Another week down!

So! This week has been a great week, It started out with last sunday being fast sunday, and then some of us fasted again on tuesday, and then we fasted again on Sunday. So three times in 7 days. before my mission you could not have paid me enough to fast three times in one week. But it has been a very spiritual week. For some reason fasting and asking the Lord for the help that you need is just amazing. This last Sunday was a fast as a zone. We got together on Saturday night and knelt down, all forty of us, and fasted to help with the language. I can already see the improvement. The scentence structure is starting to make more sense, i am memorizing words easier, and to to it off, kasama ko at ako gave our first mensahe to our investigator Brother Boyet...without any notes!!!!!!! We talked about pananampalataya (faith) and magsisisi (repentance). It was not incredible, our Tagalog was very broken, but we were able to get our message across. And at the end i felt impressed to ask him "Gagawin po ba ninyong magbabinyag?" Or, will you be baptized. He said yes!!! So, we are having a "baptism" on September 3 for brother Boyet, and our other investigator said he will pray to know if the gospel is totoo (true), and if so he will be baptized on the 7 of September. Even though they are fake investigators it is still really spiritual and fun to see them progress. I can not explain how amazing missionary work is.

 

Well, i can not think of anything else big that happened this week. Except we hit the half way mark! Only four weeks till we leave? I think that is right, but you kinda lose track of time in this place. I really love it here though, the spirit is always so strong.

This morning was also really great. We went to the temple. For the first time since i received my endowments i did enitiatories, or however you spell it. It was actually really cool, and then i went and sat in the Celestial room for awhile. It is amazing haw you can receive revelation every single time you sit in there. I just can not get enough. And! We eat temple breakfast everytime we go. I actually had a cool experience there too. As i was in line to pay for my food the girl in front of me was paying. She is from Japan and knows less english than i know Tagalog, so you can imagine she is struggling. Well, she pulled out some money to pay for her food...problem. It was not american money. The guy was trying to explain to her that she can not use that but she was not understanding. So! I had the opportunity to jump in and pay for her breakfast. It took her a minute but she finally figured out what was going on. It was really great being able to serve. I am forever grateful for this opportunity to be serving the Lord and my "brothers and sisters." Oh yeah! and to make it better just before this whole thing i was standing in line, singing to kasama ko "have i done any good in the world today." Crazy right?!

 

Anyway! time is up, i will be sending home another letter, but dont send my card back yet, because there is a bunch more that i need sent to me too. I love you all, mahal ko kayo!

 

Signing out,

Elder Leonard