Blog - Vlog by Donald J. Leske II

May 30, 2024December 4, 2024

CANE CORSO Mastiff

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August 16, 2021

We are a married couple, using limited private funds from our retirement, all nonprofit and dedicated to helping the poor and often homeless we find in our travels. Our very limited funds are used as best as we can to purchase food, shelter, clothing and other essentials for people who otherwise would have none. We do not ask for money, because we do not wish to be like the charities who we do not trust, that pocket up to 90%of donated money. In our travels we visit places like this Bauan Divers Sanctuary Resort – Batangas. This was a great getaway, but it also made me miss my scuba diving, a lot. Our main interests include Christian values, family life, how to start a home-based business, Filipino culture and how to achieve Love, Joy, Peace, Goodness, kindness, mildness and self-control in our life.

April 18, 2024April 18, 2024

WHY WE QUIT THE JEHOVAH’S WITNESSES

My wife and I, with our two grown sons, plus their wives and children, all walked away over ten years ago from Jehovah’s Witnesses, who are self-entitled as “The Truth” or the “Organization.” They asked not to be called a religion, church, or a cult. However, facts prove that they are all three.

None of our family who quit were disfellowshipped. Please, let me tell you why we quit and simply walked away.

1. The Jehovah’s Witness movement’s leaders have been accused of practicing many doctrinal inconsistencies.

2. Making doctrinal reversals, books have been written on this topic, such as “Shutting The Door To The Kingdom Of God”.

3. Making many failed predictions or prophecies.

4. Mistranslating tas in removing the word “cross and crucifixion” from the Bible, replacing it with “stake” in order to make themselves seem more right and “Truthful.” Careful research proves that for 600 years, Romans used crosses to crucify, not a stake, as JWs contend. By removing the words “cross” and “Crucifixion” from the Bible, they assert that their edited NWT Bible is more accurate, which has been proven as not true.

5. Harshly treating former Jehovah’s Witnesses;

6. Leading the Jehovah’s Witness movement in an autocratic and coercive manner.

7. Jehovah’s Witnesses have also been criticized because they have rejected blood transfusions, even in life-threatening medical situations.

8. A long history of failing to report cases of sexual abuse to the authorities.

9. Silently joining the UN 1991-2001, while telling the congregation members worldwide that the UN is the evil wild beast of Revelation while warning us we should have NOTHING to do with her.

10. Authoritarianism and denial of free speech.

June 7, 2022

Kamusta Kayo Manila!

We are coming home to the Philippines June 30th, after 18 hours flight. Two hours flight from Seattle to San Francisco and then 16 hours non stop on Delta Airlines to arrive in Manila finally at about 3am on July 1st, 2022. We are so excited to rent a fully furnished condo and settle down to enjoy the life of exploring new things to do for a year, people to meet and hopefully making new friends. So to our new friends, Kamusta Kayo Manila!
See us at: www.donleske.com – 🥰

September 19, 2021

GOT MY PADI ADVANCED OPEN WATER CERT.

August 30, 2020April 7, 2021

Hello world!

Philippines 1960: Her story, Emiliana R. “Emily” Ramot starts when her dad Joseph “Jose” Ramot, a survivor of the Bataan Death March of WWII, brought his four sons, daughter and wife to America when he was in the US Navy, eventually he was stationed at Mare Island Vallejo California. His only daughter Emily was 10 years old in 1960. I was also 10 years old at that time.
(Ref: https://www.history.com/top…/world-war-ii/bataan-death-march)

An American Story: I am Donald J. “Don” Leske II, my story also starts when I was 10 years old in 1960, but in San Luis Obispo California. We were a poor family with five children sleeping in one bedroom until I was 12 years old and then the garage became my bedroom, my own castle, I was the only boy. So I learned to work hard weekends and after school cutting grass and cleaning yards, to later working in a grocery store stocking shelves when we moved to Napa California, moving on work wise to pumping gas at 16 years old. My buddy Gary invited me to his congregation in Vallejo, 10 miles away on a Sunday. That was when I saw her standing there, a guapa magunda babai princess.
(Song for memories: https://youtu.be/oxwAB3SECtc)

By 17 I had a full time job, a ’55 Chevy 2dr car and an apartment of my own in Vallejo. Our parents would not sign to let us get married so we just waited until we were 18 years old, “Hotter than a pepper sprout” , as the song goes.
(Song for memories: https://youtu.be/4GvD_NQrLFo)

The 1970s-1980s are a bit of a blur, gone too fast with fun having three kids in the ’70s, working and attending church three days a week. During those years I became ASE Certified as a Master Mechanic, we bought our first home and I opened up a new auto mechanic repair business while Emily Leske went to work and got certified in accounting, lots of fun and stupid drama in those years. Many things don’t have to be said, as my dad once said, and should’t be said in any case.

The 1990’s – 2000 told our story of business on a real basis; See the Kindle book; https://www.amazon.com/DIFFERENT-EXCITING-WAYS…/…/B019AH1IW2 it tells the money side mostly, but falls short of telling the million dollar ending which is still in progress as of this writing. I could have never accomplished what I have without the love and support of my Filipina wife Emily. Maraming Salamat Po asawa mo, mahal kita.

2000 – 2019 Emily and I both became Licensed Real Estate Brokers, working under John L. Scott realty at first and then opening BCI Properties LLC a full service realty brokerage specializing in rental homes and properties since we had prior experience with real estate in prior years. The business exploded in 2008 with the market crash of home sales, rentals was the way out for many.

2021 -NOW

You can find updates here:
https://www.youtube.com/user/DLeske
https://www.youtube.com/EmilyLeskeGlobetrotter – Emily’s

We sold our company and retired at the first of the year 2020, bought a 2018 33ft Pierce Arrow class A motorhome with 10,000 actual miles on it, saving $100k over the cost of new $289k price. It was fully loaded including a washer, dryer, microwave and a Cummins Diesel plus a Cummins generator with two slideouts. We added a low mileage red 2019 Jeep Wrangler Safari to tow behind and spent 7 months on the road, our 2020 USA Tour. – Update; we traded in our 2818 for a stronger better built 2014 Forestriver Charleston 44ft with 4-slideouts, used with low 11,000 miles on it. Powered by Cummins Diesel, which drives like a Cadillac, sweet and smooth. We have a nice on board washer and dryer plus in-house vacuum system and “Insta-hot” hot water tank that delivers continual hot water as long as you need it. the shower is larger and more solid than the Pierce Arrow. I am about 6ft and 300lbs and it is great to have a great shower with non stop hot water. The electric fireplace gives off heat for those cold nights, when we don’t want to run the central heating system. This coach has real tile floors and carpet where you need it, plus a King size bed with a thick pillow top mattress, the last coach had a queen bed and I can tell the difference, sleeping 7-8 hours a night, wow really!