This week has been crrrrrr-azy! Super crazy! So first of all, I've been cursed! Evil is real and it comes in the form of eight-legged little monsters! We've always had a spider problem in northern California, but it is getting out of hand!
So, we found this less active member in our ward list and decided to go visit her. It turns out she's really nice, and we went back a few days later and helped her clean up her guest room and repaint and redesign it. So after we were done with that she was super grateful so she took us into her garden and gave us a whole bunch of Kale and huge bouquets of beautiful white roses (roses grow like weeds around here). It was so fun, we're excited to get to start teaching her! Anyway, so we're driving home and Sister Eyden had all of the flowers sitting on her lap, when all of the sudden a huge, fat, white spider crawls out of the roses, down her leg, and under her seat. I freaked out and she just rolled her eyes at me and told me that spiders are our friends. So I pretty much refused to get in the car for like two days, and then I opened my car door, and there it was, wrapped in a little web cocoon. So...I squished it, like any normal person would do. Sister Eyden freaked out and started telling me that that spider had a family and a mortgage and that his children were going to come back and avenge their father's death. So that night I went to get in the shower....AND IT WAS INFESTED WITH LITTLE BABY SPIDERS EVERYWHERE!!!!!! There were like 40 of them so I drowned them all. And ever since that day I've been finding spiders of all varieties everywhere. So pretty much I've been cursed.
Anyway, other than that, it's still been pretty crazy. Saturday was the stake conference in Vacaville and there was going to be a missionary choir of missionaries in that area, and Sister Alba couldn't handle the fact that half of them can't sing, so she shipped in about 10 of us from Santa Rosa (I don't know why the population of missionaries who can sing is here) and we all went to Vacaville! YAY!!!! it was so fun to get to see all of my people again! We drove into vacaville and I just felt so at home, it was like I never left :) It was the most disobedient, (yet not disobedient because the whole thing was organized and OK'd by the mission president and his wife...) thing that I have ever done my whole mission. We got In-n-out at like 10 o'clock at night because we had to skip dinner to get there, and then we got home at like 11:30. I was so tired yesterday. I now have a stronger testimony of getting to bed on time. But it was so fun and I got to see my recent converts and all of the members and it made my whole week :)
And THEN, we found out that my companion, who has only been here for one transfer, is getting transferred to another area and I'm going to be a trainer! Weird! It a huge shock, no one had expected that at all. So I'm going to be trained on how to be a trainer tomorrow, and then I find out who my greenie is on Wednesday! I'm nervous but excited. One thing that I have really learned from this transfer is that everything happens for a reason and that in order to grow and progress, sometimes we have to be comfortable with being a little bit uncomfortable and stretching ourselves.
Thank you to those who have taken me up on my Book of Mormon challenge! I'm so excited!
One thing that I really noticed as I read this week was that Nephi didn't actually have a testimony that his father was a prophet at first. He had to go and pray about it for himself, and . I thought it was so cool to see how Nephi's faith and testimony continuously grows throughout all of the chapters. The only difference between Nephi and his brothers is that Nephi had the faith to know that if he prayed that God would answer him and he was humble enough to do the things that God needed him to do without complaining. It made me think how testimonies actually grow is by small and simple acts of faith. Laman and Lemuel had an angel appear to them, but they still didn't believe. It's those daily acts of faith, like sincere prayer, scripture study, and gratitude, that keep us on the right track in our conversion. President Monson wasn't born with the testimony of a prophet, it took consistent study, prayer and trust in God and he still has to do those things every day or else he would lose that great testimony! I thought it was pretty cool :)
I love you all and hope that you have an incredible week!
Love,
Sister Lesser
Thank you for doing all of that. I am staying here in Santa Rosa, my companion is headed to Davis and I'm going to be training a new missionary this transfer. I don't know which new missionary I'm going to be training, but Sister Eyden keeps telling me that she hopes it's sister Moore so we can be Sister Lesser and Sister Moore. haha.
If my watch doesn't work I'll probably just buy a cheep one here or something. unless you find one that's pretty cute and cheap (like 20 bucks cheap, it was a bad idea to buy an expensive watch for a mission I decided...) I don't know how that one cracked, I didn't hit it on anything or drop it, I just noticed that it was cracked one day and then it was a few months after that before it stopped working. oh well.
We turned Zachariah over to the YSA, that's where all of the most awesome people that we meet go unfortunately. We do have one new investigator though, she's awesome! She was a media referral, so somehow her name got onto mormon.org and we got a text message from Salt Lake about her. We visited her and she's really interested in learning and coming to church, so that is exciting.
How is everything going at home? Mandee said she was in some kind of photo shoot, what's that about? and what's up with her dying her hair every week? I'm excited to talk to you in a couple of weeks as well. I don't know what time it will be yet, we'll have to get that figured out.
Mandee:
Why were you in a photo shoot for the bowling ally? That's pretty random... but congratulations anyway :) You know, if you keep dying your hair as much as you are eventually its all just going to fall out. You will do great in lifeguard training, don't even worry about it :) haha.
Love you, have a great week!
Dad:
One of these days I'm sure you'll figure out how to use the computer :) You should start with familysearch.org and do some family history! That would be fun :) family history is fun :) Anyway, I'm glad that you were able to read the scriptures as a family this week! I'm really excited about doing this together as a family. Grandma and Grandpa Bowcutt and Grandma Nanna and Grandpa Bick have all joined in on the scripture challenge as well :) Tyson didn't write me but I'm sure he'll show of his fish soon. Have fun golfing and with the puppies! Love you!
Grandma Bowcutt:
It's so cool to see how God answers prayers and that miracles happen :) God truly does watch over all of his children, even with the smallest things. It's so cool to see how even though we think God might not think that something is important, because it's important to us, it is important to him. Tell Kevin and Allyson good luck for me! It's good to hear that everyone is doing well. Tell Great Grandma Hi for me :) Love you, have a great week!
Grandpa Bowcutt:
Good luck with your knee surgery, I'll keep you in my prayers! it sounds like despite your bad knee that you're still keeping yourself plenty busy! I'm glad that you and Grandma are reading the Book of Mormon with me! It will be fun! It's cool to see how each time you read the scriptures you always find something new or something you hadn't noticed before. I hope you have a great week! Love you!
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