Week 37- Oct 23

      I am doing pretty well, this week has been a pretty good week. Nothing to exciting has gone on. We have just been doing a lot of finding. we have knocked on a lot of doors this past week and everyone is set in their ways which is disappointing. We have been having a lot of lessons with the members which has been pretty cool. 

     Sunday night we had a lesson with one of our investigators. She is in high school, and she goes to a christian school. It was a pretty interesting lesson. It was kind of like she wanted to bash with us but it wasn't really a bash which was good. We are pretty sure the people at her school are telling her what to say to us. She has a lot of random deep doctrine questions which is pretty lame because they pretty much don't matter. Friday night we set another baptismal date with another investigator for December 15. We will hopefully be moving the day closer but its awesome that she wants to be baptized. We are pretty slim on investigators, so basically all we have been doing is trying to find investigators but the area is so small that we keep going to the same places. We will hopefully be picking up a couple new investigators in the next week or so. Next Tuesday is transfers so we will see what happens. I cant believe it has already been 6 weeks. I know for a fact that next Tuesday I will be getting a new companion. My companion right now is going home. It will be interesting to run an area that I have only been in for 6 weeks. I am kind of nervous but I am just going to grab the bull by the horns and have a ton of fun doing it. 

 

 

Love You! 

Love, Elder RINDLISBACHER 

"Come What May, and Love it" Video

Cody shared this video with me today in his letter so I thought that I would share it with you all! :) Great Video!!

 

http://www.lds.org/media-library/video/mormon-messages?lang=eng&id=2009-01-03-come-what-may-and-love-it#2009-01-03-come-what-may-and-love-it

Week 35- October 8 2012

Conference was so awesome! I love Conference so much! That was an awesome announcement. Its going to be so awesome to see how many 18 year old missionaries come out. That is definitely going to increase the numbers. I cant Believe girls can go at 19 now, that is really cool. That would have been pretty cool to have gone out when I was 18 but I know that I came out at the right time, the time the Lord needed me. Conference was really good, It is so awesome to be able to hear from the Prophet. Conference weekend is always a reboost to everything.

 

This past was a pretty good week. I have been a little bit stressed out, because I am still trying to figure everything out. I am pretty sure my plate was filled extra full super fast but I am slowly picking away at it, but I know that it is just a matter of time and doing it that I will figure it out. I have learned so much and I am still learning so much, it is incredible how much there is to learn. 

 

There has been some pretty cool things that have happened this past week. Sunday night we got out of a lesson with some members, and we noticed that there was some people out in their drive way playing a game so we went over and talked to them. while we were talking with them they finished their game and were getting ready to start another one. They invited us to play with them. It was a sort of bean bag toss game so we said we could play a quick game. It was me and my companion against 2 of them. we started the game off pretty good, we noticed we were doing good so we said, If we win we get to take 10 min and share a quick lesson with you. Well we ended up winning and we went into their garage and started talking to them and they asked questions and about 45 min later we had a returning appointment to go back and teach them some more. It was so awesome. I Know that the Lord was helping us in that game. It will be interesting to go back and teach them some more. It was definitely a miracle. After that we went to dinner, dinner was with a less active and a non member and after dinner we carved pumpkins with them, it was pretty funny, I carved the angel Moroni and my companion carved Mormon.org it was pretty awesome. we are going to use them as a finding tool. we are starting to teach a little bit more which is definitely good I am starting to get  more comfortable with it. Last night I had the chance to interview a girl from the ysa ward for baptism. It was so awesome to be able to interview her and get to hear her testimony and her understanding, It is really sweet the interviews are a lot of fun to get to do. I really like it. 

 

Week 36- October 16 2012

  
      Everything is going well, I am become less stressed out which is good, everything is getting a little bit easier, but it will never get completely easy. I don't think I am completely better, because I still don't feel good sometimes.   But it has basically become normal so I don't really notice it to much. That is so sad to hear that he passed away. That is good that hes not sick anymore though and he is with his wife.

        This past week we were able to meet those people we played that game with. We had a lesson with them on Friday night. The lady was wondering why we were there but her husband was really interested and wanted to learn more. So we ended up teaching them the Restoration and we invited them to read and pray about the Book of Mormon, and they both said that they would. It was so awesome because she was set that there was no other book, just the Bible but after our lesson they both were excited to read it. We will be going back a week from Friday to have another lesson so that is going to be exciting. 

        Wednesday night we went over to our investigators house to have a lesson and before we started we were answering some questions and when we were done answering their questions, the husband got up and stood behind his wife and said, " we have been thinking about it and we are ready." They want to be baptized! it was so awesome! it was such a miracle! That night we ended up setting the date and everything. They are going to be baptized on November 9. Its going to be so awesome they are such an awesome family! It will be 3 baptism so its going to be exciting. I am so excited! That is pretty much all the excitement from the week.

Love, Elder RINDLISBACHER

10/3/12 Picture.

Just wanted to share a picture of your cute boys with you! I'm the leader of the 8-9 yr. old Activity Days girls and we had an activity about service to our missionaries, both ones serving in our Ward and ones serving elsewhere from our Ward. The girls brought items to make a basket for them and we wrote them letters.

I'm a missionary mom as well, my son is serving in Angola, and pictures are rare because so many computers have viruses so they can't email any home so since I don't get many of my missionary I really wanted to share a picture with you of yours!

Love,
Sister Brown

Week 34- October 2

This past week has been a pretty tough week, I have been sick for most of the week with a pretty bad cold, but we have been pushing along working as hard as we can. I think its the worst I have been sick in a long time. We havent been doing a lot of teaching so we have been trying to find people. Everyone here lives on top of each other. It is so incredible how many houses are here in such a small area. I have done a lot more tracting then I did in Temecula. Its always an adventure knocking on doors, because you never know what is going to be on the other side. We really havent done anything to exciting this last week. We did get a new Bishop in one of the wards, so it is going to be fun to work with him. We have been teaching but not to nuch, the stake is trying to push 21 lessons a week but everyone here is so busy and they dont have time for us. So we are doing what we can to get into peoples homes to teach.

 

That is so crazy that Jeremy is already leaving. It feels like he just got his call. That is so exciting is he ready to go?  How was the farewell? That is pretty awesome that wyatt went to home coming. I am way proud of him and his grades! He is a stud! Its incredible how good friends make such a difference. Thats exciting that you guys are going down to st george. Its going to be really weird not going down there this year.Thats awesome that you got a raise, nice work! 

 

We are staying so busy, there isnt any time to do anything, its been pretty tough. 

 

 Love You!

 

Love, Elder RINDLISBACHER