This little Light of Mine

Well, another FUN letter from Sister Leavitt.  Enjoy and have a great week. 

Holy Moly!   This was such a wonderful week in Russia!!! We had such a busy and crazy week, and I can't even believe that it's Monday again already! I was thinking about how I used to hate Mondays in high school because they were the first day of the week and all I wanted to do was sleep, and now I love Mondays becasue they're P-Day and that means I get to take a nap and do fun things! But what am I saying? Everyday as a missionary is fun! So this week I have some good stories for you. So we had a lesson with Alexander and Katya this week and it was the funniest thing of my whole life, so he came to pick us up from the bus stop and we were driving along and his tire blew out! Yep, sure did, so we helped him change it and we were on our way again and then we got to their house and Katya had so many questions because she had been studying English that day and she wanted to know about the word  “THE”... I don't even understand that word and how to explain when to use it. So by the time we got to the lesson we had like 20 minutes and then the lesson ended up being like 40, so that's fine, but then we got back in the car to go back and the battery was dead, so they charged it for like 10 minutes and pumped up the spare tire a little because it was going flat, and then we were on our way. By the time we got to the bus stop it was like 9:10 and we waited and waited for a Marshootka, but none ever came, so we had to take a taxi and we didn't get home until after 10... yep, crazy lesson, but it went well.Then on Saturday we were supposed to have a sports day in the Center branch and then a music night after that, so we got all ready to go and went to go wait for a bus to center, we waited, and waited and waited and after one hour of waiting a bus finally came and then, because of traffic, it took another hour to get to center. So we got to the branch building an hour late and no one was there!! That was weird, so we called the elders and the other people in charge and they let us know that the sports activity had been cancelled. So we called our investigators and told them not to come. Then we just went to McDonalds and had lunch with the Elders because we still had music night and there wouldn't be enough time to go all the way home and then back. Music night was so much fun! Our investigators came and I sang a song, so did some of the members and all of the missionaries sang a song together too. It was  a ton of fun and made up completely for the long day of waiting. But other than all of that nothing too exciting happened this week. Oh, one of the less active members that we have been working with came to church yesterday, so that was very exciting! And today we are going to Mamaev Koorgan... Which is like the Russian Statue of Liberty, so I'm pretty excited about that and I'll send some pictures next week! well, I love my life, and I love you!!!

Sister Leavitt

And I think to myself, What a WONDERFUL World......

Sister Leavitt makes Monday's soo fun!  we may have to send BIG Daddy to Russia to check out what is going on.   Thank goodness for Missionary Monday!

Hello everyone! Hahaha, I just have to tell you that sometimes when I write that I wonder who everyone is and if "everyone" even reads these emails. But even if they don't I have fun writing them! So this week was a crazy week. Last Monday was normal though. We just had family night and taught a lesson about Lehi's dream which of course turned into a huge discussion about soccer and if watching soccer is good or bad. I ended that debate by telling them that I love watching soccer, so if that's a sin I guess I'm in big trouble. :) Our members here are so funny. Okay, one other funny thing about last Monday, We had an investigator who was supposed to come so I called him about ten minutes before had to see if he was still coming, but he said he wasn't and then he asked me out on a date to go swimming... it was an interesting phone call and needless to say we didn't call him after that. Also one of our other investigators texted us last night and asked me to marry him. He was serious about it too... I didn't text him back, but I just thought I would tell you that this isn't the first time! I am getting so sick of it! I don't want to get married I want to teach the gospel! So that's what I always tell people when they ask us if we can go out and drink with them or go dancing... Okay that has nothing to do with the missionary work that we did this week, but it was just and interesting side note to my week. So in other news...

Sister Tunney got transfered this week to Rostov, and that means that 1: I stayed at the Norrungs appartment for two days this week, it was fun because I got to help them plan and get ready for their girls camp and I loved it! And 2: this also means that I have a new companion! And she is so wonderful! She has already taught me so much about how to be a better missionary. She is so good at listening to people and really helping them. She investigated the church for a long time before she got baptized because she felt like the missionaries just had a check list and they just wanted to put a check next to baptism. So she does such a good job at really listening and answering people's questions. For example:  On Thursday night we had a meeting with our FAMILY!! And at the end of the lesson Alexander asked about baptism and what it really means, I answered him by saying that when we are baptized we make a covenant with God that we want to and we will always keep his commandments... I can't remember what else I said, but it led to receiving the holy ghost and then Katya had a question about how we do that and Sister Undozyoriva explained it so wonderfully and by the end the spirit was so strong that Katya was about crying and so was I. So, in short, we are having a wonderful time serving together and I love her so much!

Well, that's all for now, I wish you luck in the upcoming week and I hope all of you who are about to start school are so excited!

I Love YOU!!!

I'm starting with the Man in the Mirror...

 This is the Bird Poop on Sister Leavitt's leg....um I think she didn't like that too much, what do you think? 

 A Beautiful Russian Sunset.

And this is all the missionaries at zone conference.

In case you didn't know, 55 C is 131 F....just in case you need to refer to this information in her email.  Holy Hottness!  But as always, a great attitude.

Okay, fisrt things first, I have to give you an update on our FAMILY!!! First of all, their last name is Zolato, which means GOLEN in Russian, so that's pretty cool, and we had a lesson with them last night and Alexander prayed for the first time! It almost made me cry. They are so amazing! I wish I could just take them home with me! We also challenged them to be baptized after they come to know that this church is true and they said they would and they were actually very interested in getting baptized they asked us how we baptize in our church and what they would have to do. They also said that they wanted to know that this was the right desicion for them before they made it. We told them that it is a big decision and they should pray about it and seek to receive an answer that this is the only true church, and that it was restored through a prophet.I know that they will get an answer that it is true and that they will be baptized after they get that answer. I LOVE the power of prayer and I am so grateful that we can tell people that if they really want to know if this church is true all they have to do is pray and Heavenly Father will tell them! It's the best promise ever and I am so grateful for it because I'm not a very good convincer. I can bear testimony that I know it's true all day, but without prayer, they'll never know. Anyways, that's the first thing that I just had to tell you. So in other news... A bird pooped on my leg this week when we were out contacting. It wasn't very pleasant, but lucky for my Sister Tunney had some wetwipes in her purse, so I just used one of those and wiped it right off. Also we almost died this week because it was sooooooo hot! The hottest I saw a thermometer was 55 Celcius! I have no idea how much that is in Ferenhiet, but near death temperature probably. I could feel my blood starting to boil inside my body! Okay, that was an exaggeration, but it was pretty miserable to sit in these small marshootkas, which are basically like vans, and drive with no a/c to all of our destinations. But good thing I have a really amazing companion and we were able to make the best of it. We laughed and laughed some more. OKAY! other big news that I completely forgot about!!! Transfers are tomorrow and I am getting a new companion! Her name is Sister Undazoriva and she is form Estonia, Russian is her native language, but she speaks almost fluent english. We were together in the mtc and we flew here together and I am pretty stoked to be serving with her! Well, that's about it for today. Love you all Best of luck with your lives!

Sister Leavitt