Hello my dears,
First and most importantly HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MY LOVELY SISTERS!!!!!! Tavi and Brooke! Wow, I love you two so much! Thank you for your support and love! You are the best and I hope you have the very greatest birthday celebration ever! Eat lots of cake! :)
Once again it feels like it was just yesterday that I was here emailing you! This week was pretty exciting so it flew by!
This week we got to do exchanges, and who did I have the opportunity to be companions with? The lovely Sister Roe who is from... yep you guessed it ST. GEORGE! Small world right?! It was so fun to be her companion for a day, though we didn't know each other before our missions we have a lot of mutual friends so it was funny as I would tell stories she would be like "I was that girl! That was me!" Or as she would talk about her friends I would be like "Wait, wait, wait, you know them?!" I don't know if I wrote about this story already or not but when I was in the MTC I was walking down the hall one night to dinner and I here a girl yelling "Sister Lee! Wow I've been looking all over for you! I followed your blog and I want to meet you!" Haha, this was Sister Roe. The pressure was on because she was Sister Parish's companion in the MTC and Sister Parish said that she always talked about my blog and how amazing it is (Thanks Bekah, you're the best!) so when she met me in real life I did not want to disappoint! We did have a fun time together, and it was cool to tell one of my blog followers in person how much I truly do love my mission. I realize I am not the best writer in the world and I try for you to feel my emotion for the love of my mission but I think by reading my emails you can't even begin to understand. So I will apologize months and months in advance for when I return home and talk your cute ears off about the best time of my life, my mission.. But anyways it was really a neat experience to serve with Sister Roe, sometimes I forget about St. George and it was nice to know that it still exists. ;) Right after our exchange Sister Parish and I headed up to Zone Conference, holy cow!
Remember how I was most school spirit in high school? Wow, I'm a loser.. anyways I feel as though I am most, Kyiv Ukraine Mission spirit, and our Zone Conference was literally like a Pep Rally! Like you thought I was pumped and excited about missionary work before.. you ain't seen nothing.
First of all I got to have an interview with President Klebingat this week. Incredible. How was I so blessed to get him as a President? I truly lucked out! He is amazing. In my interview he asked me how I was doing with training on my second transfer and everything. I told him how much I loved it and how grateful I have been to receive this blessing in my life. He replied with "Well Sister Lee, I'm glad you're loving it, because you're going to be doing a lot of it." I feel as though a huge majority of my mission I will spend training which I am so excited for because I know how big of a blessing it has been to me. Helping me with the language, with being bold, with befriending members really, training is incredible. It was so awesome to just be one on one with President and hear his words of wisdom. And to hear him say he was proud of me, was pretty neat too. I love President and at Zone Conference we were blessed to finally here his conversion story along with his sweet wife's as well. I could not get enough of it. They are awesome! I want you all to meet them and just be able to feel their spirit! Their passion for this work is inspiring and I know that through their guidance we will be able to see many people become members of Heavenly Father's Kingdom here. I so know that to be true. There are so many signs of something big happening here!
For part of Zone Conference President gave us a little visual aid. He held up a piece of paper with about 10 names on one side and about 50 names on the other. The side of the paper with 10 names on it were the names of missionaries going home from now until December the other side was missionaries coming here from now until December. By the end of this year there will be over 100 missionaries here in the Kyiv Ukraine Mission. As most of you know our mission was just split in July, there will now be more missionaries in just our mission then there was when the L'viv and Kyiv mission were together. The work is hastening. We had the pleasure of having the sweet senior missionaries at our Zone Conference with us, as President Klebingat was sharing these numbers with us one of the senior sisters told us of an experience she had the other day. She was talking to the third member that was baptized here in Kyiv about 20 years ago. He was the among the first of hundreds to get baptized in the matter of just a year. As he was talking to this sweet sister he said "Twenty years ago there was a 'big wave' of baptisms, I remember how it felt twenty years ago, and it is starting to feel that way once again." Wowza! Isn't that exciting! President can't explain why or how we are getting so many missionaries to this mission, but I know that it is because something big is going to happen and goodness am I excited to be here to help it happen!
It is so exciting to think about all of the missionaries all around the world! One of my favorite times of the day is when I say my prayers at night and I pray for all of my friends out in the field and those preparing to serve. The list is long, but I try my best! I love it! It gives me so much strength when I receive emails from my friends all over the world, knowing that they are right there with me doing the Lord's work! So cool!
Well we are going to go have a щащлык party today so I gotta go get ready for that!
Love you my favorite people!!!
All of My Love,
Your sister, Sister Lee
Once again it feels like it was just yesterday that I was here emailing you! This week was pretty exciting so it flew by!
This week we got to do exchanges, and who did I have the opportunity to be companions with? The lovely Sister Roe who is from... yep you guessed it ST. GEORGE! Small world right?! It was so fun to be her companion for a day, though we didn't know each other before our missions we have a lot of mutual friends so it was funny as I would tell stories she would be like "I was that girl! That was me!" Or as she would talk about her friends I would be like "Wait, wait, wait, you know them?!" I don't know if I wrote about this story already or not but when I was in the MTC I was walking down the hall one night to dinner and I here a girl yelling "Sister Lee! Wow I've been looking all over for you! I followed your blog and I want to meet you!" Haha, this was Sister Roe. The pressure was on because she was Sister Parish's companion in the MTC and Sister Parish said that she always talked about my blog and how amazing it is (Thanks Bekah, you're the best!) so when she met me in real life I did not want to disappoint! We did have a fun time together, and it was cool to tell one of my blog followers in person how much I truly do love my mission. I realize I am not the best writer in the world and I try for you to feel my emotion for the love of my mission but I think by reading my emails you can't even begin to understand. So I will apologize months and months in advance for when I return home and talk your cute ears off about the best time of my life, my mission.. But anyways it was really a neat experience to serve with Sister Roe, sometimes I forget about St. George and it was nice to know that it still exists. ;) Right after our exchange Sister Parish and I headed up to Zone Conference, holy cow!
Remember how I was most school spirit in high school? Wow, I'm a loser.. anyways I feel as though I am most, Kyiv Ukraine Mission spirit, and our Zone Conference was literally like a Pep Rally! Like you thought I was pumped and excited about missionary work before.. you ain't seen nothing.
First of all I got to have an interview with President Klebingat this week. Incredible. How was I so blessed to get him as a President? I truly lucked out! He is amazing. In my interview he asked me how I was doing with training on my second transfer and everything. I told him how much I loved it and how grateful I have been to receive this blessing in my life. He replied with "Well Sister Lee, I'm glad you're loving it, because you're going to be doing a lot of it." I feel as though a huge majority of my mission I will spend training which I am so excited for because I know how big of a blessing it has been to me. Helping me with the language, with being bold, with befriending members really, training is incredible. It was so awesome to just be one on one with President and hear his words of wisdom. And to hear him say he was proud of me, was pretty neat too. I love President and at Zone Conference we were blessed to finally here his conversion story along with his sweet wife's as well. I could not get enough of it. They are awesome! I want you all to meet them and just be able to feel their spirit! Their passion for this work is inspiring and I know that through their guidance we will be able to see many people become members of Heavenly Father's Kingdom here. I so know that to be true. There are so many signs of something big happening here!
For part of Zone Conference President gave us a little visual aid. He held up a piece of paper with about 10 names on one side and about 50 names on the other. The side of the paper with 10 names on it were the names of missionaries going home from now until December the other side was missionaries coming here from now until December. By the end of this year there will be over 100 missionaries here in the Kyiv Ukraine Mission. As most of you know our mission was just split in July, there will now be more missionaries in just our mission then there was when the L'viv and Kyiv mission were together. The work is hastening. We had the pleasure of having the sweet senior missionaries at our Zone Conference with us, as President Klebingat was sharing these numbers with us one of the senior sisters told us of an experience she had the other day. She was talking to the third member that was baptized here in Kyiv about 20 years ago. He was the among the first of hundreds to get baptized in the matter of just a year. As he was talking to this sweet sister he said "Twenty years ago there was a 'big wave' of baptisms, I remember how it felt twenty years ago, and it is starting to feel that way once again." Wowza! Isn't that exciting! President can't explain why or how we are getting so many missionaries to this mission, but I know that it is because something big is going to happen and goodness am I excited to be here to help it happen!
It is so exciting to think about all of the missionaries all around the world! One of my favorite times of the day is when I say my prayers at night and I pray for all of my friends out in the field and those preparing to serve. The list is long, but I try my best! I love it! It gives me so much strength when I receive emails from my friends all over the world, knowing that they are right there with me doing the Lord's work! So cool!
Well we are going to go have a щащлык party today so I gotta go get ready for that!
Love you my favorite people!!!
All of My Love,
Your sister, Sister Lee
(don't forget the video at the bottom, just in case you forgot how stinking cute Sister Lee is, I doubt it though)
Hi there! I'm Heather and was wondering if you would answer my question about your blog! My email is Lifesabanquet1@gmail.com
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