Monday, May 11, 2015

Mother's Day Letter

Dear Family and Friends!

WOW, was that the best Mothers Day or what!!? AWW seriously, I can't get over how amazing yesterday was! It was weird, I will be honest and I can't believe that was the last skype session forever! Or at least in this Cowan generation! The time is flying by WAY too fast. It's literally scaring me now a little! Aww! But whatevs! You guys are the best! I love you all!!

Well, I guess this will be a little repass of the same things that I talked about in the skype session yesterday! But to start off the week we were able to have a FHE with the Aguilar Family, who are from Ecuador (There are about 150 members from Ecuador in this ward). And the Aguilar family is a family of 10! We were able to motivate their son and the father to reactivate and come back to church! IT was amazing sharing the gospel and doing little games with this big lovely family in their humble home! They are so great!

Then on Tuesday we were able to have another training leadership meeting with President and then we were able to find some new investigators to teach. Truly, it was a tender mercy because by the time we got back we only had about 2 hours to work. But we found Luis Panama and Etson! Etson was a reference we got from a ward family that had brought Etson and his family to one of our weekly FHE's that we are having in the church every Sunday night. We passed by and he let us in right away! It was awesome! We are excited to see how this family progresses because the ward family lives almost next door to them and they are really good friends! So we are stoked about that!

Wednesday we had our district meetings and it was a day dedicated to the office because there was a big demand and pressure for us to finish off the projects that President wanted us to finish. And Thursday was a full day in the office as well. We were a little brain fried when it came to Thursday night and it was 9 p.m. and we still hadn't finished off everything. After staring at the screen for so long I just had to have some personal time and went and took a quick 20 min cat nap on the ground ha ha! But por fin! We were able to pull everything off! And to finish it off we were able to go to the temple this Saturday to bring the recent converts to the temple! IT was awesome! A lot came and it was amazing to help all these new converts progress in their steps in this new life as members!

Saturday night was pretty awesome as well! We went and visited Savka who we have been teaching and she has come to church a lot of times and she has accepted baptism, but she has just been scared about a lot of things. We went and planned to read Alma 36 with her. But after reading the whole chapter my comp and I didn't feel anything. So we just started asking a lot of questions to her trying to dig a little deeper to she her need. I remember asking her what importance would it have to her if she had a testimony of the Book of Mormon. She was kinda hitting around the bushes a little bit with her answer when we found out at the end that she didn't even knew what the word testimony meant! Sometimes it amazes me at how comfortable we get in the gospel language! Just as Br. Allison always taught us in mission prep, we are to teach it as if a little kid can understand!

We went on to share with her our personal experiences of when we gained our own testimonies. I explained the experience I had on the Enos Journey as a priest on the Encampment and told her how powerful I felt the Book of Mormon was as I read Enos on that cold and miserable night. As I finished telling my experience, tears came to her eyes as she explained how beautiful that must have been for me. I even got emotional as I nodded in agreement and told her that, that is the reason we are here. Because we have FELT it. The spirit was so strong and at that point she was balling her eyes out. She finally understand why we have been talking about baptism so much and she truly recognized the spirit for the first time in her life! What a powerful experience that was! She begged us to help her have an experience as we did and to have that same feeling that she was feeling in that moment. It was awesome to see how as her understanding grew, her desires grew as well! I could see the hunger for the Holy Ghost in her life. 

Truly, the Holy Ghost is one of the most precious gifts that the Lord has given us! I felt that same spirit yesterday as it was probably one of my favorite days in my whole life! Yes, my life! I don't think I have ever felt so much love before in my life other than yesterday! Starting it off with seeing my favorite sector again and being surrounded with all the people I love soo much. President was there, Elder Smith, Elder Goates, and our converts: Loreto, Rodolfo, Benjamin and Francisca. I was surrounded by them and it brought the most powerful love I have ever felt before for another person. It was such an incredible experience! I can't wait till you guys get to see these lovely people! I literally love them to death! 

And then to top of the day with love, I was able to see ALL of you in skype! What a blessing! Seriously! To top it off with my wonderful family that I love sooo much! It was amazing! I love you guys soo much! I am so grateful to my Heavenly Father as He poured out His love to me yesterday. Something that I just needed and it came just in time! That is what I love about this work, it is all about love. Love for our Savior, our Heavenly Father, our families, and for these amazing people here in Chile. This love in infinite and unbreakable! I love my mission so much! 

And I love you all too! Thanks for everything!

Love Elder Cowan

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