It's been another week already. Our teaching pool continues to grow and slowly people are starting to progress. It is a really good sign if someone has read since the last time you met with them, and an even better sign if they show up to church. For most of our investigators that hasn't been the case, but a few are starting to read. I hope that they will start coming to church and feel the spirit there.
General conference is great. I really enjoyed both of President Uchtdorf's talks on patience and charity. Those are two things that I could improve on. I also gained a better understanding of blessings of healing from Elder Oaks talk durring priesthood. I wish that every person that asked to receive a blessing would read that talk.
After general conference we went over to the Oakley's for dinner. Sister Oakley served a mission in Italy. She made us some lasagna. The Oakleys have 7 children. One is on a mission in Panama, and another is waiting for his mission call. After dinner we had a lesson with their friends Levi and Zach who are 16 and 19 respectively. We taught about the restoration and the Oakleys shared their testimony. The spirit was very strong, and we set return appointments with both of them.
Other than that nothing new is really going on. Yesterday while tracting, however, we met a mentally disabled gentleman sitting on his porch. Before I knew that he was disabled I said, "Hello, how are you?" To which he responded, "I like making model trains." He slid his binder toward us on the porch and Elder Cooper asked "What's in the binder?" Then the gentleman responded, "I'm glad you asked." Then he crawled over to the binder and opened it up. He showed us his train magazines, and then said, "Want to see something cool? It doesn't hurt." He then proceded to bend his middle finger all of the way back to his wrist. To top it all off he was wearing a train conductor's hat. We gave him a card and told him to have a nice day. It was probably the funniest thing that I've seen on my mission.
This Saturday is transfer calls and I will let you know where I will be for the next bit.
Anyways,
Elder Rindlisbacher
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