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So about the Vocal Point thing, I've asked but no response yet. What Spencer gets home this week? Thats so weird!!!!! Thanks for that little story Dad, it made me realize that I've been thinking the same thing. Some days I feel like, "I've done all I can do! Why is this still tough and nobody is doing what they've committed to do?" It can be frustrating at times but I'm starting to deal with it and recognize that I just need to be more patient and love others. That has been one of the toughest things on my mission that I'm still learning is how to truly just love people. Still working on it. :)
Soooo I got hit with a bombshell this morning when President Jensen called. Elder Martin is training and I'm LEAVING!!!! :'( I'm going to miss Cedar Rapids, the ward, and living with other missionaries so much! :( That makes two of my four areas that I've only been in for two transfers. However, I know that wherever the Lord sends me off to is where I'm needed. I've learned a lot of valuable things here in Cedar Rapids. I've been able to change some things that needed fixing and though I'm still not perfect, I'm slowly becoming better. :) This week was super rainy! We were on bikes too! Two of the days we got soaked! Haha there comes a point when you're so wet that you don't care anymore and we started riding our bikes through puddles a couple of times. :) On Tuesday we were able to teach Clay and he accepted the baptismal invite! He is in his 30s, has two kids and a girlfriend in Waterloo, and he really enjoys the Book of Mormon already! The lesson went really well and when we saw him briefly yesterday, he's already read a chapter or two!! Yes!!!! We were also able to teach a man named Joseph Lent the Restoration! He is 24, married and has three cute little kids, and he liked the lesson! We're not entirely sure how interested he was though because he told us that he was just listening because he didn't want to be a jerk and slam the door in our face. So we'll be going over that tonight a bit with him. :) He is an awesome guy though! This week was also kind of the Lord sorting out the wheat from the tares too. Kuwon, Kewan, and Dick and Bev all dropped us sadly. We were kind of down for a bit, but realized that maybe they just weren't ready at this time. I know that we've been able to plant some good seeds with them though. I know that they'll eventually be baptized, just not right now. :) We were able to make contact with Sarah! We read out of the Book of Mormon with her and she let us know that she likes us and the gospel, but she doesn't know if she is willing to give up any of her Word of Wisdom and Law of Chastity problems right now. We'll be meeting with her this week hopefully so we'll see what happens. We were able to touch base with Karen Hoffpauir and Liz Allen again though and that went well! They still have solid testimonies of the Book of Mormon and Joseph Smith which is a plus! Now we're just trying to help them come back to church. Speaking of church, haha yesterday Brother Ford was gone so we had to figure out how to do the translating for the deaf family in our ward. Thankfully we got all the technology figured out so it went well. :) We also had an awesome discussion on pride in Elder's Quorum! It made me realize that I need A LOT more humility because I'm a really prideful person in a lot of things. Thankfully we have the Atonement so we can change our hearts and desires. Sorry this week's letter is a bit short, next week's letter should be normal. :) I'm sad to leave Cedar Rapids, REALLY sad, but I know I'm going where the Lord needs me to go now. Talk to ya'll next week! (Everyone in Iowa always says "ya'll" I don't know why) :)
Love,
Elder Logan Flake
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