November 4, 2013
Hi Family
This week has been pretty good for the most part. There was a super great turn out to the Halloween Party that we had on wednesday. There were at least 200 people there and 40 of them were nonmembers. The chili cook off was really good, and they had games and trunk-or-treating for the kids.
This last sunday was probably one of the best sundays that I've so far on my mission. President Cusick, and his wife and daughter all showed up to our church for sacrament meeting. All three were asked to start the testimony meeting by sharing their's. This testimony meeting has been the most powerful and spiritual meeting I've been to. The Nichols family who I have talked about in previous weeks were all able to attend together. Even Bro. Nichols who usually works every sunday. We committed him to pray to get sundays off and to act on his faith to do all he could to come to church. When he got his work schedule for the upcoming week. He didn't have to work during the day on sunday. It was a miracle seeing him there at church. Their daughter Yvonne and soon to be son in law also came to church with them. Yvonne is a member but her boyfriend Rick isn't. They to have been taking part in the lessons that we have with her parents and want to become active again. I think that they all enjoyed coming to church. Also this sunday, it was the largest Gospel Principles class that I have seen thus far on my mission. Bro. Nye taught a great lesson about the spirit world and temple work. It also seemed that in every meeting that there is a lot more talk about missionary work and Hastening the work. The members are becoming more involved and wanting to share the Gospel with others more.
Now to answer all of your questions. The new elder is Elder Westover from Taylorsville, UT. He has been out here for 7 months now. Elder Holmstead is still here. The weather is getting a cooler now. I will want my running gloves soon if you can find them in any of the boxes I packed. Thanks. I did get your package and thank you, now I can add a few more things to my emergency pack. I don't get too many other people writing to me. I have a few letters I still need to write back though but nothing new. The dinners are staying about the same. Every week we have two dinners already planned with returning members. But other than that we are lucky if we get one or two more on top of that. There is a stove and oven that I sometimes use. Elder Whaley and I still get the couch and mattress. The other Elders still have the bedroom and study room. So we get the couch and table you saw in the pictures for eating dinner, sleeping, and studying. And they get the full bedroom and closest, study room, and the table to eat as well where they always leave their mess on. My bike is still running great after the small accidents. I did get a flat tire on saturday about ten miles from our apartment. This nice guy from Atlanta Georgia who lived in SLC for five years so us after we had been walking for about 2.5 hours and went and bought a tube for us. It was a blessing for him to stop and help us out. He isn't a member but missionaries in the past had helped him and his son out on several different occasions so he wanted to do the same. About the leak in the red bike, ask dad to help. I know how much that he loved helping me to fix my flats when I was younger. :)
I love you all and I love hearing from you all. Oh, and the picture is of my district before everyone got transferred.
Love, Elder Leavitt
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