Companion Healing

       It has been an interesting week. Most of the interest has been created by the weather, and Elder Whittier. It has been HOT. The heat is unrelenting. 100+ all week with a decent amount of humidity. It is uncomfortable to be outside. You can walk outside and start sweating. I wonder some times if any interest that we receive from people is for sympathy only.

     I mentioned that Elder Whittier had a little bit of a spill last week. Well it seems to concern everyone except for him. His bruise continued to grow for a couple of days and bled a bit. I think its starting to heal now. The bruise is turning yellow and gravity is making it sink. He stopped bleeding which makes me feel a bit better about it. Everyone we have shown the injury to freaks out and then somehow gets the number to the mission presidents wife to let her know how bad it is. She got a hold of mission medical and they think he just has a deep bruise and said it'll just take time. We had to take it a little easy for a bit.

     We spent one day in the apartment. After making a ton of phone calls to try to get things set up we decided to pass the time playing scrabble. It was pretty boring. We also played take two. I like that one a lot better.

     The work still seems to be a little slow, but I'm not too worried about it. As long as we continue to work hard and stay obedient I know it will turn around. We have a baptismal date for this Sunday, but we haven't been able to see him since he's been back from a two week vacation. I hope that everything is OK with him. We also had our one other semi promising investigator fall out of touch for a bit. I talked to him and got another appointment set up over the phone. Please pray for our investigators.

     Transfer calls are this Saturday. I will probably have a new companion. Elder Whittier has served in this area for 6 months, and that is rare for this mission. I'll miss him. It's been a really fun three months.

Love, Elder Rindlisbacher

Have fun with family. Tell my siblings it's been a while since I 've heard from them.