Hi Chriscannady
The question "Should I grow from seed?" always comes from the absolute beginner, who assumes that growing from seed is part of learning bonsai. This couldn't be further from the truth.
As Rockm said, growing from seed is the realm of the bonsai master, who knows everything about bonsai, AND wants to produce a large quantity of material.
Learning bonsai is like learning to design and build a house. If you want to design and build houses, you are not going to spend the first ten years, learning how to manufature bricks and building material. Again, learning how to be an architect is very different from learning how to manufacture building material. You have to know building material, but you don't have to know how to make them.
Of course, there is nothing wrong with growing from seed, if your goal is to practice and enjoy gardening. There are millions of people who love gardening and do just that. The only problem I have with that, is when people start calling their activity "growing bonsai". By the way, it is not your fault that you believe this nonsense. It's the fault of those who misinformed you. It is the result of the well-known scam, that is called "Bonsai Growing Kit", with a few seeds in it. It is a ridiculous scam, designed to sell a few seeds than normally would cost 3 dollars, for ten times more. It makes every decent bonsai grower mad, including myself. You need to know, that your seeds will never produce any bonsai, unless you already know how to create bonsai. And you will not learn that from growing seeds. Growing seeds will produce a nursery shrub, that you can buy for 6 dollars, without wasting 10 years of your life.
I started to grow from seed (and young seedlings) after I've spent 5 years, learning and studying bonsai. And I did that because I wanted to have a plant nursery, with hundreds of trees, to choose from. In that case, it makes sese to grow from seed. Even so, some of my trees have been growing in the ground for 15 years, and yet, they will need another 10 years to resemble what I call quality bonsai material. That makes it 25 years of growing.
But if you want to have a bonsai collection of less than 50 trees, it makes no sense. People who begin their bonsai studies with REAL bonsai material, will be light-years ahead of you, if you only spend time watering your seeds and waiting for them to mature into trees. I just wanted to make that clear to everybody, who make their first step into bonsai.