Week 101- January 20, 2014

 Everything is going great! Time is just flying right past. All the investigators are doing pretty well. I don't know if I told you, but one of our investigators is getting baptized on February 8. She is super solid it has been really cool teaching her. She has gained a strong testimony and is very willing to do everything. She is basically a member but it will be official on the 8th. We have a couple other investigators that are doing pretty well but they aren't progressing nearly as quickly as the one getting baptized on the 8th. They have a lot of concerns and questions that we have been helping them answer and resolve. The more I study to help these people I find things that are just blatantly obvious and that makes so much sense and it makes me wonder why the people that we are teaching don't want to be baptized, but I have come to know how it is not scriptures or proof that help people, but it is the spirit. 

     The Mission Leadership Council was really good. We had 2 former mission presidents who now work at the MTC as trainers there with us and they gave us some great training. President Kendrick trained us on the mission culture and how we need to improve it. (It is really cool that he is talking about this because there has been a large change in the culture over the past 6 ish months). We counseled together about things that have been lost and that need to be brought back. There is going to hopefully be a large turn around and hopefully it helps the missionaries progress. I know for me as I have continued to do all the things that we talked about it has helped me. The 2 trainers from the MTC talked about things that we as missionaries need to do better on. The first was being purpose drive and the second was using the church buildings, We were trained on a really cool way to give tours of the church buildings to help the people that we are already teaching to feel comfortable coming to church. At the end of the council I was thinking about the meeting and everything that I learned and how much I could have used this if I learned it earlier. All of the things learned if applied is going to help the work go forward a lot better, 

     

     Stake conference was Awesome. The whole weekend was about the Hastening of the Work. The priesthood leadership meeting was all about ward councils and home teaching and how important it is to be doing both of these and doing them effectively. After the leadership meeting we had dinner with the Stake Presidency and their wives, President and Sister Kendrick and all the ward mission leaders and their wives. It was really cool to be with all of them. The Saturday evening session was the best meeting of the weekend. They talked about member missionary work, the importance of doing it and ways to do it. The Spirit in the meeting was very strong. One of my favorite quotes from the meeting is, "you'd have to have a heart of stone to not feel the spirit here."  Hopefully everyone got something from the meeting and they are going to take it and act, This year the Temecula stake is going to be seeing a lot of miracles. 

    That is awesome that you went to Schifty's homecoming. That's to bad to hear that there wasn't really anyone there. That is great to hear that They are all going to the temple. I will probably be writing next week. Thanks for everything. 

Love You! 

Love, Elder RINDLISBACHER