Updates from Elder Bowles: The Weeks are Flying By

Good morning Family!

So things have been well overall. I've been enjoying training and the learning and growing opportunities I've had. But I also enjoy elder moon he's a good kid just got a whole mission ahead of him I have to often remind my self of who I was and how I was in the beginning of my mission and I'd have to say he's doing amazing just working on positivity and faith. The work has really been a swamp pit we are teaching mainly one person but we find between 1-3 new people a week but they never keep their appointments and eventually tell us to not come back and the people who do want to meet just want to tell us we are wrong lol, but things are good going into a new transfer this week and I feel good like some miracles are coming and the lord has some good work in store for us I also hope some of the people we have found will come around! I had interviews this week they went well he basically told me to not worry about what is happening back home in Oregon.

So I felt really inspired to share the insight I've been learning as I have fasted and prayed so fervently these last few weeks. And Sundays have been amazing and what I've needed to hear it's been so awesome! so one lesson was on sacrifice and how sacrifice can bring about more sacrifice but in the end the great blessings it brings into our lives next was about tithing and how sacrifice and tithing are so essential. When we pay our tithing we show God we have more faith in him than the temporal things of this world and Nephi said this: “I will go and do the things which the Lord hath commanded, for I know that the Lord giveth no commandments unto the children of men, save he shall prepare a way for them that they may accomplish the thing which he commandeth them” (1 Nephi 3:7).

I know without a doubt in my heart this gospel is true and that I have been called to serve and labor among the people of Colorado at this time for a reason not all reasons have I seen but many! I know that Jesus Christ is my personal savior and indeed loves and knows me and he love all his children and because he love th his children he has indeed called Joseph Smith to be his prophet seer and revelatory to restore his church to this earth in these last days and that his predecessors mainly president Russell M Nelson is indeed the living prophet on the earth today. I know that the lord liveth and in the great words of elder Bednar "the tomb is empty" I know we are and never will be alone though Christ I also have come to find the pure joy that is found in him and his redeeming love and its our duty to share with all these blessings and knowledge in which we have gained and as we do so we may have a fullness and all rejoice together and I know there is no greater joy! :)

Hiking Spruce Mountain Trail