Hello, friends and family. Greetings to all of you. I hope you are well.
It's been yet another week here in purification. Transfers are happening soon, and the dawning reality is that summer is coming, and with the summer, comes the heat. These next few months are going to be brutal, now that I'm so close to the equator.
The week was pretty normal and regular. We walked, talked, preached, and practiced. We have a very cool investigator named Juan José, who is coming to realize the truth of what we teach. Although we invited him to stake conference this week, he did not show. We are still hoping to invite him to baptism this week and help him come closer to Christ. There are also many others who we are caring for in this zone, and a few prospect families who are ready to accept the Gospel.
We've been working hard to support the ward as well. The Victoria stake has an initiative programmed where we as missionaries try to have at least one member accompany us every day of the week (and we've been doing it well and consistently).
This week I learned a lot about loving the people. We know that as missionaries, we go out and talk to people, but if we just talk to talk, we accomplish nothing. We know that we must talk to save, invite to save, and love to save. In the Lord's work, there is no alternative. We are to love others.
I'd like to share a scripture from my personal studies that I really like:
Alma 34: 39
Yea, and I also exhort you, my brethren, that ye be watchful unto prayer continually, that ye may not be led away by the temptations of the devil, that he may not overpower you, that ye may not become his subjects at the last day; for behold, he rewardeth you no good thing.
We've been teaching a lot about prayer this week. To those who are members and those who are not, and we know that prayer, when used with faith, always blesses and helps.
Please be sure to take the time to pray as a family, so that your family is blessed and protected.
Love you all. Stay safe.
-Elder Bowlby
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