How are you all doing!? I'm doing really good here in the
Congo! It's starting to get a little warm again, hot enough so that I sweat when
I am in the sector and I'm not sure if I like it! But the work here is really
going well!
This
week I got the chance to see the assistants. That was really awesome because my
trainer,Elder West, is one of the AP's so I got to go out and work with him and
it was a really awesome experience! It's really cool how much we change in just
a short time here on the mission! He is a great missionary but I see that he
has grown even so much more and it's awesome to see! We had a lot of time to
talk about the mission and the work and it was all really good!
Also,
this week the Bailys are leaving...at 9 tonight in fact! They have a blog
but I don’t know the name but I'm sure that if you looked that you could find it
and they have all of their info from the last 18 months here! But the Bills are
here now and they are really awesome! Elder Bills served in France and he
speaks super good French! I'm really excited to be neighbors with them for the
next little bit! And also, we got the water problem fixed and we now have water!
It makes me sure miss the US and how the water or power never goes out!
This
week was a really good one with the amis. Alex, who is going to be baptized, is doing
really well. For the first few weeks that I was here, she did not understand the
book of Mormon at all! But this last Sunday, we went and visited her she told us
a lot of the story of Nephi and his brothers when they went back to Jerusalem
and it was really amazing! It's just proof of how, if we want to understand and we
let God help us, that He can do miracles! Also, Jean and his wife are doing
really well and the baptism on the 18th is looking very promising!
This
week was also one filled with lots of baptisms! This weekend between the 4 sets
of teams we had 7 baptisms! And I just want to give a shout out to my good
buddy Elder Larson who just had his first baptism and he was even the Jean
Baptist! It was such a cool moment seeing all of the people enter into the
water. I was asked to give a talk on the restoration and as I was thinking
about that, I was thinking about how I was seeing this power that was restored
through Joseph Smith being used. It was super surreal and it was just an
awesome spiritual moment.
But
that’s all for this week folks! To my mom and dad, sorry about the lack of
photos...the computers aren’t really trustworthy here and an Elder in the past
put his card in and the computer erased everything so I'm just being a little
cautious! Someone go eat a stuffed burger for me! I tried to make
hamburgers for the 4th but I totally failed! I love you all so much
and I thank all who emailed me! Have a wonderful week filled with the spirit!
Love,
Elder Legerski
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