Big Baptism Week!

¡Hola familia!
Well....what should I say this week? Thanks for you email, I always love hearing from you guys and it makes my whole P-Day! This was an interesting week and actually pretty successful. We received a reference from a member of a family whose parents are members and the kids are not. They have been less active for a while so we are going to try to reactivate them and them baptize the rest of the family. I am super excited for this week, we are going to have the wedding and finally our two baptisms! The other two missionaries here in Chuy might be able to have 4 baptisms, so I will let you know next week how our six baptism Saturday went! I had some other pretty cool stuff happen....what first? Oh? I had a family here in our ward who didn't know where I was from yet and they asked me. I told them to guess and they didn't really know. I thought for sure they would guess Utah (everyone here thinks that all missionaries are from Utah or the factory) and be right on the money, but they had no idea. I told them where I was from and after they told me they thought I was from another South America country from the way/accent in which I spoke Spanish! YAY! My Spanish is actually improving and the whole world can't tell that I am a ´´grengo.´´ Then I think it was a few days later, but it was raining really hard with lots of wind. Luckily we had lot of charlas set up and a member to drive us to all of them in his car (which ended up kind of dying...actually the gas pedal cable just broke so we had to fix it in the dark). When we got home the power went out. I think it was the first time that I have been in the house at night and the power was out. It reminded me of the the time the power went out at home and we would always get out the lantern and play card games. It was so much fun! Something that I have realized in the mission is that it's always the little things like that, that make me happy! I love my family, miss them tons, hope they are all doing well, and can't wait to see you all again. We also had to travel to Roche this week to have interviews with Pres Da Silva. We also had a small zone conference while we were there. It was really good and I always love going. I always leave feeling excited and ready to work, I wish we had them more often so it could balance all the hard times. I also loved General Conference and cannot wait until the talks come out in the Liahonna/Ensign! There were so many good ones and I know I will learn even more when I study them again. Changes are coming up next week (18th of October) and we receive the calls this Sunday so I will let you know next Monday if I am staying or going and with which comp. I can't believe that another six weeks has already passed....before I know it I will be calling home, having my birthday, and then hitting a year! CRAZY! I can't wait to go to the temple next change and will let you know how it goes when it happens. Thanks for all your love and support, you guys mean more to me than anything in the world. Thanks for helping me out with the packages and I will we watching and waiting! I love you all so much and know that this church is true! I know that our Heavenly Father and older brother Jesus Christ love us more than we can understand! They want us to be happy and lead back to their presence. I know that through the promptings of the Holy Ghost, the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Atonement, and living prophets we are guided! I know if we diligently follow and seek this things we will be blessed more then we thought possible. I know the Book of Mormon is true and feel the power of God every page I read. I know it also can guide us. I know that families can be together forever and it happens through sacred ordinances in the holy temple of God. I cant wait until next week!
LOVE
Elder Bowden