Dear Family and Friends,
This last week has been an amazing week. It started off with the Metro MTC which was in downtown Tampa. We spent 2.5 days just walking around talking with people. In the previous five weeks, there have been about 80 missionaries that have already done this. So just about half of everyone we talked to had already talked to missionaries before. We did a lot of walking around, so much that I was sore for the next three days. On Tuesday, we walked probably 30-35 miles altogether, but it was defiantly worth it. We taught eleven lessons that day, and handed out 200 pass along cards. It was a great experience that we had, trying out different techniques and approaches. Testing out different ways of contacting people to see what worked and what didn't.
On Saturday night, we got our transfer calls. We were thinking that either one of us were going to be transferred, and we weren't sure who it would be since we came here at the same time, but we were both wrong. Elder Westover is staying in St. Petersburg and Elder Holmstead is leaving, and Elder Whaley and I are both leaving as well. So the three of us all got to this area the same day, and we are all leaving the same day. None of us know where we are going but we will find out tomorrow at the transfer meeting and then we will be in our new area. I am really sad to say by to this area and the people who we have been working with. Although I am excited for a change and looking forward to what is going to happen next. It makes me wonder what is going to happen to our area since it was white washed when we got here, and they are white washing it again. So who knows if they are going to have Sister Missionaries come in, or Elders, or combining both areas.
This last week we have also been doing a lot of finding by street contacting and walking around at the park. We only talked to two people when street contacting in the four hours we had and neither of them were interested. And at the park we talked to quite a few more but we still don't have any potentials. It's been difficult to find people to teach.
Bruce is still doing super well and his date is still set for the 16 of March. Last night we had a great lesson reading from the Book of Mormon about King Noah and Abinadi and he absolutely loved it. It finally seemed to click to him the importance of reading the Book of Mormon and applying the teachings to our lives. He wanted us to read another chapter before we left and we had already been there too long. He begged us to read more with him so we ended up staying and reading another chapter. It was a great lesson that Bruce really enjoyed.
We haven't been able to have any lessons with Ron yet but did make brief contact with him last night on the phone and invited him to come play ball with us today. (Might be the only way to see him again and hopefully he shows up) It sounds like he is just busy and not setting his priorities.
I don't know if you remember Lauwana, I might have talked about her a few months past. But we were teaching her for a little bit but then things turned south for some reason. Anyways, she's been taking the lessons with other missionaries and was there at church yesterday. She has a baptism date set for the 15th and just recently gave up her job so that she can now come to church each week. I'm pretty excited for her as well.
I hope all is going well and I really do enjoy getting your letters. I will work on writing letters to you as soon as I can. I have been horrible at writing letters, or even writing in my journal for that matter. But I promise that I will get to it and make time for it, but it might not be this week. That's great to hear about everyone getting mission calls and it's crazy to think how soon it is that they are leaving.
Love, Elder Leavitt
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