Week 23

This week was nice!

Tuesday we went on splits with the Zone Leaders, I got to go to

Riverview, which has downtown Kansas City, Missouri in it so I will

send some pics later from the library. I was there with Elder Elwood,

He is one of my best friends on the mission. He is from AZ and going to

MIT after the mission. This was actually my 2nd exchange with him - he

is super cool and he goes home with Elder Valdez in like a week and a

half. Anyways, the exchange went well and we had a ton of fun together!

Elder Elwood and Elder Hinrichsen 

Wednesday was my first district training!! The APs attended so that was a

little scary lol. There were 3 trainings given. The

1st training was about boldness, the 2nd was about charity, and the

3rd was about courage.  I gave the last training and talked about how, as

missionaries, we have to allow our faith in the Lord to drive us past

the fear of men. I basically based my entire training off of a quote

from John Wayne, "courage is being scared to death but saddling up

anyways."  That quote has really helped me out because I thought that

by being afraid meant I was failing, but it is a natural thing to be afraid.

We just have to allow our faith - not our fear - to control us. That is, I

believe, one of the biggest things that a mission teaches. After

district meeting, we basically had a normal day

Thursday, we were able to get a lesson in with an investigator who we

haven't met with in a while. It was really nice to meet with her. Her

husband is a less active member and we hope we can get him back to

church and her baptized so we will see how that goes! The rest of the

day we tried to visit with less actives. We didn't really have a lot of

success, but its whatever. Then that night we had correlation at the

jail.

Friday, we got a call from the Elders Quorum President because he

needed help shoveling rocks so we went and helped him with that -

it took a little while. After, we were able to visit a few less active

member's. That night we helped a less active family move a few things

into a uhaul then they fed us dinner. They actually are going to feed

us every friday from now on because they love having us over!

Saturday, we did some service for a member by helping him power wash

his deck and a fence he has around his pool. He had also signed up to

feed us dinner so they fed us at like 2 (lol) then we talked with them

for a little, went home and changed, visited a few people, and the

Elders in Liberty 1st ward texted us that they didnt have dinner and

we didn't because we were fed at lunch time lol, so we went to eat at

Red Robbin, "yummmm" that was meant to be more for the red robbin jingle

than saying yum, but it was good too.

Sunday, we had stake conference. It was really cool. The stake

president, President Cato, announced that they are going to bring the

pageant back next year and after talking with the members we learned that it has

been gone for about 15 years now and is a big event in Independence.

It talks about the history of the saints in these areas. Other than

that, there was a sweet polynesian choir that sang, and some good

talks by the 2nd counselor in the mission presidency, President Medina

and his wife, the temple president, President Hardy and his wife<--

she told the story about President Hardy falling and hitting his head

and nearly dying which was incredible, and then the Stake Presidency

spoke, it was a good meeting, I also got to see Elder Valdez! The rest

of the day we spent visiting members and less actives.

that was my week! hope everyone is doing well! have a great week!

   Elder Hinrichsen

Kansas City