Yay for Brooklyn and Caitlyn!!! :) just so you know. Loma texted me the day they were born and told me all the details and everything :). It was the best! She then showed me pics of them....man i was so happy to see them. The wonderful perks of having family in the ward. So im really happy the twins and tori are doing good. The twins have been in my prayers the day i heard they were born. Are they doing better now. Are they home? Send me more pics every time you get them :) I personally think they look like her family more. what do you think? they also look alike but they aren't identical right? Okay so Dave's baptism is this weekend...yippee!!! we're getting really excited and anxious for it. Also transfers are coming up so this is the best way to spend my last weekend here...yes im pretty sure im getting transferred. I have been here almost 9 months and i think it's time to go haha. Also here's some good news....CORY and his boys came to church yesterday!!! :D it was so neat to see them there and it was cool for the bishop and our ward mission leader, brother ratliff and others to meet him. Im just sad i might have to leave soon so i can't keep working with him but it's all good. ALso we weren't able to meet with Ruby and mosi (the mom and daughter) last week. So hopefully this week. i'll let you know. Also the temple on wednesday with all the sisters was incredible!! oh also on Thursday it was ZLC (zone leader conference) and the sister trainers get to go because sisters are "leaders" too haha he just started doing it since i started training and its been great because i feel like an actual leader now and also learn so much at the trainings. 0h and also the best part is spending the whole day with sister winert cause she is training too. haha ALright well im sorry this isn't very long this week but i dont have much time. I have to go cause im getting my hair cut soon....just a trim. So next week i'll let you know how things go with transfers :) I love you all! Have a great week!! Give Brooklyn and Caitlyn a big hug and kiss for me! Love sister amber ruth heward

wow that is so awesome. TWO new babies are already born and there is 2 more on the way right? thats so cool though. im excited to hear all about them in the coming months. so about my comp, hes going home in about a month and he is so ready to go home. he is in denial. honestly, its hard but ive been praying a ton to have charity and it is helping me grow alot. hes an awesome guy though. i love em. but something cool is that on February 19, we;re having 31 new missionaries coming into our mission. that is alot in case you didnt know. we have 8 coming in this next week and then that big influx of 31 the next transfer. its pretty dang intense. im really excited about it though. im excited to have the work move along like crazy. theres nothing more important than the work of the Lord. well family, i really dont have that much to say. im glad you all are doing awesome and im glad you're all holding to the rod and staying on the straight and narrow. we have a baptism this friday. pretty excited. well i hope you all have a great rest of the day or night or whenever you read this. and i hope ya'll have a good week. thank you for all the support you give me everyone. talk to ya next week. Love Elder Levi Bowen Heward

Merry Christmas from Elder Heward

so yes i did get transfered back to roseville actually. im in the singles ward now as a zone leader in roseville. we actually cover 2 wards. a family ward and then the YSA ward. its so much church. i love it. we have meetings and church from 8:30 to 4:30 on sunday. its so intense. we just forget about lunch because we're so busy. my new comp is elder cox. he does parcore and he reminds me of kade. im always trying my hardest to do my best but of course, i fail everyday. so we are both trying our best to do our best. the problem is that we are both competitive. its a good combo though. he goes home in february though. so only 3 months we'll be together. so i have a question ya gotta ask everybody. if they were ever the Assistant to the President, or AP. ask all the brothers that. well this last week was probably the busiest week of my entire mission. i had to go from corning to roseville (about 2 hours) from 8 to 10. when i got there we had to wait for the leaving missionaries ride to get here. when it got here, we went and talked to people in the walmart parking lot with the brand new missionaries for their first night in the mission field. the next day we had to drive a few missionaries around because president had some difficulty pairing missionaries up that neither of them could drive. and then the next day we had to have a couple meetings with the missionaries. and then on friday we had to go to gridley (about an hour away) and meet with all the other zone leaders and with president weston and recieve some instruction. then on saturday we actually had some time to do some stuff. it was so crazy though. its wierd to be back in roseville though. i remember when elder coburn and i would bike all over the place. we worked hard here. also, one of the missionaries in 1st ward (the ward i started in) is brand new so i'll be going on exchanges with him. so i'll be able to go see my recent converts and the other people that i know. its gonna be awesome. well im glad to hear that grandpas funeral went awesome. ya know, i cant believe how easy it was to deal with that trial. if i had been lazy and not studying and praying and doing what i was supposed to be doing then i think i would have been devestated hearing about his death. but when we do the right thing then we have more understanding of the plan and we can take those hard trials. it was a learing experience for me though. well family thank you for all you do and all the support you give me. i hope yall have a good week. tear it up in basketball kyle. show em the way they need to be playing. take it all the way to the "ship" (championship). have a great week. talk to yall next week. Love Elder Levi Bowen Heward

Merry Christmas From Sister Heward

OKay so let me quickly tell you about some awesome stuff that happened this week (i know this email is long) First of the little boy's baptism is still on for the 28th.....REALLY EXCITED! ALso we should have another baptism date set with Dave. We just had dinner at their house on Friday and had planned on a lesson after dinner but dinner went later then planned so we just hung out and talked for awhile. It was actually really good and i think needed. He expressed to us how much he really has appreciated us coming over and the different feeling he feels when we are there :) spirit? Then he said that he has thought more about the pre-earth life and has decided that it really just 'makes sense' and that he knows we are knowledgeable people and speak truth......first off the spirit is really helping us cause knowledgeable people??? haha whatever. but he also said he thought more about baptism and even though he has been taught his whole life that we only need to be baptized once that maybe it would be good to just 'start new' again and have a clean slate. I thought that was pretty cool he said that but we still need to teach him about the priesthood and that we must be baptized by the correct authority. ANyway they also came to the ward christmas party and found out someone in our ward works with him so thats always good to find connections within the ward for fellowshipping. Okay so now we had a miracle this week where we now have a new family of 3 that we are teaching. the mom tracy and her 2 daughters bailee (11) and charlee (8). the dad wasn't there but they do have one so hopefully we meet him. They are such a cute family and really seem very ready for the gospel. The mom has a friend that is a member and also her mom's best friend is a member so she has heard of us but no really familiar with everything. They aren't going to church right now but in the process of looking. We are so excited to start teaching them. Man i was just blown away after meeting with them for the first time seeing how ready and prepared they are. Well i think this email is long enough so i better go but im looking forward to talking with you all soon too!! woohoo for oovoo! haha Love Sister AMber RUth Heward oh ps the pic of me holding the cookies is when we went around with our ward missionary leader and took cookies and cards to less actives and members. It was soo fun and reminded me of home :) It was his idea though so i told him how much it meant to me that he had come up with this idea. It made me really happy.

Hey! Well here's he jyst on what happened....i'll just get right to it. haha okay so we had actually just come from the denkers home for dinner and as we were walking up to the door i was using our phone for a light to see the the door and all so we could unlock the door well i got there before my comp and as soon as i shined the light on the door i saw it cracked open and the whole door jam was busted open. I totally flipped right away and just turned around and ran and my comp was like whats wrong cause i had just ran right past her haha i said "our house has been broken into! the door is all busted!" she was like "get into the car!" so we just drove away and i was like now what? and i instantly thought of chris and told him what i had seen. I told him it could be a mistake cause i saw it so fast and maybe i just saw something that wasn't there but the point was i was really scarred and didn't wanna go back. So he was like okay ill come over right now and check it out. So he did and he was like "yep its been broken into so you need to get in the car and drive down the street a little ways and we'll come get ya in a little bit. He took complete charge and called the police and all. Ya i was pretty scared but it was nice having chris there. The lady we live with got a few things stolen but eventually got them back and me and sister miles didn't have anything stolen. The chris offered his home and now thats where we're at. Its actually been pretty fun haha. They're so funny and i actually feel like im at home now. Last night we were down in the kitchen hanging out and talking to ethan and riley for awhile before we went to bed and they totally remind me of kyle. It was kinda weird but fun. Then they went and played the xbox haha (halo 4 by the way kyle......yep riley just bought it) and we went to bed. Anyway mom im SAFE and sorry but we do have to still live in our home because honestly this place is not safe wherever you are. Its just the way san bernardino county is.....sorry. If you haven't found out yet san bernardino county is one of the most unsafe counties in the U.S. just fyi. haha i know that doesnt help BUT always remember we have the best security ever....THE LORD!!! He will protect us i promise. Nothing can stop the work of the lord. Not even some stupid 15 and 17 year old boys who rob houses. You can call president if you want and that'll make you feel better but he'll probably say the same thing. We're still living here :( Ok so this week,other then the break in, was pretty good! So i did tell you about David in my last letter and so we had an appt with him yesterday and he is totally reading the bom! So cool! He was saying how he likes how straight forward and simple it is. and then we watched the restoration video and dicussed that for awhile. He is really coming around FAST. Im pretty sure he'll be baptized before HE knows it. haha then the wife will start coming back and they will be SEALED! anyway also we're still having alot of success with the less actives always remember monson's motto of TO THE RESCUE. Something he said to his apostles in a meeting once (our stake president was at our ward yesterday and was telling us) he said "NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER give up on the less actives" I will never forget that. He said 'never' FOUR times. That has to mean something if it came from the a prophet. People really can change. They just need the constant support and when THEY are ready they will be back. Oh also i did some family history this week.....i actually had alot of fun! I have a whole fan chart of my ancestors. Not sure if you've heard of it but you can go to createfan.com and they make a cool looking pedigree chart. haha anyway today is sisters exchange and im going to rancho so if that makes you feel any better at all i'll be in rancho till wedneday. well i better go cause my comp needs to get on but I LOVE YOU ALL SO MUCH!!!!! also tell grandpa i love him a ton and miss him too. :) This work is GREAT!!!! the CHURCH is oh so very true. Everything proves it is. Everyday it becomes more clearer to me. Have a wonderful week and thanks for all the prayers. Believe me they work......they keep me safe and i feel the Lord's hand in my life everyday. Love Sister Amber Ruth Heward

we were teaching a less active the other day and she basically asked how we get through trials and i said when we have more light its easier to get through trials. when we have more understanding its easier to get through the big trials. jack r. christensen said that. my comps uncle is jack r. christensen. kinda cool. but when we have a knowledge of the plan and what gods will is for us then everything makes sense and we dont focus on the view that us humans focus on sometimes, which is whats happening here and going on here with us right now. instead we focus on the whole view and realize, for example, that grandpa doesnt want to have his life extended becasue he is suffering and he proabably knows that when he dies he'll be able to have rest. in jack r. christensens talk, The Mortal Christ, he says that when joseph smith was killed and hyrum and later his brother samuel after a month, lucy mack smith was just crying hysterically over there bodies and the whole family was there and she prayed "my god, my god, why hast thou forsaken this family?" then the lord responds with basically dont worry and that he has taken them unto himself so they can have rest. then he focuses on joseph finally having rest and that they have had to "work" from the time joseph came out of the grove and said that he saw the father and the son. so my point is, when grandpa dies, which he might do soon, dont worry, he has worked so hard its not even funny. he deserves to have a rest from his mortal life. he will return to god and he will be so much happier (alma 40:11). then use it as an oppourtunity to spread the gospel. when people that arent members come to his funeral, talk about the plan of salvation and teach people where he is at and what will happen to all of us. then testify to them that the only way we can have lasting peace in this life and the life to come is through having the understanding of the plan and obeying gods commandments. well..im done. so this week was good. i was able to work well with other missionaries in my district and help them with whatever they need. we have zone conference tomorrow and it should be pretty sweet. so i asked my president this last week about my spiritual gifts and how i can develop the ones i have and the ones i want to have and he basically read back to me my patriarchal blessing. it was so cool. it was a testimony that those that preside over us truly can recieve inspiration for us and help guide us in our live. when was the last time you and dad asked bishop to know about your spiritual gifts? you should try it. anyways, we're gonna go sledding today for pday activity in lassen national park. yea sledding in california. now ive been to the beach, mountains, and city in california. well family thank you for all you do for me and the wonderful cookies you sent mom. those are good. i eat them with the whole milk :) i look forward to the other package. Love Elder Levi Bowen Heward