We got moved into our new apartment....

So first off you are probably wondering why I'm writing home today and that is that P-Day has been changed to Monday from now on.

We got moved into our new apartment and it is awesome. I can easily say that it is my favorite apartment so far. I will say this though, in my experienced history of helping other people move I have learned to really like it. I see it as a larger scale 3D tetris game but after this move I have learned that I greatly dislike packing up and moving, it takes forever but I survived so it's all good.

So this week has been full of a lot of interesting, fun and companionship bonding times. Earlier in the week we talked to an apostate member and he was a really nice guy but he was telling us that only his parents are active members and that all the 8 children are not affiliated with anything. It just tears my heart out to talk to people like this because he says that he has read the Book of Mormon and the Bible and has said that neither were true. He went on to say that he believes that there is a God but that he sees him as a hands off kind of guy. I know that it is just our job to be a voice of warning but for me it still hurts when we talk to someone like that especially a member.
A funny thing that happened that day was that right before we saw this guy we were riding our bikes and we were going up a little hill so I shifted down and stood up to pedal, well at that instant when I put all of my weight on one of my pedals the chain slipped and down I went and I must say that it was pretty funny and it especially made Elder Bowens day. hahaha.

On this same street, later on in the week we were tracting and we knock on this one door and as it opens the man in side says: " O look it's the Elders!" and he invited us right in . Well love it and hate it when this happens because: someone really wants to talk to us which is good but I hate it because we never know who these people are but they know who we are so it's all talking by faith. Anyways we have a short lesson with him and we find out that he used to live in Alaska some 25 years ago and that he always wanted to be a mountain man so he went out to live in the bush. He told us that when he was up there he had a friend that is a very strong member of the church and he was given the Book of Mormon to read and so he did. In fact he decided that he was going to fast until he finished the Book of Mormon cover to cover and he said that this probably made him read faster too, hahaha, and he did it in 2 1/2 days. as he was saying this we were both in awe. Unfortunately he said that he didn't get an answer but he said also that he did take all the missionary discussions, but he didn't think that it is bad but he doesn't know that it is true either. We talked to him about how God doesn't always answer roght away but that it takes time and a lot of faith plus being in tuned to recognize the answer when it does come, so we gave him a Book of Mormon and he said that he would read it again and that also he was interested in the foot notes so he is going to look every one up, I think that it might take him a good amount of time if you ask me but we did also set up another time to meet so I'm excited.

Another miracle that we saw was that while we were tracting right after getting done talking to some very rude people we found an inactive member and she has been inactive for a very long time but she did tell us that during her life whenever she had been going through a tough time and didn't think she could make it, on the edge of giving in she would turn around and every time see a set of missionaries walking and it would give her that strength to fight harder, and then she saw us and has been wanting to come back for a while and she has also wanted a Book of Mormon again so we were led to her.

Times up remind me to tell you about another bike crash,
love ya