What have you learned?

Still loving the piggies!

Hey everyone this weeks email is going to be different! Not much happened this week! Our mission president came this week but nothing to exciting! So this week I decided i would just tell you a couple things i learned this week!

Things Sister Bowers learned this week:

1. You can't force people to like you, so heck, just be yourself!

2. When you eat healthier you feel alot better!

3.When you run out of toilet paper, the Elders always are prepared with their boy scout moto,

    "Always be prepared" 

4. In life, you eventually learn not to care (:

5. Realized how blessed I am when i have water with a little bit of dirt chunks and a little bit of

    brown tint rather than straight brown water :) (YES STRAIGHT BROWN WATER)

6.I have never seen the power of Satan and the power of Heavenly Father work against each other so

     much! 

7. Week #2...Fights really do happen in church..Sometimes it can put 4 people in jail and one in the

     hospital. 

8. Now that i think about it i really am grateful for Sunday School and Relief Society 

9. When your companion tells you to get the torch she doesn't mean grab a stick and light it on fire

    she means get the flashlight!

10. If you leave bananas in a plastic bag they mold really fast!

Limwee and Sister Bowers! Beautiful ladies!

Love that Smile(:

Fried Bananas

Sunday Primary kids? (I think, she doesn't send info with the pics)

Haha well i hope that you all have a great week! And i hope you learn/learned a lot!!!   Thanks for all the letters! Love you all have a great week!!

Love Sister Bowers 

Miracles!!

Hey everyone I hope that your New Years has gone great! My new years has been pretty great! To start off the week, Limwee our girl that comes teaching with us wanted to come with us on Monday night but we had another Member present with us, named Mary Sahm but she had to go back home so i go whelp lets go get Limwee! So we drive to her house and she is waiting on the side of the road! I say get in! She comes and hops in she starts speaking in Pohnpain saying, "YES! I prayed that you guys would come! I was sitting at home thinking man i really want to join the sisters tonight so i prayed. And then i had a feeling that i needed to go and get in the shower and get ready for you guys to come! So i showered and put on my dress and came and waited for you by the road!" She was the cutest thing! So that boosted my faith. 

Then on Tuesday i whipped up 3 cakes for the members and took it to them! Tuesday morning we did service with a less active family, the Siamon Family. We just pulled weeds and "mwutd" means clean the mud free of weeds! 

On Wednesday we went walking because its walking Wednesday you know! :) So off we went talking to everyone! We were led to so many part member families and to so many new investigators! It was amazing!  

On Thursday we went to Zone Conference! It was awesome! In the meeting one of the Elders said that he was talking to an elderly couple on Guam and the elderly couple had said that they heard the quarm of the 70ty were talking about a temple coming to Micronesia!! (Well im not really sure who was talking about it but anyways...) they said if it comes it would come to Pohnpei because Pohnpei is the strongest island with the church on it! WAHOOO!!!!!!!! And then they told us that Elder Holland is going to Tokyo next month and for some reason is stopping on GUAM TO TALK TO OUR MISSION!!!!!!! WTH?!?! How crazy!! President Zarbock has no idea why he is coming either! So i am really excited! ELDER HOLLAND EVERYONE!! 

On Friday we were able put Ivas Kataus little brother Wetson on date so that was really awesome! 

Saturday was a day full of miracles! We went and did service with one of our investigators Kikileen and then we went to go do service with one of our other investigators names Uren, but she wasn't there it was just her mom. So we told her mom we were here to do service and then she asked us to come back another time but asked if we could come back tonight and do a lesson, they had had some things happen in their family and Satan was really working on them, so i decided to share with her a scripture from mosiah 18:18-21 i believe that talks about praying always! When we started our lesson we started with a song, and from that moment on she had tears in her eyes, she had to go talk to someone during the lesson, and while she was gone Sister wari asked me if she had eaten, i just kinda brushed it to the side and said i am sure she has, but when she came back it and sat back down she looked at us with tears in her eyes and said "When Uren gets back we will sit down and talk, we are all going to church tomorrow and we are all going to be baptized!" I just sat there in complete shock! I Then asked her if she had eaten she said no, so i knew in that moment what we had to do, we hurried and eneded our lesson and ran to the store and bought her enough food to eat! When we came back she came running to the car, and once again with tears in her eyes, all she could say was "Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!" I knew in that moment that there was no place i would rather be! Than serving my mission to help Bercy! 

On Sunday i was asked to give a talk i stood up and said, " Menseng Mwahu Kumwial koaros, i kapinki ni ansou mwah..." And that was it and then a huge fight broke out! Two little boys started punching each other and it was crazy and then it blew up even bigger! haha so i just stopped talking and went and sat back down, the our branch president stood up and talked about Satan and how Satan is working harder and harder, everything is fine now in the branch! It was pretty funny though ill have to re act it for you all when i get home! 

I want you to all know that i know this is the work of the lord, i miss you all so much but there is no place i would rather be! I know that the Lord is guiding me through his work! I love all the people that i have met! I wish that you could come and meet them all! I love you all so much! Have a great week! Be safe! Love you!!! 

XOXOOXO 

Sister Bryn Bowers

P.S. Did i tell you sister Russell hit a pig two weeks ago? ahah only in this mission

Happy New Year!

Hey everyone I hope that your New Years has gone great! My new years has been pretty great! To start off the week, Limwee our girl that comes teaching with us wanted to come with us on Monday night but we had another Member present with us, named Mary Sahm but she had to go back home so i go whelp lets go get Limwee! So we drive to her house and she is waiting on the side of the road! I say get in! She comes and hops in she starts speaking in Pohnpain saying, "YES! I prayed that you guys would come! I was sitting at home thinking man i really want to join the sisters tonight so i prayed. And then i had a feeling that i needed to go and get in the shower and get ready for you guys to come! So i showered and put on my dress and came and waited for you by the road!" She was the cutest thing! So that boosted my faith.

Then on Tuesday i whipped up 3 cakes for the members and took it to them! Tuesday morning we did service with a less active family, the Siamon Family. We just pulled weeds and "mwutd" means clean the mud free of weeds! 

On Wednesday we went walking because its walking Wednesday you know! :) So off we went talking to everyone! We were led to so many part member families and to so many new investigators! It was amazing!  

On Thursday we went to Zone Conference! It was awesome! In the meeting one of the Elders said that he was talking to an elderly couple on Guam and the elderly couple had said that they heard the quarm of the 70ty were talking about a temple coming to Micronesia!! (Well im not really sure who was talking about it but anyways...) they said if it comes it would come to Pohnpei because Pohnpei is the strongest island with the church on it! WAHOOO!!!!!!!! And then they told us that Elder Holland is going to Tokyo next month and for some reason is stopping on GUAM TO TALK TO OUR MISSION!!!!!!! WTH?!?! How crazy!! President Zarbock has no idea why he is coming either! So i am really excited! ELDER HOLLAND EVERYONE!! 

On Friday we were able put Ivas Kataus little brother Wetson on date so that was really awesome! 

Saturday was a day full of miracles! We went and did service with one of our investigators Kikileen and then we went to go do service with one of our other investigators names Uren, but she wasn't there it was just her mom. So we told her mom we were here to do service and then she asked us to come back another time but asked if we could come back tonight and do a lesson, they had had some things happen in their family and Satan was really working on them, so i decided to share with her a scripture from mosiah 18:18-21 i believe that talks about praying always! When we started our lesson we started with a song, and from that moment on she had tears in her eyes, she had to go talk to someone during the lesson, and while she was gone Sister wari asked me if she had eaten, i just kinda brushed it to the side and said i am sure she has, but when she came back it and sat back down she looked at us with tears in her eyes and said "When Uren gets back we will sit down and talk, we are all going to church tomorrow and we are all going to be baptized!" I just sat there in complete shock! I Then asked her if she had eaten she said no, so i knew in that moment what we had to do, we hurried and eneded our lesson and ran to the store and bought her enough food to eat! When we came back she came running to the car, and once again with tears in her eyes, all she could say was "Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!" I knew in that moment that there was no place i would rather be! Than serving my mission to help Bercy! 

On Sunday i was asked to give a talk i stood up and said, " Menseng Mwahu Kumwial koaros, i kapinki ni ansou mwah..." And that was it and then a huge fight broke out! Two little boys started punching each other and it was crazy and then it blew up even bigger! haha so i just stopped talking and went and sat back down, the our branch president stood up and talked about Satan and how Satan is working harder and harder, everything is fine now in the branch! It was pretty funny though ill have to re act it for you all when i get home! 

I want you to all know that i know this is the work of the lord, i miss you all so much but there is no place i would rather be! I know that the Lord is guiding me through his work! I love all the people that i have met! I wish that you could come and meet them all! I love you all so much! Have a great week! Be safe! Love you!!! 

XOXOOXO 

Sister Bryn Bowers

Merry Christmas!!

Sister Bowers sharing her testimony in Pohnpeian.  Sorry about the video I had too many little helpers, as you can hear in the back ground! 

MerrY Christmas! I hope everyone had a great one! It was awesome to talk to my family! They said my letters are written very poorly so i am very sorry my english has really started to slip away! So my companion was supposed to come today but ended up missing her plane so maybe at then end of this week she will come!

 This week was really cool! I was able to witness a Christmas were people who had so very little were willing to give all that they had! I was able to feel the love of Christ. I just wanted to say how grateful i am for this gospel! I know that through this gospel our families are blessed, i just want to invite you all to find a way that you can help your family come closer together, weather it is through scripture study, family prayer, family Home evening, or just spending more time together as a family! I can promise you that as you do those things your familys love for eachother will grow tremendously! 

 Have a great week! Sorry no picture my camera has a virus on it! Have a great week! Talk to you next week! Love you all thanks for all your support! 

Love, Sister Bowers

Krismas Mwahu!

Beautiful Pohnpei❤❤❤❤

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!   Hey everyone I just wanted to start off by saying Merry Christmas to you all!  I hope you all enjoy the Christmas spirit and remember the real reason for the season!! These last few weeks have been rough, we haven't been able to go proselyting due to my companion falling but thankfully this seek we were able to go on splits and was able to go and see some of our investigators!  It is so crazy to see the miracles that Heavenly Father is blessing us with!
       Some crazy news that happened this week is that my companion is getting transferred to Guam and I will be hanging out with Sister Russell and Sister Pokepalla  the other set of sisters that are living in our house! So we will be proselyting in two areas until my other companion comes!
I am not sure where she is from or what she looks like so it will be a total surprise! She comes on December 26 so merry Christmas to me!
        I just want to leave with you the reason for the season is Jesus Christ. I have really come to know him, as I look back on my mission I realize that there were times he was literally carrying me! I know that as we all turn to him, not just this Christmas season but everyday that we can always feel more at  peace!  I know that because of him we can live again! I am so grateful for all of you and for all the support that you give me! For all the many prayers that are said for the missionaries! I love you all and hope you have a Merry Christmas!


 Love,
 Sister Bowers❤

One of many mosquitos bites!

Saying goodbye to Sister Wahlquist!

Good bye to Elder Hurst!  I think that means we'll miss you?!?

Just pics!

Sister Leslie, Sister Wahlquist, Sister Bowers

Sister Leslie Elder Hurst and Sister Bowers

Beautiful

Look what I found on Pohnpei.

The POWER of the Book of Mormon!!

Sister Bowers and Sister Russell doing what they love ... Serving ICE CREAM! I hope there was some left(-;

Hey everyone! How are you? I hope your week was great! I just wanted to Start off by inviting you to all watch the awesome Christmas video that the Church has made! I absolutely love it! It has 25 ways in 25 days that we can light the world. EVERYONE do it it is so awesome to see the little blessings that come from it!

  This week I just want to share a story with you all about one of our investigators named Kikileen. We have been teaching her for a while, we are waiting for her to get permission from her mom to get married so that she can get baptized. She has just started reading the Book Of Mormon and we have been reading it with her. The other night a member comes running up to us! "Sisters i have to tell you something about Kikileen! She came to my mom and told her that after she had finished reading the Book of Mormon she was sitting down on a rock thinking and then she said that there was a really bright light in the Mango tree! She said when she got closer the light began to shrink!" while our member is telling us this i am thinking no way that is the same as like the tree of life and like Joseph Smith!!!!!! So we go to teach Kikileen and  she tells us the story of what had happened, the whole time she is telling us i have goose bumps form head to toe! I was, in a way, having a hard time breathing because i knew that what she had seen was from Heavenly Father! I know that we all don't get big signs or a big bright glowing light for our answer but i do know that the lord answers our prayers! I know with out a doubt that the Book of Mormon is true! Always turn to it when you are having a hard time or dont know what to do! I can promise you that if you pray with real intent Heavenly Father will Show you! haha yes i just sounded like a missionary there but DO IT!!!!! I love you all and am so greatful for all the love and support that you give me! Have a great week! 

Love Sister Bowers