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Well. It's been crazy. Absolutely crazy. I've been missing friends and family a lot recently, especially all my friends who are getting ready for missions. Sione, Jonah, Grant, Logan, and especially Liz. You guys are absolutely legends and I can't wait to start getting your weekly emails.
The week started out with a phone call from some guy telling us he wanted to join our community and come to our church
So we met with him a few times and put him on date for the 2nd of November!(for baptism) He still has a lot to learn and we're helping him learn English too.
One of the guys the sisters are teaching asked for a blessing so we zoomed over there and the first thing he said after the blessing was "did you guys smoke weed before you came over?"
I have no clue why he asked that, but it was hard for me and elder scott to not burst out laughing. He also wouldn't take his hat off, so we just…let the oil seep through. Blessing the sick is always amazing.
Then exchanges the day after that. I had 2 incredibly humbling experiences. One is so humbling I'm hesitant to share but….whatever
We were biking around. We had gone about 1 mile and stopped to talk to somebody. And after we stopped I experienced every symptom I have heard of that accompany fainting. My vision tunneled and continued till I couldn't really see, I started sweating A BUNCH. I was Maaadd salivating. I could barely talk or think and was struggling to breath so im like "elder……I think imma faint….." so he helped me get off the bike and sit down and held a water bottle on my back(I love my zone leaders so much) and just sat with me till I was back.
When I was back the first thing I said was "elder Spiers, I promise I'm not a wimp"
He said "elder Owens, I didn't think you were"
I felt nauseous the rest of the day. Some lady offered me some beer.
Oh, the other one was that we gave a lady a blessing way later that night I was consecrating and when I went to get the oil I spilled almost my whole vial onto the floor.
.The dog came and ate all of it.
So I said "well..your dogs gonna live forever now"
It was a beautiful blessing and even though it was In Spanish I still felt the spirit and knew that the words were from God.
Because of meetings and busy mornings, exchange, and other crap that doesn't actually matter I was not able to have personal study every morning and lemme tell ya. There was a difference. I was not as happy. It was harder to have the courage to start contacts and share scriptures. Having your own personal study of the book of Mormon will completely transform your day(and eventually your life)please experiment on this. If you are already reading every day in the morning then you're a legend. If you're not reading every day, in the morning. Sacrifice some time. Wake up earlier and eat faster, shower faster, get ready faster so you can have at least 10 minutes of just you and the book of Mormon. I can absolutely promise you your day will be 100% better than if you hadn't given those 10 minutes to God. Try it out. Please. We need the holy ghost with us in order to spiritually survive.
Anyways.
Then conference woooowww what an experience. Pretty incredible. I loved hearing Elder rasband talk about the Book of Mormon that one really stuck with me.
But ya
Go onna mission.
Read the bom every day "it's all here"
Eat healthy and drink more water.(that ones mostly for me)
Get enough sleep(also for me)
Read your patriarchal blessing(or go get it)
Bible dictionary is actually worth your time.(stuff in italics immediately after the bold word is the literal meaning usually in Hebrew of the word, waaay cool)
The gospel brings more joy than anything else so jump in the scriptures and service.
I love you guys. I miss you all.
And thank you so much Martin Stewart for praying for me and the other missionaries.
Thank you to everybody who prays for me. I know it helps and blesses me.
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