Field is White and Ready for the Harvest

Dear Family and Friends who I loooovvveee sooo much!!! :)

Wow! Woo hoo! I'm so excited right now but at the same time sooo cold! HA ha and that's because 1) I'm a missionary and the 2) because of a rain storm that is happening right now! Unfortunately, Elder Kimball and I went to the plaza de Maipu when it started to rain and we didn't bring any clothes wise to fight the rain because we had no idea it was going to rain! And now it's pouring!!! Ha ha but I'm always a Arizonan and I love the rain! So there is nothing to complain about!!! ha ha :)

Well, off to my week! This week was a great week for us! In total, it was the worst week for my other sectors in my district but I'm hoping just as Dad always says that leadership starts with the example and not by authority. Because Elder Kimball and I are really trying to motivate our district to be better and have better numbers for the week! This week my district, other than our sector, didn't find a single new investigator and we only have one baptism date. Elder Kimball and I put two new baptism dates in our sector yesterday which will be a story I will tell in a little bit and we found 9 new investigators!!!! Woo hooo!!!!!!!! It was a great week! The Lord is really with us, I know it!

Well first off, I want to tell about the tender mercy of Rosa Bustamante, who was a contact that we made from our very first day together in this sector. We decided last Monday, after writing you guys, to go verify how our old contacts were and to see which ones could become new investigators. So we decided to go visit Rosa and she let us in right away! When we entered the house we met her two new sons, Bastian and Darwin!!! Woo hoo! Three new investigators! We didn't have a whole lot of time to visit with them on Monday, but we had a great chat with them. Then we decided to go by again yesterday and we were able to go inside and teach the Restoration, which, by the way, can I just express hoowwww much I love teaching that lesson! I get to teach it for two years straight and I never get tired of it and never stop learning about it! It is incredible! I love the Restoration and I love how blessed we are to live in this dispensation! Now we just have to make sure that we aren't sleeping through it! Ha ha :)

But back to Rosa, after we finished eating with them we started the leccion and it was incredible! Her oldest son was there and he doesn't really have a whole lot of religious beliefs in his life but he just ate the whole lesson up! You could just see it in his eyes as it just clicked--for this is what he has been waiting for! Rosa, you could see as well, was just soaking up the whole lesson! It was awesome!!! They are sooo prepared!! :) 

Rosa had a lot of questions which we were able to answer all of them and even use examples. She first had some doubts about the Book of Mormon and about memorized prayers. I then asked her if her two sons were in two different parts of the world, if she would like to hear from them every week. She responded and said she obviously would love to hear from them both. And that is how we were able to resolve her problem about the Book of Mormon and how there really was a pueblo here in the Americas that Jesus Christ needed to visit. Then, to continue with the analogy that we were using, I asked if she really would like to hear from them every day, but they only wrote the same letter or answered the phone and said the same thing every day, I asked her how she would feel about that. She chuckled and understood right away that our Heavenly Father is always listening to us and really wants to hear how we are doing. After that she just popped her head up and told us, "I believe the Book of Mormon is true!" Ha ha, it was awesome! With that answer, Elder Kimball right away fired out the baptism invitacion which they accepted right away!! :) Woo hoo!!! 

During the middle of the week we had a lot of meetings for the leaders, and Elder Kimball ha a special meeting with president with all the new missionaries that just arrived in the mission and I also had to go on splits with the elders in my district for a day and to help them out because their companionship is pretty bad right now. They don't like each other and don't want to work together. With all the other meetings and technical stuff I had to do this past week, that just added on the stress. But I love helping people. I went on divisions with them and really helped them to chill and to focus on the work! After that they both really trusted in me and now I have a great relationship with them!

But as two weeks ago we hardly had any new investigators we decided to go knock on some more doors! We have been knocking on a lot of doors in a lot of different parts of our sector. But Elder Kimball and I were talking in the street as we were starting the day and that is when both of us had the same impression to change things up a little . . . to be a little different . . . to take a little risk. So we thought and thought about our sector and were we could go! Then the answer came bright and clear! In the corner of our sector there is a HUGE Catholic church! Ha ha ha! So we thought to ourselves that the past missionaries probably haven't contacted a lot of those streets close to the big church. So we ran over there right away! We almost contacted all night long and we weren't having any success! And that is when we decided to go a little bit closer to the Catholic church, actually the street in front! Ha ha, and that is when Alan yelled out to us! Alan is a new investigator now and he saw us and yelled out to us if we knew English. We told him we did and he opened the door and let us in right away!!! HA Ha! It was awesome! We found out that his sister Carla, another new investigator, speaks English! Ha ha soo we got to teach and meet them in English! Oh, and did I let you guys know that they have their whole family that was listening and is willing to listen to our messages?! That was another family of 4 that we found!! Woo hoo! 

We have really seen the Lord's hand in blesisng our sector with new investigators, but not just one or two but complete families!!! Aww they are my favorite to teach! Alan has a friend at his school that is a member in this ward! So he told us that right away and told us that he would love to attend church with us with his friend next Sunday!!! Woo hoo! That is the power of members!!! Members just being an example to the world helps the missionaries find new investigators!!! Aw this kid is a stud! Alan is only 15 years old, but is awesome! His whole family is too, as well! 

The Lord is really hastening His work family and friends. I hope you all know that! The field is white and ready for the Harvest! Just as DyC 4 says! That TIME IS NOW!!!!!!!!!! I have seen soooo many miracles and the Lords hand in our missions! I know these are the Last Days! And what a blessing it is to be serving at such a pivotal time in the world! Try all you can possibly do to share the gospel. I know the Lord loves us and is preparing people FOR EACH AND EVERY SINGLE ONE OF YOU READING THIS RIGHT NOW! GO AND FIND THEM!!! This is the best time of my life and I am sooo grateful for each and every one of you! I don't know who reads my letters, but for those that are reading this, I love you. And I thank for with all the energy of my heart for everything you have done for me! Especially my closest best friends and of course my brothers and parents! You guys are the best! 

Have a successful week! LOVE YOU!!!!

LOVE, ELDER COWAN!