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Holding Rainbow (33 years old)
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Dear Family and Friends,
This last week has been pretty good. On Monday, we went to Sarasota
Jungle Gardens with the Innes family. It was a lot of fun. I will
have to send you pictures of it later because they are on the camera
and I can't get them on my iPad. We got to feed flamingos there and
then we got to hold some birds. It was pretty cool. They had a 675
lb crocodile there also, it was the biggest one that I have seen here
on Florida, until the next day when we saw a 700 lb crocodile in the
wild. The count for alligators is now at 25, which was 3 when I left
St. Pete, and crocodiles is at 2. After p p-day was over we had a
family home evening lesson with the Parisi family. They are so
awesome and remind me so much of my family. Bro. Parisi is a fireman
and also has a cool mustache, just like you dad. They have five
daughters. It was a fan FHE as we taught about humility and then ate
carrot cake afterwards.
On Tuesday is when I spent most of the day at the dentist getting my
chipped tooth fixed. Not really fun. But Dr. Leavitt is a way cool
guy and we sort of found out where we are related a few generations
back, which was pretty cool. (I was going to send you a picture of it
but I forgot to take it, so I will send that to you later.)
On Thursday we had some drop by lessons with some less active members.
One of which told us that has been going to a baptist church for a
while. He expressed concerns about the prophet Joseph Smith and the
Book of Mormon. He then shared the feelings that he had as we were
talking about the restoration and how he was so happy that we are
coming to teach him and wants us to continue to come by so that he can
learn more. We also visited with a member from Utah and her mother in
a care center. We shared the Mormon Message "Moments that Matter
Most" which is one of my favorite videos. I love how quickly that the
spirit can enter into a room just by sharing a short video. As we
were leaving, we showed her Mormonchannel.org and she loved it and
never knew that it existed. On the way home guess what happens. Yup,
another flat tire. Got a nail in my tire and ended up walking the
last two miles home. But at least we were close. Haha
Saturday was a great day. In the morning we biked to Marin Parisi's
sculling (rowing) race that she had. We went to support her and to
talk to the Parisi's friends there. It was super cool to watch and
reminded me so much about cross county and track. They had tents set
up all over the place. Sis. Parisi reminded me a lot about you mom.
She is awesome, cheering her kids on while video taping the race and
yelling into the phone. :). While there, we were able to talk to one
of their friends and she asked a little bit about the church. She
asked if we were Christians and once she found out that we were, she
committed to coming to church to see what it was like. Sis. Parisi
briefly brought up general conference, so we were then able to talk
about living prophets and apostles and how we are able to listen to
them.
Speaking of general conference, I absolutely loved it. We watched it
at the church and we didn't have any investigators come, but they may
have watched it at home. Not sure if any of them did yet. What stood
out to me the most was the need to be going to the temples and maybe
that's why no new temples were announced yet because people aren't
going as much as the are supposed to. So we need to help members to
set this as their ultimate goal and to help them understand the
importance of going. We also need to be obedient to the covenants
which we have already made and continue to live them. I can't wait
until I am able to go to the temple again. I hope that you are all
doing everything that you possible can to make it to the temple
whenever the opportunity arises.
Love,
Elder Leavitt
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