Better Late than Never! :)

¡HOLA FAMILIA!
WOW! It's super crazy that today is Wednesday and not Monday and I am emailing you. Sorry but the cyber here in Carmen decided not to open this week so we were unable to use the computer on Monday. I am currently at the library in Carmen now, which we didn't know had computers we could use. I hope that you understand and were not worried about me, its just a little late that's all. Yes, the temple was absolutely amazing! I love the whole experience! I went through the secession in spanish in a form thats called vosotros. It is only used in the scriptures and is an old spanish way of communication but I understood it all anyways! I truely do love the temple and recieved many inspired answers to my questions while I was there. It was really cool cause I was there with my whole zone, one other zone, and Pres Da Silva and his wife were the proxy couple. I know that only in the temples can we recieve the ordiances required for salvation and I am forever grateful to Heaven Father for restoring the power to perform them in the temples. After we had an amazing zone conference which included breakfast and lunch! Oh and after I bought some things from the distribution center, so if you see something on my account thats what it is. We had to leave to go to Montevideo at 4 in the morning to make our session and we slept in the zone leaders house with 8 other missionaries! It was really crowded, really hot, hard to sleep, but entirely worth the trip! We returned to our area with lots of motivation to continue working but even harder! We had quite a few more charlas or lessons last week and this week is going great as well! Speaking of doing service, we helped an old lady break some sticks that see was using to make a fire. At first she said that we couldn't help her cause we didn't know how and we were missionaries. We started breaking sticks anyways and in like five minutes we were done! She was really grateful for our help and after said that she would have to make some time that we could come over. We don't know when or if you will ever have time in the future but at least we helped her and she knows that we are representatives of Jesus Christ. We also have some thing here in Guay that isn't in Utah! Fireflies! Its so cool cause when we walk home at night after a hard day of work, we look out over all the fields and see hundreds of these little green lighting bugs! It truely is another beatiful creation from our Heavenly Father! I also cant believe that I now have 10 MONTHS in the mission. Tiempo pasa volando! I wish it would slow down, but at the same time I love the feeling of knowing that I am serving with all my heart for the time the Lord needs me. I dont really want to ask for anything else cause you just sent my 5 PACKAGES! I will defiletly be waiting for them! Thanks for the pictures too, Im sure that Elder Taylor will enjoy them just as much as I will. Well sorry I have to head back out to work, but I love you all and am super glad I could evently email you! I know that this chruch is true. I know that this very short time and some what of a sacrifice is all worth it. I know that Lord blesses us with everything we need and in every way we need. I know that He loves us and knows whats best for us. He guides us daily as we strive to follow His spirit and commandments. I love and miss you all and am going to send lots of pictures next week! Until then
CON AMOR
Elder Bowden