Elder Lindmeir

wow it was great to see you all, but at the same time it sucked because i keep thinking about you guys and it makes me sad... its alright though, we had an awesome Christmas! hung out with the taotafas there legit!!! the hooked us up gave us a bunch of presents and gift cards. there like family to us its awesome! wow i am so proud of you guys you have all grown up so much, Gabe dancing like a stud that's legit homeslice! Shavian making a fashion club! fantastic!!! proud you! then christian looking like a mountain man, so sick i love it, and don't ever tell me you guys are getting married until i come home hhaha i wanna be there... it was a great Christmas that's for sure!

 

this week was a wonderful week! we had a mini missionary come with us the day after Christmas and staying with us till Tuesday, hes in high school his name is ? but his stake lets people go on what they call mini missions were they stay with us everyday and all day for about a week, so that they can get a better feel for it. this ? kid is a weirdo but i sure do love him my companion on the other hand wont talk to him, so its been kinda tough, and ? broke down and he told me his whole life story... but it all worked out hes great and he still wants to be a missionary so i guess we did something right ha ha.

 

funny story we went over to this less active family and only ? was there (hes the one who drives the WRX) but anyways he has a big pit bull for a pet and wow she is the nicest dog you will ever meet the only problem is if your not paying attention she will try to jump on you and make out with you and its horrible cause there nothing you can do about it, because she weighs like 100 pounds, and while were teaching tinker(the pitbull) jumped up on ? our mini missionary and just started attacking his face and tinker pinned him down on the coach so he could move... it was so funny cause i saw tinker whole tongue go in his mouth!!!!! ewww so nasty she was on him for like 2 minutes and he couldn't do anything!!!!! it was so funny.

 

we have been teaching a less active family for a while now and the only reason why she hasn't been going to church is that she ahs been sick. and recently she just got lung cancer, and she is going through chemo therapy, its so sad to see her struggling every time we go by her home, shes about 60 years old and the reason why I'm sharing this is because i have never seen anyone so happy in my entire life, she just laughs all the time cracks jokes with us but at the same time you can see her in pain, and you know that's what this gospel is all about giving this hope to you that no matter what you have or what your going through just be happy because if your not your just bringing everyone else down with you.

 

well love you guys tons it was great to see you all love you!!!!

 

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Sister Waverli Lindmeir Happy New Year!

Happy New Year Everybody!

 

Last week was an amazing week! Christmas eve night was really good! All day on christmas eve we were trying to find a family that we could help and share the Christmas Story to( Luke 2) and finally at 8:30 at night we decided to go to this less active family and some were not even members and they let us in and we got to share the christmas story with them! They Loved it alot and they said we could come back any time and share the gospel with them! it was a great Christmas Eve!

 

Christmas day was an amazing day! we woke up and Prests the family we are staying with made us a really good breakfast! and We opened presents and i got a GPS from Mom and Dad! so i no longer get lost anymore! it is amazing! :)

Then i got to talk to the Family and i didn't realize how much i missed them until i saw them but it was really good! Then we went to a nursing home that one of the less active members in our ward is staying at and talked with her for awhile and then we sang to a whole bunch of old people in the nursing home! one of the old ladies there that we sang to, started crying because she said it was so lovely! it was so sweet and it was a great Christmas day! :)

 

Last week me and my companion worked really hard visiting less active members and part member families and some tracting! we have really been trying our hardest to be exactly obedient and always being on time for everything and we have been so blessed from it! we got six new investigstors last week! and Most of them were referrals from the ward! the ward here is such a great ward and i love serving here so much! even though Sister Farnsworth and i are brand new in the ward! i feel like it is home already! it is Great!

 

I hope everyone is doing fantastic and i hope you have a happy new year!

 

Love, Sister Lindmeir

 

Sister Kiana Lindmeir Happy New Year

I hope that everyone had a very Merry Christmas!!! I sure did! I will never forget this memorable Christmas that I had.

Christmas Eve was like any other day. We did Caroling and the Metro Station with our Zone. It was the greatest! Sister Gray and I went out to a nice restaurant afterward. I splurged on some delicious steak! We then went to our apartment  and acted out the Nativity and enjoyed an evening with the other Sisters in our apartment :)

Christmas Day was wonderful. We opened up presents instead of exercising! I was so spoiled (Thanks Mom and Dad!!!!!!). I even got a hand sewing machine; which happens to be very useful on a mission. We then went to our Bishop's home and we ate yummy breakfast. Both Sister Gray and I skyped our families and it was amazing! I very much enjoyed looking at their beautiful faces and hearing their voices!

After Skyping, we left to go to a members home for Christmas Lunch. Our investigators were there and it was great! They even had a testimony meeting where our investigator, Legion, shared his Testimony.

We sang at an old folks home afterward. We went up into the Alzheimer's unit and sang. I realized that I had no reason to feel bad for myself on Christmas day when these amazing people may have had no one to Cherish this day with. Most the people we sang to enjoyed it and they were singing along. One women kept yelling in the songs to stop singing. She said "I TOLD YOU TO STOP". So we did. It ended short, but it was fun :)

I talked to Marcus and Waverli later in the Day!!! It was soooo good to talk to them! They sound like they are doing very well!!! We watched Tarzan at night! Movies on my mission tend to be so much better, even though I have seen Tarzan before! But WOW, it was amazing!

So that was Christmas. The rest of the week was not so memorable. Most of our investigators were out of town, but if they were in town they didn't want to meet! The good news is that in a couple weeks things should be a lot better :)

I have felt much love from the Savior this week and I am grateful for that. He wants to help all of us, but we must allow him to help us. As you pray for help, the Savior will be there :)

Love you all!!!!!!

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Sister Kiana Lindmeir

3201 Landover St. #502

 

Guess What!!!!Sister Kiana Lindmeir

Hi Team!

Guess What! I am staying here in the Colonial 1st Ward for at least another Transfer! I am so excited! And I will be training! Which means Sister Clegg will be leaving. Transfers will be this Thursday and I am looking forward to meeting my new companion. I am a little nervous about my new trainee coming right in for Christmas. I am hoping to make Christmas very special for her! I also feel kind of bad because we have bed bugs in our apartment. Oh ya, I think I have forgotten to tell you haha! We have had them for about 2 months. If you don't know what they are, you should look up a picture! They are gross. They are not as bad in our bedroom, but our roommates are covered in bites from head to toe :/.

Well, This past week was amazing though! Nicole had her baptism interview and she passed! She is so excited for her baptism! I think I am just as excited!!! Sadly, most of our Ward Members are going to gone, so we am trying to plan a baptism that we have no idea how to plan, but we are figuring it out :).

Yesterday was our Ward Christmas Program so church was just an hour long! Our ward is so talented and all of our investigators loved the music!!

We went to the Temple this past week with Star, Semmi and Legion! It was beautiful and the lights were amazing!!! They loved it and they want to go again! We listened to a hand bell music performance and it was very neat!!!

We also had a whole mission Christmas Party! It was amazing to see all the 260 missionaries there! And especially all the Sisters! There was a talent show, and oh boy those missionaries are so talented! It was very  fun!!!

It is fun to be on a mission during Christmas Time and to remember the true meaning of Christmas! I love what President Thomas S Monson said "To catch the real meaning of the spirit of Christmas, we need only drop the last syllable and it becomes the spirit of Christ."

Let us all remember this as we go about this Christmas Season!

Love,

Sister Lindmeir

Sister Waverli Lindmeir

Hey Family!

Guess what??!!!!! TRANSFER CALLS CAME! AND I AM GETTING TRANSFERRED TO NACHES WASHINGTON WITH SISTER FARNSWORTH AND WE ARE BEING DOUBLED INTO THIS AREA! Being doubled in is that the missionaries that were serving in Naches were both taken out and now Sister Farnsworth and i are both being put in there to take over the area and starting on a clean slate! My mission President also called me yesterday and asked if i would be the senior companion! pretty sweet right???! Bad thing though is that i have met Sister Farnsworth  a couple of  times and she has this condition where she hick ups all day everyday and it never stops. so i am going to learn a lot of love and patience which is very good though! :)

I am going to miss Wenatchee so much but i know that i am needed in Naches! and i am very excited to serve there! yesterday  at church that when i told everybody that i was leaving they all were so sad. some of them were even crying! one lady named sister stuart didnt want to leave so much that she was trying to find a man in the ward that i could marry so that i would stay there forever! weird right??? it was so cool though! i had no idea that i ment so much to the ward! it was a really was awesome! it really felt likw that ward was my home ward!

i am very grateful for the things i have learned in Wenatchee! i really feel like i am starting to become the missionary that the Lord wants me to be and the person i have always wanted to become! i love this Gospel so much and i am so very grateful for this time of season that we get to think all about Christ and all of the amazing gifts he has given us all! i am so very grateful for all of you and i hope you have an amazing week!

Love, Sister Lindmeir

Elder Lindmeir

hey family!!!! sounds like everyone is freezing!!! ha ha it like 60 degrees here!!!! love it the weather is perfect its green/brown/geto couldn't ask for anything more. except I'm going to buy a coat today because the sweater are not warm enough, it gets down below 40 around 7pm and the last week Ive been trying to bear it but cant anymore haaha. awwwwhhhhh mom thank you for the packages!!! i hope i get them soon I'm so excited!!! did you ever send back my sd card for my camera, i have one right now but i want to send it to you guys soon. i learned alot this week it has been a great humbling experience. o ya mom you should save all my emails i send you because i usually don't wright in my journal, and so this is my journal.

this week, went to one of our investigators home, his name is ?, he has been through alot. i mean alot, his wife got deported and want to take the kids so hes been in a big pickle. and everytime we had a lesson i knew he wasn't feeling the spirit and something was wrong. after we found the concerns why he wasn't feeling the spirit we turned to Alma 36 and read from it and it just says that we don't have to worry about past mistakes as long as we repent blah blah blah. and as we shared this with him the spirit was strong in the house that i could just see his worries lift off his shoulders.... IT WAS AMAZING! and he said to me "for once in along time i feel peace" BOOOMB! it was that amazing! he found out that this gospel is the true gospel. and so were really excited for him right now.

you know lately we have been so blessed in our area and you know what i think it is? its the fact were working hard and were just having so much fun, there are so many great people we get to meet and to help out its LEGIT! transfers are next week and i hope i stay because the work here is going great.

i love you all so much i get fuel off your support, i pray for all you daily love you all keep up the good work!!1

elder lindmeir

Sister Waverli Lindmeir

Hey Everybody!

I am really sorry that i didn't write an email last week! to be honest it was a really hard week in the field and i didn't want anyone knowing about it! it was a hard week because we have not been able to get in with any our investigators and we only had a few investigators anyways. So Sister Fletcher and i decided that we needed to do something about this. we have been praying every single prayer to help us find those people that are waiting and ready to hear the gospel. And guess what???!!!!!!!! it worked! :)

On monday we got one new investigator ? and she is so amazing! she is 13 years old and asked us if she could prayer after the first lesson and it was such a great prayer! Then on tuesday we were tracting some apartments and a young mom answered the door and let us come in. she told us that she recently moved from Chelan to East Wenatchee and that she told us that her and her husband used to  meet with missionaries in chelan and that that would love to learn more about what we believe! on Thursday, we were tracting some different apartments and this young lady let us come in and teach her and her 8 year old son!  and then on sunday, we went to go see this less active member in our ward and when we knocked on his door, it turned out to be a totally different guy and his name is ? and his girlfriends name is ?. we asked them if we could come in and share a Christmas message with them and they said yes! it went so well that they said we could come back next week and teach them more. they are so cool and they have such a strong belief in Christ. they even both served, service missions for four years!

All together that equals 7 NEW INVESTIGATORS! we know that it was because of our constant prayers, willingness to work, and faith to find! it was a really good week!

i encourage all of you to pray for opportunities to share the gospel with someone and i know that as you do so, you will be able to find people to share the gospel with and you will be able to develop a stronger relationship with your Father in Heaven and Savior. Especially at this Christmas season. what better gift could you give to Christ then helping one of his lost sheep come unto him!

i hope everyone has an amazing week!

Love Sister Lindmeir :)