Week 75- July 16

This week has been another good week here in Southern California. We are staying really busy, it is pretty incredible. There is really no time to sit and rest. I really enjoy it. This past week was a pretty cool week. This morning we went Mountain biking, that was a ton of fun. It showed me how out of shape I am, which is pathetic. It was really funny because while we were riding my companion wrecked into a bush. Luckily he didn't get hurt. Sunday we got a new Bishopric here in the La costa ward. It is going to be great. The new Bishop is super missionary minded so hopefully we will be seeing a lot of miracles in the coming weeks. Sunday morning we had a meeting with the Stake. Those are always pretty cool. The stake presidency here is really missionary minded and they want to get the work going here, which it is. Sunday to Monday I was on Exchanges with Elder Mather from Colorado. We saw a ton of miracles. Monday morning we went to a district meeting and we received training on accomplishment goals. They are goals or things you want to accomplish in a time limit. While we were there we practiced setting them. For the practice we set goals for that day. One goal we set was to help someone change a tire on our way back to la costa. After we left the meeting we had just gotten on the free way and there was a man with a flat tire. We pulled over and we asked the man if we could help him. Come to find out he didn't have the right tool s and he wouldn't let us get ours but some one was on their way with the right tools. So we just talked with him and told him about missionaries and what we do and asked if he would be interested in missionaries stopping by his home and he said he would like that. So we got his information and we will be sending it to the missionaries in Tiawana. It was such a miracle! when we set the goal we were both like yeah I guess we could try that and it happened! It definitely strengthened my faith. 

   Saturday morning we had breakfast as a zone at the stake presidents home. He shared with us the vision of the missionary work here in the stake. He is a great man and it is a lot of fun serving with him. He calls us all the time to see if he could come out with us or with other missionaries in the stake and he is just so gung ho. 

  Last Wednesday I went out to Murrieta to a zone meeting with one of the Assistants. It was so weird going out there because just a couple weeks ago it wasn't in our mission. it is a neat area out there. On our way out there we drove past Temecula and that brought back a ton of memories. That is a great area there. It was very interesting to see how anothers missions missionaries work and acted. That whole zone used to be in the Riverside mission. They are great missionaries and they are going to be a great asset to our mission here. 

This past week was full of miracles. We have talked to so many great people and we have a lot of potential investigators so hopefully this week we can set up and teach some of them. 

  We haven't been able to teach the Italian lady again because her friend from Italy just came into town so it is probably going to be a couple weeks before we teach her again. We are working hard trying to find more people to teach. 

   That is so great that Austin had a good time at EFY. That's awesome that you were able to make it up to their Homecoming. They are great people. They did a great job here. We all miss them but President Kendrick is Great! That's great that you have another foreign exchange student. Where is he From? That's great to hear that you guys got a letter from Felicia. I can't believe that she is going on a mission but she is going to be a really great missionary. I can't believe that Kaumana was able to extend his mission that is so cool! 

Thanks for everything Mom! I Love You!

Love, Elder RINDLISBACHER