Monday night we had mission leadership council with Elder Packer.
That was a really cool experience. He is a great man and he taught us a
lot of great things. He taught us about conversion and how it comes and
also he taught us about leadership skills that we can build to help
those we have stewardship over. It was really cool because what he
trained us on was things that I had been thinking and studying about.
Conversion is such an interesting thing and it is so important in
everything we do. Especially missionary work. If the conversion comes
from the missionary and not from the Holy Ghost then that person is a
lot more likely to fall away and not have a lasting conversion which is
what Heavenly Father wants. When we do all we can as missionaries to
help them have a spiritual experience where they feel the Holy Ghost it
will be a more lasting conversion. I am going to be working on my
teaching skills to help people have those experiences. Tuesday we had a
combined zone conference with 4 other zones. It was a great meeting. We
learned about obedience, desire, teaching skills, and family history
work. The training's and talks that were given were what a lot of the
missionaries needed. We talked about it in the council the night before
with Elder Packer and decided what we as a mission we need to be trained
on to improve. The family History training was really awesome. We are
now a pilot mission for a new family history program. The Program is us
as missionaries using family history stories to help people feel the
spirit. So in order for me to do this I need some family history stories
to share. Will you and dad both send me stories about grandma and
grandpa that you remember from growing up. Also stories from dads
mission and information about where our name comes from and about the
ancestors and things like that. I would really appreciate it. You can
either Email me them and I can print them out or you can just mail them
through the normal mail whatever works best. I am really excited to hear
all these stories.
This weekend was pretty crazy. Friday we were
on exchanges and I was in our area. We went to have a lesson with our
investigator that was planning on getting baptized this up coming
weekend. When we got there he said that he had to talk with us. He began
by talking about the holidays and how people were going to be out of
town, as he was doing so I was getting really nervous that he was going
to ask to push his baptism back but as he continued he said that he
wanted everyone to be able to make it to the baptism and that he really
needed to be baptized as soon as possible. He then asked if he could be
baptized in the next 2 days. We said of course. Saturday night he was
interviewed and Sunday night he was baptized. It was an awesome
baptismal service. I had the opportunity to baptize him. He was so
prepared. We had only been teaching him for 4 weeks and now he is
baptized. That makes up for all the rejection and everything like that.
Yesterday there was a man the just walked into
church and said that he was looking for a church near him. He also told
us how he has been going to institute down in Escondido. We talked with
him for a bit and invited him to come to the baptism. He came and
afterwards we talked some more with him and we are going to start
teaching him here soon. It is so incredible how the Lord blesses for
hard work. We have been knocking doors pretty much every day and we
haven't seen any success directly from it but I know that all the
miracles that have been happening have come from it. It is really neat
to see the Lords hand in this great work. It is such a blessing to be a
part of it to be able to witness all of these great miracles that are
happening.
Thanksgiving is going to be pretty sweet. We
are going to be having dinner with a family from the ward and that's
basically all I know for now. We are going to have a good time that is
for sure. That is so crazy about Austin. I can't believe that he is
already driving that is really bizarre. I can't believe that it is
already the holiday season. Time is going so fast I can't believe it.
That would be awesome if you could send me that card. Thank you so much
for everything! That package was awesome. I Love You!
Love, Elder RINDLISBACHER
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