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