We had zone conference, which was AMAZING! Remember
President and Sister Walker from the MTC? Well they came up to talk to us
at our zone conference! It was soooo wonderful to see them. Oh man
I love them. We learned so so much. We talked a lot about having a
"white Christmas"...baptisms! I studied hope this
morning. Hope is an assurance that something will happen. It's
believing and expecting that it will. No more wishful thinking that we
will find people to teach and baptize...we believe and expect it will happen.
:) And if not...we will just keep working. haha
Some of my other favorite moments from the week:
1. I was on exchanges with Sister Ryan, and we stopped a
young woman (25?) on the street. She said she normally would pass us by
and not speak to us, but today she decided to stop. We found a place to
sit and just talked to her about Christ and His gospel. She basically did
our job for us, "Can I have this book?" "Can I come to your
church?" "Do you do home visits?" "Can you find a
verse about such and such in the Book of Mormon?" and so on.
It was brilliant. She lost her baby daughter and was searching for
'something more' in her life!
2. Yesterday we were taking a short cut through a park, and
we saw a woman off to the side picking up leaves off of the ground (to make
decorations or something...she was really worried we thought she looked
crazy). We went over to talk to her. I think we scared her at first
haha. We got talking to her and it turns out she met with missionaries
almost 30 years ago, and was very close to baptism! Even better...she
told us that a few days ago she was really struggling. She was really
nervous about something and was about to leave the house when one of our
pass-along cards popped through the door. :) It says Faith brings
hope or something like that. Anyway, she said it really helped her at the
perfect moment and it's hanging on her fridge. And now we stop her in a
park to talk to her?? Freaky. ;) God is in the details.
3. We tried by a former investigator and she let us
in! I can count the number of times that has happened on my mission on
one hand. So we were excited!! She is Polish. We talked to
her about the Book of Mormon and she even sang us a few Polish hymns!
4. I know this might sound dumb, but thank you for
praying for me and my driving. :) God cares about the big and small
things (even driving), and he has answered our prayers! haha I've
had to drive a lot this week and it's going well. I haven't killed a
soul! I even had to drive to and through Aberdeen, one of the biggest
cities in Scotland, and we made it out alive. So thanks.
5. It SNOWED this week! It snowed for you
too..wahoo. We were doing some gardening...in our skirts...in the
snow. Loved it. I will be able to do anything in a skirt when I go
home. I think I was the only one in all of Scotland who was excited that
it was snowing. It was so pretty, totally a hallmark moment!
Welp...I think that's all I've got time for! Send me
pictures of your halloween costumes. I'm dressing up as a mormon
missionary! It's gonna be good. Have a great week...I love
you!!!!!!!!!!
cheerio,
Sister Rindlisbacher
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