Elder Rivers is so cool.

what a cool letter from Rivers! no im not a boss he is! really though.

going to be a short email i have to plan for a meeting but, cool miracles are comming our way!!!!

the crazziest thing about it is how much i have to rely to the lord. this week was tough because only have a left arm you really cant do a lot. because as a missionary we take so many notes/thought/ideas for meetings, so this week preparing for this meeting was crazzy because my new comp is a new to this i have to tell him everything and he has to write it all down he has to plan while i just say what to do, so its been getting a little crazzy but, i tell you what. its a very humbling experience especially since i cant do everything i want too. but my heart is always full of the saviors love, and patience. and for that i am so greatful for him.

L

thanks family for all the prayers i know they guide me! well love you all and my only advice is the Lord will always provide.

elder lindmeir

BASKETBALL SUCKS!!!

hah so as you all know i broke my arm. but it was so sick!!!! so bear with me i have terrible spelling especially with one hand so sorry..... but this is the story so enjoy!!!

pday the activity was ultimate freesbee and soccer and basket ball and the whole day i was going hard like always i dont loose!!!.... thanks dad. so after winning soccer and freesbe we came to basket ball!!!!

my favorite sport as you all know and we played a little bit and then for some reason we had a dunking competition!!! and since you know i can dunk it i had to pull a chair up to do it! i attempted 2 times and just slipped off the rim and fell on the floor then on the last time i was getting pumped up!!!!! i got e. hannamen to slap me in the face three times really hard then i ran with the basketball and running and screaming i jumped off the chair dunked it!!! and to add more to the effect i decided to hold on the rim!!! and as soon as i did the momentum from the run was still moving forward and so i slipped off the rim and was falling straight down on my ead as my legs were in the air! but dont worry i made sure to stick my right arm out to take the blow!!! next thing i know it snapped my ehole zone stopped i grabbed my arm said i broke it and laughed it out. got a blessing and went straight to the emergency room st 4 oclock and got checked in and worked on at 1 in the morning haha. it was awesome!!! and while they put me under to set it back into place they put me on some crazzy druggs and e. rivers can testify to you all that the whole time i was out, i tought them everything about the book of mormon and about the restoration!! it was sick!!!!!!! got the nurses adresss and we are going to visit him soon!!!

got home around 4am and got 1 hour sleep and went to work the next day because of transfers and still i havent made up any sleeep haha im feeling it. i still cant move my fingers much but im fine. this week was bomb ill tell u all next week my laptop dies in 3 min. so love you all it was an awesome week!!!!!!!!

WOOT WOOT GREENIE!

so i got my new greenie!!! or a mini missionary its only for 5 days and it has been insane!!!! good and bad!

so i learned quick that my mini missionary has a little anger probs.... reminded me of myself before the mission.

so i was pumped to help him over come that by putting him to WORK!!!! normally every missionary gets up at 6:30 but we get up at 5:30 so that made him mad, then we dont eat lunch, that made him mad. hahaha.

so for the first 2 days he was flustered. But now hes loving it!!!!!!! we have seen some amazing miracles!!!!

we just had all our lessons fall through and we prayed to find someone and the first door we knocked on was a 16 year old kid who 2 weeks ago we gave his older brother a book of mormon and kyle ( the little brother ) said they have been reading the book of mormon together every night!!!! like who does that?!!! its amazing!!! so we got in and tought a 15min resto and Jason the mini misisonary was just bearing hard core testamony!!!!!!!! and kyle the little brother totally accepted baptism.

then we ran over to our other investogators and set 2 more dates with them and jason was freaking out he said " i have never been so happy in my life!!!!!!!" and since that day he has never gotten mad, and some funny things have happened to him.

 

first story we were walking down an apartent complex when this lady comes out and asks us if we are mormon and jasons says "Yeah we are!!!!!" ( in a reallly proud and confident manner) and the lady walks to him and hocks a loogie in his ear!!!!! hahah not just a small bit but a full loogie!!! i dropped down laughing expexcting for him to scream back or do anything back but nope he laughed and what made him laugh even more was the fact that he dident get mad. as hes smiling with a loogie in his ear he says " wow that was weird im not even mad!!" haha the spirit is real!!!

 

there some other sweet experiences that happened but sorry family short letter today love you all!!! thatnks for everything!! love you all!

elder lindmeir

A Christmas Miracle!!!Sister Lindmeir

Christmas was so great! Sister Faulkner and I made a whole bunch of cookies and handed out to our Investigators and the people that we thought might need some. On our way to drop off some cookies, we parked across the street from a trailer Park, where perhaps we should not have parked. when we got out of the car this lady across the street said you probably shouldn't park there, we were like okay we will move but before we moved we started talking to her and she was like "oh my, i love the LDS it has the best Geneology ever" we Told her about the family history center and she was so thrilled! He name is Feonna and she is from Ireland and she has the best accent ever! Apparently people from Ireland love family history so much! She said we could come back the next day and tell her more about it and give her the address. On Friday we came back and we thought that Feonna was just interested in the family history but when we sat down she asked us if we could share a message with her. We were like oh ya! we taught Feonna the restoration and soft committed her to baptism and she accepted. We left her with 3 Nephi 11 to read which is when Jesus Christ appears to the people in the America's and teaches them. We told Feonna that we were going to be in the area on saturday and asked if it was alright if we could follow up with her reading, she said okay. we came back on saturday and Feonna was waiting for us, she let us in and there were tears in her eyes. She kept apologizing that she was crying but she couldn't help it because of the way she felt as she read the Book of Mormon. She went on and on about when Christ taught the people in the America's. She told us that when she read that chapter she said that she felt like positive energy light orbs were touching her as she read. It was an amazing lesson with her! We told Feonna that we are having a baptisimal service on january 17th and before we could even ask her to prepare herself for that date, she said "wow January 17th, i will prepare myself for that day". It was so cool!

Then yesterday Feonna came to church and she loved is so much! The whole time she was like, wow this is so fascinating and interesting! then at church she kept telling everyone how the Lord led us Girlies (thats what she calls us) to her and she told us that she thinks why she was led to move here away from Ireland was because of this! She felt such a pull to come here! Then during relief society she was making all the ladies laugh because she is hilarious and her accent is awesome! after relief society tons of the women came up to her and were like we love you so much Feonna already! we hope you come next week! She said that she will!

Feonna is a miracle! When we first met her, we would have never even thought that she was so prepared. It is so great that Heavenly Father truly puts you in the path of the prepared! Feonna is so great and we already love her so much and so does the ward!

So many miracles are happening and i am loving the work! We got transfer calls last week and i get to stay! i am so happy!!! This area is where i first began my mission life and it is going to be where i end it. i am so glad Heavenly Father let me come back and that i get to witness these miracles. I love you so much everybody and i hope that you have a great week! Love Sister Lindmeir

I LOVE CHRISTMAS!!!Sister Lindmeir

I love Christmas so much because so many people desire to come closer to our Savior! i have never had so many people let us come inside and share a message about Christ then the past few weeks! What is so cool is that they are letting us come back and teach them more! This

season is truly the time to be jolly! Do you all remember the family that i told you about last week that God led us to Sunday night? The Bergdawl family? well they are doing so awesome! They are such a humble family and they barely have anything but they love the Lord so much! We are so excited for Christmas for them because they don't know this, it is going to be a surprise! butthe YSA branch that we cover wanted to sponsor a family for Christmas that we are teaching. We decided that the Bergdawl Family would love that! The YSA is is providing presents for this family who would have gotten nothing but still would have been happy.

I am really grateful that i get to have another Christmas out in the field my eyes are truly opened and i can see what Christmas is about. I am so grateful to have all that i have. Almost everybody we teach has nothing. Money, a Christmas tree, presents, and yet they are happy because they have our Savior. I really know that Jesus Christ is the gift that our Father has Given us. I know that true joy, happiness, and peace, can only be given through him. I know that "Christ is the Light and the life of the world; yea, a light that is endless, that can never be darkened; yea, and also a life which is endless, that there can be no more darkness". -Mosiah 16:9 Christ is the light. he is the way.

I hope all of you have an amazing Christmas! Family, if you can reach out and help somebody this week who has nothing and share the light and wish them a Merry Christmas, then i know that you will feel what Christmas is all about and i promise that it will be the best Christmas you will ever have. I know that because i feel it all the time! Honestly i can't ever stop smiling because of the joy i feel everyday! I love you all so much! Merry Christmas! Love Sister Lindmeir

Here is a question to think about this week: What Gifts has Christ given you? What can you in return give to him?

whats up the family!!!!!???

so this week was legit! but I forgot most of what happened but ill do my best to remember.

alright hmm the first thing is we had our meeting we made and totally threw down and honestly it was supper spiritual we talked about "the culture of our mission" and also on "Baptism" and on "Member work" by the end of the meeting we got all the missionaries so stoked to do member work! something that has been on my mind lately is how we can help everyone become more confident, and as I prayed about this I totally received some revelation on a practice we gave to our missionaries and it really has built them up.

"Confidence is the outward expression of ones faith"- Elder lindmeir- hahah I totally made that up isent sweet haha

ok so after an awesome day of work we get a call from elder rivers and elder bringurst telling us that they locked themselves outside there apartment, so we went to pick them up around 9:30 and we spent 30 minutes re tracing there steps to find there apartment, and couldent find them and then we go back to there apartment and there on the second story of this complex and so elder rivers climed on the wall as I pushed him up to get to up on his porch and the back door was locked and we realized that it was like a 20 foot jump he would have to make to get back down and man was he sketched! especially since the landing is next to a tree with a bunch of roots everywhere. so I looked in other people back yards and grabbed a nice pillow and a slab of carpet so he could land on. and it worked... so then by 10:40 we get to our place I give them all my bedding and I slept with a sheet on the floor. and got like 3 hours of sleep and got up at 5:30 made breakfast and then i wrote my talk for sacrament meeting, and i just knew i couldent do it alone and relied on the lord to help me and everything went awesome i wrote my talk and the spirit led everything that i said during it. it was awesome i through down on the book of Mormon and how it testifies of jesus Christ.

but the greatest thing about this week was i got a call and Roy brady got baptized! it was awesome to see that the whole family is coming together now!!!!!

the video he is the gift, is absolutely true and amazing. i know he is the gift, and there is no cure for a broken heart regret, or sadness other than through him. his Gospel heals everything. Because he is the gift we will all enjoy this Christmas.

love you all have an awesome week!!!!!!!

Miracles! Miracles! Miracles!

Have you ever been so swollen in your heart filled with gratitude that you cant stop yourself from crying with joy? this is how i felt all week!

Miracle #1: So Friday night we had an appointment with a less active lady in our ward but she didn't answer the door but while we were waiting this lady across the street comes out of her door and so we go over and start talking to her. She let us in her house and while we were getting to know her she just started crying when she told us about her life. She has had such a hard life, and the only thing that keeps her going is her dog. She told us that she had no reason to be here and live anymore. She told us that everyday she prays that God will just take her away so that she can have happiness. It was really sad but so comforting to know how much the Gospel can help her! We invited her to church and she came and loved everything about it and even started to cry and just felt so loved! Her name is Rhonda and i just love her so much! We have just met with her a couple times since Friday but we have so much love for her because she is just the sweetest old thing ever! I know that she is somebody i knew from the premortal life!

Miracle #2: On saturday while we were tracking, we met this guy named Nathan who used to be a hardcore druggy and he even got shot in the head and should have died but he didn't! He has totally changed his life around and loves God so much! He also came to church on Sunday and loved it so much! He said that he has already put church in his calender for next week because he wants to come again.

Miracle #3: Sunday night we were going to see  Linda and Chava but they were Sick so we decided to try by their neighbors which was 8:40 at night. We knock on the neighbors door and the wife let us right in! She let us sit down and all the kids gathered around to hear what we had to say. They have 5 kids and they are the most humble family ever! they love our Savior so much! They barely have anything but they have so much faith and they know that God is going to take care of them! We shared a message about Christ with them and they said they were so excited for us to come back to teach them more!

Miracles have been pouring out upon our area! The lord led us to 11 new investigators last week and every single one of them is so solid! It has been awesome! We have been working hard and the Lord has been blessing us like crazy! I really think that it's this time of year because so many people our feeling the love of our savior and our wanting to come unto him!

I love you all! Have a great week! Oh and Family, a surprise is headed your way and should be hand delivered on Monday next week! :)