Week 88-October 15

This week has been a great week. It has been full of a lot of adventures. I cant believe how fast time is flying by. It is pretty incredible.

Where to start. . .

     Wednesday last week we had our zone training meeting. It went really well. I was really impressed. There are a lot of great missionaries here in Temecula and they are what made the meeting great. We had a lot of participation so we didn't have to do a ton of talking which is good, because I'm not sure anyone likes to just hear us ramble on forever. We had trainings on resolving concerns using the Book of Mormon, Follow up, and companionship Unity. We have a Sister training leader in our zone so we had her do the follow up training. She did a great job. Hopefully these trainings will help all the missionaries here to become better.

    

      Friday I was able to go on exchanges back to my Greenie area again. That was a lot of fun. It is always great to see people from way back then. While we were out visiting people we were talking to people on the street. We talked to one group of people that I had talked to when I was here before and as we were talking they remembered me and we were able to build a better relationship with them and we were able to answer a bunch of questions that they had. It was really cool to see how once there is a relationship how people actually open up.

      Saturday I was on exchanges again, but I was in my area this time. We spent the morning painting a fence for some members. That was a lot of fun. It was the first time I have been able to do service since I have been in this area. Then the afternoon we spent moving furniture for another family in the ward. It was basically a day of service which was really good.

      Sunday my companion and I spoke in sacrament meeting. This was the first time my entire mission. I thought I wasn't going to have to do it but they caught me. I Spoke on the 11th article of faith. I feel like it actually went really well for the circumstances. I wasn't able to prepare very much for it, because I was on exchanges and preparing for other meetings, but I had a few ideas on what I wanted to say. I was really nervous but as I got up to the pulpit and started to speak the words just came to my mouth and I was able to get what I wanted to across. I shared a story from a talk that President Kimball gave back in 1976 called the false gods we worship. I talked about how, what, and where we worship. and I used the story in the what part. I actually really enjoyed speaking. Shocking right!

     Yesterday we had another zone meeting. We didn't have to do anything for this one except get everything set up. The Assistants and President gave trainings that reviewed the past six months of training. It was really good to remind everyone what we all need to continue to apply. Last night as we were driving home a missionary in the zone called and asked if we could come by and give him a blessing. So we swung by and I was able to give him the blessing. I had no idea what was going on so it was all by the Spirit. During the blessing I said a few things that he needed help with. It was so incredible to feel the power of the priesthood and the guidance of the spirit.

     This week is going to be a great week. Nothing is going on in our area so we are going to be doing a lot of door knocking. We are going to see miracles happen. We have a goal to knock on every single door in our area this week. We will see how it goes.

    

     Thanks for everything Mom! I Love You!

 I hope you have a great week.

Love, Elder RINDLISBACHER