Hi everyone!
This week has been pretty uneventful. One of my companions hurt her
knee a few weeks back, so we haven't really been able to go out and do
to much. Benicia is a beautiful area, but it's actually one of the
hardest in our mission because a lot of the people are closed off and
not ready to listen to our message, but there's potential here.
We went on exchanges to Fairfield on Tuesday, and I forgot how hot it
is on hat side of the mission in the Summer! We went tracking all
afternoon, and it was like I was back in Dixon again! I'm really
grateful that in Benicia we have the cool ocean breeze. It's still
really hot, but it's not quite summer in Sacramento, haha :)
We met this super sweet Philippine lady this week, Elby. She is active
catholic, but she has family members who are LDS and she loves to
talk, especially about the Savior. She gave us this weird Philippine
candy that literally looked like a pyramid and was like compacted
caramely brown sugar. She also loves plants and had the weirdest pots.
One of them was like a billion faces made into a pot! She was sweet
though and invited us to come back and have dinner with her :)
We've been doing a lot of less active work too. One of the returning
members I found out is actually the Dad of one of our members in
Dixon, and I had met him before! So that was cool :)
the ward is really great! I love the members. We have one member who
is the son of brad Wilcox, the motivational speaker, and his wife is
one of my favorite people ever. I'm really excited to keep working
with the members here :) Sister Afoa and I are singing in sacrament
meeting this Sunday too! So far I've sang in every single one of my
wards now :)
I hope everyone is having a great summer! Love you! Be safe!
Love,
Sister Lesser
Dad:
I hope you had a happy Father day! I'm getting along with my
companions. The only problem is that I've always been in really
obedient zones up until this point, but this zone isn't super
obedient, so that's something that I'm working on, trying to stay
obedient without being a nazi to everyone else. I'm definitely seeing
the difference though unfortunately. Well I hope that you have a
wonderful week! What are your plans? Do you still have puppies? Love
you!
Mandee:
You've been letting me down with pictures lately! I'm sorry that
you're not liking your job, just try and make the most of it and make
friends. Are you liking the dance boot camp? Are you just a dancer or
do you get to Sing as well? Have a great week! Love you!
Tyson:
Good luck with your talk! You will do great! I love talking about
faith. Some good references are Alma 32, Hebrews 11 and Ether 12.
Faith is such a broad topic. One of my favorite ways to describe it is
in alma 32, that faith is like a seed. Think of a big giant redwood
tree. There are redwoods so big that you drive a truck through the
trunk of them! Did you know that those giant, strong redwood trees
started out as little seeds in pinecones about the size of your thumb
print? Can you imagine that! Over thousands of years, those little
seeds grew and grew into huge trees! That's how our faith works. Our
faith grows over time as we care for it. Just like a seed needs good
soil, water, and sunlight, in order to grow our faith, we need to have
a desire to believe and we need to constantly nourish our seed of
faith with weekly church attendance and daily prayer and scripture
study and keeping the commandments. As we constantly grow our faith in
the Savior, we can grow our faith in his commandments and other
principles of the gospel as well. Coming out on a mission was a trial
of my faith, it's a trial of faith for a lot of people. We have to
have faith that this is the true gospel of Jesus Christ. That we have
a living prophet on the earth today, and that the message we share
actually does help people in their lives. I wouldn't be out here today
if I didn't have faith that the Gospel of Jesus Christ changes lives
for the better and if i didn't know that my Savior lives and loves
each and every person that we come I contact with. I wouldn't put
myself out there to talk to random, sometimes very mean people on the
street today if I didn't have faith that I would find someone who is
ready to listen to our message. Even though it's hard, even though we
get rejected, even though it's a million degrees outside and every
single person we met that day yelled at us and slammed the door in our
faces, we continue to do the work, because we have faith. And faith
leads to action. Faith is the basis of everything that we do.
I hope that that helped a little :) sorry I couldn't help more! Love
you, have a great week! Good luck on your talk! You should send me a
copy of it after your done, I want to hear it to :) remember that the
most important part of any talk is your own personal testimony!
Grandma Bowcutt:
I'm glad that you had a great week and that Brian and Aliza and their
family were able to come visit, how fun! What plans do you have for
the summer? How is Grandpa feeling? Is great grandma feeling better
now? Love you! Have a great week!
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