This week was great with the 4th of
July and rain storms, cooler weather and going on an exchange with my
2nd companion Elder Empey. Things almost couldn't get any better!
Thursday evening after we had an
appointment ending at 9pm we walked outside and it started to rain.
The last time it rained here was probably at least 2 months ago, I
could be wrong but it seems like it has been forever since it rained. We
were so overfilled with joy that we decided to ride around in the
rain talking to people till we had to go in at 9:30pm. It was amazing
and we got soaked! We live in an apartment complex where there are a lot
of people from India so we got to talk with them, say a few prayers
with them and learn a little bit of their language. So far I still
only know one word, language isn't exactly my cup of tea.
This is the beginning of the last week
Elder Wardle, my first companion, has on his mission along with many
other missionaries that I respect and love. It's a interesting
feeling to know that almost your whole mission you have been around
these people and now they are being shipped off. They must feel even
weirder. I am glad to have gotten to know a number of them and to
cultivate friendships that will last and will be waiting for me when
I am done.
We had our first interviews with
President Griffin Wednesday. President and Sister Griffin are awesome
people, nervous but dealing with it way better than I was at the
beginning of my mission. They shared with us a little about their
past and the family, businesses and what not. We are all excited to
be here with them and to learn from them. He paid me a nice
complement and then said he wanted to teach the mission 3 things which I was
excited to learn about. 1.) Time Management 2.) Planning 3.) Teaching
doctrine effectively. So hopefully I can learn as much as possible!
This week I went on an exchange with
Elder Empey into his area and he has only been there for 5 weeks,
the same amount of time I have been in my area. It was a great day as
we hustled around and saw a lot of people. Taught a lot of
interesting people but the one that stuck out to me the most was the
Honnanno family, I think that's how you spell their name. The father
is from Bethlehem and is Greek Orthodox. What was also awesome was
that he did sculpturing from olive wood and has done many religious
sculptures. He has even done ones of people in the Book of Mormon
such as Lehi, Moroni, Nephi and others.
On the 4th of July we were directed to
be in during the evening from 6pm through the night so we used this
time to relax and have fun, which we did. We first started off by
playing monopoly as an apartment and played for almost the
whole evening. Midway we decided to do something else as well, we put
this Masque stuff on our face that was left by former missionaries.
So you know how, I think all women probably have. There are those
people that put on the green facial stuff and then when someone comes
to the door they get all embarrassed. Yup that was us. We all put it
on and took funny pictures with it. The. We ordered pizza and well
you guessed it, they arrived while the masque was still on and I was
the one to go answer the door. I got some funny looks to say the
least. All in all it was a great evening and we had a lot of good
memories, no fireworks unfortunately.
Hope you all had a Great Independence
Day! Love you all!
Love Elder Leonhardt
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