Wow, is it getting hot here in Dixon! But all is well, I think I'm finally sweating off that weight I gained in the MTC. HA. Anyways, we got our new zone this week! It's kind of weird having all new people, but it's going to be great. We got two greenies, one of which is here in Dixon. And his poor companion is whitewashing, district leader, training, and got trunky transfered (meaning he got transfered to a new area his last transfer of the mission). He's got his work cut out for him! Haha but the elders are great. The ward is so excited to finally have elders back here, so it's definitely a good thing. One of the adorable little primary girls saw them on sunday and said "wait, boys can go on missions too?!" It was the cutest thing! Well, as far as this week goes, nothing too crazy happened. We had no near deaths, so that's good! We had some pretty amazing miracles though. First off, we have been trying to have a movie night with the Alvarado (Sam, Angelina, and DJ) family forever because we thought it would be really good for them to show them the restoration movie. Every time we planned it and got all excited, they would cancel or the member that was going to come with us would cancel (because we can't go in his house without a member), so it just wasn't working out. Then on tuesday we had rescheduled to go and we couldn't find a member and then our phone broke so we had no way to contact anyone and I was just ready to give up and be done trying. But, then we went to our dinner appointment and the member let us use her phone to call the ward mission leader and he told us "I'll find someone. Just show up for your appointment with him at 7 and I'll have a member there for you." So sure enough, 2 hours later we pulled up to the Alvarado's home and there was a member there waiting for us! We were so happy and it was one of the best lessons we've had with them. The movie helped them all see the importance of Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon and how this really is the restored gospel. Okay, I take that back, something crazy DID happen this week. We were talking to a man on a completely open street when suddenly this woman appeared out of nowhere. She told us she was a member and had moved from peru about a month ago and had been searching for the missionaries and the church building. We talked to her for a bit and gave her our info and the address for the church, but she didn't remember her address or her phone number. So we left her with that and she told us she'd call us. Then we got in our car to leave and realized she told us she lives with her sister in law who used to talk to the missionaries, so we might have her address in our areabook. We drove to try and find her and ask her sister in law's name, and she had literally dissapeared. There was seriously nowhere for this woman to disappear to in the 1 minute we had our backs turned to her, but she did. So we're just praying that we will be able to find her again! To update you on our other investigators, Jessica made it to church yesterday! She promised us she'd come and when church started she still wasn't there so we were super discouraged, because she's never late. But during the opening song, out of the corner of my eye I saw her curly head of hair bobbing around in the back looking for us! It was the best! So, Lidia is currently ignoring us.. we think? We don't exactly know what's happening with her cause she was super solid, so please keep her in your prayers and that we'll be able to get back in contact with her! Thanks for all you do for me, I love and appreciate all of you so much! Love, Hermana Suzanna Lewis Okay I don't have the best pictures this week, but here's one of the sky the other day. There was a huge fire (7000 acres. Yikes!) out by lake berryessa the other day and it turned the sun red and the sky was one huge cloud of smoke. This other one is just a glimpse at what our car rides consisted of. We blast the circle of life and sing along, haha so this is a screenshot of one of our singing videos. Enjoy! Oh, and we milked cows last week. Woot woot!
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