Hello
and Happy Memorial Day! May 26 2014
This
will be a short one but I plan on sending some pictures home to
inform you a little of where I am at and where my brother Ben lives
as I think I was able to see where he lives...
This
morning we decided to change up our morning exercise. Where I am at
there are a number of large hills, they're not mountains, and all
have a hiking path to the top. From the top of each hill you can see
for miles and miles in all directions because they are in this huge
valley. As we hiked up as an apartment, 4 total missionaries, we
talked about the surrounding area because we are on the edge of the
mission boundaries. The mission that borders us is the Scottsdale
Mission, the mission that Ben lives in and when we got to the top of
the hill we could see almost all of Scottsdale. At the bottom of the
hill I believe was the apartment complex that Morgan lived in at one
time. So Ben if there was a time you wanted to meet me while I am
still out here, that was it. Now you will have to wait a little longer,
sorry
Elder
Wainwright and I were asked to come to a baptism and present a
message during the time the baptizer and the one being baptized were
getting changed. We taught the Gospel of Jesus Christ, Faith
Repentance Baptism The Holy Ghost and Enduring to the End, to
everyone and as we shared it an experience came to mind about endure.
It was when
I was training for a marathon that I learned more about enduring, of
course because if you don't then you never will finish a race. As I
was training I learned that running takes a lot of mental strength as
we are constantly fighting back in forth in our mind between physical
fatigue and desire to accomplish the goal placed before us. Sometimes we
feel like we may not be able to make it all the way by looking at the
big picture so we cut our perspective down to what we see or the next
turn. We make bench marks to help us along the way and to remind us
that we are accomplishing some distance and getting closer to the
end. After awhile we get hit by a large feeling of fatigue and quitting
becomes more and more desirable, questioning why do I need to keep
running or why is this goal here in the first place. Then, out of
nowhere and never known as to when, we receive a boast of energy to
go forward called a 2nd wind. These points can be applied to life. We
are tested constantly with difficult times and when we feel we are
about to be pushed further an we can handle, God helps us. We often
need to take the big goals we have in life and cut them down to
smaller tasks asking "What do I need to do right now?"
Taking things one step at a time. There are more lessons learned from
this but these are just a few.
On
Sunday we had 2 people that came to church that hadn't come before.
Niki was being taught in another area and just moved into the area
and came for the first time, she is awesome! Then we had another one
named David who looked up the church using google and just showed up
to see what is was like and stay for the whole time. Love Elder
Leonhardt!
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