Dear Family and Friends,
This week had been pretty good week. On Monday we had a family home
evening with the Stoddard family and introduced the Member Missionary
Menu to them. They are excited to try it out and see what works for
them. Tuesday was spent biking all over the place with not much
success with getting in with people. We biked about 15 miles up to go
and contact a media referral that we had received. We were on the
busiest streets in our area, and we didn't pass a single person on the
street to talk to until we were just about there. The guy that we
talked to, his name is Marcus, and he is quite interested in coming to
church to see what it is like. We gave him a Book of Mormon and got
his contact info. Hopefully we will be able to get to meet with him
again this week. The media referral ended up being not interested and
didn't want anything to do with us. So we went and had a great dinner
at Texas Roadhouse thanks to Brother Hansen who owns it. We also had
another great visit with Brother and Sister Innes were we talked about
Brother Su'a's youth fireside. I am tying to get a copy of his talk
that he gave so that I can send it home to you. He is the best
speaker that I have ever listened to.
On Wednesday we went and saw a less active member, probably for the
last time. He isn't wanting to come to church and isn't keeping his
commitments. His doesn't have his priorities set straight right now
in his life. We will just let the home teachers continue meeting with
him for now. Later on in the evening, we went and visited another
medical student whose records we just got. Her and her husband are
really nice and sweet people. They do come to sacrament meeting but
leave before the closing prayer. So hopefully we can try to get the.
To stay longer because we really need them here at church for the
other two hours.
Thursday evening we spent an hour at the Fiefia's home. A Tongan
family that just moved from Utah. I couldn't map out their family
tree with all of the relatives that they have living nearby. We are
always meeting new people and it is difficult to keep them straight as
to who is related to who. They are the best and I love visiting with
them. We had a fun time with the kids reading from Book of Mormon
stories. Then they gave us some really good home made bread that was
still hot. It was delicious. After that lesson we went and visited
with on our our investigators, Justin. Brother Weldon came with us
and this was his first time ever going out with the missionaries since
he was baptized. It was really good to have him there. He shared a
really strong testimony about prayer and about how he was able to find
out that the church was true. Just a short rundown of his experience,
it is pretty crazy, sort of. He kept on praying to know if the church
was true and he didn't feel like he was getting any answers to his
prayers. Then one day he was in a store and saw a package on the self
that contained four crazy eight balls in it. He then had this idea,
but then he thought that he shouldn't do it. He did anyways. He asked
God if the church was true and shook the crazy eight balls. All of
them came up with answers such as "yes", "no doubt", "absolutely",
"totally". He then went home and prayed again asking if that was his
answer and he felt that it was.
Then on Friday we went and visited with two less actives, both of them
in care homes. We then had an enjoyable dinner at the Eberle's home
and presented the Member Menu to them as well.
Saturday morning we went fishing on the old skyway pier. I've heard
that it is the longest fishing pier in the world, and you can drive
out on. It used to be an old bridge that a barge ran into and
destroyed, and now they have made it for people to fish off of. We
had a elders quorum activity that Jason Innes was able to make it to
with his son Christian. We had a really good time being fishing.
Brother Hoynacki caught the most, which was only three fish. I at
least got on the board with catching one. No one had any luck
catching anything with the bait fish, so we all pretty much ended up
going back to using shrimp so that we could actually feel like we were
doing a good job catching something. Most of the were just pin fish.
On Sunday we pretty much kidnapped Brother Conway for the whole day.
We had him come out with us at 10am to go and visited Aura, another
investigator we are working with. Brother Conway shared a great story
about how he and his brother grew up in the same circumstances, but
they both made different choices that effected how their life is now.
It was pretty much spot on for what Aura needed to hear. He then came
with us after church to give a blessing to a single lady, and didn't
make it home until 6:30pm or so.
Today I had to say bye to Elder Peterson, he is going home tomorrow.
His companion, Elder Coleman will now be with us until Thursday when
he gets his new companion. So we will be in a trip companionship for
the next few days. Hopefully all goes well with that. Elder Coleman
just barely got done with being trained.
Love,
Elder Leavitt
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