Week 24 - President of the USA

Hello everyone!

It's been a good week! Many miracles!! On P-day last week President Allred invited the cache central zone to his grandson's baptism. He asked the sisters to sing at it. It was so awesome to support President Allred's family. Afterwards he took us all out to eat at pizza pie cafe. It was a great day!

President Aldred's grandsons' baptism

Singing at the baptism

Marissa received her package from the Stake Youth

Lunch at Chick-fil-A

Marissa and Sister Schultz

Activity

Sister Burnt got my letter to her

Marissa and Sister Schultz

Pizza with an investigator

Service with a smile

So it was the election this week and everyone on campus wants to talk about it. As missionaries we aren't supposed to talk about politics or get involved with it. It was so hard to not talk about it though! On Wednesday we went to campus to go tracting like any other day (we still didn't know who the president was since we don't have a tv or news). We saw this girl walking and so we said, "Hello, how's your day going" and she replied: "this is the worst day of my life!" We were so concerned and said, "Oh no, what happened, did classes go wrong or something?" And she said, "No it's the person who is in authority of this country now!" She didn't even have to say his name and then went on this long rant about the new president. So that's how I found out who the president was. It was a crazy day! Everyone was talking about the election!

We've had some good things happen in this week and some discouraging things. Caesar dropped us which means he told us he doesn't want to meet anymore which was sad for us because he told us he knows the Book of Mormon Is true, he just doesn't want to commit to a religion. Yep... it just doesn't make sense to me!

Sister Schultz and Marissa

With Jasmine

Some good news about this week was that we had a baptism!! Woot woot! Jasmine was baptized on Saturday! We only met her two weeks ago and she was so excited to be baptized! Her baptism was really special and the spirit was definitely there! She asked me to speak at her baptism and I was happy to do it.

Jasmine's baptism

Marissa is so happy for Jasmine

Okay last thing....A member of the seventy, Elder Larsen, came and spoke in one of our wards that our investigator, Zev, attended. Jason (Zev's roommate) gave the closing prayer. After it Elder Larsen asked Jason who that was sitting next to us, and he told him that it was Zev who is not a member. He asked if he could meet Zev. And so we all went down to the stake presidents office and had a lesson with Elder Larsen and President Ensign (stake president). Zev has been struggling with feeling the spirit and knowing if the Book of Mormon is really the word of God. They testified to him and Elder Larsen asked at the end of the meeting if he could give Zev a priesthood blessing to receive answers. Zev accepted and you could tell Zev felt the spirit so strongly. What an amazing experience that happened out of the blue!

It was a good week. It's crazy how fast time goes by...I don't like it. Mission life is great. I love the people here! They are so amazing and these college students do so much for missionaries even though they are busy with college stuff. 
Love you all

Sister Lowe

2016 NOHS Soccer Banquet - Offensive Player of the Year

What an amazing night for the senior boys on the soccer team.

Betsy made a great (but long) 20 minute video of the season.  There were clips of every player and all the championship games.  

The Banquet was held at the elegant Hunting Creek Country Club.  Dinner was delicious.  After dinner Coach Josh Poole presented awards to the outstanding players.  

He forgot to get the letters and pins, so they will be distributed at school.  (oops).

Their were several awards:

Freshman Award - Jack Frazee

Sophomore Award - Caleb Patterson

Junior Award - Dylan Smith

Dylan and Coach Josh

Senior Award - Mason Rice

Defensive Player of the Year - Blake Reitnauer

Offensive Player of the Year - ROBERT LOWE!!!!!

Robert and Coach Josh

MVP - Parker Vicich

Way to go ROBERT!!!!

After the awards Mason, Parker and Robert presented the coaches with their thank you gifts - a 2016 season scrapbook made by me and gift cards.

It was so wonderful to have one last chance to get this amazing group of young men and talented soccer players together one last time.

Back:  Zach, Michael S., Drew, Nathan, Blake, Mason, Robert, Parker, Jack, Ryan
Front:  Wilton, Holden, Nathan, Morgan, Max, Michael R.

A great bunch:  Robert, Wilton, Holden, Mo, Blake and Nathan
The OSC TEAM!!!

The Pete Williams Fan Club - they each picked Pete Williams as their Person of Influence

The Soccer Moms
Christine, Mandi, Carla, Jeanne, Lana, Betsy, Elise, Amy and Diane

We are so proud of you Robert
You worked so hard and achieved so much!!!

Robert with friends:  Zach, Drew and Mo

Receiving flowers - refusing to give a speech

Robert's table

Robert's award

Betsy and Amy
Volunteers extraordinaire

These guys did a great job of keeping the night exciting

Sophomore Year repeats - Amazing young men - look how they have grown

Week 23 - great week

Hello everyone!
This week was another busy week. We had a lot more lessons this week, but not as much finding.

Here are some cool things that happened:
- We went on this hike in Logan and it was so pretty. It's called the Crimson trail and for P-day my whole zone got together and hiked it. I'm really liking our new zone and I like meeting all the new people in our mission that I've never met before. We have a lot of fun together and most of my P-day is spent with our zone!

- We had more lessons with Jasmine this week. We got her to watch a baptism on Saturday and we asked her how she's feeling about getting baptized on the 12th and she said "yep I still want to get baptized on that day!" So yay for that!! She is awesome and I really believe she will get baptized on that day.

- We've been meeting with a couple other investigators this week. They are slowly progressing but I have faith that they will receive an answer of this true gospel. Caesar is one of them. He has read the Book of Mormon 4 times and believe it's true, he loves church and the peace he feels there, but still doesn't want to get baptized. His issue is that he "doesn't see himself a member," so pretty much commitment issues. We asked him if he got baptized what it would do for his life and he said it would make life easier and bring relief.  So... Yep he's confusing but we are still working on him, haha

- So here are some perks of being on a mission in Utah. So this week we went to Chiles for lunch together with a few other missionaries. And when we went to pay someone already payed for it all! And then today we were grocery shopping we got to the cash register and this old guy said I'm paying for both of you! As we were walking out we shook this guy’s hand and he slid us $20 bucks when we shook his hand! We were like "no, this is yours" and then he just walked away! Earlier this week we were at Aggies ice cream and we were payed for there too by a stranger! People are so generous here in Logan! I love these people so much and they are so kind to missionaries!

Well we had a busy week but I don't have too much time to write today! I hope all of your weeks went well and that you are seeing Gods hand in your life more. I love this mission and I love the people here. I love being a missionary and I never want it to end, haha. Love you all!

Sister Lowe