Thank you so much for all of the birthday wishes that you all sent to me! When I opened up my email, I saw so many messages and I smiled the whole time reading people's birthday wishes! I want to say thank you once more! That means so much to me and it was just simply amazing. As for my birthday, I didn't do anything too amazing; I went to a boutique and bought food and other that that it was just a normal day! That is the thing with a mission, you just forget yourself and you just lose yourself in the work and sometimes you are so busy trying to do the Lord's will that you forget about yourself, which is a great thing! But it was a really good birthday and I really enjoyed it, but I'm ready the spend the next one with my family at home!
This week for us was really good! On Wednesday, we were
meeting with the niece of our former elder's quorum president and she said that
she was too busy and she had a lot do to, so we went ahead and took the broom and
swept the parcel and when I say sweep, it is all dirt so you sweep to remove
all the trash and also, it makes the dirt look good! It is hard for us to understand,
but it makes sense to the people here! After sweeping, we washed the dishes
for her and it went really well. I really enjoyed the chance that we had to do
service. It's really hard to find opportunities to serve here, so we jump at
every occasion.
Also, this Sunday was really amazing. We found a less active
family and the mom is a member, as well as the oldest child, but the other 3 are
not and the girl who lives with them isn't either. Well, we go to their house about 2 or
3 times a week and we are working with the kids who aren't baptized and this
Sunday, they all came to church together! It was a really amazing feeling when
they walked in and I know that it was the Lord who prompted them to come. The
more I work with people and the more I learn, I see that we as missionaries are there to do our
part and then the Lord will touch their hearts and do what is needed. We are
just there to do what the Lord has asked us to do.
This week we finally got the Liahonas for this last
general conference and I read the talk about "ponderizing" (https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2015/10/my-heart-pondereth-them-continually?lang=eng) and I have had the
goal for several weeks to start doing this, but I never did it and:( I was having a
hard time this week and I thought: the Lord has spoken unto us through his servants and
if we will just to what they say, we will find the peace and happiness that we
search for. So I decided to start doing it and I can say that it really helped me
during this week. I know that if we do the little things and follow those that
the Lord has chosen, we will be blessed.
But that's all for this week! I hope all of the students back
home have good luck with their finals and that they will survive! We will be here in
the Congo doing the Lord's errand:) But I love you all so much! For a challenge
go drink some cream soda for me!
Love,
Elder Legerski
PS. Also, I don't know if I said this already, but Elder Dou bought
grubs a few weeks ago (like from The Lion King!) and he grilled them up and we ate
them! And it was like peanut butter! But once again love you!
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