FINALLY .....General Conference

Kasalelie Maingko! Ia Iromw wail? Hey everyone! How are you all? I hope that your week was great and that your Easter was even better! This week..the whole week was Easter on the Island of Pohnpei! They even cancelled school for it! It was very hard to go proselyting in the the evening from 7-9 pm because everyone was at church!

On Wednesday we were able to find and talk with a lot of people so that was a big blessing! Now we just gotta go see them all! The rest of the week has been crazy we have been running back and forth in between areas to try and get everything set up for general conference yesterday and Saturday! We were able to get everything working and all set up for everyone!

So yes we were able to watch General Conference! WAHOO! Finally! I absolutely love General Conference! A topic that stood out to me that everyone seemed to talk about was becoming more like Christ, Charity..The PURE LOVE OF CHRIST! Ha i know that is something that I struggle with some times but i am so grateful for all the talks that were given! I know that they are directly from our Heavenly Father to us! I am grateful for President Monson and his week talk about the Book of Mormon! The prophet has asked us to read it every day so obviously so is Heavenly Father! I love The Book of Mormon so much! It has helped me tremendously!

Since it being Easter weekend i want to share with you about our older brother Jesus Christ! I am so grateful for him! I have really come to know him and feel of his love while being here on my mission. I know that there have been countless times that he has comforted me and taken pains away from me that no one else could! I am grateful for is Atonement, and for the chance that i can use it daily! There is so much more that I can say about him but my time is running down! So i just want you all to know that I love my savior Jesus Christ and I love each and every one of you!

6th Transfer in the UH BRANCH!

Hey everyone! Another great week in the work of the Lord! I am going to be staying in the Uh Branch for another transfer! I absolutely love this branch they are my family! I have been teaching Sunday School and now i am going to be teaching Young Womens as well it is so true the Lord qualifies those he calls! Because I know with out a doubt that i wouldn't be able to do it with out his help. The members are good though, when ever i say something wrong in the language we all just laugh and it lightens the nervousness! We were blessed to be able to have another baptism this week! We are now just praying that her parents can get baptized this coming weekend!

The work is going great! Time is going by so fast i seems as if i cant get a grip on it! Sorry for the short email! One thing i just want to share in this email is that no matter how big your testimony is always keep a grip on it! Always hold on to what ever know know is true! Cause i can testify that Satan is getting stronger and stronger and is going to do everything he can to doubt what you know! I know if we do the little things every single day such as pray and read the Book of Mormon, we become stronger than Satan!

 Have a great week! Love and miss you all!!! Thanks for all the Support and prayers!

John is BAPTIZED!!!!

YEAAH!! You got it John was baptized this weekend!! It was the coolest thing i've witnessed! But before i tell you all about it ill tell you a little about my week!


Monday: We were able to put these investigators that have become my own family on date for marriage! It was really cool to see their faces light up!

Tuesday: I made a cake for Kikileens son Kevin (one of our investigators) oh man, i have never seen any one so happy before in my life and it was all over cake! We had a little lesson before they ate it and all through the lesson the littlest kid was sitting behind dragging his fingers through the frosting! All i could think of was Me doing things like that to my mom! Dont you miss me mom? ;) haha oh man but in reality I realized how important the simple acts of service are. I was so happy i could see how much that simple cake ment to that whole family!

Wednesday: I went on exchange with Sister Fehoko again and while we were going to get her member present i was walking and the ground was really slick and i slipped and fell right on my bum haha yes its okay laugh cause i sure did! HAHa and then we got in the car and Sister Fehoko was just like that dog almost bit you and it didn't..So Wednesday once again thanks for all of your prayers for us as missionaries, you saved me from getting bit by a dog :)

Thursday: See picture below, No water...thats about all the excitement!

Friday: Sister Leslie put the car in the ditch (See picture Below)

John is my FAVORITE

John,Josh, Sister Bowers, Johns grand-daughter and Sister Wari

Hey everyone this week was good! We were so close to having our baptism with John our blind investigator! He is so cool! But he is going to hopefully be getting baptized this Saturday with his little grandson! I absolutley love teaching them! We see them every day just to keep them progressing and because they are never busy. 2 of my favorite lessons that we taught them this week were 10 commandments and Prayer, Scripture Study and Obedience. I loved teaching them the 10 commandments because when we teach the 10 commandments we use our hands and make things, as you know John cannot see so I go to sit right in front of him and teach him by him using his own hands! It was probably one of the most coolest experiences I have ever had! So I am so excited for John and Josh (His grandson) to get baptized this coming Saturday! I just keep praying that everything will work out!

Sorry but besides that this week has been pretty short! Oh our Branch got a new Branch president which I think will help with the branch a lot! So I am really excited about that! A scripture I want to share with you all this week is 1 Nephi 7:12 go and read it! And do what it says! Exercise your faith in Heavenly Father and I promise you that as you do your prayers will be answered, you will receive the help you need, but always remember Heavenly Father knows all and knows when we need certain blessings!



I hope you all have a great week and be safe! Remember to always have faith, its what everything starts with!



Love,

Sister Bowers

Missionary work is not for WIMPS!

Hey every one! How was your week!? Mine was great! I went on Exchange with Sister Fehoko and we went and saw one of their investigators whos kids are literally demons! Haha my name tag was flying everywhere, my clothes were getting pulled everywhere, getting punched and kicked where ever hahaha all I could do was laugh because I was like this is a joke! haha While we were in the middle of teaching one of her kids got mad and when out side and grabbed the machete, yes its in kids reach, I am in Pohnpei! And then he comes in the house and is just staring at Sister Fehoko and all I could think was holy crap he's gonna hit one of us! So we just sat there and I just began praying! The little kid when right in front of Sister Fehoko and Swung the Knife and sister Fehoko didn't even move! The knife barley missed her face! Oh man I stood up to go get the kid and then all the mom did was chase him out side! I literally can bear my testimony to you all that the lord watches over his missionaries and he protects them!! So me as a missionary I want to personally THANKYOU  for praying for the safety of the missionaries!

A cool little experience i had this week was we had an old investigator that we hadn't been able to see in a long time, her name is Bercy! We were driving and the spirit prompted me to stop at her house, no matter if there were people there or not, so we get to her house and we stop and get out, there was no one, we went to the house no one. We start to walk toward the car and i could hear her in the jungle, so i call her haha it how they do it here in Pohnpei and she comes! I was so happy! She was like "How come you never came back!" So we were able to set up an appointment with her and have been teaching her ever since! Oh man it was the coolest thing! Just by listening to the little promptings of the spirit we can be lead to great blessings!

Pictures :)

YES..... we're a croc wearing mission, don't you wish you were too???

Marleen and Sister Bowers

Sister Russell and Sister Fehoko brought home some crabs.

The Famous SOHN!!! He is mwuting (weeding) and can't see.  How awesome is he!

Mwoaropw uhpw!  How the cook their breadfruit! In leaves.

Our Primary Class in our Uh Branch!

Amazing Sohn!

Emailing with Sister Fehoko

Hey everyone this week was good! I was able to go out with Sister Russell and go teaching because our companions were sick! We were teaching one of our new investigators named Shon! He is a 67 year old man who is blind. We were teaching him and invited him to be baptized! He says yes and he said that it is so important that we all get baptized! Oh man it was such a good lesson! He i a man of so much faith! I have never seen someone with so much faith before! Then we go back the next day and he says "Wait can i still get baptized if i am not married?" Sister Russell look and each other thinking uhhh not again! Because it is hard to get people married here on pohnpei! So we talk to him and he tells us that him and his wife don't sleep together don't live together, they just hang out during the day, so we tell him that we will call our mission president after the lesson to see if he could get baptized. Before we left we invited him to come to church the next day! He said yes! So its sunday morning, we went and woke him up and had called our branch president to see if he could go and pick him up and he said he would. We were sitting in our church building and it was 9:05 and we just started sacrament I began to pray "Please let him come please!" and then i looked at the door and i see Sohn and his grandson guiding him to the building, yes tears were running down! Oh i have never felt so happy! Sacrament meeting was soo good! Then during Sunday school i was able to sit with him and in the middle of the sunday school lesson he leans over to me and says "Did you talk to your president to see if i can get baptized?" Oh man i was so happy i told him that he could he was so happy! 

 I wanted to share this experience with you all that even when we feel we are in dark times imagine Sohn shut your eyes and put all your faith in Heavenly Father he will lead you! I am so grateful for the opportunity that i have to meet Sohn and to have him change my life! Even when we walk up to his house that is on the hill in the jungle, surrounded by rocks i think to my self and even sometimes try to shut my eyes and walk like Sohn I think how does he do this and then it comes its because he has FAITH. So this week be like Sohn and have faith :) 

 I hope that you are all doing well! Have a great week! Love and miss you!!!  Thanks for all the support!

I am a child of God.  One of the primary children at church.

Love!