It's a little bit Funny......

Oh I can totally see her having little mints on the pillows for her guest.  That's our Courtney!  Have a great week.  ~ Mamma K

Hey hey everybody!!!!  Well I can't believe that another Monday is
here. I feel like in on my mission Mondays have become my way of
judging how fast time is going and at the rate Mondays have been
flying by lately I feel like all of the other days are nonexistant.
But this week was so good! Well, it was mostly good. My companion was
pretty sick for all of it, so it involved a bunch of resting, but some
interesting things still managed to happen. So last Monday we had a
going away party for the senior couple that has been serving in this
area. They're getting transfered to Rostov, which is really strange
because senior couples don't usually get transfered, so it took us all
by surprised, but they are starting family strengthening classes, and
addiction recovery for our whole mission, so they will get to travel
to the whole mission and get these things going. I'm actually really
excited that they are because members and nonmembers alike can really
benifit from those two things. Anyways, so we had a going away party
at their house and we made really good Russian food and it was so much
fun.

Also this week was zone conference! So the zone that I am in right now
is HUGE!!! Not in the sense that it has a lot of missionaries, but in
the sense that the area we cover with our 6 companionships is really
big. Some of the elders have to take a 6 hour train ride just to get
to where we had conference, which, lucky for us, was at our branch.
Since everyone lives so far away they all came the night before zone
conferece. That was fun because we had english club that night so they
got to help us with that and Sister Tunney and I had a really fun
lesson planned because we wanted to teach them food and cooking words,
so we taught them how to make cookies. It was  a blast. Then in order
for everyone to have a place to sleep we had to let 6 elders stay in
our appartment and we had to go to the senior couple's appartment to
sleep. It was so much fun. We made our apartment like a hotel and put
chocolates on their pillows. Also Sister Tunney and I really enjoy
cooking, so we made them dinner so that they wouldn't eat all of our
other food :). Anyways, Sister Tunney and I also had a presentation at
zone conferece on the role of the spirit in conversion. We did a
really funny object lesson where we had Sister Potter go into this
room with an elder for two minutes and put makeup on the elder, the
funny part is that for the first one she had no light, for the second
one she had a flash light and for the third one she had all light,
then we just compared it to how the Holy Ghost should be the main
teacher when we are teaching and when we try to do the teaching
without him it usually doesn't work out very well.

We also got to go to this dancing class that the senior couple here
has been doing because we weren't able to meet with one of our new
members this week and she told us she would be there, so we just went
to talk to her, but it turned out to be so much fun I haven't really
danced in a while and I loved it. Granted we could only do the line
dances and the rest of the time we watched, but it was blast and ps,
our new member is doing so well and it's making me so happy. She is
the one who was baptized the week before I got here and she is just
starting to make so many friends in our branch and is really starting
to understand better. I am so proud of her. Yesterday at church she
didn't even sit by us, she sat by members and talked with them and made
friends!!! So that is wonderful.

Anyways life is good, time is flying and the work is going!!!

I love you all and I hope you have an excellent week.

Until next week,

Sister Leavitt