Dear Family and Friends,
This was a great week of missionary work! I felt as though I have made some good progress, and I have found many things that I can improve on, I love how we have so many opportunities to learn out here in the mission field and we can choose to learn and progress or you can reject the opportunities and fall into a hole. I have been working hard to not fall into the hole. I had a realization this week that if I continue with my missionary service the way its been going so far, I will not reach my full potential, I have a lot of things to change but I have decided to start with what Elder Pearson talked about, to be more fully obedient and faithful in my work. I am so grateful for such wonderful leaders that help us missionaries reach our potential. This week before the zone conference we had exchanges with the district leaders and it was to be my first time with elder Cook, and it kind of made me nervous because we were staying in Oamaru so I was the one that we were relying on to have a plan. I was excited though for the opportunity to test myself and see how much I had learned in the past weeks. Tuesday proved to be a pretty good day with us spending a good chunk of the day door knocking and then finishing off the day with a couple lessons, I love having opportunities to watch other missionaries work and to see how they talk to people, elder Cook was great in the teaching situations and helped me whenever I didn’t know what to say. Wednesday was also a great day we had a lesson with a guy who was more than a little crazy but we ended it leaving him with our number and address from the church and he said that he would be willing to go to our church out of curiosity. We proceeded to spend the rest of our day tracting but we did find a few people that were open to learning more, at the end of the day we were picked up by Elder James and Elder Carbonell and we headed over to Dunedin for the night to go to Zone conference. I really enjoyed being able to learn from Elder Pearson, he is an inspired man. I needed to hear what he had to say and I was so grateful for his message. I had heard him speak before at the NZ MTC and I knew he was a very powerful speaker but he certainly is surprising in his countenance and his spirit. I have made conscious efforts to become better since his lesson and will continue to do so. I realized throughout this week that I was getting complacent in my service and that I needed a kick in the butt. Elder Pearson gave me such a kick and I needed it. Friday and Saturday were good days aswell, we worked hard and learned much, I talked with one of the members here extensively as we went around on splits night and he gave me some great advice on working with members and it is something I am trying to implement with my companion, if we can get out of this cycle of endless tracting. Ending the week with the sacrament was so perfect, I was so happy to be able to just sit down for a little bit and think about the savior and his sacrifice for me, I was also very glad to sing some Christmas hymns. We had dean over for a dinner at the Kautai's home. He is making some great progress which is nice to see. most of our plans fell through at the end of the day though so we found ourselves visiting old contacts and checking up on them. I am so glad for weeks like these that show me how to be a better missionary, I just hope I can obtain and implement all of these lessons being thrown my way.
Also this week being the first week I can start opening those boxes finally, I was so grateful to have your love and support. I love you all so much! you are seriously the best. I pray for you all and I hope that you will pray for me, I need them haha. I know my redeemer lives and it is such a wonderful thing.
This was a great week of missionary work! I felt as though I have made some good progress, and I have found many things that I can improve on, I love how we have so many opportunities to learn out here in the mission field and we can choose to learn and progress or you can reject the opportunities and fall into a hole. I have been working hard to not fall into the hole. I had a realization this week that if I continue with my missionary service the way its been going so far, I will not reach my full potential, I have a lot of things to change but I have decided to start with what Elder Pearson talked about, to be more fully obedient and faithful in my work. I am so grateful for such wonderful leaders that help us missionaries reach our potential. This week before the zone conference we had exchanges with the district leaders and it was to be my first time with elder Cook, and it kind of made me nervous because we were staying in Oamaru so I was the one that we were relying on to have a plan. I was excited though for the opportunity to test myself and see how much I had learned in the past weeks. Tuesday proved to be a pretty good day with us spending a good chunk of the day door knocking and then finishing off the day with a couple lessons, I love having opportunities to watch other missionaries work and to see how they talk to people, elder Cook was great in the teaching situations and helped me whenever I didn’t know what to say. Wednesday was also a great day we had a lesson with a guy who was more than a little crazy but we ended it leaving him with our number and address from the church and he said that he would be willing to go to our church out of curiosity. We proceeded to spend the rest of our day tracting but we did find a few people that were open to learning more, at the end of the day we were picked up by Elder James and Elder Carbonell and we headed over to Dunedin for the night to go to Zone conference. I really enjoyed being able to learn from Elder Pearson, he is an inspired man. I needed to hear what he had to say and I was so grateful for his message. I had heard him speak before at the NZ MTC and I knew he was a very powerful speaker but he certainly is surprising in his countenance and his spirit. I have made conscious efforts to become better since his lesson and will continue to do so. I realized throughout this week that I was getting complacent in my service and that I needed a kick in the butt. Elder Pearson gave me such a kick and I needed it. Friday and Saturday were good days aswell, we worked hard and learned much, I talked with one of the members here extensively as we went around on splits night and he gave me some great advice on working with members and it is something I am trying to implement with my companion, if we can get out of this cycle of endless tracting. Ending the week with the sacrament was so perfect, I was so happy to be able to just sit down for a little bit and think about the savior and his sacrifice for me, I was also very glad to sing some Christmas hymns. We had dean over for a dinner at the Kautai's home. He is making some great progress which is nice to see. most of our plans fell through at the end of the day though so we found ourselves visiting old contacts and checking up on them. I am so glad for weeks like these that show me how to be a better missionary, I just hope I can obtain and implement all of these lessons being thrown my way.
Also this week being the first week I can start opening those boxes finally, I was so grateful to have your love and support. I love you all so much! you are seriously the best. I pray for you all and I hope that you will pray for me, I need them haha. I know my redeemer lives and it is such a wonderful thing.
love always,
Elder Bowers/Tanner
P.S
I would love to hear back from you. A letter or email would be great.
11a URE st.
Oamaru 9400
New Zealand
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