August 5 2013
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Hello Family and Friends!
We ran into this India lady, 30's, and had an interesting conversation while we walked together. She is a single parent of two, moved to America because she was disowned by her parents. She started off talking about how much she dislikes men, that was fun. Then went into not believing in religion but she believes in God. Eventually asked my companion what his type is. Awkward, yes I know. But after that she opened up as we talked about why we are helping people. She told us her life story and her personal struggles in life. She even ask us personal questions that it looked like wouldn't even trust her closest female friend if she had one. We were able to help her through the Gospel that we have been taught. The way that we hold our youth to such standards was one of the things that she was most impressed about. We set up a time to come back with one of the youth from the area we serve in to explain more about the why.
We even got to help a man that had no
belief in God with the struggles in his family. He was from
Vietnam and older. Rest of his family is Christan and he doesn't
understand why his son, when he got into difficult situations, would
pray instead of working hard to solve it. At the end of the
conversation he even mentioned that he believed in a God out there
and sometime when his heart is ready he would like Him to be apart of
his life. Though he may not talk to us again at least we were able to
help him and his relation with his son.
Thats all I want to do, help people
with their problems and I am so thankful for the gospel in my life so
I can do that.
At church one of the youth stood up and
publicly, not needed but appreciated, thanked us for the work that we
were able to do for him in doing missionary work and teaching others
about Christ.
Now for something funny. A member asked
us if we could help with moving some wood that he cut down from his
tree to the curb. He said it would only take 10-15 mins so we came in
our suit and tie thinking it wouldn't be much. We were there for 1.5
hrs. We got so dirty that we had to go back home afterwards to change
but that wasn't the main reason that we had to got back. Trying to
lift a heavy bag my companion bent down and split his pants wide
open, like 8 or 9 inches wide. He was so embarrassed.
Oh yeah and last week I split my pants
open, not bad though. Either our legs are getting big because of all
the biking or we need to be doing more biking to counter the food we
eat. I like to think its the first idea. Anyways I love you all and
the work here is going great, ALMOST DONE WITH THE SUMMER MONTHS!!!!
Love Elder Caleb Leonhardt
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