Week 74- July 9

      This past week was pretty good. The fourth was actually a great day, Except for the fact that I didn't get to see any fireworks which was super disappointing. The ward here had a huge breakfast that morning so we went to that. It was tons of fun there was a good amount of non members there that we were able to talk to, and we invited them to come to church. Then we went and had interviews with President Kendrick our new mission President. He is such a great Man I am really excited to get to serve with him. It was a great interview. Then that afternoon we went to a huge barbeque where there was about 300 people. It was pretty awesome, because there was a lot of non members and we were able to talk with them and make some new friends. That night we did service for a family that is partially less active. We pulled weeds and moved rocks. That was the first time in this area that I have been able to do that. It was awesome because we were able to start building a good relationship with them and hopefully we can start teaching them and helping them come back to church.

     Friday we had Mission Leader Council, it was President Kendricks first but it ended up going really well. We learned how to better build relationships and how to have more of a focus. It was really interesting because they were different trainings than we are all used to so there were a few zone leaders who didn't understand and didn't really accept it because it is change. I love it because they are things that I have been thinking about. They have helped me a lot. Yesterday we had our zone training meeting where we gave the trainings to the missionaries in the zone, they weren't received very well. It felt like no one wanted to accept them and apply them so we are going to be doing a lot of following up to help everyone see the vision and see how it will help them. It was pretty frustrating but I understand why everyone is a little bit uneasy about it. We are just going to do what we can and help everyone progress.

     We have had some pretty cool experiences as we have been out talking to people on the street this week. We have talked to a few people who are interested in our message. This week we have a bunch of people that we are going to stop by and hopefully teach and share the gospel with them. Saturday night we had dinner at our ward mission leaders home. He has a studio apartment attach to his house where there is Italian lady who lives there. He invited her to come to diner with us and she ended up cooking dinner. She made some incredible pasta. After dinner we were able to talk with her and talk about the gospel and we are going to be teaching her this week. We invited here to come to church and she came. It was great she really liked it and she had a ton of questions that we will be answering this week. It is so incredible to see how Heavenly Fathers work is going forward so quickly. This is a great time to be a missionary.

I hope you have a great week,

Love You!!

Love, Elder RINDLISBACHER