#BLESSED

Shon , his family and Sister Bowers

Hey everyone! This week has been a great week! We went on exchanges on Tuesday- Wednesday and I was with Sister Petrus! She is from Chuck! Haha it was quite the exchange! It was our walking Wednesday and I had a feeling that we needed to go and see these investigators that we hadn't seen in a long time! I really didn't want to go there because i don't like the men that live there but for some reason we went and I am supper glad because I was able to see my recent convert Shon! It was a little miracle from Heavenly Father!

On Thursday we went to our very first Pohnpeian Funeral! HAHA man i have never felt more like a tourist than in that moment! It was a man who was a member who fell away from the church and built his own church that uses everything that The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints uses!...Book of Mormon, Sacrament prayers, everything, he just believed that he was a prophet, he was not the biggest fan of us missionaries! But hey thats okay, not very many people are! So we decided to go and support him! Funerals are so different here, they leave the body in the house and the women go in the room with the body and cry and give money in a bowl, and if you dont want to do that, you go out side and cook! HAHA just imagine, 2 white girls among 200 Pohnpeians! It was an experience i will never forget!

Saturday KATHRENE got baptized! It was so cute! She kinda ran from her mom and did it! Her mom kept telling her that she needed to wait but Kathrene knew that she needed to do it! So she asked her mom Saturday morning if she could go to a church activity that night and her mom said yes! We went to the bottom of the hill by her house to wait for her ride and we see that her sister is with her so we asked if she told her mom and she said no, but she said that her little sister knew! Haha oh man we just started laughing! I love this girl so much! She has taught me how to stand up for what you believe in! She is so faithful! I am so grateful for her! She has changed my life in more ways than i can explain, she is the one that has helped convert me to the gospel! 

I hope you all have a great week! I am so grateful for all of you and your examples to me and all of your prayers! I know this is the Lords work and I am grateful I have been blessed with the opportunity to do it! 

Love, 
Sister Bowers

Limwee... love this girl!

Kilel!

Hey everyone! This been has been crazy fast! I don't know where time is going! Here are just some points from the week:

-Wednesday we were able to teach Kathrene about the Tree of life and it was super cool! It was weird teaching it. It was actually my first time teaching it because it isn't translated into the Pohnpiean Book of Mormon so it was a neat experience to be able to teach it!

-Friday we were able to put some more of our investigators on date! So that is way exciting! 

-Saturday Suleen came with us and she was doing our job! We pulled into our house and our land lord was there and she just walked up to them and started teaching the gospel and then as they were leaving she gave them a Book of Mormon and a Restoration pamphlet...I felt really bad...need to step up my game!

-Eatting dinner with our ward mission leader his wife asked him to get us a bowl so that we could wash our hands and he stand up and faces away from us and as soon as he does the elders start laughing and I couldn't figure out why! So then I look at Brother Albert (ward mission leader) and his pants were ripped, not just a little rip but from the belt down to the seam! Hahah oh man it was so funny! We all just died laughing! ahahah his wife was laughing so hard, haha and in that moment all I could think was "that is something that would happen at my own house" haha it was the best dinner appointment I have ever had!

-We were able to teach Kathrene about the Sabbath day! We taught her about the sacrament and she already knew what it was for and how important it was! She didn't take it the week before but she took it this week and she explained to us that she knew she wasn't clean because she still was having word of wisdom problems so she didn't want to take it, but she took it this week because this was the week she was clean totally from chewing! It was so amazing to me that she hasn't even been baptized but yet the sacrament is already so important to her! 

That is just a little big about our week! I am learning so much! I am starting to get really scared because time is going by way to fast! I love you all! I love this gospel! I love my Pohpeians! I hope you all have a great week!

Love, 

Sister Bowers

#1. Eleageem! Ha he is one of our investigators/friends, every time he sees us he flags us down and comes running to talk to us! This is his pet Chicken I cant remember his name thought! He carries it with him every where he goes!

#2. DehDe! He is a member, we were driving down the road and he saw us so I pulled out my camera and this was the pose I got!

#3. Ester Orlando! She is 10 yrs old! She always follows Sister Russell and I around, she is our little sister! 

#4. Massage (Little Crabs) The lady in the blue shirt is a member and she was making her dinner so we asked if we could help! Crack the crab, scrape out the bad suff and then she cooked it.

Miracles!

Time! Time! There isn't enough time to do anything! I feel like it was just Monday! I am absolutely LOVING my mission! I am serving with my best friend, teaching the gospel that I love and sharing it with the people that i absolutely love! We have been extremely blessed this week! We have found more prepared investigators and have been able to put them on date already! I have been seeing so many little miracles! Such as Priesthood power is a healing power, Heavenly Father is aware of us, He guides us to the prepared people, he answers our prayers! So many things he does for us! I just love my Heavenly Father! I know that this is Jesus Christs Church on earth today! I know that this is the only Church that can give us this much happiness in this life and in the next life! I have never been so happy! I know that the Book of Mormon is true and that if we read it every single day we will not fall and it will be easier for us to over come temptation! The Book of Mormon brings a happiness into our lives like no other book can. So if your not happy, read, read, read, read! I know that Jesus Christ is our Savior and Redeemer! I know that we can use his infinite atonement anytime we need help! He is always there for us! I know that we have a living prophet on earth today Thomas S. Monson and that he receives direct revelation from our Heavenly Father! I am grateful for this gospel! I am grateful for all of you and all of your prayers! I love you all so much! Have a great week!

Love, Sister Bowers

Kathrene and Dehlila

It's raining....... just a little.

So I swooped Sister Russell's weekly email because i wanted to share it with you all about our week so here it is.....

So here's a few of our little miracles from this week!

A few days ago Sister Russell and I decided that we needed a little bit more of heaven's help! So wee chose to fast for those things which we needed & along with that we decided to fast for a miracle and boy did we get one! We closed our fast and went to the church to pick up our member present & when we pulled up Pohlo came running to us telling us that her nephew was staying with her and how last week he came to church & explained to her that he had felt something different at this church than he had felt at other churches. Soooo we taught him & in the first lesson he explained to us his desires to join the church! He's now on baptismal date for the 28th. God is good. 

Next miracle. Kathrene! Gosh I love her.

I'm pretty sure at least half of the Sapwalap Ward was fasting & praying for that cute girl & we saw another miracle because EVERYTHING is now fine! The Lord is not going to let anyone stop His work not even Kat's mom! We're praying that everything will work out with her baptism on the 28th.

Soooo what else happened this week?

- Me and Sister Russell had a total freak out this week when we ran into Suleen in town. I was yelling and Sister Russell was honking but the windows were down and we both just looked like total idiots and everyone was just staring at these two white girls having freak outs in the car. It's the little things on a mission. We probably laughed for 3 hours after that. yikes. 

- We walked around in the rain ALL DAY on Friday and President Zarbock said there were blessings that come from walking around in the rain but we didn't real see those because no would let us in their house because we were too wet. Thanks President. We tried.

- OHHHH so these men from the Church are making a "Light the World" video on Pohnpei and they came and filmed our English class last night so HECK YA. Go look on FB (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in Micronesia) to see a little bit of that! 

Love you all!!

When President Poston comes to Pohnpei!

Hey! Wow it feels like I was just emailing yesterday! Time is going so fast! This week has been a busy week! Our mission president came to Pohnpei and so we had lots of meetings with him! Here is a little run down of how the week went:

Tuesday: We had a meeting with the zone leaders about the meeting that we would have with President Poston, during the meeting President called and said that he wanted us to come and get them when they land on Wednesday and take them to a missionaries mom who lives in our ward! Ha the Elders were a little up set that it wasn't them! So we drove the hour drive back to our area and proselyted for the rest of the day! 

Wednesday: Headed to the hotel that President Poston would be staying at and they drove us back to our area so that we could take them to Sister William, the missionaries mom. We arrived at her house and it was a neat experience, we were translating for them and it was cool to feel the love that they had for her son! (Mission Presidents love is so real!) We left and he offered to take us to dinner so we joined them and by the time we got back to our area it was already 8! Ha we spent the whole day with President and Sister Poston! It was so nice to be able to talk to them! It makes you feel like your almost with your own family!

Thursday: We had Zone Conference at 9 and finished at 5pm! It was a long day! Then we went home and had a lesson with on of our investigators named Mayoleen it was really cool after the lesson she was the one that said she was going to come to church.. and she was going to start WALKING there! It was so awesome!

Friday: We had interview with President Poston and then had another meeting with him about the areas and then once again he took us all out to lunch! So once again we got home late and did our weekly planning and then went and taught Mayoleen again!

Saturday: Finally we were able to see Kathrene! We were having a lesson with her and something just seemed off! And as soon as she saw her mom she told us that her mom doesn't want her going to church with us anymore and that she can no longer get baptized because she went to church last week and her baby got sick! She was so upset! We talked and told her that there were angles on both sides helping her and that our families at home were praying for her she just started crying! Oh man I just love her so much! I have never seen an investigator so prepared and so willing to do things!

Sunday: We headed to go and make sure that Kathrene and Mayoleen were ready for church and we get to Kathrenes house and she is already walking down the hill and she says.."my mom doesn't know i am going to church with you so i need to be back at 12" ahaha i looked at her and was like really?! Man this girl she has so much Faith and desire! Then we drive down the road a little bit and there is Mayoleen she is already walking! Oh man, everything worked our so smoothly! it was a miracle! 

I am so grateful for this opportunity that i have to serve a mission! I love Pohnpei and my pohnpeians! I am grateful for this gospel and the many blessing that come from it! I love you all and hope you have a great week! 

Love, 

Sister Bowers

I Love Missionary Work!!

Hey everyone! This week has been another great week! We were able to find lots of new people to teach! Time is just flying by so fast it is hard to remember what we did! So ill just give some funny times throughout the week! So on Monday we went and visited one of our members and i kinda played a joke on her and told her that Sister Russell was going to be getting transferred and she stared to get really sad and went over to Sister Russell and hugged her and then i realized that she was going to cry so i said "Im just kidding she staying!" She immediately reached for the shovel and about swung at me but luckily i was faster than her! HAHA we all had a great laugh! 

We finished our sports night and it ended up being all the teams that were not members of the church won! It was so cool! It has been way cool to see how peoples hearts are changed and softened just through the friendliness of others! 

Sorry this week is going to be short i dont have alot of time but i am so grateful for all of the prayer that have been said and all the support that i have been given! I love missionary work! I love this gospel! I know that this is the true gospel of Jesus Christ on earth today! I hope you all have a great week! Love you all!

love, Sister Bowers

Bowers and Russell 

Sister Tuevi and Sister Bowers