Dear Home,
This week was transfer week and a number of close Elders left. One is
almost done with his mission and now I don't know where he went because I didn't
get to go to the meeting but I wish him the best. The other went to a Zone/Area
where in the beginning of June will be cut off from this mission and be switched
to another mission which made me sad because I may never see him again and he's
only been here for a little longer than me. It then made me think that when I am
done training in my area I will most likely be transferred into a different area
and have the chance to be placed into the Area that is being cut off before it
happens so I could be switching Missions too. The mission I would be switched
to, not sure if its happening, would be the Tempe mission. Its where the
missionaries are a little different, they where their missionary tag on the
other side of their coats and they are the only mission that does that, not sure
why but we "normal" missionaries can always tell a Tempe missionary from
another.
Taught Cierra again this past week and we talked about the conversion story
of Alma the younger and how we can find the answer to our own personal prayer.
At the end she started to bare her testimony about the gospel and how she has
been feeling the Holy Ghost influence her life, she didn't even know she was
doing it. She told us about how she felt prompted to do something good in school
the other day. She explained: "There was a girl in one of my classes who had
never really talked much or had many friends and sat in the back of the class
room. One day she came into class with lots of makeup on and a really funky
looking hat and I knew that she was going to be made fun of by other students.
She looked like she was trying hard to my herself look nice but the hat
has definitely going to get her some rude commence. So i felt that I should get
up and tell her to take it off and explain than she didn't want people to make
fun of her, she got up and did so. As I talked with her and warned her about the
hat she took it off and smiled happily that she was so willing to warn her about
that and as I think back I don't really remember EVER seeing her smile." Why
Cierra had that prompting I don't know but it was definitely the Holy Ghost
inviting her to act. It makes me personally feel so good when I get to see
others put the gospel to the test and see the fruit from it. What is stopping
you?
One of the wards that we are covering had a fundraiser for the young women
and we went by to help and to talk with the members. We got volunteered for one
of the activities, luckily not the PIE n' the EYE, oh it was Willy Wonka themed.
I'll try and send a picture next week. We gave rides on this homemade cart thing
modeling the chocolate river ride and as I was carting a number of kids around a
bunch of missionaries drove by and stopped to take pictures of me on a unicycle
pushing a cart. Pretty fun.
With everyone that we have had the privilege of speaking with we have been
asking if we could do service for them and now this week we have 5 service
projects, so excited. I LOVE SERVICE. Anyways the work is going great and I love
being able to go out each day seeing the wonderful people of The AZ. God bless
us all
Love Elder Leonhardt
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