I guess this email never sent through so I am resending this and I will write another for this week.
So how this past meeting will effect me is that, again don't tell people, because our mission is one of the top 5 missions in the world for baptising and obedience we are going to be a forerunner for the testing of ipads and iPhone. Each missionary will receive an ipad and companionship an iPhone. The first presidency talk about us a lot, so I am told by the Seventy and others. They have alot of high hopes for us and the Phoenix valley. I will tell you more when it gets near.
Dear Home,
What an exciting week. It started out by nearly killing ourselves during the work and by the work.
We have been trying to work 6 straight hours biking around in the 105 plus heat with limited water then coming in for a little bit then right back out. It works out great when people open the door and will let you in out of the heat and give you water. But one day we decided to work in one area for the 6 hours and boy was that the wrong choice. Not a single door opened. We ran out of water and were dying because of the heat. We decided to go to a members house nearby that we knew would be home and could let us rest for a little bit. Got to the house and no one was home. We were devastated and felt like we wouldn't be able to make it home before one of us faints from a heat stroke so we took a deep breath and decided to go for it anyways. Right when we got back on the bikes the member drove around the corner and let us in. We were so grateful for them coming in the nick of time. And glad we didn't die.
But we almost did another night. We were as far away from home as we could be and we had to make a 30 min ride into a 15 min ride to make it in on time. We booked it. I lead the way, not really knowing the way and without a head light on a side dirt path with cars coming the other way. To say the least I couldn't see farther then 10 feet in front of me but I thought that I would prove that I could do it and didn't need a light to guide me home. We came to a section were there is a pile of fencing that is always there and a long metal wire hangs out just over it so if I saw the wire and thought I knew where the fencing was. 30 feet away I noticed that the wire was a little farther over than normal, 20 feet away I felt something was different, 10 feet away I saw that the pile was moved way over to the side and I was headed quickly into a large pile of fencing. I pulled both brakes but on dirt you don't stop very quick and once again I went head over heels. Of course my companion was close behind me and ran into me and the fence. We sat there for a moment to figure out what just happened and then tried to get back on to make our deadline. My bike got stuck in the fence and took me awhile to get it out but then were on out way again. Another block down the way we were about to cross the crosswalk, we always walk across them, when this car drove past the line and not looking nearly ran my companion over. She hit his bike and pushed him back on the sidewalk, luckily not in the road.
We did make it home that night in one piece. All we could do was laugh at all that happened that day because on the serious note we should have died a couple times.
Life here is exciting!
Anyways all is well and all will get better. If you get the chance I would invite all to go stargazing sometime this week. With the curfew we have I haven't been able to and I really miss it.
Love Elder Leonhardt
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