Dear Family and Friends,
This past week has been a really good week. Elder White and I are getting along great, and we are working really hard with each other. To the point were we are both tired all day long every day, and we crash once we hit the bed at the end of every night. We have found some really solid investigators through personal contacting this past week, along with 17 other lessons. We would say that is pretty good for not having a single investigator when I got here just two weeks ago. Hopefully we can try setting one or two baptismal dates this next week.
On Tuesday, we had interviews with President Cusick. It was really short like most of my interviews are with him. After interviews, we started biking to our next appointment. Along the way, we met a woman named Jennifer, and we started walking with her to her class that is on the USF campus. We probably walked and talked with her for a good forty minutes about the restoration and the Book of Mormon. She is super interested in the things that we have to share with her, and really wants to find out for herself if these things are true. We are meeting with her tomorrow night again, so we will see how that goes.
Wednesday wasn't that fun of a day. My bike chain ended up snapping on me. But luckily we weren't too far away from the church, so we just walked back and got a ride to the Bike shop to fix it up. It cost a little bit of money, and I really hope that I don't have to go back again. I don't want to put any more money into this bike since I'm not keeping it, but it still is in poor condition. I just need it to last for a few more months. Talking about being in a full bike area, the assistants are having the entire mission go on full bike for the next two weeks. Not a single missionary will be driving. We will see how well that it plays out in the mission, but it doesn't effect Elder White and I since we are already biking around all of the time.
I don't have any time left to write more at the moment, but the rest of the week was filled with getting to know some of the less active members, and finding more potential investigators. On Friday night, being near a college campus, there are always parties going on all weekend long. Everyone gets drunk, and a bunch of college students decided to pull the fire alarm in our apartment building at 2 am in the morning. So we didn't get that much sleep Friday night.
I know that the Plan of Salvation is true, we had a really good lesson yesterday with a recent convert helping her to better understand it. She was really confused about it all from the combined Relief Society/Priesthood class, in which the teacher went to in depth and was too intense in his teaching, that it left all of the new members and investigators super confused. I loved teaching about the plan of Happiness, especially when it come to the atonement, Spirit world, and the Celestial kingdom!
I love you all, and I hope that you have an amazing week!!!
Love, Elder Leavitt
Re: Ali is called to serve......:
Elder White's first name is Spencer.
What school do you think will be the greatest sacrifice? I have been reading through my Patriarchal blessing a few times, and it says that a good education will be given to me, but not with out a great sacrifice. If i'm looking at it in that sense, then from what I know, SUU would be where I should probably go. I'm not sure how I am going to pay for anything though. Both at SUU and Dixie, I will probably just ride a bike for transportation if I can get a decent road bike.
You will have to send me some pageant pictures of Kiera. I bet that she looks cute! That is awesome that Kiera and Ben had a good time with their date. You and grandma sure are the best for making sure that they both had a good experience. I love you both!
I'm glad that you and Kiera were able to get the letter off in time, and I will pray that she gets accepted. It probably would be stupid of me to earn that scholarship and not go to SUU, so maybe taht is what I should do right now. I honestly don't know, and I wish that I had the resources to research the two schools for myself while I'm out here.
Thanks for all that you do. I love you tons, and I am so blessed to have such a great mother. I can't wait to listen to the words of prophets and apostles this week. It is going to be a blast!
Love, your son,
Elder Leavitt
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