Hunter Week 23: Service Brings Blessings

Good morning all of y’all! So, this week was a week of service! Basically the entire week starting on Tuesday when we did service with our district. It was wonderful, and we helped out a lady to do her yard work for her. So, that was fun and we moved some big rocks, but besides that it was just the normal day. And then, Wednesday we went out to Magna to help out someone else with their yard work. That was a lot of fun. We also made the plan is salvation on the sidewalk in some random park, but it was kind of cool. And then we did some more service helping someone move out of an apartment by that point it was dinner time. So we got a ride to take us to dinner.

Thursday we did some weekly planning and set up some lessons for this week. Then on Friday we had our district meeting which was great . We talked about the Holy Ghost so that was good. And then Saturday we have some other people move out and in our area so that was fun, too. And then in the evening we had this elders quorum activity that we went to. We talked with a couple of less active families that came so that was great.

And then Sunday we had a great Sunday and we gave talks about ordinances, covenants, and service. Elder Heeding did a great job! And today were hanging out at a park in Kearns with the Zone. But ya, its been a great week! Hope everyone else had a great week as well! Love y’all!

Elder Bowie
Hunter and Hunter East Stake
Salt Lake City West Mission

Hunter Week 22: Serving Snow or Shine

Good morning everyone! It has been another great week here in West Valley! We have been going around preaching the gospel as usual. Last Monday evening we had a few lessons which was great! One of which is a less active family we have been working with. Tuesday we mainly met with some more church leaders from our 12 wards we cover. Its been good to get to know everyone and to help get the ball rolling. Wednesday we also met with a few ward councils member. We did some of our weekly planning as well. We set some goals for the next week. Thursday we were going to head to the Jordan River Temple open house, but since it was rough weather and our person was sick as well we didn’t get to go. We rescheduled for next week. So, hopefully we will head down there finally this week.

Friday we had our district meeting which was awesome! We had lunch then we helped out with some service for someone. We were moving fertilizer for someone garden. He had a big truck load of it so it took a while. We had a lot of fun doing it.

Saturday we walked around and contacted the 25 or 26 referrals we got from the ward council members. We did that all afternoon, and it was perfect weather for it too. It was in the 60s or low 70.s and we did that until dinner. We met with a lot of people and had a lot of fun doing it. Then we did some service for someone after dinner. Then we went to the church to write out and print off our talks for church. We talked in the Highbury Ward which was awesome.

Elder Bowie
Hunter and Hunter East Stake
Salt Lake City West Mission

Hunter Week 21: Blessings and Lessons

Good morning, everyone! We’ve had a great week this week here in the Hunter and Hunter East stakes area. It’s been awesome! We have been going by different auxiliary leaders within the 12 wards we cover. So, if you do the math it’s 84 people to go by. And so it’s been taking up quite a bit of time to set them all up, but it has been great and we’ve had a lot of success. We met with about 20 or so people so far! It’s been awesome to get to meet everyone and we have extended a challenge to each person to pass out a Book of Mormon to someone and to pray about someone to give it to. So far no one’s rejected that challenge so that’s good. Ha ha!

I have been teaching a couple lessons this week to a few investigators and less active families. So that has been good. We have a few people who are trying to get ready for baptism by the end of this month or beginning of May. We’ll see what happens, and I’m trying to find some new people. It has been great to serve here, and I love all the members here. On other news, we recently spoke in a ward sacrament meeting this Sunday! We talked about missionary work in being disciples of Jesus Christ. So it was awesome doing that!

It has been great serving here and getting to know the people in this area. I am glad for the opportunity to be here and to help those I’m supposed to help. And thanks again for all the love and support! It means a lot to me, and all I can ask is to just keep doing the things we’re supposed to and read the book Mormon! I know it’s true, and if you keep reading it and praying about it you’ll know that too! So, thank y’all again and I hope everyone had a great week, and I will talk to y’all next week!

Elder Bowie
Hunter and Hunter East Stake
Salt Lake City West Mission

Hunter Week 20: Easter Hosanna

Good morning everyone!  It has been a great week here in West Valley! Monday we had a lesson with some less actives which was great! Tuesday we did some planning and had a few lessons in the evening. Both were very good, and we have one of them now on date for the end of April. So that should be good! Wednesday, we did some service for a few people. One of them we helped someone dig a hole to their water line which was broken. So that fun and we got really dirty from that! Haha! Then we had one lesson in the evening with an investigator which was great! His name is Don and we are currently trying to get him to come out more to church with no luck yet. Thursday we had our Zone Conference which was great! Really enjoyed that! We talked about the Restoration of the Gospel and Joseph Smith! It was some really good stuff and trainings.

Saturday was Service Saturday. We helped probably about 5 different families with the West Valley trash pick up they do here every April. That was good! We moved tree limbs, couches, TV’s, and just about everything. We helped out one person clean out their gutters from leaves so that was also good! Sunday, of course, was great! We had church and then a stake meeting later on. Then we called a lot of people after dinner of those that are on each ward councils in our 12 wards to set up an appointment with them. Except for the Elders Quorum since of the recent changes most of the wards don’t have it situated yet. So, the bishops, WML, Relief Society, and Primary were the main ones we focused on. So, our plan is to go to each one and tell them about people that we are working with in their area and then share the restoration as our message. Then ask for some referrals. So, hopefully we will see some good come this week by doing this.

Well, that’s my week! I hope all of y’all had a great week as well! It’s been great doing service here in West Valley and the members here are awesome! Love y’all! Hope you have a great week! Thanks for all the love and support!

Elder Bowie
Hunter and Hunter East Stake
Salt Lake City West Mission

Hunter Week 19: Conference Weekend

Good morning everyone! I hope y’all had a great Conference weekend! It’s been great here in West Valley! We started the new transfer this week and we have been doing pretty well here! Not too much success this week, but we are always trying to find new people to work with and help those that we are working with to progress in the Gospel. Conference, of course, was probably one of the biggest highlights this week! It was amazing to sustain President Nelson as our new current Prophet of the Church! Not to mention, all the huge announcements that he made this year!! Lot’s of changes and 7 new temples! Two of which are the first in Russia and India! It’s crazy to see the growth of the church all around the globe! I’m very excited for this next era for the LDS Church!  We weren’t able to bring anyone, but we still went to the Saturday Afternoon session! We watched it in the tabernacle which was really cool! I’ll attach some pictures so y’all can see! Our area is doing pretty well, and we are hopefully taking someone to the temple open house in South Jordon this week which should be good! Hard to believe it’s April! I’m excited for what this month has to offer! We are doing our best and trying to be better. I hope you all had a great weekend as well! Thanks for all the love and support!

Elder Bowie
Hunter East and Hunter Stakes
Salt Lake City West Mission