Hello Team, Sister Kiana Lindmeir

Hello Team Sister Lindmeir,

 

This past week was  absolutely amazing and a bit overwhelming too! There were meetings every day and no time to think or blink. But the good news is that I learned a lot.

 

We had a half mission conference and it was so great! We got a new missionary book called "Adjusting to Missionary Life". It was really great! There are surveys to take in there to determine your stress level. My companions rated me at the "red" level. Which means I am REALLY stressed. But there are differents things I am supposed to be doing to lower my stress level haha.

 

At the Mission Conference, each companionship listed progressing investigators for us to pray for. Attached is this prayer sheet. I thought since I was praying for all these people that your prayers would be great too. You don't have to pray for them all the time, but maybe just once. I know your prayers will help these people be prepared for baptism.

 

We had a lesson with -, our new investigator. He is from Pakistan so he had to have an interview with President Burton of the Mission Presidency. He passed the interview and so we can officially teach him. He wants to get baptized. Ah it is so great! God is so great!!!

 

We had a lesson with - this week and he finally admitted the he knows that Book of Mormon is true. We explained that if he knows the Book of Mormon is true then he also knows that Joseph Smith was a Prophet and that the LDS Church is true. He is comfortable where he is in the Catholic Church and so he just needs to act. We are close to getting him to that point :)

 

I loved the RS Broadcast Saturday night. They talked about Coventants (aka. Promises) with God and keeping them. One thing that was said in the Conference was that “As we remember prayer and take time to turn to the scriptures,…our burdens will be made lighter.” I know that is true and I hope and pray that each of you WILL remember to pray and read from the Scriptures. Those blessings do come and your burdens will be lightened!

 

I love you!!!

 

Sister Kiana Lindmeir

Missing my 3 little missionaries today! But so proud of them.

Sister Waverli Lindmeir " learning our prayers are always heard!"

This week was a really tough week. One of the hardest weeks I have ever had in my life. Nothing went right.  The hardest thing about a mission that i have come across so far is that you feel so alone. You don't have any friends or family you can talk about your problems with and you just don't know what to do. So I did the only thing I could do, I prayed alot.

 

I am so thankful for prayer, that you can tell Heavenly Father everything that is going on in your life and what you should do to help things become better. I know without a doubt that Heavenly Father does listen to us. He loves us and wants us to be happy. Everytime last week when I prayed, I was filled with peace and I knew everything was going to be okay.

 

On Saturday all my prayers were answered! Saturday was transfer calls. I am leaving west Richland! I am going to be serving in Wenatchee with Sister Fletcher!

 I don't know who sister Fletcher is but I heard she is a sweetheart and I can't wait to meet her! she is a really new missionary too and she has only been out one more transfer then me. we are also being doubled into Wenatchee, which means we both don't know the area at all and it's going to be like an intense game of clue! I am really nervous but excited! I hear from everybody, that Wenatchee is so beautiful and green! but i also hear it's really really really cold so that will be fun! :)

 

I am really sad that I am going to be leaving all the amazing people in Richland though. it's crazy how you can love so many people in just six weeks. I hope sometime I will be able to serve in Richland again!

 

hope all is well with everybody! Love Sister Lindmeir

 

ps: everybody look at pictures of Wenatchee! apparently there is a little German town there or something that is the cutest thing in the whole wide world! :)

Sister Kiana Lindmeir! Great lessons I have learned!

Hello Team Sister Lindmeir,

 

I have learned many lessons this week.

 

Lesson #1: If you decide to go on a mission, become Gluten free first. I am so grateful that I cannot eat gluten, because we have been bombarded with every kind of cake and cookie this week from all the members. I kind of feel bad for my companions, but I am so grateful that I cannot eat any of it :). However; these members know how to feed us so well and so I am still gaining weight :(

 

Lesson #2: If you decide to go to an old folks home, make sure you can sing first. We went to GreenSpring this week and we sang for about an hour. I was off in every key and I was squealing and screeching. And I just kept thinking that I am so grateful that I am singing for the people with Alzheimer's because they will forget it in a couple minutes. I don't know if the nurses will let us back next week though haha!

 

Lesson #3: (This is for all those men that pass the Sacrament). Make sure the Sacrament tablecloth gets washed every once in a while. We did church tours this week and the Chapel smelled so bad! It smelled like Urine and was very rotten. Turns out that it was all coming from the tablecloths that were sitting in the humid chapel. So gross. Thankfully, a kind women in my ward offered to clean them and spent SIX whole hours doing it.

 

Lesson #4: Faith = Miracles.  Monday through Saturday, appointments fell through, lessons did not go well, I was sick and each night we were writing zero's in our key indicator's. I was feeling defeated, frustrated, and upset. We felt like we had tried everything, but there was just nothing good happening. However; yesterday was a different day! Two of our investigators came to church, and it was great!!! One was actually not an investigator yet, but we had a lesson with him after church and he became an investigator. His name is Ahsan and he is sooo prepared; he has such a desire to learn more about the Gospel. My companions and I began to feel our faith increasing and we decided that we would find one more investigator yesterday, and we did!!! After that, we knew that if we had the faith, we could find two more investigators and that is exactly what we did. So in total yesterday, we found FOUR new investigators in just 3 hours! I then realized what made last night so different from any other day of the week. I had the faith that we could find 4 investigators. It reminded me of a scripture in Mathew 17:20. Christ said that "If ye have faith as a grain of Mustard seed, nothing shall be impossible unto you". I know that that is true!

 

Have the faith that you can help people come unto Christ. Have the faith this week to share your testimony with a friend, a neighbor or anyone else! I know that "The Lord will put prepared people in the path of his prepared servants". You will have the opportunity as you prepare yourself.

 

I love you all!!!

 

Love,

 

Sister Kiana Lindmeir

 

 

 

Marcus's Busy Week!

Wasssssupp!!!!! hey thanks for the letters mom and everyone! mom thanks for sending the nerf swords!!!!!!! I'm going to need something to get out my energy! shivani sounds like your doing so amazing!!!! I'm proud of you! (your my best Friend from the start to the end and we made it!) keep it up!!! this week was a good one! especially since i got all that candy! mom you seriously want me to get fat. but i don't mind. we are still in the same place mom until at least for another six weeks, but I'm most likely going to stay here for six months, my companion has been here for about 6 and a half and everyone before him have done the same thing. so yea! ha ha i already know like most of the people in my area its really small because the sisters took half of it. o it sucked the first time i go and ride my bike, it breaks! the gears are jacked up and the brakes are ruined i don't even know what happened, and it stinks because i cant go over there to get it fixed cause we don't have a car =( so i don't know what to do about that one. i guess the missionaries advise you not to buy from him, but its OK ill try to fix it. so this week was so successful I'll tell you the stories! Oh mom you wont have to worry about me with the gang members they love me!

hm mm, ill tell you the good ones first because i cant think of anything funny that had happened right at this moment. well alright first off we taught Adrian(the guy with the hurt back that i gave a blessing to) this would be the first discussion lesson because he is always working. anyways we brought a member with us, and this member got converted about a month ago, and he has changed so much. but during the lesson i knew that it wasn't going to go well he wanted to give the book of Mormon back, but George(the member) told him about his conversion story and with our testimonies on it, it turned out great, hes still going to read and to pray if it is true. then we taught victor again and wow hes getting baptised on Oct 12 hes such a stud, he was into so many drugs that he has these boils all over his skin caused from sharing needles and he could honestly die pretty soon because of it, but he stopped those and all he does is smoke cigs. we got him to go to church! but he has really bad anxiety so he had to leave after sacrament meeting, but wow did he love it!

so i guess if your Muslim and you convert to something else you have to tell them the dangers of doing that are, because theres a good chance that the Muslim that converts will be killed by other Muslims. we were teaching one the other day and he really loves it but then he told us that he was scared of doing pretty much because that's like a big disgrace on the Muslim church.

so elder Daniel is going home today hes in my district and he is such a stud! 

so crazy how many miracles you see everyday on the mission and theres a scripture that just hit straight in the face, like a full on backhand slap! its Ether 12:27 READ IT!!! and it will make your weaknesses not feel so weak. its hard but I'm loving it, my companion can be so annoying sometimes but you just gotta take it. 

mom thank you so much for being the best mom out there!!! honestly i miss you so much and everyone and I'm sorry i took advantage for all the things you did for me, i love you o much and im so happy for all of you and keep it up!!! o yeah its getting chilly here and we can wear sweater's that have the v necks so you can see my tie and stuff. so i would love it if you could send me a couple of them. thank you mom so much!!!! cant wait for the swords to come in!

Gabe i love you to death man, and its so weird to think because i actually miss you a TON! so keep it up and master a skill!!! i don't care what it is as long as you lovr doing it and if you master it!

dad! sounds like your busy, i cant believe how dedicated you've been to all you jobs dad I'm so proud of you! your such a great example to me and i love you so much!!!! you should hand wright me letters so i can have more time writing it than using the computers for an hour.

i love you al!!!! keep it up!!! see you in 2 !!!!

elder lindmeir

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What a great picture of Marcus!

Marcus's adventures this week

wasssup!!!! family, awh this week was a good one, you know just sleeping in till like 2 and then relaxing till about 4 and then maybe going out and teaching a few peeps, or my homies. ya its pretty chill, sometimes we don't even do anything and just sleep or play uno. haha kidding we work our buts off!!!!!!! walking everywhere starts to take a tole on your body, ya i pretty much got like a 4 pack now.

 

This week we were walking down and this drunk man was following us and we stopped to talk to him, at first we said were Mormon missionaries but he thought we were deportee people he was a little scared. but he was just yell in super loud cussing and cracking jokes, it was so funny, but then he said he wanted to go to our church and i told him" you can but you cant be hung over" and after i said that he wasn't so happy about going to church, he was a funny guy and made my day at least.

 

There is this family I'm getting so close to, there so awesome there the callas family, all Mexican and the have a pit bull and a husky both the nicest dogs. they feed us everyday we walk past our house they bring food to us, that's probably why I'm getting fat. and the candy you gave me doesn't help, but i like it thank you. the people in my ward are awesome and it feels like home,

 

We were able to teach victor again this week and he really enjoyed the plan of salvation, i told you about him already but ya he went to jail has tattos all of his body, and he loved how he can be clean and glorified after death, at first it was hard to teach him about how we get resurrected with or bodies but once we taught him about it he knew it was true. Hes getting baptised in the next month.

 

We got a new investigator named Ramona, shes 21 likes to party smokes drinks, everyday but we have had a couple of good lessons with her and she told us after each time we teach her desire for doing those things drops and shes been slowing down on those so that's nice.

 

Its been a tough week though i mean we picked up 8 potential investigators but they all but one fell through. we were contacting on exchanges and we see this group of gangmenbers all chillin and smoking in a circle by there house and we walked passed them and i for some reason turned around and popped right in the middle of the circle and talked to them, they were pretty cool they all had pit bull on there leashes and everyone was really nice i was able to share some of the message and was able to give all of them our cards, and its just nice to know doesn't matter what they look like but you have to take that faith and try to get to know people before you judge.

 

This week was a good one and I'm so grateful for all of you and i love all you so much!!!!! Great times and memories already, mom I'll send you a letter today, sorry you can only wright on pday i guess? But got the box and the tie!!! Thank you its awesome I hope I can wear it soon! Honestly love you all so much mom love the letters you gave me and I'm so grateful for everything that you have done for me! Mom and Dad love you both with all my heart and pray for me. Gabe your a stud keep it up Shivani love you and miss you, Waverli Kiana love you both dearly! thanks for the letters!

 

elder lindmeir

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