Dear Family and Friends!
Wow, what an eventful week everyone had this past week! So many exciting things! Way to go everyone! You're are amazing! Congrats to Trevor and Kiersten who graduated! I'm so happy for you two! And for everyone else! Seriously, I have the best family in the world!!!! Coming from the awesome Cowan/Macdonald side to the great Dennis Family! I love you all! And for all the rest that are reading this, we're brothers and sisters too, Don't you forget about that!! Aww, Heavenly Father truly is our loving Eternal Father! What a huge blessing it is to have someone so amazing to take care of all of us! He truly does have a plan for happiness!! I love it! This gospel makes us all so happy!!!
Well, I don't have a whole lot of time to write, but I want to thank you all for all that you do! You are all heroes in my eyes!
But for our week it was a little bit slower. Elder Daniel and I aren't trying to let that affect us a lot because we know that the month of May is going to be incredible!! I know it! It is a hard feeling to know that there was a whole month that passed without the chance to baptize. But I needed to double it up now for May! The time is clicking and I don't want to waste any last bit of it!
One of the awesome things that happened this past week was the Rañiman family. They were a reference from about a month ago and the mom, Ana, is less active as well with her two sons Seba y Gabriel. The husband, Gabriel Señor, isn't a member and we had heard that he likes to drink a lot. But when Elder Daniel got here we have been visiting them every week and they are progressing so much! Yesterday we were able to sustain Seba to be a teacher and he passed the sacrament in a whole new suit! It was awesome to see how this family is pulling through and coming back to the Lord.
There are some matrimony missionaries that live within our ward and normally they just work in the office and that's about it. But there is one couple that just got here from Brazil and they are not the office type people. They are called los Vedovi. They honestly don't know any English or Spanish and only talk Portuguese. They have been teaching me a lot and know I can talk to them in Portuguese a little. It's awesome! But since they don't like the office they have been coming out with us to visit people. And it's like the perfect team! We do the teaching and they do the sistering and brothering to whomever we are visiting. And they have been helping the Rañiman family soo much! We have seen a HUGE change in the husband, Gabriel, who now has come to the ward activities and we have had a FHE almost every night and now they have a date to get married and the ward is helping so much! It's awesome!
We also had another FHE ward activity last night and we were able to pull off another successful FHE. The members are starting to feel more and more of the obra misional and it's awesome! We had another 50 or so people in the church! And we received about 4 references and it's gonna be great!
One night we were able to pass by Austin who is from Ecuador who was an old investigator from Elder Wagner and me. He's 18 years old and I really don't know what happened, but when I was with Elder Wagner we kinda just lost contact with him. But we were able to pass by and we taught lesson 1 and he just soaked it all up! Seriously! He told us that he wants to change his life around and we wants to become a new adult again. He accepted a baptism date for my birthday!! Woo hoo! HA ha it was an awesome lesson!
We are praying a lot that everything will go well with Austin. Other than him we are still in the look for new investigators! We are kinda drying out in our flow on investigators and we know that there are prepared investigators! We just need to find them! Ha ha! But I know the Lord is with us and guiding us! I love working side by side with Him.
I know the Lord is hastening His work! And we want to work as his servants in this part of his vineyard! I love His work! And I know we will be able to achieve a lot more for the month of May!
Love you all so much!
Elder Cowan
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