Wednesday, January 29, 2014

Week 97- Dec 16

     Everything is going great down here. Transfers are tomorrow and Elder Thompson is getting transferred. We will see tomorrow night who my new companion is going to be. It is going to be really interesting to see what pans out. Tomorrow is also going to be our large mission Christmas party/devotional. It is going to be pretty cool to see everyone for the past areas. I can't believe that Christmas is so close. Time is just flying by way to fast! 

     This past week was an incredibly busy week. We had zone training meeting, a stake community event that took up a lot of time, and running around getting everything ready for transfers. 
     Zone Training meeting went really well. We only had a couple of hours to get it all put together but it turned out great. We trained on the pilot program that our mission is doing with family history. It is going to be really cool to see how everything works out. The missionaries are really excited to be doing this and they are all already seeing miracles. It is so incredible to see how the Lord knows what is going to be best. It was definitely inspired to be doing this in our mission. There are so many people who are willing to learn about their family history and to talk about it. Last night the stake presidency trained all the ward councils on the same thing we trained on. It is going to be really cool to see how as the members and missionaries work together in unity what great things will happen. The stake presidency is so excited for this and for missionary work alone. The work only goes forward when the leaders are involved and focused and that is what is happening here. 

     The stake community event is a huge deal here in Temecula. They have Choirs come from all sorts of different schools and groups to perform, they have hundreds of nativities set up, and the have a live nativity (minus the animals). It is quite the event. They transform the whole church and make it look like the middle east back in the time of Christ and they use a lot of Christmas decorations. It is a lot of work. This is the first year in a long time that they have had the missionaries involved, and boy were we involved. We helped with everything except for the take down. We were at the church all day Thursday, all day Friday and half day on Saturday. We helped set up and we also ushered during the actual event. That was really cool. Elder Thompson and I were basically the assistants to the person who was in charge of it all. We were always running around making sure things were getting done and also making sure that all the missionaries were doing okay. The missionaries definitely built trust with the stake leadership and with the members. It was a lot of fun to be able to do a good amount of manual labor.  

     The teaching has been pretty slow the past little while, but we have been doing our best to find more people to teach. We really don't have anyone so we are in full time search mode. Hopefully the pilot program helps with that. We will have to just wait and see. 

     How is everything going back home? How is the weather? I hope everything is well.

Love You!!! 

Love, Elder RINDLISBACHER 

Oh yeah, Christmas is next week. I am not sure exactly what time I will be calling but we are going to get that all set up this week and I will let you know all the details next week.

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