A little about Nigeria

Dear family and friends,

What a sweet feeling it is to be a missionary. I tend to take
advantage of it at times, but really it is such a blessing!!
Preparation days always comes too fast.... I blink and a week has
already gone by.

We had a pretty interesting week. So just a little fun fact, in our
mission there are just a hand full of dangerous areas, I seemed to
have served in all of them... so naturally I have been in some weird
situations. But the other day we were in somewhat decent area as we
were passing by a few future investigators we stopped a man of about
30 year more or less, as he entered into his building. He was as
defensive as the next guy repeating the very familiar words said by
the majority of the people here stating that he was not that
interested in our message. Naturally we stated the importance of our
message and asked him if we could visit him and explain our message
another day. He stopped for one second and said, ok... so we put his
number down, gave him a ring to see if it was real or not and went on
our way. A few hours later we received a message from the very guy
saying we could come by later that day. We responded positively asking
his exact direction and at exactly what time he wanted us to come
over. The next message he sent started the wave of uncertainty that
would pound my mind for the rest of the afternoon. He said, "where do
you live?" I responded with the general area knowing that it was
against the rules for others to know exactly where we live. Later he
told us that he would rather come to our house, and wondered if there
were others living with us or just us 2? We responded that it was just
us two but that it would be easier to meet in the church located 2
minutes from our apartment. He said no. His house or our house.
Basically we went to the building to his house but after he refused to
come down we knew that this guys wasn't planning anything good. So we
left. I don't know what would have happened if we would have entered
into his apartment but what I do know is that we are guided by the
Holy Ghost. I have been in some of the most dangerous streets in all
of Spain but never have I ever felt the spirt telling me not to do
something so strongly. I am thankful for the guidance of the spirt and
protection I am promised for heeding to the spirt.

One of my favorite parts about Spain is that people from the four
corners of the earth live here. In our area there are a lot of
Nigerians and some people from Ghana. This last Saturday we had our
"Africa day" literally the whole days just back to back appointments
with Africans. In fact, one of the Nigerian guys we met with is the
rightful king of his tribe but isn't now because he is not a fan of a monarchy.
He gave us some Nigerian food called egg roll.  It's literally a boiled egg,
pealed and cooked into the middle of a roll.

I hope you all had a great week, I also hope you all did something to
help someone get closer to our Savior Jesus Christ. The greatest way
to start to get to know our Savior is by getting baptized.

I love you all

Elder Owens