How is life? It's been another good week here in
Scotland. I had a dream last night that I was on a.....date......and they
asked me where I had gone on my mission. I remember saying I went to
Scotland and then I just started bawling. The sad fact is I can see that
happening. Love it here. Here is a quote from Sister
Clegg: "The work is hastening here in Scotland and it's in the form
of estrogen." haha so true! We have about a million sisters in
the mission now. I used to know all of them, but now I know about 1/3 of them.
Weird. But it's great that there are so many missionaries. There
are so many new areas being opened. Soon Scotland and Ireland will only
be populated with missionaries. :)
We have a new companion! Her name is Sister
Caswell...she is from Washington state. We had a really fun day on
Wednesday climbing Pratt's hill with all the newbies. I had to say
goodbye to all the missionaries going to Ireland cause I won't see them again
on the mission/ever? Hated that. But the day was fun. We had
a lot of meetings as usual and even though we always go over the same thing in
the trainer/trainee meetings I still learn what I can improve. Humility
and charity. Yep. The hardest ones. :)
Have I ever told you about the baptist family that we are
"teaching"? We were chapping probably back in March and we met
this guy named Allie. He said we could come back later in the week.
We did and we didn't really know what we were getting ourselves into.
haha. They are a big, English, really strong Christian family. I
think they have the bible memorised. :) We have met with them on
and off. They are interested in learning more about our church...general
knowledge I suppose. Although they intimidate the heck out of us we
really love them. And they invited us over for dinner this week!
Isn't that sweet? It was so fun too. We even got to play a game
with them after and just relax and not have to defend the Book of Mormon or our
church. :) No...they are an awesome family and really great examples of
Christians. Their oldest daughter Elspeth is great (she's around our age)
and we are even gonna do something with her on P-day.
Cheryl has had a pretty hard week. We couldn't get in
contact with her for a long time, so we were kind of in panic mode. We
saw her at stake conference though and she was doing okay. We were about
an hour into stake conference and Sister Clegg looks at me and is like,
"is that Ethan?" haha In fact it was! So glad that she
came! She has had a tough week, Satan is really trying to work on
her. She has so much potential and he doesn't want her to reach it.
But she's tough and she'll get through. Yesterday was a long day of finding. We thought it would drag, but we were blessed with tons of success. It was about 8:30 and we were walking home and we stopped a lady named Carol. Her brother had recently died and she was struggling. She told us that she's really scared of dying. She hopes God is there, but just doesn't know. We told her about the Book of Mormon and read a little bit with her. We even invited her to be baptised (sister Caswell's first! woo) and she said she would. We said a prayer with her before she left and she teared up a lot. She just said thank you for what we told her. Hopefully we'll meet with her again this week...I'll let you know how it goes!
Quick request: We are having a zone conference next month and some family history people from SLC are coming to talk about how we can use fam. history in missionary work. We are supposed to have some stories of ancestors and a 4 generation (?) pedigree chart. Could you send me at least the chart. Grandma Bacher sent me some stories that would work. (thanks!) gracias.
Okay. I'm gonna go, but have a brilliant week! Love you,
Sister Rindlisbacher
ps..someone told me this week that our last name means deer
basin....???
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