for the Missionaries.  A lot of them like to mess around but even with that they are still so happy!  I met these two natives and it was super cool to talk to them in Spanish but I realized I'm not doing as good as I thought lol. It was super cool to meet them though.  Elder Hugo Montoya from the 70 came and spoke to us yesterday. At the end of his wonderful lesson, he let us all know he will be speaking in the first session of conference I believe. After he told us that he shook everyone's hand and I was one of the lasts so I shook his hand, grabbed his shoulder and said,"I hope we can all make you proud". So I am definitely going to be in his talk so be ready for that. Alright now for the earthquake. It's so crazy that this happened. September 19th...
Read more