Week 99- January 6 2014

     I can't believe that it is already 2014. I remember when I opened up my mission call and it said that I would be serving until 2014. I thought that it was so far away and that it would take forever to get to it, but here we are January 6, 2014. The time has just flown by. But it has been a great 2 years. It is incredible to look back on the past and think about all the miracles that happened and to see how much I have grown. It truly has been incredible. It is such a weird feeling to think about all the things I have been able to accomplish and hopefully all the lives that I was able to touch. I was reading my patriarchal blessing this morning and I was thinking about how great it is to see the blessings from the Lord actually playing out in front of me. 3 more weeks left and I am going to push it to the end just like in a cross country race. 

     Everything is going pretty great. We are staying very busy actually doing a lot of teaching. We picked up a few new investigators this past week which was pretty awesome. We have seen a lot of miracles lately which is really cool. We have been setting up a ton of return appointments with people that we talk with on the street. It has been really weird because I have never had so many people say that we could come by and actually give us their information. It has been really good. Working with my companion is going okay it is definitely a struggle that I have to put a lot of effort into but I don't have very much longer to deal with it but I am going to try my best to make the last 3 weeks the best. 

     This past we had our Zone training meeting. It was really weird working with someone new because Elder Thompson and I worked together on 3 of them and they were my 3 best because how well we worked together. It is interesting to see how everyone has different leadership styles.  This past weeks wasn't bad, but it wasn't the best. We trained on planning and being confident in our invitations. We also introduced our baptismal goal for the first quarter of the year. We have a goal to help 85 people enter the waters of baptism. It was pretty cool because when we introduced it we wrote 85 on the glass in the Baptismal font and had white lights around it to make it shine. It was pretty cool because it was a different way to get everyone excited but the spirit was still there. I am excited to see what happens over the next 3 months, because I know its going to be good. 

     Sounds like everything is going great back home. It sounds like you had a good New Years, doing the typical party at our house. Good times. I can't believe that Christian is already 24 what an old man. Your new calling sounds pretty cool. Does that mean that you get to go camping with them? Man that is so awesome that you saw Schifty. That is good to hear that he didn't change to much. It is so weird to think that everyone is getting home. So random question, not to be truncky but do you by chance know when I am speaking in sacrament meeting? There are a few people that want to know so they can come.    

   Thank you for everything! I Love You!! 

Love, Elder RINDLISBACHER