Sister Waverli Lindmeir

Last week was such a great week! I don't have a lot of time today because we went to the temple this morning and we still have to finish all of our preparation day things. The temple was amazing though. I always love going. When you go there, there is no way that you could deny that it is the House of our Father because of it's beauty and the way that you feel when you go!

I wish i had more time to share because things are going so great but here is just one experience that just made me so happy because we were truly exactly where God wanted us to be in the very moment he needed us!  So Sister Faulkner and I were driving to an investigators house for an appointment around 7:00 at night and on our way we saw this lady crying on the side of the road. we immediatly stop roll down the window and ask her if she needs help. She said no i am good, but obviously she wasn't good. so we Jumped out of our car and went and sat by her for a minute and she told us that she was really okay, so we got up so that we could give her our number and a card and then she saw our name tag and Said "Oh my Goodness you are Missionaries!" When she knew that, she literally fell into our arms and started sobbing. She told us that she was baptized 3 years ago and that she had fallen away but wanted to start coming back. She Kept asking us how we knew she was going to be there. She was amazed that out of everybody that could have been there and stopped it was the missionaries. We told her that God led us to her. God truly loves every single one of us no matter what we have done, no mattter who we are, he loves us all the same.

Nothing fills you with more Joy then when you get to be an instrument in the Lords hands! It truly was the best day ever and we can't wait to help her to start coming back! I am filled with so much Joy that God lets me be his servant. i love serving him!

Things are going really great! We had an investigator family come to church on sunday! we were so excited! things are good! Love you all!

mission life!!!!Elder Lindmeir

This week is totally legit!!!!!!!!!

Alot of things happened, like always. but im going to have to make this email short because we have to plan a really long meeting so ill make it quick just know i love you all so much!!!!!

but the Highlights for the week!!!

#1

we totally poicked up the awesome family this week and one of the daughters is best friends with a member in our ward and we tought the family 6 times this week and she is ready for baptism on saturday and hopefully the whole family can slowly see her example and change and prepare for baptism. there such a great family and we totally love them already the mom is like 350 pounds and she is hillarious her husband left her like a year ago and there grandpa who came in to be there father figure just passed away and it really has torn there family apart, and our ward is inviting them to activities and doing everything they can to help there family and you can see the love thats comming back into the family, becasue at first the mom wouldent even talk to s about anything and now her heart is softening and everything is doing great!!!!

#2

tought Brian and Shanda this week and they are the most solid couple. i talked about them the other day. shanda is the member and brian is the investigator, he was the one who loved the book of mormon so much he dident even care were the gold plates were.

well anyways we tought him this week and we tought the gospel of jesus christ and as we were teaching we get to the holyghost, and shanda just starts balling, and while shes cry brian stopps us in the middle of the lesson and he says" i am feeling the spirit so strong right now that i could brake this table in half! " and he just breaks down crying it was an amazing experience and in the middle of it i just throughout the law of chasity becasue there not married and they now know they need to get married before his baptism and there stoked!!!! so they will be praying to see when they can do it. also they read everymorning for 30min and during lunch together and dinner together everyday for the last 2 weeks and they pray together and there whole life is changing!!! i could go on for days about them there just so great!!!

i love you gusy so much!!! the gospel of jesus christ is real and it only takes an experiment!

love you all!

The Mission Life!!!!!

This week was legit!!! hope you all like my videos although they probobly were not as funny as before, just dident have time haaha thats funny how that works. you feel like theres no way you could work harder and smarter and then you hit a total different level of hardness. i feel thats were i am at but there deffinitly more levels for me to hit.

alrighty there was some awesome things that happened this week!!!!!!!!

#1

we had zone activity and it was legit!!!! my comp and i totally came up with the idea that morning and we ran to home depot and totally bought like 6 poles of PVC Pipe and bought 12 bags of marshmellows!!!!!

- we went to the church after making all the guns and we set up the sickest battleground in the gym we totally used all the tables and chairs, chalk boards and everything and when you would walk in it looked like a real battle feild.

- the whole zone came we got them so stoked!!!!!!!! everyone had a blast and we had the most epic marchellow battle for like 2 hours until there were marshmellows everywhereon the ground..... and then we cleaned it all up!!!!! it was awesome.

#2 

we had another visit from elder Ballard and he is just the greatest guy! hes 86 years old and has more energy than 60% of the missionaries. hes a stud. he talked to us about leadership in the church and how it only gets harder and harder after the mission but there were a few things that really stook out to me when he was talking. he told us how he was able to deal with all of his callings he has had and especially how tiring it can be. he said the secret and he was crying as he held up a pocket size picture of jesus christ and he said " everytime i feel tired and weak i look at this picture and realise its his work, and as i get up to serve i feel him carry me every step of the way." something else he told us that i really liked was " whenever you think you cant do something or you feel weak take your mind to gethsemine and i promise if you are really want the help he will carry you.

- it was an awesome experience to have!

#3 thanksgiving!!! i hate thanksgiving haha the only reason was because all of our investigators went out of town so we had this whole week to find new people to teach wich was good but there was alot of uneccary walking but some sweet things happened. 

the other night we were walking to our car to leave an apartment complex and we see this dude sitting down next to the pool late at night and we just simply asked him if he had 10minutes to spare that we could share our message with him and he said yeah and we sat next to him. a little background on this guy hes cacasion totally white and has tattoes from chest to toes, and is a total gangster. like a real Gangster, while we were talking her turned around and stood up and whistled and started to through up some sign language but it was his own language that his gang made up. pritty sick right?? so we started to talk and he was telling us how he is trying to change his life around and he has had all these crazy experiences in his life, and especially alot of sin in his life. he told us alot of the things he has done and as he kept talking about all these things we answered his questions and tought alot of the gospel of jesus christ to help him feel like he can change and be forgiven. we tought him alot of things and at the end he is totally down to learn more buthe has some big things he needs to get over first but at the end he grabbed my companions book of mormon and started to draw in it. It was so sick he is a Gangster artist/ tattoo artist and just wrote his name and drew like 3 little doodles in his book and after her was done with his he drew in my book of mormon and in like 3 minutes he has a nice master piece. it was cool to see how much talent are in some people and becasue of bad mistakes it brings them down from there true potential.

#4 last night we had to walk everywhere because we ran out of miles to use and at around 8:20 after talking with 55people we meet this guy dustin who totlally let us teach him and he is a great guy who is just searching for the truth and so we tought him the restoration and it really helped him answer his question and it helped feel closer to god. so were totally stoked to see where this taked us.

we had some awesome miracles this week and the biggest thing was to just expect a yes from everyone and be totally stoked!!! because this is the greates message in the world. thanks for everything family love you all!!!

Elder Lidnmeir

Great week in the WKM!

Thanksgiving was awesome! We got to spend it, doing some service, had thanksgiving lunch with the Stake President and his family, and then Thanksgiving dinner with Cindy Killen and her Husband! You all probably don't remember me talking about her in the very first emails i sent you in the mission field but it's been good to be back to see her, and help her prepare for the temple! I love her a lot! I was so full at thanksgiving! I was glad i wore my most stretchiest dress! it was a great week!

This whole week has all been pretty great! Even though Sister Faulkner and i were in meetings 20 hours last week and had thanksgiving we were able to really kill it still! We seriously went Bananas, and digged and scratched to reach the goals that we had set! we met some awesome people and had a lot of great lessons!

Our investigator Joy who is on date for baptism for December 27th is doing really good! We taught her the 15 step program to quit smoking in seven days last week and she was so excited about it! When we had her read the Declaration of independence that says i promise to follow each step for 7 days perfectly so that i can be a non-smoker and some other things like that. She said right after, "Sisters give me a pen now." we gave a pen and she signed it and gave us the copy, and we were like, Joy that copy is for you, She said "Sisters i want you to have a copy also, so that you both Will know that i will be a non smoker in 7 dyas"! she was super firey about it! It was so awesome!  she is just so ready to quit smoking! she has been smoking since she was 13 years old. She knows that through her faith in Christ, she can do this!

We are teaching some great families and people right now, the area has been picking up so much and it has really been cool to see! It was a dead area and now it is getting better! The ward is really starting to get more involved in the work also and they love going out with us to go and see and help our investigators!

Things are really good! I love you all! Love Sister Lindmeir

VISTA!!!!!

Hey family so i got transfered to Vista 5th ward!!! woot woot! this area is so tiny so i am pumped to teach everyone here!!!!! ya its the best although i totally miss valley center, already.... there will always be a place in my heart for good old country valley center.

first off my new companion is elder Orgill he was my zone leader when i was a new missionarry and i looked up to him like no other so its cool to be his comp. hes pritty awesome i mean hes a boss probobly like the most spiritual man i know. a quick story about how spiritual he is. i get into the area and the # sheets for our zone are all mis placed and just supper badly organized and i was supper suprised since you know how amazing this elder was so everymorning i would wake up earlier and fix it all and study the # to decide what we should train these missionaries on and how we all together as missionaries can increas this work and after i came up with 3 ideas Elder Orgill just tells me this. " i really dont look at the # and stuff but i just pray about it, and so he did and he came up with the exact same 3 things as me. you know im glad i did the work but its cool to see what revelations the lord gives us when we are truely asking and seeking.

o yeah so my comp only has 6 weeks to before he goes home. so thats kind of funny how that worked out.

 

this week was full of miracles and ill tell you a couple that i remeber the best.

#1 we were driving down the road in ome apartment complexis and im driving and i see this kid walking and as were about to pass him i roll down my window to let my comp talk and we talk to him and we schedual an appointment for that night at 8 and we showed up tought him about the Restoration and he accepted to work, and repent and change his ways to follow christ!

#2 we have an investigator named Brian and wow hes a straight up boss!!! his girl freind is a member but is inactive. as we are teaching him about the restoration he just feels the spirit so strongly and just new it was true and as his girlfriend walks in he goes up to her and tells her about the book of mormon and says along the lines of " did you know that the book of mormon is the word of god from the americas?? " and he kept going on and on and his girl friend just asks him " what about your questions? like were are the gold plates?" and Brian says " well what about the 10 commandments?? i dont care, this is the evidence!" it was awesome to truely see what the excitement of the message of the restoration really gave him.

also we tought him the plan of salvation with the word of wisdom, because he drinks and smokes and drinks coffee. and this time when we are teaching him his girlfriend joined the lesson and as we tought the word of wisdom everything just clicked with him, and it was so funny because that was on sunday morning and he had a cup of coffee in his hands while we were teaching and after he heard the word of wisdom he totally commited to live it and the funniest part about it his girl friend was like " why do we have to stop drinking coffee? coffee is good for you???" and before we even answer brian says " its a commandment from god besides whats the worse thing that coukd happen? i mean when we die and god looks to judge us atleast we can say we gave up coffee for him." it was so awesome this mans faith insprires me to be believeing and to live every commandment to the fullest!

#3 this was the highlight for the week!!!! so the last week we finally got one of our members friends do go to church and he absolutly loved it!!! and the night i got transfered they tought him and he excepted to get baptized! and hes getting baptized next week!!! in 10 days he totally changed his life. and yesterday i went back to valley center for someone and i saw blake and he was so appreciative for us pushing the member to invite him to church and it was so cool tosee that awesome miracle!!!!! the work is true and it totally means the world to me to be here and to give a just a little bit of my time for people to have an eternity to enjoy ythere life. i love you alll the gospel of jesus christ is the only way to feel true happiness in this life. love you all!!!

elder lindmeir

ps i need my camera card as fast as you can love ya!!!!!!!!!!! hope you enjoyed the videos!

elder lindmeir

I'm Staying!

It was crazy to find out on Saturday when transfer calls came that i am actually staying here in West Richland! I am so glad that i get to stay though because i know that my work here is not finished yet. Sister Jessee my companion is leaving though. She is going to Moses Lake. I was sure that i was going to send her home. Sister Jessee just has just 6 weeks left on her mission so we were so suprised to hear that she is leaving! I am receiving Sister Faulkner and i hear that she is a hard worker so I can't wait!

I don't have a lot of time to write today but here is something really cool that happened! So one of the sets of Sister Missionaries that Sister Jessee and i serve have really struggled finding people to teach in their area. In the past 6 weeks they hadn't found one new investigator. This really puzzled me because these Sisters are really obedient Sisters and they work really hard! Sister Jessee have been praying a lot to know how we could help them. Then i remembered a story that i think it was Kiana did. What she did on her mission with her district is they said a faithful prayer together and then they went out for an hour and did all they could to find people to teach. Sister Jessee and i presented the idea to the Mission President and he said we could try it! 

Sister Jessee and i call it the "Faithful Hour"! So when Sister Jessee and i met up with the Sisters we both acted overly excited and pumped and ready to go filled with the faith of knowing God would provide these Sisters to Find Someone to teach. We Said a faithful Humble Prayer that God would lead these Sisters to Find Someone to teach. The Sister I went with had chose and prayed about a street to go on the night before when we go there, My heart dropped a little. The street we were going to tract on was only filled with these huge houses! i brushed it aside and just knew that God would provide for these Sisters to find somebody to teach. We start Knocking on the doors and door after door, slammed in our faces. We didn't even have time to say anything. Then when people did let us speak they would just start bashing. We had about 5 minuted left and i asked Sister Larsen Which door do you think needs us. She pointed at a house and we went to it. The person answered the door and was nicer but not interested. I didn't want to go back just yet because we both felt that someone was ready there. In the middle of the driveway we said a prayer that God would help us to know where to go. As we ended our prayer we heard someone rolling their garbage can down the driveway, we both knew that this was an answer to our prayer! We went to go talk to this person. His name is paul and as we were talking to him, he was like my wife and i have actually been looking for a church to go to! We taught him a brief restoration and gave him a book of Mormon and prayed with him, and set a return appointment. He is awesome!! 

It is sooo cool that with faith anything is truly possible! God, is a God of miracles but only works according to our faith. It was a really cool experience and we were all filled with grattitude that God really helps us find people to teach! 

Love you all! Love Sister Lindmeir 

GETTING TRANSFERED!!!!!!!!! after 6 months!Elder Lindmeir

yeah got the call there kicking me out hahaha! dang is it hard to leave an area were so much happened and such a great place were so many memories and miracles have happened..... but I am PUMPED!!!! to go into a new area and to kill it and give it everything!!!!!!! ewww im so ready!!!! this area has tought me by far the most out of any area, I have learned to be Bold, Confident and a simple teacher and to always be focused on the work so with this and everything else plus the lord great things are going to come!

honestly a lot happened this week but the biggest thing that I learned this week is just what an impact we have on peoples lives and how with the calling that we have that we are able to take control of situations and people accually listen, to 2, 20 year olds. got a couple of stories that happened this week about what im talking about.

Story #1 we heard a party going on in the trailor park and heard like a bunch of hespanics having a party so of course we decided to go and meet with them and when we get there we soon find out that theres a birthday party going on for accually one of the people we have tought before and we introduced ourselves the everyone at the family party and we ate tacos and just started to teach this whole family and half way through two more hespanics come and join in and one of them is a pastor for his church and has been to school and studying religion for 14 years!!! when he showed up theres two things we could of done. #1 be quit about sharing the gospel so we don't argue and dispute in front of the family or #2 and confidently teach and testify. we chose #2 and took over the situation and tought the pastor and he tought a little to me and we found common ground and honestly out of the 15 minutes we were there you could tell that there heart was softening and they were going to start warming up to us and the gospel. now we are teaching the younger son in the family!!!

#2 we had a dinner last night and to our surprise they had brought there entire family over and ha huge FHE and there were 6 non-members and and at first you could tell that we could of either talked about work and all there hobbies or take control teach and to testify and we really did and 2 of them are going to be taking the lessons in a different area. I love the calling we have to represent the lord!!! and all that we have and the talents we are given and the gifts that we need to obtain on the mission.

I know its a supper short email today but im half asleep so if I had misspelled something its because of that.

well family thanks for everything love you all all I will let you know were I am going!!!!!