Week 7

Well hello. I have had a week. Its been nice, working hard. serving people. I helped paint a house for a lady. Shout out to my mom for teaching me how to paint a wall.. thanks. But, really. this week had been fantastic.


I got to baptize somebody this week. The first time ever. It was the sisters investagador. Her name was Katherine. and I was super nervous. and it was funny cause when i went to put her in the water she was stiff as a board. so she like didnt move at all and it was just funny. But, the sisters also had another investagador there named Jose. He is deathly afraid of water, so baptizing him will probably be similar. haha


So my weeks been pretty normal. Hiking, teaching about the gosepl you know. the usual. I joked last week about parasitos. But, now im pretty sure i have one haha. So thats cool. Im always hungery though. So yeah. A random lady in the street hugged me and I just froze, missionaries are not supposed to hug ladies, and i said im a missionary a couple times and. Ill just say i have never felt more awkward in my life. oh, and i killed 19 cucarachas. Like 10 today while cleaning my kitchen.


LOve Yall!!


Elder Owen

Week 6

Hey everybody! Hows it going? I am in honduras now. I love it here, im on the outskirts of the city in tegucigalpa. My companions name is Elder tomala. Well, i am offically a honduran. I live in a thid world country in a little apartment with cocroaches you could put a saddle on it. The power lines hang so low here they hit the top of the Hondurans heads and the middle of my chest. Oh, and the people here speak spanish kinda like how jamacians speak ingles. Its like im learning a whole new spanish.


Well, all i do all day is hike to houses on mountians and preach the gospel. Its a good life to live. I never cook for myself cause members of the church always have food for the elders. And a lot of it haha. In the mtc a lady told me dont eat the food if its pork or fish or you didnt see them prepare it, or youll get sick and die. Well, I eat all the food they give me cause its super good. And i dont think im dead yet. (I might have a few parasites lol)


Well. I have a ton of investagators and they all are needing the gospel. Yesterday we had two come to church. It was interesting though. We called all of them (we had about 9 invited i think) and none were there at the start. So we went out and walked up some mountians to find them. My Dad always told me to go find "the one." the person out on their own, the person with nobody else. Its like how if Jesus was a shepard and we were the sheep. If 1 of us got lost he would leave the rest to go get the one who was lost. And thats what we were doing. So we get to a house of an investagator and were knocking on his door and no answer. For like 10 minutes were there. Cause right now none of our investagators are at church. So with defeat. we go back to church, and whos there? Hermano Seline Our investagator. with a recent convert Jordy. Cool stuff.


Well, Thats pretty much it. Ive killed 5 cucarachas.


Love Elder Owen

Safe and Sound In Honduras

Dear Family Owen and church leaders:

This morning Elder Owen arrived to Tegucigalpa, Honduras. We, the secretaries of the mission, President Ferman, mission President, Hermana Ferman, His wife, were there to welcome him warmly.

He is totally fine, he is so happy and ready to get into the mission field. We are so happy as well, for having him serving in this mission.

Thank You so much! Have a nice day!

Week 5

Hey yall. well, this is offically my last week in the CCM. Time flies when youre having fun... or when your super busy trying to learn a new language in six weeks. haha, i am super excited to leave here. Dont get me wrong ive loved being here, but im very ready to be in the real world!


So this week, i didnt do much. well, i did a lot, but nothing out of the ordinary. I tried to give out more copies of the book of mormon. But it didnt work too well, i met a man who is catholic and doesnt like the church because he said that he believes that God is dead. He said that he would like more information about the churchand we asked him for his phone number, but he didnt know how to write and got on a bus. And another man who kindly listened to a brief lesson about the resturation, but didnt want the book of mormon so he gave it back to us.


So we got a ton of new white people here, I i wasnt too fond of them at first, because their a bunch of hicks. But, ive met some really cool guys, and glad i got to know them. I guess you shouldnt really judge a book by its cover!


Um, i have finally gone to buy a spanish book of mormon and a hymn book and preach my gospel today. so thats neat.. Well thats about it, I appreaciate yalls support and love.


With love,


Elder Owen

Week 4

Hey Y'all. Its been quite the week! Actually not really, its been the same here for since i got here. But, thats fine. Im learning spanish and so thats cool. This email will be short, cause i only have a few things to say.


Um, halloween was yesterday, but Happy Halloween. hope it went well yesterday, for us we (my district and I) wore orange and purple and black, and the sweet staff made us a festive meal... Just one problem, it was a thanksgiving meal. So i mean, nice try. and they had an orange frosted cupcake. so pretty festive.


I got a new roommate for about ten hours. He's a latino, and his name is elder rameriz. He was very kind, and esay to deal with and loves progressive rock, like pink floyd and stuff. Pretty funny right? Well, the first night he got here I was showing him around, and he asked where we did our laundry. first, all of his clothes are "second had" is what he said. So i showed him the laundry room and he got kinda timid and said, i never used one of these could you show me how to figure it out? And that he has only ever used a bucket and water for laundry. Then we went to write in our journals, he didnt even have a notebook and a pen So i hooked him up cause my mom packed me with extra everything. But, what im trying to say is we (up in the USA) got a lot to be thankful for, like very simple things, that we have growning up. Some people will never see our abundant way of living. Also, if you have something that could help someone out. Hook it up. Serve everyone you can, because you've been given the oppertunity to. You'll be blessed.


Well thats about it! Love y'all, hope you have a fantastic week!


Elder Owen