New Companion!

New companion is Elder Bowen and he is from Salt Lake City--of all places!!!
So as for this week: it has been awesome and Elder Bowen is on fire. He may be new out but his faith is remarkable. There have been so many miracles that have happened this week and funnies too of course. As for one of the funnies: So we went to take a bike back to these members that were letting Elder Phillips borrow it and we shared a short message with them and of course they are asking Elder Bowen about what he thinks about Indiana and all that good stuff. Well He tells them that he thinks that it would be cool to talk to a preacher and how it would be a good story to tell, so we leave and we go tracking for his first time. So I show him a how to do a basic door approach and then it his turn so he knocks on the door and the person opens up and Elder Bowen says: "Hi !!", and then there is dead silence for a few seconds so I step in and we finish talking to the person. Once we left the door step Elder Bowen goes onto tell me that he has always been pretty decent at talking to people but at that moment he couldn't even remember his name, hahaha. So any ways you remember how He said earlier that he wanted to talk to a preacher? Well, he didn't have to wait long because the very next door was one and it was my turn but Elder Bowen has some good input.

Miracles did happen this week and all of them were because of the Faith that Elder Bowen in following the spirit. One example is that we haven't seen these investigators that work at a dairy farm and are very difficult to get a hold of and to make it harder still they live in a town called Hamilton which is a little ways off from Angola. So we had planned that we were gonna be going out and working in that town and then we were gonna be trying these investigators later on. Well as we were leaving Elder Bowen says that we should go and try them first just to see if they are home so we did and they were and we were able to have a lesson with them. Now a problem came up because we had planned to watch a video with them but it turns out that their DVD player is busted so now we had no idea what we were gonna teach them. We went along with it and had the prayer and still I had no idea what we were gonna teach so I say another prayer to myself as I flip open my Book of Mormon and then it hit me that we were to teach about the title of liberty so we taught it and it went perfectly.
While we were also up in Hamilton we had planned to go and try this old investigator from years ago and and we are looking for this house we just couldn't find it but just as we were about to give up Elder Bowen pointed out a small street in front of us and low and behold there was the house and as we talked to the husband of the old investigator he got interested in what we have to say so HE set up a time with us to come back and teach and it is even crazier because this guy has been in and out of prison for like 15 years and used to be apart of the Aarion Brotherhood but now is completely clean.

Well allot has happened this week and my new comp and I get along super well and we're laughing all the time,
love ya,
Elder Nelson