Weekly letter 12-29-14

Hi everyone!

I hope everyone had very happy holidays! I know that I had tons of fun! It was so good to be able skype home and hear your voices, you almost had me in tears!! Especially Tyson (from laughing so hard, haha!) I didn't even recognize that it was him speaking! I saw his mouth moving and I couldn't understand what he was saying because I didn't recognize the voice! haha :) I'm so grateful that I got that chance to talk to everyone on Christmas! It was a short amount of time and not too much was said, but it was just so great to hear everyone's voices again :)

So Christmas for us was a day of service! yay! It was such an amazing experience, we went caroling at a retirement home, and just to see the looks on their faces and to have some of them hug us and tell us how grateful they were completely made my day :) I really felt like I was a servant of Jesus Christ as we devoted our Christmas to serving others, because that's what he would have done on his special day :)

I was really sad to be away from home for the holidays at first, but I've really come to realize the true meaning of Christmas while being out here...as cheesy as that may sound :). I have learned so much from being out here during the holidays and I really feel like I have grown and learned more in the last couple of weeks than I have in my entire mission. It's been such a blessing to me, and as hard as times have been lately I really wouldn't have rather spent my Christmas doing anything else this year :)

I love you all! I hope you had a very merry Christmas and that you have a happy new year!!

Love,
Sister Lesser

Mom:  

How's it going?!?! I loved the pictures! mom, you never send me pictures of you so I was happy to get them :)  Do you remember how last year around this time my leg started hurting really bad and I though I had sciatica? (or a blood clot, haha). that's happening again, so I haven't really been running, which is bad because I've been living off of pure sweets lately because that's all people have been giving us, and I'm pretty sure I've contracted diabetes!  If it gets worse I probably will go see a chiropractor again. Right now it seems to get better throughout the day and it just hurts at night and in the morning, so I can deal with it :) Being away from home and not being able to consult with dad on what strange disease I think I've contracted that day has been hard, haha :) How was bear lake? I see Mandee has taken over my entire closet and is going to have to save up her money this summer to buy me a new wardrob! Haha :) I love you! Have a good week! Happy new year!

Mandee:

Haha, I laughed so hard at the video of that puppy and all of the pictures with titan, so cute!! That puppy has the most squished little face I think I have ever seen! How was temple square? I'm excited that I get home around the holiday time next year so I'll be able to go and see the pretty lights right away! I really want to go through the Salt lake temple when I get back :) Maybe we can take a trip to salt lake and go through the family history center and then go do baptisms in the salt lake temple :) 

It sounds like you've really been keeping busy this week! Is Tyson taller than you now, he looked taller than you in the pictures! ah!! so weird! So you go back to school on the 7th? What classes are you taking this trimester? Is this a continuation of 2nd tri or are you going into 3rd now?
how is seminary going? Pay attention in seminary and don't sluff! That's something that I really regret is how much of seminary I missed and how much more I could have learned if I had just gone and actually studied what we are learning about! Don't forget to say your prayers and read your scriptures every day, it really will help you in your life, I've seen the difference that it's made in mine :) love you! have a fun week!

PS. were you able to get that Christmas card to Tami ever? 

love you!

Tyson:

Haha, she's just preparing you for a mission! Typing is an essential skill! :) I'm so glad that you are going to take singing lessons, that's going to be awesome! singers are the best :) You will love singing and you will do awesome! You should take drama as well, that would be fun for you, or you could join the golf team or learn to play the piano, so many possibilities!! :) Well, I hope you have a wonderfully awesome new years and make some great goals for this upcoming year. :) love you!

PS. Titan is an answer :)

PPS. One of your new years resolutions should be to learn to sing opera...just saying :P

Dad:

Just curious, what are the symptoms of diabetes?? haha, jk...but really. :) I'm so glad I got to talk to you on Christmas, even though you were out of the picture for most of the skype session :) Have you saved yet?!?! haha. I hope that you stay safe while mandee is driving you around, that's some pretty sketchy stuff! I can only imagine that Tyson has been using his gift of annoyance on my sister, I can also imagine that that's why they both got coal this year, haha, that's the best thing I've ever seen!! Don't worry, Mandee and Tyson will learn to get along one day...maybe one Mandee moves out and Tyson goes on a mission, but one day it will happen. :) haha. Love you! I hope you have a wonderful new years and make some good achievable goals :) Just a thought...temple once a month, that's a good goal :) Love you!

Grandma Nanna and Grandpa Bick:

 It was so good to see you guys on Christmas! I'm glad that you could be there to talk with me, I wish we had more time to talk, but it was good to hear your voices! :) I love the pictures! I hope that you both had a wonderful Christmas! Love you both! Happy New Year! (can you believe we're already in 2015?!?!) haha!

Grandma and Grandpa Bowcutt:

Thank you so much for all of the presents, I love them! I freaked out when I saw that mormon tabernacle choir cd set, that's exactly what I needed!! It was great :) I'm glad that you guys were there to skype in on Christmas! I'm sad that we didn't have too much time to talk though! I hope you both had an awesome Christmas, and I hope grandpa starts feeling better! Love you! Happy new year!

Kari:

Thanks so much for all of the cute stuff! I love the shirt and sweater and scarf, super cute! and the sausage was really yummy :) I loved the Christmas card too! You guys all look so cute! I hope that you all had a wonderful Christmas! Love you!

Marci: 

Thanks for the present and the card! You guys all look so cute, I couldn't get over Wyatt's cute smile!! I love the bracelet! It was one of my favorite presents, I've been wearing it everyday! I hope you all had a merry Christmas and have a happy new year! Love you!

Aliza:

Thank you for the package! It was so exciting to open it up and see those cute letters from Addy Bridger and Boston! I love you all! I can't believe you're pregnant! That's so exciting! Have you decided what you're going to name him? Love you guys! Hope you have a happy new year!

Kevin and Ally:

Aw, you guys look so cute on your Christmas card, I can't believe how big those two little girls are getting! I laughed really hard when I read the letter about Monroe, poor thing, Mcdonalds for every meal, no! haha :) I hope you guys all had a merry Christmas! Love you, happy new year!

Taylor and Daniel:

It was so good to see you guys on Christmas! I wasn't expecting you to be there, so it was a pleasant surprise :) I hope you both had a wonderful Christmas! have fun in Arizona! Love you both! Happy new year!

Daren:

I hope you had a merry Christmas too and that everything is going well for you :) Love you! Happy new year!