Sorry for getting started a bit earlier than normal this morning. I missed hearing from you, but we would like to email you about this same time every week. I hope it's not a hastle. Maybe write the day before... Anyways.
We had a great week. We are teaching quite a bit and finding more and more people to teach. We have appointments almost all day after lunch for the rest of the week. We had a day like that yesterday, and it was great, but three of our four appointments fell through so we only taught one of them. I hope that we have a bit more success over the next couple of days.
A lot of the people we are teaching are brand new investigators, and we are trying to see if they will progress or not. We started teaching the wife of a member that has been inactive for a long time but is recently coming back. He has spent almost his entire life working the oil fields, and it has left him pretty beat up. He doesn't breath very well anymore, and can't work. He is waiting on disability to start coming in so they are in a really tight spot. He is also an alcoholic, and a smoker. It probably doesn't sound very promising, but I know that the message we share will bless the life of his family. His wife has been to church twice now and is really enjoying it. She has a very sincere desire to learn and to change. I know that living the gospel of Jesus Christ will bless their lives. I hope they make the choices to change their lives.
Some of the people we have been teaching have been put on hold for a little while. Two of the most promising have gone out of town for a little while. One for a week and the other for three. It is a bit discouraging, but I'll get over it.
We had interviews with President Thurston last Friday. We were first interviewed by his wife, who had previously challenged us to make our bed every morning. I was honest and let her know that I had improved since she had challenged us, but I still had a lot of room for improvement. Since the interview with her I have been 100%. She also had us mark our favorite scripture in her set and sign next to it. I had a short and sweet interview with President. He let me know that I will be being transferred at the end of this transfer. That means in two emails I will be in another place. It seems weird to me, because all I know of being a missionary is Gainesville Texas. It will be good to see another place and meet more amazing people. I hear it isn't set in stone until transfer calls come, so we will wait and see.
I love ya'll. keep praying for us.
Love Elder Rindlisbacher
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