Time continues to fly by. Elder Cooper and I have been comps for just over a week now. It has been great. We have been working hard. We tract for a couple hours a day now. We found that a lot of the people that Elder Taulanga and I had been teaching were not progressing, or progressing very slowly. We have dropped a few and have been focusing on finding new people to start teaching. We have been tracting a couple of hours a day, rain or shine, and at a lot of our dinner appointments we have been challenging members to give their friends copies of personalized Book of Mormon's and invite them to meet with us. We haven't heard back from any of the members yet about their experience but we have found two new solid investigators.
We were tracting out in the rain and not a lot of people were home and the ones who were home weren't very excited about seeing us. It was a bit rough, so I decided to make a game of it. I challenged my companion to see who could tell the most cheesy jokes at the door about the weather. At the next door I said "We are taking advantage of this beautiful weather to go and speak to you and all of your neighbors about Jesus Christ." The old lady who had answered just frowned and told us she wasn't interested. After a few more doors I used the same line and the lady who answered chuckled and let us in. We sat down and were able to talk with her about the Restoration and the purpose of the Book of Mormon. We left her a copy and a challenge to read and to pray. She was a woman in her fifties and she had cancer in her bone marrow, but now it was stable. She told us that she had never been very religious. When she had overcome her cancer she decided to go searching for it. She was very kind and the spirit was definitely there.
Then last night we went to follow up on a Book of Mormon we had lent to someone two weeks prior. His name is Jerry. We were able to sit down with him and had a very good discussion. He had already read until Alma, and had some simple questions. We answered them for him, which lead to more and more questions, and by the end of it he asked us, before we asked him, if he could come to church. Hopefully he will be there. My only worry is that he lives with a girlfriend and smokes, but if he gains a testimony, then I know he will be able to fix those problems fast.
We also went to the temple as part of the mission yesterday. They took the mission in three seperate sessions. It was a very good experience and it was fun seeing some of the guys I had served with previously. I can't wait for when I will be home and able to attend more frequently.
It is amazing how quickly the Lord blesses us as we make small changes to be more obedient. I'm working hard and loving life. Keep us in your prayers.
Elder Rindlisbacher
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