March 11 "8mm Wrench to the Rescue"

This past Sunday taught Steve Forbis again and this time was much

different in kind of lesson format than normal. We thought it would be
great to bring the Bishop with us to talk about how repentance and
faith work in his life as well as working with others too that have
struggles with faith as well. When we got in the house and were talking
with him we didn't feel like it was right or just wasn't comfortable
talking about that subject. We asked him questions about the lessons
in Sunday school and he said they were good but nothing he really
wanted to review. So we really relied on the Spirit to give us the
direction on what to teach. We always go into a lesson with a lesson
plan of what to teach but we always listen to the Spirit if we need to
change what needs to be taught and go from that. They are always the
best lessons because it's based on what they need. We then were
impressed to talk about the Book of Mormon more in depth to help him
understand because he has never really read through any scripture
before. It was awesome!

Elder O'Neal and I went to the Mesa temple this morning. The day started

out with a miracle. We were planning on going at 6:30 am so we had
to leave here at 5:15 am to get there in time. We had an alarm set and
everything but when it came for time to wake up, it didn't go off. We
had someone waiting for us to take us down. My companion and I both
woke up at 4:58 am at the same time. It was cool because it was like God
woke us both up to look at the clock at the same time to let us know
that we needed to get going.

We are teaching this awesome 12 yr old lady who wants to get baptized

more than anything in the world and wants to learn the gospel. Her
mother is returning to church and the husband isn't a member. As we have
been meeting with them he has been sitting in for the
lessons. His name is mike. Alexa the daughter, is preparing to be
baptized on March 22. The last time we went over to talk with the
family Mike was really involved with the lesson and at the end Alexa
said he was thinking about being baptized too.

On an exchange in another area we were focusing on talking with people

and serving others so during the day we tried looking for more
opportunities to do so. We went hiking with our bikes to talk with
more people. When we came around a corner on the bikes we saw this
awesome 302 Boss Mustang in gold. The hood was up and this guy was
looking at it like it was going to explode. We went over to see if we
could help and he said he just figured it out but needed an 8mm
wrench. We thought that was weird but thought we would check out bike
tools to see if we had one. We did! It was awesome and he thanked us
for it.

One of the missionaries that we lived with left yesterday morning to

go home because it was the end of his mission and it is weird to see
someone head off because it makes me think of the end of my mission as
right around the corner. He was a funny missionary too.

Lately we have been trying to teach the members down here the

missionary lessons and this past week we met with the Suwyn's family
for FHE. (Family Home Evening) They have 3 boys who look a lot like my
brother Aaron. They have a little girl that's about 2. She is so funny! I love
seeing others have a family night each week were they can learn as a family
and enjoy an evening with them.

We had dinner with a family who's husband is a FBI detective for bank

robbers and other criminal activity of that sort. He talks a lot of
expectations and obedience. We had dinner with him about 5 months ago
and we talked about what they look for in a missionary to trust them
and they couldn't really answer with anything other than, you just
know. Woods is the family name. He brought that conversation up again
and said to us, I'm still not sure what it is but elders...you have
it. It was very satisfying to know that they trust us and that other
members do as well.

There were a few other things that happened this week but for the sake

of time I am going to have to close this email. I hope all of you are
doing great and enjoying life! I love you all and hope nothing but
sunshine!

Love Elder Caleb Leonhardt

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