nov 15

Well.... This week was ok.

nah, This week was incredible! I am so glad right now. We found a really cool family. Bill, Belen, and their son Sebastian. Bill is basically a cross between Dan Burton and Dad. They are reading the book of mormon together as a family. I really like them and have high hopes that they will progress. They are interested in doing food storage and emergency preparedness, and lots of things like that. They were asking about how long we could live on our food storage back home. I am glad I've never had to. I really like fresh fruit and vegtables. Home canned fruit is an alright substitute for fresh fruit, but canned vegtables can't compete wtih fresh ones.

We have tried really hard this week to just listen to people and find what they care about, listen to what they are looking for more in their lives. To show them that we aren't about just increasing our numbers or trying to get as many as possible to church. We are really caring about individuals, and seeking for ways to bless their lives. We have seen a huge change in the way that people have reacted towards us as we have shown that sincere love for them as a person, and kept in mind ways to help them see it. We always had the love for them, but now we are trying to show it more and it is really doing wonders.

My trainer is home. Elder Anderson. I haven't heard from him yet though. Elder Gurney is home, Elder Stahle is home, Elder McBride is home(I have heard from him) Elder Johnson, Perkins, Stone, and Daniels-brown of course, are my companions still out. 1/2 4/8. It is kinda crazy. I love it though.

Study Preach My Gospel, try teaching the lessons. You learn so much as you try to teach! I think teaching primary must be similar. I think Steve Robertson would be an awesome primary teacher. Does his wife have a calling? She was a fun lady too.

Love Elder Owens

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Thanksgiving Newsletter

Thanksgiving Newsletter:

This is such a marvelous work! I am so glad to be a part of it. I feel like I am finally getting what missionary work is all about. I am finally starting to love all people. I love to teach. Teaching is my strength. Finding people is becoming a lot more effective though and I do enjoy it now. Though the best way is always still through the members.

The Gardners have to move again. Their landlady told them they could move in with the animals and it was a rushed move out of a really terrible place with sewage in the basement past your ankles. But when they got the lease in the mail it turned out that it said no animals. They are getting the security and the months rent back, so that is a blessing, but they don't have gass enough to move again. They are waiting till the end of this week and we are going to help them move in. It is just so crazy all the things that happen to that family. Count your many many many blessings!

We are going to try to be grateful for the conference talks this week by reviewing our notes from them and re-reading the talks. They were really good. I love listening to them in the car. (we've been listening to april 2010)

We are going over to the Smiths for dinner, they have a tradition of feeding the Elders tacos every time. So I was wondering if they were going to feed us turkey tacos or not. They aren't, They thought about it though, and would have if we'd wanted. :D

I am so glad for a car. It is getting cold again, and It is really nice not to have to walk/bike everywhere. We found some bikes for this area but the one is all beat up and I didn't really have the desire to spend a couple hours on it to use it for maybe a couple hours.

Belen and Bill and Sebastian(thier son)'s lesson is tonight and I am really excited about that. Billy came to church yesterday I think things are going well for him.

Sad news for Ricky, we taught him, committed him to pray, he felt the spirit tell him a new perspective and new beliefs and his grandma got really mad and said he couldn't meet with us any more.

Elder Stone had two siblings on missions too. His brother went home last transfer and his sister goes home in two weeks.(She was-is- serving in Iowa) He was in New York New York North Mission.

Love

Elder Owens