Called to Serve: Finding the silver lining

I never knew the mission would bring so many rough times....but with the rough times is when the true man comes out and your true faith in Lord and His work. We started off the week rough losing some amazing people because of spouses saying we can no longer visit or them moving away...then it got better and I found an old investigator I lost about three months back because he just left and moved...but we found him and are reteaching him the great part is that the whole time he was reading the Book of Mormon!!! So he is great and I sure love teaching and visiting him and the new family we found last week!

I am learning quiet well how to handle failure its not really failure though its more of a learning moment and then pushing even harder to see what our maximun potential is as a companionship as we are going through all these times of trial. I have a testimony of this Church and I KNOW it to be true with everything I have and I KNOW that the Lord will provide we just need to keep going and pushing through the heat and the rain filled moments. I truly love reading the Liahona or the Ensign and listening to the leaders of our church and their knowledge and insight of the Lord and how He works and how we can get the most out of this life and all that the Lord has instore for us. I am so grateful for this time that I have here in the mission to be serving and getting to know My Savior Jesus Christ personally. I know He loves us and He is there to help us through it all and be there He won`t always fight our battles but He will show us how we can win it. With His help nothing is impossible!

Sorry for writing so late ~ last tonight I got a call right before bed that I would be needing to go to imigration today or else they were going to kick my ugly butt out of here and we don`t want that to happen folks! So we took off way early this morning and went and took care of that and one other Elder in my district had to go too and he asked if he could go buy a new suit so we went with him and we got to visit the mall. I will try and send a nice picture of us four there.

Thank you so much for the package I haven`t had time to open it but I will be here soon when I get done with everything that I need to, to prepare for the week, I know whatever is in there is perfect!!! I love you guys and thank you so much for your support and love while I am out here serving!

That is crazy about so many Leatherows at Pizza Hut I bet it makes for some good times just hope you guys get work done as well (;

Well I will stop talking your ears off for the day, I love you all so much, Mother know that I love you with all that I have to the moon and back and then some!

I hope you all have a great week, just know that whatever you are going through that it will pass just keep the Faith and drive to keep going because I know that we will be together for an eternity if we do all that we can here on this battle field of life.

Con mucho Amor,

Elder Leatherow