Lufkin is amazing! I love it so
much! The ward is fantastic and our investigators are amazing and I
can't believe how fast the time is going! I just got here and 2 weeks have
already flown by!
So Lufkin this last week has
been great. We taught Rory a lot this week! It's amazing to teach him! We
give him a pamphlet at the end of a lesson for the next lesson and he
just devours it! When we taught him the Gospel of Jesus Christ it was
pretty much a review for him and he could have taught us it seemed. He
even fasted this Sunday a full 24 hour fast with us. It was amazing! He
came to church and he stayed for the whole block! He is going out of
town this week so we have left him with a lot of assignments for him to
study. He is leaving town to work and also for the army reserves but
will be back in town next week. He is so golden! He keeps commitments
and everything. Also he understands that when He gets an answer that
this is all true that he needs to act on it and get baptized. I am so
excited to see him when he gets back and I'm praying that he will get his
answer this week.
Dameon is doing good as well.
He has a baptismal date for July 20th and he also came to church and
fasted as well. He has been struggling with keeping the word of wisdom
though and He hast to quit smoking to be baptized. But God is going to
help him over come it. It's so neat to be able to teach Dameon and Rory
because they are so close to my age which is really good because our
ward needs more youth and young adults. We gave service to some one who
needed help cleaning their house and it was really an eye opening experience for me. His house was really nasty. It smelled like dog urine
and poo. He had kept dogs in his house full time for a while and so when
we moped the floor it was just mopping up after the dogs using the
bathroom inside the house. It was sad but we had to do it with a smile
on our face because he was embarrassed about it. It really made me think
of how good I have had it all my life and I realized that I have been
living like a king compared to so many other people.
Also I have met 2 people who
know sign language! It was really cool. We didn't start signing but it
made them happy just to know that I knew a little bit of it.
We stopped by a less active
family this week and they had a daughter named Autumn who is nine and
she was playing in her blow up pool in her front yard and as we were
talking to her mom on the front porch she asked if we would baptize her
in the pool. Her mom said if you want them to they would be more than
happy to. And then her mom asked her if she really wanted to have
us baptize her and she said yes so we introduced the Book of Mormon
to her and asked her to read it every day and we are going to
start teaching her the missionary lessons tonight! It will be a great opportunity to help her mom come back to church and we are really
excited to start teaching her family. And she has a daughter younger
than Autumn who is deaf so I'm really excited!
Well I love y'all take
care!
Love your missionary,
Elder Drew Bowen
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