Pray and an answer will come

Well actually mother this monday was presidents day so the library was closed and we couldn't email so that is why I am doing it today. Next week however we are having the P-Day on tuesday and will see if I am moving location or not, we'll see. As to your questions. Yes I got the money and letters, thank you so much. We spent the money on cheesecake and chocolate covered strawberries that a recent convert made. She makes them and sets up a stand for people to come by and buy for their sweetheart. She makes the best cheesecake I think I have ever had, not sure though because I haven't made yours in too long. I also really appreciated the jokes and stories I miss hearing jokes from the outside world.

This week I had the privilege to partake in a team baptism. Since the wards that we cover got changed we got to teach a lady named Jimi Hunt and helped her towards baptism. She had 2 or more sets that were teaching her right before she was baptized. This has been such a great step in the right direction in her life for many reasons. She used to be into alot of drugs and had many problems with that as well as she is a single mother of two girls (7,14) at home and a son somewhere else. Her struggles have taken her across the country in many directions and make it very difficult to raise her kids, to the point of braking down in need of help. Missionaries knocked on her door in a small 5 min window of her being home and sat down with her the next day. She has stopped everything she used to do and has started to rely on the Lord for strength. We have taught her kids for some time now and they love to learn and to hear more about Prophets and Apostles and Jesus Christ. We are preparing the older one for baptism and the younger one is preparing the family to live the gospel. She has a countdown on her ipod for the day that she can be baptized, not her birthday. She is so cool.

As I have been able to teach the Chapmans, the husband knowing Arabic ans has read the Koran, I have really learned alot more about other religions and the beliefs of many people. But because of the many different beliefs of people it is very hard for someone just hopping in to know which is right. There are lots of nice people out there and there are also lots of bad people, both of many different religions so looking at people wont cut it. We can then look at the material that religions read and try to know from that but then again by reading the Bible itself there has been over 20,000 Christan churchs develop in the U.S alone and most then translate there own Bible to conform to there own thought or just the way they perceive to material wont work either. That leaves us to ourselves and our thoughts alone. That is how we can know. Pray and an answer will come through our thoughts and feelings.

Love you all

Sincerely, Elder Leonhardt