tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36545654492772982572024-03-13T16:39:12.589-07:00Bowles MissionariesKristinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09907285866592035519noreply@blogger.comBlogger264125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3654565449277298257.post-71689172639632442482013-01-21T12:19:00.000-08:002013-01-21T12:19:05.159-08:00January 21, 2013: Announcing Elder Bowles' Homecoming**We are very excited to announce that Elder Bowles returns home February 5, 2013 at 10:30 in the morning. His Homecoming will be Sunday February 10 at 1:00 in the afternoon. We extend an invitation to all who would like to support Garrett on this exciting day! Please come over to the house afterwards for a light lunch and to visit with him.Kristinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09907285866592035519noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3654565449277298257.post-41206422305339891682013-01-21T12:02:00.000-08:002013-01-21T12:02:08.736-08:00January 21, 2013: Elder Bowles<br />
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I go home in two weeks!!! aaaaa!!! Yesterday on Sunday I was just thinking and saying to myself wow I have two more Sundays after this, that is crazy. Yea it has been wonderful weather 70-80 degrees. It nice when we go down by the beach-- we see the ocean. The next group of missionaries will come in February when I leave. There are 30 coming in February and in March there are 43 coming. We will get 100 new missionaries by June 1st 2013. Crazy--Wow! Everyone in the the mission will be training so I feel bad for all the missionaries. </div>
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This week was good we were able to teach a little more people just less actives, we have no investigators at this time. There is this one kid in our ward who is not a member of the church but goes to church every week and has been going for 6 years. He just got accepted to BYU Idaho and he might get baptized here. The ward is working with them so we are just waiting for him to say yes to the lessons then we can get him down into the water. So it will be exciting-- we are on a waiting game right now.</div>
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District meeting was good. I was able to say a lot more things and we got a discusion going so I thought it was good. The topicc could be like work effectivly every day, preach my gospel, or teach when you find find when you teach. That is what i do-- I just give the instructions to my district. The last one was good and I hope this one will be good too.</div>
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Not much to say, I'm going home in two weeks and I am excited for that wonderful accomplishment.</div>
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Kristinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09907285866592035519noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3654565449277298257.post-84101224916988045542013-01-21T12:01:00.001-08:002013-01-21T12:01:08.025-08:00January 14, 2013: Picture<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<br />Kristinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09907285866592035519noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3654565449277298257.post-10735371635637987952013-01-21T11:56:00.003-08:002013-01-21T11:56:51.312-08:00Monday January 14, 2013: Elder Bowles<br />
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It has been cold in Utah, I am going to die in utah when I get off the plane and I am going to be like oh it is freezing here. Last night it got to 50 degrees and it has been cold all week. I wear my jacket and that helps a lot. Right now in my area everyone has been getting sick. Everyone is sick even my companion got sick last week. It was Tuesday and in the morning he was feeling okay then in the afternoon he was like I don't feel good so we stayed inside for a bit. Then like half an hour later he threw up. He was sick for two days but I got to go out with another missionary on splits so we can get some work done. Everything was good. I went on exchanges with another missionary in his area. The family heard we ate baloot and wanted to see the video. We showed it to them.</div>
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Something cool happened this week. The Bishop got up and told some wonderful news. There is a boy in the ward who has a kidney problem. He is fine he is like a normal boy but a year ago the doctors found some tumors on his kidney and they got it out. This year they found some more on his kidneys so the ward was asked to fast and pray for the boy that the surgery will go well and the tumors could be removed. This week the boy went in for surgery to remove those tumors. There were 7 doctrors working on him-- he is a special case. When they docotrs were in the surgery room they found no tumors on his kidneys-- they were gone, disappeared. The surgery was suppose to take 2 1/2 hours but they were out in less than an hour. Amazing right? God works in wonderful miracles. The tumors are gone and they don't have to worry about it. Fasting and faith and prayer-- wow that is a wonderful story. Now they will get to share the rest of their lives together.</div>
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This week we are going to do a lot of service this week and someone is getting baptized this Saturday-- it is somone from our district so that will be exciting. Good things will happen this week. I have pictures I will send some to you.</div>
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Kristinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09907285866592035519noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3654565449277298257.post-33451600269589921402013-01-01T00:10:00.000-08:002013-01-03T21:35:04.417-08:00Monday December 31, 2012: Elder Bowles--Happy New Year<br />
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Christmas was wonderful and it was great to see all of you on skype. We had a breakfast with a member that morning, skype, then lunch at 2pm then a dinner at 5pm. It was all very good with a full day of activities. The next day after Christmas was the hardest. Everyone is with their families and no one wants to talk to missionaries. We just didn't visit any members of the ward because we wanted them to enjoy their christmas. So it was hard but the day went by fast which was weird.</div>
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It is almost 2013 --crazy right? So I only have one month or 35 days-- don't worry I am not counting the days but it is crazy that I am going home soon. Some of the ward members know that I only have 6 weeks left. They are like wow, you are almost done with your mission wow!!. I was like yep 6 weeks left!!</div>
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I feel bad that you had to clean up all the cheese in the kitchen it sounds pretty funny ha ha. Did Harley start going to the kitchen and help you clean some up? Good thing we have new years eve on Pday so we don't bug the people in the neighborhoods and they will say-- ah the missionaries-- hide!! New Years day will be a tough one because it's like another Christmas.</div>
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Right now we are just on a waiting game because there are 2 nonmembers who come to church all the time and we are just waiting for them to say yes to the discussions so we can baptize them in a week. I am pretty confident that we will get a baptism before I leave just lots of faith and prayer. It will be awesome if we can get a baptism--that will start the ward off to a great new year--whoo hoo! I am excited for this last month as a missionary I will work hard.</div>
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I took some pictures on the new camera but forgot to bring the cord from the apartment. Sorry--I'll send them to you next week. It's going to be a great day. We are going to have fun on this new year's eve night. We will see if people are interested-- maybe.</div>
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aaa --it has been snowing in Utah. Man, I am definitely going skiing when I get back. With all that fresh snow, yes I am going skiing. Well I heard it's going to snow more this week because it has rained and been very cold here in California. When we exercise in the mornings I can see my breath so it is cold. Then in the day it is not that bad but when the night comes I always wear my jacket.</div>
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Well I hope you have a wonderful new year's eve and a happy new year. I can't wait to see what 2013 brings!</div>
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Kristinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09907285866592035519noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3654565449277298257.post-44133372677184950912012-12-28T17:02:00.001-08:002012-12-28T17:02:16.376-08:00Friday December 28, 2012: Hermana BowlesKristin's Mission Homecoming Talk is this Sunday December 30. Our building is located at 670 East 800 North, Orem, Utah. Sacrament Meeting begins at 11:00 am. Come by the house after for some food and a visit with Kristin. We are very excited she is home!Kristinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09907285866592035519noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3654565449277298257.post-81548217785345159802012-12-26T14:10:00.002-08:002012-12-26T14:10:53.923-08:00December 24, 2012: Elder Bowles<br />
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Wow that is crazy that kristin didn't arrive till 8:00pm at night. Before I forget, I got my travel flight plans. I will leave on February 5th at the Long Beach airport. I will fly out at 7:30am. It says I get there at 10:30am utah time so I will be there early in the morning.</div>
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Of course missionary work is slow during this christmas holiday. On Thursday we had our Christmas zone meeting. It's another Reunion with all the missionaries and it was good, the food was good and we played the white elephant game. I got the strangest gift-- it was a picture of christ and the last supper. The missionaries found it by the dumpster and it was a really old painting. It was cool but what am I going to do with it? One of the sister missionaries was like cool, do you want to trade my gift? So we traded and it was good. A good day, then after the testimony of christ. It was good.</div>
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I got your package on Thursday. Thanks for the camera-- I was not expecting it to be that nice. Don't worry I have not opened the rest of the packages yet-- I have to wait till christmas day. On Tuesday last week I was thinking all day about how Kristin is coming home. I can't believe it-- she got home before I do. So lucky!! We are just trying to look for people to teach and offer lot's of service during this Christmas season. I skype to you tomorrow between 1:00 and 2:00-- that way we will have lots to talk about. I am grateful to be a missionary. I have 6 more weeks, the countdown begins.</div>
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Kristinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09907285866592035519noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3654565449277298257.post-31500582314348278442012-12-19T14:18:00.001-08:002012-12-19T14:18:39.430-08:00Wednesday December 19, 2012: Hermana BowlesHermana Bowles returned from her mission to the Peru Lima North Mission last night December 18, 2012. It was quite the eventful day. She originally was suppose to land at the Salt Lake Airport at 11:50 am. We woke up early and were hustling and bustling around getting everything ready--the house, food, signs, balloons, etc. The phone rang about 15 minutes before we had to leave and it was Jeff saying that Kristin had called and they were delayed 2 hours on the runway in Lima and therefore missed their connecting flight in Atlanta so wouldn't be arriving until 4:30 pm. Disappointed but not surprised because delays are typical in Peru, we began the waiting game. Well, a couple hours later we got another call that informed us there was another delay and they wouldn't be arriving until 7:30 that evening on stand-by or 9:00 for sure! We tried to fill the day but as the Mom, I must say that it was the longest day of my life! Needless to say she will miss her hair appointment and her release interview but oh well, that's the way it goes some times. A sweet Elder called us at about 5:30 pm and said that Hermana Bowles was definitely on the flight to arrive at 7:30! Thank you Elder Higgins for the wonderful news. Jeff and I and Melissa and Grandma drove to the airport eagerly awaiting Kristin's arrival. Bruce, Jolie and Kevin came next. Then Lauri and Ron and all of their kids, spouses and little Jack were on Temple Square looking at the lights and popped over to the airport to greet Kristin. When she came down the escalator it was pure joy. She looked great--very tired but great. She was freezing so I'm glad we brought her jacket for her. <br />
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Today, December 19 Hermana Bowles met with President Young, our Stake President and was released as a full-time missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It was a bitter-sweet moment. We are so proud of her for the work that she did in Peru, for her strong testimony and for willingness to serve the Lord and give it her all. We are thankful for our sweet daughter.Kristinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09907285866592035519noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3654565449277298257.post-29191499555648935232012-12-18T10:20:00.000-08:002012-12-18T10:20:02.826-08:00Monday December 17, 2012: Elder Bowles<br />
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Man, Kristin comes home tomorrow-- I can't believe that. I was just thinking about that all week. I was like my sister has 1 week left on her mission. So crazy to even think about it. Which means I only have 7 more weeks then I will fly home and get there at 9:00 am in the morning. It's a very short flight-- one hour and a half.</div>
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Last week we had our ward christmas party and in this ward there are a lot of kids-- a lot of kids, it will blow your mind. This ward fills the entire chapel and the over flow, that is how big the ward is. It is awesome. It is the best ward I have served in my whole mission. This week is half mission conference and I am super excited. We get to see the other missionaries, it like a big reunion-- I love it. We got transfer calls and me and Elder Russell are both staying. I will die in this area. When a missionary says you are going to die in your area it means that you will finish your mission in this area. So put one foot in front of the other and keep on going. </div>
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This week we taught one person but it has been going pretty fast this week. We had something to do every day so that was good. And also this week in my district the missionaries had a baptism. She has been investigating for a while and she is 75 years old. I have never seen a 75 year old person get baptized but I heard in this mission a 90 year old couple was getting baptized. Hearts can change.</div>
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I still can't believe Kristin is coming home. It has been in my head for like 3 days-- can't get it out. Congrats Kristin on serving a full time mission. I am going to skype with you next week so I can't wait. Have a wonderful Christmas season this week and love all of you.</div>
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Kristinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09907285866592035519noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3654565449277298257.post-25934433671597531192012-12-11T19:08:00.000-08:002012-12-11T19:08:04.650-08:00Hermana Bowles--pictures December 10, 2012<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<br />Kristinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09907285866592035519noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3654565449277298257.post-59203684174233345092012-12-11T18:37:00.001-08:002012-12-11T18:37:54.274-08:00Monday December 10, 2012: Hermana Bowles--Last email from Iquitos<br />
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This is my last email fom Iquitos and I don't have words to describe how I feel right now. I never knew that 18 months could fly by so fast. Im sorry this email is horrible....I just cannot even think right now.</div>
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Christmas is definitely in the air!!! President and his wife came this last week. We had a Christmas lunch, put on santa hats and sang christmas songs, played christmas jeopardy, and watched a christmas video. Hermana Yolanda has now decorated her house FULL Christmas. When you walk in the front door you feel like you have entered the North Pole or something with all of the lights and swirling christmas trees. She covered her couch cushions to look like presents.</div>
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Remember Jack and Mariela from Morales? President wrote me and said that his wife was finally baptized! It is so incredible how this family is finally active. How special that we were able to help them.</div>
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Iquitos is such special place. no....lima norte is such a special place. I will see you all soon :)</div>
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Kristinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09907285866592035519noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3654565449277298257.post-59113752965522876892012-12-11T18:31:00.003-08:002012-12-11T18:31:30.730-08:00Monday December 10, 2012: Elder Bowles<br />
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We had zone conference this week. a couple of different zones came together and waited to hear the instructions of our leaders and our mission president. It was really good-- there were good trainings. There were some on how we should present ourselves as missionaries when we are with other people. We were practicing new training skills and we did some practice teaching. I love zone conference. They all ways have good food for the missionaries. Everyone knows what the missionaries will eat. Our mission president told us we will get 100 missionaries by the beginning of summer. I will be home when that happens. This february they should be getting about 20 missionaries and in march will increase to 35 and 35 the next transfer. So it will be super crazy. When that happens there will be 4 missionaries per ward so it will be crazy. Also with this new 100 missionaries 50 of them will be sister missionaries in fact this february there are 10 new sisters that will be coming in. So super crazy right now.</div>
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We got to paint some doors for a member. She needed help painting doors so we helped her out. We painted 3 doors so it was good. There were kids in the house running in the house and they almost ran into the door we were painting. But all is well. During this Christmas season it is hard to teach anyone but we did teach, we taught a less active. I think she will come back we just have to keep at it. We did lot's of knocking-- we usually do knocking at 4:00pm that is when everyone is home. 6:00pm is a bad time it's dark and no one wants to talk to you. Last time we did it someone called the cops but that is another story. At these door contacts there were some that were very nice and some are like don't talk to me. On these that were nice they say I am catholic or Lutheran I have my own ways and I'm not going to change. These people don't even bother studying the doctrine all they do is listen to their preacher, and if they have studied their church they realize that they don't have the fullness of the gospel. We got to teach. It started out slow but it picked up a little. Kristin comes home in a week--oh man that is crazy you are going to be busy this week to get the house ready for Kristin. What time does she get back to utah?</div>
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Well, love to you during this Christmas season. I try and share my love. No I have not received the box yet but today I am getting new church shoes-- it is time to get new ones.</div>
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Kristinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09907285866592035519noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3654565449277298257.post-19153417802242115972012-12-05T22:30:00.002-08:002012-12-05T22:30:33.161-08:00Wednesday December 5, 2012: President and Sister Blunk's Blog post<br />
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Our first Christmas stop was the first week of December in Iquitos. Traveling during the holidays becomes very difficult here in Lima so all of our traveling has to be completed by the 15th of December. These forty six missionaries were excited to see us. </div>
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Our celebrating includes having lunch together, singing songs of the season, playing a few games and enjoying a devotional together.</div>
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Each receives a small package of goodies and a CD to share with their investigators that recounts the life of our Savior. </div>
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Let us not forget, that He is the reason for this joyeous season!!!! </div>
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Kristinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09907285866592035519noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3654565449277298257.post-731267541059281292012-12-05T22:26:00.002-08:002012-12-05T22:26:32.837-08:00Tuesday December 4, 2012: Hermana Bowles<br />
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Hola Padres.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />wow....crazy day.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />couple things.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />1. can you deposit more $$ in my account? Trying to buy a few things before I get home.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />2. can you send 5 pictures of me before the mission (ideas: folk band shot, picture from my farewell card, baby picture, something decent) to the assistants TODAY? Thank you, thank you, thank you!!! I had no idea and they just told me...... <br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Thank you thank you for the hair appointment. Hermana Vasquez sends her thank you, too. She wants you to straighten it really well. hahahaha.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY Birthday dad! wow. feliz feliz cumpleanos. I hope you feel wiser and have the best day ever!!!<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />So we are in trio now....with Hna. Farias from Paraguay. Sunday we were walking to an appointment and BOOM the loudest ear splitting thunder I have ever heard and then a torrential down pour. We walked huddled under 2 umbrellas with soaked shoes. The good news is that in a trio you can get so much more done. Four families came to church!!!! <br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Sorry there is nothing in this email. My account wouldn`t open.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Love always,<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Hermana Bowles</div>
Kristinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09907285866592035519noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3654565449277298257.post-51472780496930182652012-12-05T22:11:00.003-08:002012-12-05T22:11:31.689-08:00Tuesday December 4, 2012: Elder Bowles<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAD!!!! WHOOOOOO 57 years old --I hope you had your cake with 57 candles on it!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">It's okay you don't have to send me pictures for my district-- someone usually brings a district snack. I am sorry I forgot to send you that CD of us eating baloot I am definitely sending it today. You should receive it this week. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Yes Elder Otis left this morning to go back home to Chicago. He will be home in 4 hours. Elder Otis is from Philadelphia but his parents moved to Chicago so that is where his home is now. He left at 4:45am this morning has to be at the airport at 5:45 am. Now it is just me and Elder Russell till December 18. That’s when transfers are so maybe one of us will get transferred.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> This week we were not able to do a lot of teaching. No one was home and it was Elder Otis’ last week, so it was hard to do missionary work. But this week I went on exchanges with the people in my district-- it was fun, just one of the things you have to do when you are a district leader. It was no big deal, it was fun.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">President Buburt said that it has not increased in missionaries yet but when February comes there are suppose to have at least 25 and then the next transfer will have 20 and 20 till the number becomes 250. We are suppose to have 250 by the beginning of the summer. I will be out of here in February so I feel bad for them-- I will be out of here. I have 9 weeks left can you believe it? I can't believe it has been that fast already wow. Yea I saw that on the church news how the church started putting the ads in New York City-- it is all over the billboards, taxi cabs, and buses, I can't believe that. I just wonder how much money that must have cost? It is very expensive to do that in New York City!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">This morning we went to the Newport Beach Temple. That's why I didn’t email you yesterday. The Newport Temple is small and it seats about 45 people per session so it was really cool. It is very nice. It’s all those rich people there and the temple matches the color of the neighborhood so it is really cool. The story on how the Newport Temple was built was that the members of that area wanted a temple in their area so they collected all the money from people to donate all through the Newport Beach and Huntington Beach area. Then they talked to the First Presidency and asked if they can build a temple. The members paid for the temple and the land. All they had to do was wait for permission to build it. Cool story right? That temple came from the members down there. </span></div>
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Kristinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09907285866592035519noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3654565449277298257.post-26107076538988365972012-11-26T22:46:00.000-08:002012-11-26T22:46:04.934-08:00Monday November 26, 2012: Hermana Bowles<br />
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Today is transfer day. Rumor has it that Hermana Vasquez and I will be in a trio, but they haven't told us anything for sure yet. I feel strange because this marks the start of my last transfer, but I'll really only be staying for 3 weeks. AAAAHHHHHH!!!</div>
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What a week of weeks of weeks. S.T.R.E.S.S.F.U.L.L. So many things went on this week and things were rough, but I guess the good news is that Monday always means a new week where we can forget about the old one.</div>
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The most wonderful part of this week were the baptisms of Edith and Boris. Edith ended up baptizing alone without her granddaughter, but it was such a wonderful day for her. Family members came and she was so happy. I admire Edith so much. Earlier in the week (and I don`t know why on earth this happened) Edith and Nicole sat alongside a member who started going off about the temple (which was completely inappropriate) but before her baptism, Edith`s granddaughter comes up to me and says, "Are we going to that place that looks like heaven?" Hermana Vasquez and I were kind of taken back and after understanding what she was talking about we explained that the heaven place was in Lima, but the baptism of her grandma was going to be equally special.</div>
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Big surprise was that Boris`s mom came to his baptism. He finally told his parents and while his dad didn`t want to know anything, his mom came out of support. She arrived early which gave Hermana Vasquez and I the chance to show her around the church before the baptism started. Boris gave an incredible testimony at the end that he knew he was making the right decision and traced everything back to when he actually read and prayed. From that point on he could FEEL his decision.</div>
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Had the ward mission activity of "Yo Soy" this week--based off an American Idol type program. Everyone liked it and Nicole and another member blew everyone away with a duet they did. Marvin (who was baptized about a month ago won the night`s competition with a salsa mariachi number. He surprised everyone by pulling out his sunglasses and dancing onstage....haha....he really wanted to win the dinner and icecream for two. Who knew it was a ward full of singers.</div>
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Thanksgiving sounded absolutely delicious. On this end of things, I actually forgot about Thanksgiving. We ate lunch in a member`s house whose husband works in Iraq security in an embassy and she started asking me all about Thanksgiving because her own husband was celebrating it in Iraq. oops...how could I forget? So I enjoyed chicken and rice with delicious camucamu juice and this lettuce-noodle stuff that they strip from young palm trees. Really yummy actually.</div>
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Kristinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09907285866592035519noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3654565449277298257.post-70039798813433235052012-11-26T22:38:00.000-08:002012-11-26T22:38:02.212-08:00Monday November 26, 2012: Elder Bowles<br />
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Wow, Cooper is going to the Paris France Mission-- that will be a interesting mission. He is going half way across the world. Good thing I will be back before he leaves to go on his mission.</div>
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Now with the duck eggs, there was a family from another district that wanted to feed all the missionaries and you have the option to eat the egg. I guess they have done it before and they do it every 4 months or so but it was gross. I have the thing on tape. One of the members taped it for us. The reason I could not send it last week was that I didn't have a special envelope to put it in. So today I am going to get one and send it you. Bring the whole family to watch it, it is something to watch and it is disgusting. I did it!!!!</div>
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The district is awesome. I got to teach them two times. It is a new thing to me but it's all right-- everything is going well. We are going to have 2 baptisms coming up in our district. Our district is doing good and working hard. There are 9 people in our district. As a district leader I also do the baptismal interview and it is fun. Everything is going well.</div>
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My other companion is Elder Russell and he is from Denver Colorado. He has been a member all his life and he has been in the mission field for 3 months. He was in the Huntington Beach 1st ward and he transferred over to fountain valley 3rd just right next door. In a trio it is kind of tight, we have 3 beds in our room and they are literally like 1 inch apart from each other, so it makes the room kind of tight.</div>
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We had a very good Thanksgiving dinner. A young family fed us a good meal and it was fantastic. The young family moved in about 4 months ago so they fed us. It is great to get a nice Meal--l turkey, gravy, all the yummy stuff. It is nice to get fed by the members every single night-- I am thankful for that. If that didn't happen I will be doomed because my cooking is horrible. A good week-- Elder Otis leaves in one week because he is almost done with his mission. He has been getting sick on and off, I guess it the stress he is having.</div>
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I don't remember what happened this week it went by really fast. It is really strange that I don't remember a really fast week. I'll send you that dvd of us eating balloot-- it should get there on Thursday or Friday. Prepare yourself!</div>
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Thanks for all the updates mom and dad, you are the best.</div>
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Love Elder Bowles</div>
Kristinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09907285866592035519noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3654565449277298257.post-68582078654476016462012-11-25T20:53:00.002-08:002012-11-25T20:53:50.490-08:00Kristin is coming home!!<br />
<b>Exciting News!!</b> Kristin comes home from her mission to Peru on December 18. She arrives on Delta at 11:45 am. Anyone is welcome to join us at the airport.<br />
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Her homecoming talk in Sacrament Meeting will be December 30 at 11:00am at our church building: 670 East 800 North in Orem. We invite all who would like to attend. Come over to the house afterwards for a light lunch and a chance to visit with Kristin from 12:30 - 3:00.<br />
Kristinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09907285866592035519noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3654565449277298257.post-82385731891176228542012-11-21T10:04:00.001-08:002012-11-21T10:04:26.478-08:00Monday November 19, 2012: Elder Bowles<br />
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Well, this week no food experiences. Last week was yuck!!!! I survived-- I ate baloot. Yea I got called to be a district leader and taught at my first District Meeting this past Thursday. It was good-- we talked about the Book of Mormon. It was shaky at first but hopefully this week I will be a lot more comfortable.</div>
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I can't send any pictures on my camera. I don't know why it won't let me. Also can I get a new camera this week because the one I have always shuts off when it wants to and it is annoying. I took it to a camera shop to see if they could help me. They said they can fix the lens and everything but it will cost the same as buying a new camera so they said just by a new one. They said I dropped it somehow and they showed me. So I just want to ask If I can get a new camera that can works properly. </div>
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This week we taught a person who is coming back to church. We are teaching him out of Preach my Gospel and are answering any questions he has. He wants to serve a mission so we are helping him be prepared to serve and he can be a missionary right now in his home. We have been teaching him and his mom who is not a member of the church has been asking her son more questions about the church and he answers them. If he doesn't have an answer then he asks us. So this week we taught him at his house and his mom said, "Do you mind if I join?" She was asking questions about the church and about her son serving a mission. She wants him to serve a mission because she knows she will receive the blessings. It was pretty cool that we got to teach her about the mission and the Book of Mormon. She is very nice and is very very open right now. We go one step at a time and can't wait. We got 2 new investigators, taught a couple lessons and it was a good week. </div>
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Since I can't send the pictures I am going to cvs and print some and you should receive them Friday at the latest so Love ya lots.</div>
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Love Elder Bowles</div>
Kristinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09907285866592035519noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3654565449277298257.post-60725653362199022922012-11-19T23:01:00.003-08:002012-11-19T23:01:46.530-08:00Monday, November 19, 2012: Hermana Bowles<br />
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Well the rains of winter have definitely started and as a standard I always leave with a plastic bag to cover my stuff now. It rained 3 of 5 days this week.</div>
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Stake conference was this week and was WONDERFUL. Elder Soliz from the Seventy came and so did the Lima Temple Mission President and his wife. Their talks were wonderful and focused on the basics of keeping the commandments and being worthy to enter the temple. </div>
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Oh and we had zone conference! woohoo! At the end of zone conference explained a timetable and showed how the lord is really hastening his work. How from 2004 when preach my gospel was introduced, and then 2010 with the 8 fundamentals, and then 2011 with 12 semanas, and now 2012 with the age change, now there are more missionaries leaving than ever!!! Instead of building more MTCs, a missionary`s time in training is going to be shortened. For example, a gringo in our mission will now not pass any time in Provo and will go straight to Lima and only be there 6 weeks! The new missionaries have so many exciting changes. But it really is true that for years these changes have been taking place and it`s all for preparation.</div>
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This week was full of so many wonderful experiences.</div>
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Kristinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09907285866592035519noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3654565449277298257.post-10280095978811981852012-11-19T22:55:00.000-08:002012-11-19T22:55:22.090-08:00November 19, 2012: Picture--Hermana Bowles<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<br />Kristinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09907285866592035519noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3654565449277298257.post-82761818254772313292012-11-12T22:08:00.000-08:002012-11-12T22:08:01.273-08:00Monday November, 12, 2012: Hermana Bowles<br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Awesome pictures that you sent! I dream of being cold. Hello to winter which means the strongest rains I have ever seen. Saturday night as we were walking in front of the church, Hermana Vasquez said, "Do you hear it?" We stopped and turned to face Versalles and you could hear the roar of the rain coming. It was neat because you could actually see a front of rain passing down the straight until it eventually caught up with us. It seemed like just a sprinkling and so we kept walking. We rounded the corner from the church and the rain began to pound down once we had walked a block. We saw a couple sitting outside of their house and went up to talk to them. Thank goodness they let us in because the rain began to POUR with huge thunder. We tried to start a lesson, but the metal roof made it impossible. Before I knew it we were literally shouting above the rain that sounded like a snare drum. We stopped the lesson cold because nobody could hear anything. Funny and exciting at the same time. Who knows how many days it will take for my shoes to dry.</span></div>
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Plumbing is a strong word to use in the Versalles side. They use little makeshift outhouses that perch over the river and it just floats on. Honestly, they´re more streams that stay when the river dries. That´s why the water isn´t that clean because it is used as a dirty water escape. BUT...amazingly enough, little fish still manage to breed and live in the water. There are whole schools of fish in the merky black water. In the Mi Peru side it is normal with sinks and toilets. I have never appreciated a toilet seat so much in my life.</div>
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Kristinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09907285866592035519noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3654565449277298257.post-54519197385637528732012-11-12T22:03:00.001-08:002012-11-12T22:03:01.560-08:00Monday November 12, 2012: Elder Bowles<br />
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This week we did something I thought we would never do. I made the attempt to eat baloot. (I have no idea what Garrett is talking about--do not know the name for this thing he is talking about??) Baloot is disgusting. Let me explain what it is. Baloot is basically baby duck in an egg and we ate it. Yumm!!! The duck has been processed for about 16 days and has a little head and wings. It's really small. We crack the shell and it plops out like a boiled egg. We boiled it before we ate it. This is the only thing that I can say-- I ate something disgusting. I got the egg then put it in my mouth almost threw up but kept it in and I had to chew it. You can never swallow it whole so I had to chew it a couple of times and I finally swallowed it. It was gross but I did it!!!!!! I will send some printed pictures and they filmed it also so I will send that to. It is a video of our district doing it. It is pretty gross.</div>
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That is what I did this week-- ate balloot. Transfers were this week so since my companion only has 3 weeks left, we got a new missionary. We will be in a Trio. The new missionary is ELder Russell. ELder Russell is from Colorado and he has been in the mission field for 3 months. It's going to be interesting this week.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />My companion was still sick last week but is better now so we can catch up on the work that we have missed. A member of the Seventy will be coming this week too so that will be exciting to see. I can't wait for that and to see what he has to say to us.</div>
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Other than that, not much this week. I will send those pictures in the mail and send you the video of us eating ballott. You should watch it with the whole extended family. It's fun.</div>
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Love Elder Bowles</div>
Kristinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09907285866592035519noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3654565449277298257.post-86493490756719949212012-11-05T19:30:00.001-08:002012-11-05T19:30:32.760-08:00November 5, 2012: Hermana Bowles--pictures<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The pocket size Book of Mormon along side the regular Book of Mormon. Kristin gave one to both Hermana Vasquez and Hermana Rodriguez--they loved them.</td></tr>
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<br />Kristinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09907285866592035519noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3654565449277298257.post-27314483342975267862012-11-05T19:26:00.002-08:002012-11-05T19:26:23.588-08:00Monday November 5, 2012: Hermana Bowles<br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">I officially feel viejita y abuelita. It is so weird to me that 22 has flown by and I was in Peru the entire time. Here`s to 23!! Saturday, Hermana Yolanda (below us) coordinated with some of the sisters in the ward and made my new favorite cake YUCCA!! (no.that does not read yuck, it is yucca which is some type of potato or something.) I know it sounds surprising but yucca cake is absolutely delicious. We started lunch Saturday with everyone singing a Spanglish happy birthday and feliz cumpleanos and then had yucca cake and inca cola. It was so cute. Of course, Hermana Vasquez teased me the whole day, reminding me that now that the hermanas can enter in at 19, I am really a grandma in the mission.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Edith and Nicole are two of our best friends now. Nicole is practicing for her next singing competition. She recently discovered that she likes to sing and of course we make her sing a little of something everytime we come over. W</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">In the sisters conference last month in Lima, President asked all of the sisters to PLEASE be more direct with the people we are teaching. He said it`s great that we are friendly and amable and smiley and patient, but we should get to the point of baptism. Ever since then, Hermana Vasquez and I have gotten better and better at being more and more direct and to the point. It`s a great feeling and works so much better in the jungle because sometimes we are with people who just don`t understand. They believe in God and have lots of faith, but people in the jungle just understand slower. For example...the other night we were with a family who wants to be baptized but are unsure about getting married. ENTONCES we read in 4 Nefi where God commands everyone to get married. The conversation went something like this:</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">So, hermano, who is asking you to get married in this verse..us or God?<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />And what are you going to say to God. God I will marry my wife? Or God I do not want to marry my wife?<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />If we find your papers in 2 months, will you marry your wife?<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />If we can find your birth certificate in 5 days, will you marry your husband?</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">I hope this doesn`t sound really harsh in English, but the lesson really was fantastic and now we are searching for their papers . In church yesterday we fed chocolate to the little girls to keep them from crying in Sacrament Meeting.</span></div>
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Love always,<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Hermana Bowles</div>
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