Life is crazy😉

Aloha! This letter is going to be kind of lame, today is our P-day because we had MLC yesterday and so we also have district council, stuff with the Assistants, Etc. Etc. Life is crazy😉 

MLC was wonderful and we talked a lot about Vision and I loved it because I had been prompted to reread a talk by Elder O. Vincent Haleck called "Having the Vision to do" and It went perfectly with the training. If we dont see a vision for ourselves, families, and people learning about the gospel, nothing is going to happen. We create the cultures in our homes and if we have a culture of hard work and spirituallity that whats going to happen, thanks for raising me that way, I still doing know how you did it with me but it definitley worked. 😉😊

Nana sent me some pictures too from the BBQ, looked like fun! Be sure to tell Nana and Papa I love them and when i dont have time to email them back it makes me so sad, I think about the pray for them every night. I also love the Turkey!!! It looks PERFECT haha wish I could actually try it, its alright Ill be home soon enough...if not too soon. 

My friends are home and I have a green dot (green means 3 more transfers) on my transfer board picture. I have never felt more urgency for this work than ever before. It went by so quickly and I dont want to waste a single minute. We had an amazing time street contacting Friday when I wore my Chuukese skirt and talked to so many Chuukese and Pohnpeians who were so impressed I was wearing their skirt. May have gotten a few catcalls because of it too but it was worth the conversations we had. We also had an amazing lesson with a pohnpeian named Norma. It was our first time teaching her and after a few minutes when we were talking about the restoration she suddenly says, "Okay so I have a question...what happens after we die?" She was so genuine and she had just told us how she was active in another church but that church had never answered that question for her. It makes me so happy to know I have the fullness of the gospel and can share it with others. I take knowing so much for granted too often.

My new companion, Sister Paletasala, is great.😊 She is humble and works hard, she reminds me a lot of Sister Soga and I have to talk to her in more simple terms because she is learning English. 

We are still teaching the Thomas kids who know SO MUCH about the gospel now, it makes me so happy, and they have a date to be baptized! They are planning to be baptized on August 4th, the day before the next transfer, and I am so excited for them. We also had one person we are teaching come to church on Sunday, tell us she has a cousin she brought to church and wants us to teach and tell us she wants to be baptized! The Lord is amazing.
We were really busy this week with random things like having a Sister from the Visitor Center up in Laie sleepover so we could take her to an English test the next day, dropping off clothes from another ward to our Chuukese families, driving SO MANY people to the airport for different reasons etc. It took a lot of work and planning to fit everything in everyday, but I love it like that😊 Its going to be hard coming home and not being busy from the moment I wake up with Volleyball or Ultimate Frisbee, to driving home as fast as our GPS Speed tracker will allow to be in by 9:00. I love this work and these people, I never imagined myself where I am right now and I am so grateful for all I have learned and that I have this time to genuinly give of my time and talents to people that need it so much, yet at the same time they have given me an eternity of memories and spiritual understanding. It really is the Miracle of a Mission.

I am excited to hear all about the craziness of next week with Wolfcreek and camps and I cant stop looking at pictures of my whole family and how great you all look. I caught myself showing other missionaries pictures of you all and raving about how handsome you all are like a grandma haha. Im just proud to be a Bowen😊❤

Love you and Sipwap Chu,
Sister Bowen