Elder Lindmeir's week

HI everybody!!!

 

well its good to hear from all you this week! sounds like everyone is doing awesome!!!! shivani who is Chris? i might have to hurt him.... wow  its crazy how  you and the German exchange student look alike I'm scared. ha ha sounds fun you guys went motorcycling just having a blast! well i had fun too this week! i don't really remember but i know i did. its weird because everyday is going by faster and faster and its getting really hard to remember what happened but there were a few things that were really awesome!!! o ya happy b day shivani!!!!! I'm sorry i didn't even know, but i hope you still love me!!!

 

so we picked up a new investigator, now he is a freak en genius, its so funny when we teach him because he will ask us the hardest questions that are irelavant to the lesson. like we were talking about the restoration and then he asks us " do you believe in aliens?" i was laughing hes like a 260 pound Samoan guy, but hes awesome. since alot of the questions are really deep doctrine he will ask it and then elder board will answer back cause most of the time i don't know the answer. then he will look at me and ask me, ha ha sometimes i don't know the answer so i just start to laugh, but its all good I'm learning a bunch!!!

 

? went to church again with his kids! its awesome to see the happiness that the gospel brings to them awh i love it!!! there progressing really well, and were excited for them!

 

i ate pig skin tacos a few days ago, pretty much the most disgusting thing, i don't get it, Mexican tacos are so good when its chicken or carne asada but why do they have to go the extra mile and ruin it! with pig skin, its just a chunk of pig skin that is on a taco, its not tasty, it was rubbery and chewy, and full of juices. ha ha i ate 2 of them. it was funny.

 

it was a great week were killing it!!! next week is transfers I'm most likely going to stay and lead the area! its pretty legit! well i love you all so much! I'm pumped for all you keep up the good work, dad thanks for the advice i love it! i wrought all you letters today so i hope you like them. love you!!!!

 

elder lindmeir

Sister Waverli Lindmeir

Hello Family!

Last week went by in a blurr! Everyday we had an appointment, after appointment, after appointment! it was so crazy but awesome!

We have been so busy and very blessed and alot of great things have been happening here in Wenatchee.

Last week we were given a list of people who are in our ward, that nobody new about, but the bishop wanted us to go see. we did the whole list except for this one name because on the side of her name, it said "DO NOT CONTACT" hates missionaries and the LDS church. This made Sister Fletcher and i a little nervous but we finally got the courage to knock on her her door. As we were standing there, bracing ourselves for a lady to come scream at us, a cute little 14 year old answered the door and started talking to us, she was really nice and seemed interested in what we were saying. while we were talking to her, her mom drives into the driveway. sister Fletcher and i thought "oh no! here comes the screaming!!" but when she got of the car, she was so nice and seemed really interested in what we were saying too! she told us we could come back the next day and talk to her and her family. so we went back the next day and we started teaching their whole family! they have a great believe in God and Jesus Christ and they told us that they have been searching for a religion. we have another appointment with them tonight! The funny thing about this story is the lady that was supposed to come out and scream at us, nobody knows at that house who it is! it just shows that if you are willing and have the faith to do what the Lord needs you to do, he will put people in your path to teach and that are ready to hear the gospel!

 We had Elder Ballard, the Apostle come and talk to our whole mission on saturday and it was so cool! he really got us excited for missionary work and to not waste any of the Lords time!

so i have a super funny story to tell! So i have been praying for an experience just like Elder Marcus Lindmeir had a couple weeks ago with Robert. How he was able to find somebody in need, help him, change his life and bring him closer to God. So last night we were driving in the dark and we see a man walking up this hill by himself. So i tell Sister Fletcher to turn around and see if we can go help him. we turn around and ask him if he needs any help. he comes over to our car and we find out he only speaks spanish. i can't speak any spanish and Sister Fletcher can only say my house is your house in spanish and crazy chicken! thats it! so were on the side of the road trying to figure out how to help him, so we call the spanish sister missionaries in our ward to talk to him, and they do, but then they hang up, so we don't know what he needs help with. then we call the zone leaders that speak spanish and talk to him a little while, then hang up on us too! so we have no idea what this guy needs help with! we try to explain we are missionaries, and then he starts handing us his passport and license and all this other stuff and we are so confused! So sister fletcher starts speaking the only spanish she knows knows which is my house is your house and crazy chicken! then he starts writing words in spanish and is trying to help sister fletcher understand what it means and he is standing there looking deeply into her eyes and is trying to help her understand what it means. i am on the passenger side just laughing histerically because i know that one of the words he was saying means beautiful and this goes on for like an hour! finally it gets a little creepy so i start saying Oddyose Oddyose because he just wouldnt leave! so finally we just drive away and go to our ward missionary leaders house and ask him to translate what is on this paper. he translates it using his phone and google and apparently it means something really dirty and he just wanted to hook up with us white girls! hahaha the morale of the story is, we shouldn't pray for missionary opportunities like other missionaries have haha just kidding. i am not sure why we had that experience but i have never laughed so hard in my life!

Everything is going really well here! i love all the people we are teaching and we are having so much success! transfer calls are this week and i am really nervous because i don't want to leave all these amazing people we are teaching, i love my companion, and i love this area! but i know wherever i go is where the Lord needs me. hope all is well with Everyone!

Love, Sister Lindmeir

Happy Halloween!!!!!

Hello Team,

This week was so wonderful and so full of miracles!!!!! I have been looking forward to telling you all about my exciting adventures this week! Here is the greatest:

• We are starting online proselyting next transfer! Which means I will be using my same  facebook account and using facebook as a way to bring people closer to Jesus Christ! We will also be getting I pads and I Phones to help with the work. I don't know all the details now, but I do know that I will have the opportunity to teach people from home too :). I am sooooooooo excited!!!!

• We taught our first ESL class this week! Our Ward missionaries have put it together and we do it every Wednesday night. We spend the last half hour teaching them a Gospel Principle (this is optional for them). We only had one person come, but that is because we did not start handing out flyers. Eventually, I think there will be a lot of people that come!

• We have the GREATEST investigators ever!!!! Especially our investigator, Star!!! If you watched the video then you know a little about him. But anyways, he told us that the greatest thing that has happened to him since he came to the U.S is when he met us. He recognizes the Spirit so well. He loves learning and he has brought many friends for us to teach too :)

• We had the Washington DC South Mission Sisters Conference this week. It was soooo great to see all my old companions and to learn from President and Sister Riggs. They talked about the power that us Sisters have. I loved this quote: “The man holds the Priesthood, performs the priestly duties of the Church, but his wife enjoys with him every other privilege derived from the possession of the Priesthood. This is made clear, as an example, in the Temple service of the Church. The ordinances of the Temple are distinctly of Priesthood character, yet women have access to all of them” (Priesthood and Church Government [1965], 83). It makes me so happy to know that I do have access to all the blessings from the priesthood :)

• Stake Conference was yesterday and it was broadcasted in our church building. We had three Chinese investigators come. But Stake Conf. was not what I thought it would be. We were having major technical difficulties and I was having a hard time understanding what any one was saying. We had two people from the quorum of 70 come. I had so much anxiety about it the whole time. I passed out mints to keep them awake. I was praying so hard that it would start to work and that it would be okay. I was sad when it didn't for the whole two hours. And I was worried why Heavenly Father didn't help. However; afterward, I told my investigators how sorry I was. They each replied saying that they couldn't understand a word, but that they felt very peaceful throughout. They felt the Spirit. So I learned that Heavenly Father did indeed answer my prayer, but that it was just different than what I thought. They are all looking forward to coming to church next week :)

I hope that each of you have a great week, full of costumes and treats (and maybe some tricks;)).
Love you,
Sister Kiana Lindmeir

Elder Lindmeir's Week!

hey family! hows everyone?! this week was a fast one, feels just like yesterday i wrote you. thank you for the letters mom i got it, for some reason it was late but I did get it, thank you so much! i love the colors they fit in my color palete. I love getting letters from all of you, its hard for me to wright them, i don't get how everyone else does it, i honestly have 0 time to do it. We usually play football or soccer all day on pday or we get and do something else, we never stay at home and have time to wright letters, I'm sorry but ill try to make it up for the letters i send on my emails.

this week was honestly amazing! since we walk everywhere we meet a bunch of people a day, and as we walk to appointments we set goals, like give out a plan of salvation pamphlet in 10 minutes. we do this to make it fun cause we walk all day, and one of the challenges was a word of wisdom pamphlet, and as we were walking i saw a guy smoking and had a cup of coffee so we ran to go give him one pamphlet and as we talked about it, he realised how bad smoking and coffee is and it really hit him and he really liked the churches stand point of the word of wisdom. although he didn't want us to teach him it was so nice to share him a little testimony of the church.

this Monday we had a lesson at a recent converts home, and they brought there friend and we taught his friend the restoration of the gospel. the spirit was so strong as we shared the first vision that he was crying, and then we invited him to be baptised and he said yes. baptismal date on November 17th. 

we picked up some new investigator great people, we have 7 investigators right now and been teaching them alot hopefully we will be able to help them out by sharing the gospel. so far its been awesome there all great people, one of our investigators went to church with his two daughters this was his second time ever at church and we had the primary program, and the  primary president went up to the girls during sacrament and gave them the primary songs for the program, they got up there and sang amazing! He was so happy all the members treated him so great and he really is liking church hopefully we will be able to get him baptised soon. 

funny story we were walking and contacting and we came across this guy and right off the bat he gave each of us 20 bucks, and told us to pray for him and so we did, it was weird but we did. then he put his hand on each of our heads and gave us the scariest prayer Ive ever heard. it was like a weird prayer but at the same time he cared about us so it was weird. he said something like " protect these missionaries and never let them feel of your demons" alot more but cant remember it was so weird, then he started to cry and was so grateful for us,... he was drunk but then gave us another 20 bucks each. we said no but he made us take it. so now I'm 40 bucks richer its kinda funny.

one last story we went to a restaurant like betos and my companion ordered a fish taco and he went to bite it and a cockroach popped right out and ran across his plate! ha ha it was so funny... the gross thing about it he ate the whole taco. i lost my appetite just seeing it. 

well love you all so much so grateful for all the things you do for me, pray for you all every night i miss you all but that's what motivates me to come home with honor!!!!! love you all so much ill hear from you all soon!

elder lindmeir

Sister Waverli Lindmeir with Sister Fletcher climbing Saddle Rock Mountain

Sister Waverli Lindmeir

Hey Family!

Alot of things happened last week! it was a really crazy, funny, hard, and sad in some ways week! On Monday last week we had an amazing lesson with a part member family. There two daughters michelle and natalie are 14 and 15 and the mom is a really less active member. we taught them the restoration and it was so cool. we told them about the book of mormon and they said they would read it and pray about it! they are so golden! they love everything about what we have been teaching them! and we hope to put them on date for baptism tonight when we teach them the plan of salvation! Tuesday, my companion was really sick! Wednesday was a rough day because everything was falling through and nothing was going right and then we found out that are most progressing investigator is involved in homo-sexual relationships and we didn't know that. then that same night me and my companion get a a voice mail from the president telling us to call him as soon as we can! we call him and he asks if we can cover our ward and another ward because the elders in that ward got transferred suddenly! so on thursday we pick up all the elders information from the eastmont ward and start looking at it and start trying to figure out how we are going to cover two wards. we look in the area book, which holds all the information for everyone you teach and find out that the elders didnt up date the book so we had no idea who they were teaching, what they have been teaching, and where anybody lives! so we call the ward missionary leader and the bishop to try to help us figure out who the missionaries have been teaching but they were both out of town. so all weekend we felt pretty lost haha. then on sunday we figured everything out though so we are good now! Sunday night we had a lesson with this lady named tera. Tera has family in our ward and went to church with them last week and loved it. she has a little daughter and she really wants to have religion in her life. we were able to have the lesson in her families home and it went so well! we taught her the restoration, she told us shebelieved everything that we were telling us and that it all made sense to her because she has great faith in Gpd and Jesus Christ. We told her about the bbook of Mormon and she said she would read it and then we invited her to be baptized for november 16th and she said Yes! then she said the most amazing prayer at the end of the lesson that i have ever heard! it was so cool and this was just the first lesson!!!!!! Right after that lesson, we had a lesson with Brianna and Summer, who we have been teaching for four weeks now and that were on date for baptism for November 2. we taught them the plan of salvation last night and we asked them what Jesus Christ means to them. they both said nothing and that they didn't know anything about him. Stab in my heart because all we have been doing for the past four weeks has been telling them everything that Christ did for us. So Sister Fletcher starts baring her testimony about Jesus Christ and it was so amazing that i was so overcome with the spirit that i just start crying and then i bore my testimony about Christ too. i have never felt the spirit so strongly in my life and i know that everything that me and my companion said was from the holy ghost and we know it was what the Lord wanted us to say. coolest experience ever!

i hope everyone is doing amazing!

Love Sister Lindmeir

I love CHINESE people!!!!

Hello Team Sister Lindmeir!

Not much has happened since last Wednesday when I wrote you, but there are a couple things worth sharing. They are things that I love about Chinese People :)

First, They actually show up to scheduled appointments! We got two new great investigators this week.  They are both students from China but speak great Chinese! We met ? last week just walking in his apartment. We talked to him and set up an appointment to meet with him. And I love Chinese people because they actually show up to their appointments (I am not used to this). But when he came for the appointment, he brought his friend, and we taught them the Restoration. It went so well, and as we talked about the priesthood authority, He said "Where can I find that authority?!" They are both so "hungry" for the truth.

Second, Chinese people have great nicknames! Almost all our investigators are Chinese, but they choose American names or choose nicknames. They trying to come up with a good English name, so his name will probably change soon. Our other investigators are Brooke, Annabel, Bridget, Justin, Liam, Karen, Stephanie; all of which were chosen from their favorite American TV Show, movie, etc. Ha it is great!

Third, Chinese people don't understand sarcasm. We were talking to ? about American jokes and if Chinese people understand them. She said no and she especially does not understand sarcasm. She then said "Chinese people don't use sarcasm, they usually try to be polite". WOW, I couldn't stop laughing. It taught me a good lesson to be more aware of sarcasm; no only on my mission, but afterward as well!

 I loved President Monson's Talk from Conference when he said:

"The difficulties which come to us present us with the real test of our ability to endure. A fundamental question remains to be answered by each of us: Shall I falter, or shall I finish? Some do falter as they find themselves unable to rise above their challenges. To finish involves enduring to the very end of life itself."

I now encourages you to ask yourself this question: "Shall I falter, or shall I finish?". I hope and pray that each of you will choose to "finish". President Monson continued to say

"Only the Master knows the depths of our trials, our pain, and our suffering. He alone offers us eternal peace in times of adversity. He alone touches our tortured souls with His comforting words:

“Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

“Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.

“For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”⁹

Whether it is the best of times or the worst of times, He is with us. He has promised that this will never change...

May we ever strive to be close to our Heavenly Father. To do so, we must pray to Him and listen to Him every day. We truly need Him every hour, whether they be hours of sunshine or of rain. May His promise ever be our watchword: “I will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.”¹⁰

I know that what President Monson has said is true! Put it to the test. Pray to our Heavenly Father and he will never leave you!!!

I love you all so much!!!!

Love Sister Kiana Lindmeir