On Again - Off Again

     Another week has flown by, but you look back at it and you sure did a lot. Last week it felt like our teaching pool fell apart. For one reason or another everyone that we were currently teaching couldn't continue to meet with us or just didn't want to follow through on commitments. The older man that was so excited when we first met him wasn't home when we went for a followup, and he didn't show up at church. It was a rough week.

     This week has been a 180 turnaround. We went on an exchange Monday with the Zone Leaders. I went down to Denton and stayed with Elder Birch. He is from Sandy UT and is a really cool guy. They had already had a baptism this month and a couple of the areas were struggeling finding people to teach, so we went and blitzed two areas that day. It was great. We tracted all day, but we were able to find people to teach in both areas. We stopped by a refural that they had recieved from a member. When we knocked at the door no one came to the door and we were about to leave when the door finally opened. I saw an old grumpy looking man in a wheel chair, but before we could open our mouths he slammed the door shut. I had a really hard time not laughing out loud.

     That night we went to teach a lady, but she had to leave. We taught her neighbor instead who the Elders had already talked to. We taught about the restoration. Everytime we would pause he would get a look on his face, and take a deep breath, that made it look like he was thinking of a way to tell us we were wrong, but every time he would just say something like "I could see that". It was really cool he took the challenge to read and pray about the Book of Mormon.

     The next morning we tracted a bit more and then headed to lunch to trade back companions. They had a lot of success up in Gainesville while I was gone. They went to see Nick, who we thought didn't want to meet with us anymore. By the end of it they were teaching Nick and his mom, who was aposed to him being baptised. We went on an exchange with members of the ward the next night and my companion and a member went back. Nick and his mom wern't home, but they started teaching the Uncle. Last night on another exchange with members I went over to see Junior, the man that had been excited and then missed church. He was home! We taught him and he was still very excited about our message, he had just been in the hospital from being sick and didn't have our number to contact us. We taught him about the plan of salvation and then committed him to baptism. If he is at Church for the next three Sundays he will be baptised right after church on the 31st.

     My companion and I are making small changes to be a bit more obedient and the Lord is blessing us. Continue to pray for us.

     This Saturday is transfer calls. I'm a bit nervous, I don't want to leave Gainesville just yet, but we will just have to wait and see.

Love,
Elder Rindlisbacher