June 9 2014
Hey so I have a little bit of a
predicament and I'll explain it more later but in short I got a lot
of my bike stolen and either need to pay $200 for the parts, a member
down here is able to help find the
cheapest, or just borrow a bike till
the end. The thing I am debating is if I should pay or not because I
would like to use a bike when I am at school.
Haha well I just got into a new area,
new to me, and I have been having way to many exciting things happen.
This will be a fun email to write.
I got into the new area on Wednesday
and on Friday and Saturday there were 2 baptisms in the area, yeah
that's how hard I work. Just kidding that was the joke at church. One
of the leaders that we work with a lot wanted to meet with us after
one of the baptisms to get to know me and bring me up to date on
things. He is going through the Air Force for his dental and with his
military studies he was relating a lot of things to June 6th 1944
which I believe was D-Day. Those that were baptized were James
Mondella and Noah Karch. James is a 50's year old man and has been
meeting with the past missionaries for awhile and Noah is a 17 year
old who started meeting with missionaries soon after
he saw the change in his mom and sister
from joining the Gospel.
Ok so since we have been here in the
area we have been pretty busy but that's nothing new to me because
the past 20 months have been busy. Thursday night we were having to
go out to make some visits with a member and so he drove and we
locked our bikes up with a U-lock out behind the building so it
wasn't right next to the street. We were planning to go back to the
building the next morning so we decided we could leave them there and
they should be safe since the other missionaries had done it before.
The next day when we were in the building there were some youth that
come up to us and asked if we got our bikes stolen. That raises a
bunch of red flags for me. We said no but went with him to go see if
the bikes stolen were ours, praying it wasn't. Yup they were ours.
They didn't get all of the bike just the wheels, bike seats, and
lights, then took our helmets and hide them but we found them later.
So all that was left was the frame. To add salt to the wound there
was another set of missionaries that left their bikes there over night and the
same thing happened to them that night and one of the missionaries
just got out here Wednesday. After we had a laugh about it we tried
to make calls so we could borrow a bike till these were fixed. When we
went to take the frames, no longer bikes, to someone's house that
would fix them up for us we found out that the thieves had messed
with the U-locks and we couldn't get one of them off. We had to use a
grinder to cut through it. Boy was this week fun!
It's nice to be in a new area but it's
weird having only been in the last area for 6 weeks. This area is
unlike most of the areas I have been in because it seems like there
is a lot to do that hasn't been
done for quite some time. I am excited
because that kind of gives me the green light to work as hard as
possible and not have to worry whether someone had already done that.
I have been thinking a lot and
reflecting on all that I have accomplished and done and who I have
become and I continue to see a lot more than what I was looking for.
I have a companion that is newer to the mission field and has expressed
a couple times that he doesn't know much. When I hear these things
the constant thought that goes through my mind is, yes you do you
know a lot more than you think. I myself have thought that “I can't
really do something” or “I don't know the right answer” but
have learned 2 things about that. One: If you think long enough and
pray about it you can figure it out. Two: If you don't know that is
ok. We are spirit children of the master problem fixer and most wise
individual ever, God, and he has a lot of trust in us and believes we
can overcome obstacles. We don't need to know everything but we
should try to do our best. After doing all you can do it is important
to look back on the trail you have gone down and see the memories and
monuments you have built and remember all the positives you have
done.
Love Elder Caleb Leonhardt
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