We had a slow start to the week, but the weekend definitely made up for all of it. On Monday, we weren't able to get in with anyone. We stopped by a former investigators home and talked to the wife. She was feeling pretty sick, so we told her we would come back again. As we were biking through the neighborhood, the husband was driving around looking for us since he heard that we had just stopped by. He found us and told us that he was going out of town for a work trip, but he would give us a call when he gets back to set up a time to come by and visit. I have only been in their home once before, but they want us to come by, so hopefully we will be able to soon.
Tuesday was exchanges with Elder Peterson, the District Leader. Elder Hicken went with Elder Coleman, who has been out for eight weeks. They didn't have that great of a day because Elder Coleman got a flat tire in the morning on his bike. They weren't sure what to do so they called us and we told them to go and walk around street contacting. Elder Peterson and I went to a HT/VT meeting with the quorum presidents, missionaries, and bishop, and talked about ways that we can bring those numbers up from 25% home teaching and church attendance. Hopefully this will help the members to see the importance of visiting others and showing the love and care for our fellow brothers and sisters.
Wednesday wasn't too productive other than district meeting. Everything seemed to cancel on us or not be home. And that goes for Thursday as well.
Friday seemed to pick up some more. We got to visit with the Horths. Brother Horth has now gone 17 days without smoking a cigarette. Sister Horth is still slowly cutting back, but doing better.
On Saturday, Bishop Leedom picked us up along with Sisters Skeem and Upshaw to take us to the church for the Pioneer Potluck. We had a great turn out of people and food there. There were 70 people who attended. Brother Paxton won the chili cook off with his special Mark's Fireball chili that was really good. I thought that it was pretty spicy, and he told us that he toned it down quite a bit. I told Sister Skeem, Angela Carreau, and Elder Hicken to try it, and they all hated me afterwards because of how hot it was. I want to try Brother Paxton's normal chili. Elder and Sister Greenwood made 8 gallons of home made root beer which I quite enjoyed. So later that evening, I felt that we needed to head down south from our apartment to try and visit some less actives. We never did make it to their homes but now I know that we weren't supposed, we just had to be in that area. This is one of the greatest experiences that I've had in finding someone to teach.So we were biking along and passed this stray dog on the sidewalk that had a collar on. We kept biking by, but then I felt that we needed to go back and see if there were any phone numbers on the tags the dog had on. I was thinking to myself that this could maybe lead us to a finding opportunity if we could find the dogs owners. We called the numbers on the tags and nothing happened. They were business numbers and they were all closed this time of the night. So after a few minutes of trying, we decided to leave the dog behind and continue on our way again. Before you know it, you see this dog sprinting down the middle of the road chasing after a motorcyclist. It tried nipping the tires as he drove by. The guy on the bike saw the dog chasing after him in his rear-view mirrors and pulled off to the side of the road. We biked up to him and told him about what we had found out about the dog. He tried calling the numbers also, but he didn't have any luck with the phone numbers. So he let he dog go and when another motorcyclist drove by, the dog started chasing that guy. We figured that the owner had to have a motorcycle with the way the dog acted around them. Anyways, we got talking with this guy for a good 20-30 minutes after that about the church. He lived in Colorado for nine years and found out quite a bit around the church there. He also went and visited temple square to see what it was like. He has quite a bit of knowledge about the Gospel already. Early that day he was in a painting shop and saw some guy painting a picture of Christ that he recognized from the Mormon church. We got his personal information, and invited him to church the next day. His name is Justin, and he came for all three hours of church yesterday and participated in every class and seemed to enjoy it quite a bit. We have another appointment to meet with him tomorrow which I am really excited for. Just to think, if we would have just kept biking by and if we wouldn't have stopped for the dog, then we would never have meet this guy. I know that it wasn't a coincidence, that the Lord works great miracles everyday. I've learned that we never should miss a spiritual prompting, and when we do receive one, that we need to act upon it immediately.
That was the high light of the week and a great way to end it. This week should be a great week. We have Zone Conference with President Cusick on Wednesday which will be fun. I will be hitting my Hump Day on July 30. And we have a few dinners planned with new ward members to get to know them more and help them with member missionary work.
I love you all and hope you have a great week.
Love,
Elder Leavitt
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