This week was good, but we had a ton of meetings.
Tuesday was the whole mission conference for Christmas. So for almost
the whole day we were in Independence receiving trainings and watching
skits from each zone. That combined with the hour and a half each way
of driving to and from the event took up most of the day.
Wednesday, we were on exchanges with the Elders in Warrensburg. I was
with Elder Ynchausti in Sedalia. We went and visited with two less
active members the first was super sick and so we have her a blessing.
The other is a man we've been working with for a while and we talked
about the importance of tithing. After that we tried contacting people
then had dinner. After dinner we visited with a few families and
showed them the new Christmas video the church came out with, which is
great, and the second video on Christmas.mormon.org is amazing, it
discussed what the world would be like without a Savior. Well after
that we had dinner and we tried contacting a bunch of people, we
talked with one family and showed them the Christmas video as well and
invited them to share it.
Thursday, we exchanged back and we had a funeral for a lady in our
ward. She was a 26 year old Hispanic and passed away of cancer leaving
behind a husband and two kids. Extremely sad, but the family was strong
at the funeral, definitely tears but not an over dramatic showing of
emotion. I guess they weren't sad because the lady who passed away
told the family not to be sad and that she wasn't sad because she knew
where she was going; what an amazing example of faith! Well, we had to
leave and go to an appointment when everyone left for the funeral.
Then after our appointment we went and ate dinner with some
investigators.
Friday we had another meeting in Independence for the training of
Elder Howell. That meeting took a while so we were there for a while
again. After the meeting we had to grab a temporary gas card from the
mission office because we couldn't find ours and we had to go through a
process to check one out and report it lost. Well, we got back and
went to dinner then went and tried to visit some people.
Saturday we did a bunch of service and visited with a few less
actives. In the morning though, there was a big parade in Sedalia
where we passed out a ton of pass along cards then ended up watching
the parade anyways, it was pretty cool. So, yea, Saturday was filled
with service and visiting a couple less actives.
Sunday we translated sacrament meeting in Spanish. Sunday school
ended being about Christmas. Elders quorum was about service. After
church we tried contacting a few people. After that we had a quick
lesson with a Hispanic investigator then we took the Hispanic member
that we had with us and visited a few other members. Then went to
dinner. After dinner watched the Christmas devotional but the members
had it recorded and so we were watching it late and it turned out that
we didn't see after President Uchtdorf's talk because the devotional
went late but we had to go anyways.
This week was good. Thanks for all the love and support! Everyone
should check out the new church video on Christmas.mormon.org. Share
it on social media and do some easy missionary work!! Hope everyone is
doing good! Take care!
With love,
Elder Hinrichsen
Friday, December 11, 2015
Tuesday, December 1, 2015
A Happy Thanksgiving
This week was good but
a little slow with the holiday, which was awesome!
Tuesday, we were on exchanges with the Elders in Tipton. I stayed
in Sedalia with Elder Williams and Elder Howell went to Tipton with
Elder Herrod. Well, we spent most of the day trying to contact some
people with little luck but I randomly checked the list of birthdays
on the ward and saw that it was the birthday of a less active who
we've been visiting with so we stopped by to wish happy birthday and
visited with him. After that we went back to trying people out but
didn't have much success. Our dinner asked us to take some food to a
widow in the ward so we dropped that off and tried knocking on some
doors.
Wednesday, we had district meeting. We had some members from the
ward here in Sedalia come and speak. Well, it was a member and his
brother. They are both from San Jose, California and converts to the
church; and the members brother who still lives in San Jose served a
mission and since then has continued tracting as a member of the
church! Haha he's passed out over 43,000 Book of Mormons, that's not a
typo, that's forty-three thousand. The member in our ward himself has
passed out quite a few as well, but his brother is the main
missionary. Anyways, his brother was in town and so we had them come
and talk to us. They discussed many different things but mostly gave
us tips for missionary work, specifically just to be bold and loving.
After the meeting we went on exchanges with the Elders in Marshall. I
went to Marshall with Elder Higgins and Elder Howell stayed in Sedalia
with Elder Smith. In Marshall, we tried some people out then we ended
up having two dinner appointments.....SO FULL!!! haha After our two
dinners, we taught an investigator the elders are working with out
there. We just read Mosiah 18 about baptism.
Thursday, in the morning we went and played in the Turkeybowl, we
showed up and nobody was there so we played catch and waited. Twenty
minutes in some one else showed up and people trickled in with time, we
ended up with around 5 on 5 which wasn't bad. Well, after football we
went and got ready before going over to the Y's for a little. (While
we were driving there we saw a ton of smoke and found out that a house
was on fire........it ended up burning down.) Well, nobody was awake at the Y's so we just went to our dinner.
Tuesday, we were on exchanges with the Elders in Tipton. I stayed
in Sedalia with Elder Williams and Elder Howell went to Tipton with
Elder Herrod. Well, we spent most of the day trying to contact some
people with little luck but I randomly checked the list of birthdays
on the ward and saw that it was the birthday of a less active who
we've been visiting with so we stopped by to wish happy birthday and
visited with him. After that we went back to trying people out but
didn't have much success. Our dinner asked us to take some food to a
widow in the ward so we dropped that off and tried knocking on some
doors.
Wednesday, we had district meeting. We had some members from the
ward here in Sedalia come and speak. Well, it was a member and his
brother. They are both from San Jose, California and converts to the
church; and the members brother who still lives in San Jose served a
mission and since then has continued tracting as a member of the
church! Haha he's passed out over 43,000 Book of Mormons, that's not a
typo, that's forty-three thousand. The member in our ward himself has
passed out quite a few as well, but his brother is the main
missionary. Anyways, his brother was in town and so we had them come
and talk to us. They discussed many different things but mostly gave
us tips for missionary work, specifically just to be bold and loving.
After the meeting we went on exchanges with the Elders in Marshall. I
went to Marshall with Elder Higgins and Elder Howell stayed in Sedalia
with Elder Smith. In Marshall, we tried some people out then we ended
up having two dinner appointments.....SO FULL!!! haha After our two
dinners, we taught an investigator the elders are working with out
there. We just read Mosiah 18 about baptism.
Thursday, in the morning we went and played in the Turkeybowl, we
showed up and nobody was there so we played catch and waited. Twenty
minutes in some one else showed up and people trickled in with time, we
ended up with around 5 on 5 which wasn't bad. Well, after football we
went and got ready before going over to the Y's for a little. (While
we were driving there we saw a ton of smoke and found out that a house
was on fire........it ended up burning down.) Well, nobody was awake at the Y's so we just went to our dinner.
There were
about 30 people at dinner so it was pretty big; there was a ton
of appetizers; lots of cheese and bread, grapes, shrimp cocktail,
olives, and pickled herring, but for the meal it was the holiday
classics; turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing, green bean casserole,
corn casserole, rolls, they also made smoked pork loin; and for
dessert there was: pumpkin pie, pumpkin cream pie, cherry cream pie (
it was one of their family traditions, I didn't like it), and pumpkins
cupcakes. So yes, it was a very satisfying meal haha. Well, we ate and then
visited with them for a while. After that we went to another member's
house and they gave us some pumpkin pie; then we got a call from a
different member and they invited us over so we went over there and
ate a little turkey and some pumpkin pie. It was an extremely
gluttonous day! Haha
Friday, after lunch we went to the M's house and Victor and
Jessica were there. We ended up trying to turn it into
a gospel conversation which we did, and talked about Lehi's vision of
the tree of life. We talked to a Victor about baptism and his "goals"
he was saying next August is when he is thinking about it so that was
some sweet progress. Well, after that we visited a few people then,
there was a big Christmas kick-off celebration in downtown Sedalia so
we went and handed out pass-along cards with pictures of Jesus on
them. Then we watched the firework show that went on afterward. And we
got some hot chocolate after because it was super cold!
Saturday, we had our missionary correlation meeting, which went well.
Following the meeting, we ate lunch then went and did service with a
member. After service we were just chatting with the people we did
service for and a member called and asked if he could take us out for
some frozen custard, so we went and got some free custard. Well, after
that we got a call from another member who wanted help with something,
we weren't sure but they had recently lost a member in their family so
we rushed over not knowing what it was. They just asked for help in
determining who certain members of the ward were, which was simple
enough. After that they fed us some posole, not sure I spelled that
one right, but it's a soup that really common among Hispanics, yes,
they are a Hispanic family haha
Sunday, we had church, we were going to do the translating but Victor
came to church so we asked him to do it, and he did! He has to work
Sunday's but he goes to sacrament for about 45 minutes before he
leaves for work, so he translated almost all of the meeting for that
time, it was so cool! Well, I finished translating the meeting after
he left. In Sunday school we talked about the post mortal life and the
lesson went a little off haha; church members just can't keep things
simple. Then third hour was combined about sabbath day observance; I
thought it was awesome, we saw the trainings by the twelve apostles
and Elder Bednar killed it talking about families being sealed
together for eternity and how the First Presidency and apostles
decided that sabbath day observance would help strengthen new converts
the most. Well, after church we ate lunch with the M's, then
talked for a little bit. We went around trying to contact quite a few
less active members but didn't get much done, because nobody was
available to talk. We didn't have dinner so we went to the Y's and
while we were there Ann, the daughter, was struggling with some math
so I was volunteered to help her and let me tell you, the spirit like
took over and solved the problems haha, I was so dumbfounded but the
more I thought it over in my head I was able to figure it out.
Miracles, every day!
Well, this week was wet. It rained a TON from Thursday through Sunday,
almost the entire days. But this week was like life, not about waiting
for the storm to pass, but about learning to dance in the rain haha.
Anyways, love you all take care!!
Elder Hinrichsen
of appetizers; lots of cheese and bread, grapes, shrimp cocktail,
olives, and pickled herring, but for the meal it was the holiday
classics; turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing, green bean casserole,
corn casserole, rolls, they also made smoked pork loin; and for
dessert there was: pumpkin pie, pumpkin cream pie, cherry cream pie (
it was one of their family traditions, I didn't like it), and pumpkins
cupcakes. So yes, it was a very satisfying meal haha. Well, we ate and then
visited with them for a while. After that we went to another member's
house and they gave us some pumpkin pie; then we got a call from a
different member and they invited us over so we went over there and
ate a little turkey and some pumpkin pie. It was an extremely
gluttonous day! Haha
Friday, after lunch we went to the M's house and Victor and
Jessica were there. We ended up trying to turn it into
a gospel conversation which we did, and talked about Lehi's vision of
the tree of life. We talked to a Victor about baptism and his "goals"
he was saying next August is when he is thinking about it so that was
some sweet progress. Well, after that we visited a few people then,
there was a big Christmas kick-off celebration in downtown Sedalia so
we went and handed out pass-along cards with pictures of Jesus on
them. Then we watched the firework show that went on afterward. And we
got some hot chocolate after because it was super cold!
Saturday, we had our missionary correlation meeting, which went well.
Following the meeting, we ate lunch then went and did service with a
member. After service we were just chatting with the people we did
service for and a member called and asked if he could take us out for
some frozen custard, so we went and got some free custard. Well, after
that we got a call from another member who wanted help with something,
we weren't sure but they had recently lost a member in their family so
we rushed over not knowing what it was. They just asked for help in
determining who certain members of the ward were, which was simple
enough. After that they fed us some posole, not sure I spelled that
one right, but it's a soup that really common among Hispanics, yes,
they are a Hispanic family haha
Sunday, we had church, we were going to do the translating but Victor
came to church so we asked him to do it, and he did! He has to work
Sunday's but he goes to sacrament for about 45 minutes before he
leaves for work, so he translated almost all of the meeting for that
time, it was so cool! Well, I finished translating the meeting after
he left. In Sunday school we talked about the post mortal life and the
lesson went a little off haha; church members just can't keep things
simple. Then third hour was combined about sabbath day observance; I
thought it was awesome, we saw the trainings by the twelve apostles
and Elder Bednar killed it talking about families being sealed
together for eternity and how the First Presidency and apostles
decided that sabbath day observance would help strengthen new converts
the most. Well, after church we ate lunch with the M's, then
talked for a little bit. We went around trying to contact quite a few
less active members but didn't get much done, because nobody was
available to talk. We didn't have dinner so we went to the Y's and
while we were there Ann, the daughter, was struggling with some math
so I was volunteered to help her and let me tell you, the spirit like
took over and solved the problems haha, I was so dumbfounded but the
more I thought it over in my head I was able to figure it out.
Miracles, every day!
Well, this week was wet. It rained a TON from Thursday through Sunday,
almost the entire days. But this week was like life, not about waiting
for the storm to pass, but about learning to dance in the rain haha.
Anyways, love you all take care!!
Elder Hinrichsen
Stay by the Tree
Something I noticed when I recently re-read 1 Nephi 11, was that when Nephi asks the Angel to know the meaning of he tree, the Angel shows him the birth of Christ, then says, "what does the tree mean?" Nephi says, "The love of God" to me, the Angel was saying, the tree represents Jesus Christ and the fruit is the Atonement; and I saw myself as Lehi, beckoning others to partake of the Atonement (fruit) of Jesus Christ (the tree of Life) because a when I thought about it, I thought, as it says in 1 John 4:9, the Love of God is Him sending Christ for us, so I take that scripture, as the tree is the Savior, he provided the Atonement which is the fruit, and it is, as we read in 1 Nephi 15:36 regarding the fruit, "...tree of life, whose fruit is most precious and most desirable above all other fruits; yea, and it is the greatest of all the gifts of God." What is the greatest gift of God? His son and more specifically, the Atonement of his son. So with that in mind, that stay by the tree, in my mind (this isn't doctrine of course just something I thought was powerful and spiritual to me) we it in my mind, Stay By The 'tree' becomes Stay By The Savior; he is the one who permits us to enter into Gods presence. I think more than anything this far on my mission, I've come to know Christ so much more, and that's what I think is one of the most important things to gain on a mission, is a testimony of the Savior and a desire to never leave His side, or as the talk said, "Stay by the Tree (or Savior)." Anyways...
This week was really good!
Tuesday we had interviews with President and Sister Vest and district
meeting, the interview went really well and so did the district
meeting. After the meeting we had a lesson with an investigator which
went good - we talked about the Atonement. Following the lesson we tried a
less active and then knocked on a few doors and ended up listening to
a guy lecture us for an hour and a half, he just talked about
his own beliefs and we couldn't even get a word in for an hour and a
half haha but we ended up giving him a Book of Mormon which was great.
After that we had to go to dinner. Then visited with a less active
family.
Wednesday we were playing basketball in the morning and i got hit in
the eye so my eye was red all week long. After basketball we tried a lot of
potentials and had a lesson with a less active member which went well.
After the lesson we went to visit a family in a small town near
Sedalia called Green Ridge; we've visited the family before, and we
knocked on their door, they opened, and they closed haha. Then we
tried knocking on a few doors. After that we went to dinner and after
dinner we went and tried a few less active members and knocked on some
doors and found a nice guy names Rodger, and taught him lesson 1.
Thursday, in the morning, we helped our ward mission leader move, he
just moved within the ward, that took most of the morning. Then we
visited with Victor and Jessica since they were at the M's. After
that we went and visited with a less active member. Then we had dinner
at a member's house that's not even a house, it's a freaking castle;
it's built the exact same as a castle, it's like 3 houses put
together. We did the same thing as the night before trying less
actives then knocking on doors and we found another investigator.
Tuesday we had interviews with President and Sister Vest and district
meeting, the interview went really well and so did the district
meeting. After the meeting we had a lesson with an investigator which
went good - we talked about the Atonement. Following the lesson we tried a
less active and then knocked on a few doors and ended up listening to
a guy lecture us for an hour and a half, he just talked about
his own beliefs and we couldn't even get a word in for an hour and a
half haha but we ended up giving him a Book of Mormon which was great.
After that we had to go to dinner. Then visited with a less active
family.
Wednesday we were playing basketball in the morning and i got hit in
the eye so my eye was red all week long. After basketball we tried a lot of
potentials and had a lesson with a less active member which went well.
After the lesson we went to visit a family in a small town near
Sedalia called Green Ridge; we've visited the family before, and we
knocked on their door, they opened, and they closed haha. Then we
tried knocking on a few doors. After that we went to dinner and after
dinner we went and tried a few less active members and knocked on some
doors and found a nice guy names Rodger, and taught him lesson 1.
Thursday, in the morning, we helped our ward mission leader move, he
just moved within the ward, that took most of the morning. Then we
visited with Victor and Jessica since they were at the M's. After
that we went and visited with a less active member. Then we had dinner
at a member's house that's not even a house, it's a freaking castle;
it's built the exact same as a castle, it's like 3 houses put
together. We did the same thing as the night before trying less
actives then knocking on doors and we found another investigator.
Friday we had lunch with a member. Then we tried less actives for a
while and ended up tracting and again found ANOTHER investigator, but
this time they were Hispanics. Then we had dinner with the ward
mission leader in his new place but mid dinner we got called to give a
blessing so we had to run. After that we went and visited with a
Victor and Jessica at their place.
Saturday, we had correlation, then we went to the Y's and had lunch
with them. After that we went to Dresdon and tracted out almost the
entire town to find a member who had moved there, we didn't find him.
After that we went to the M's for dinner. Then we got called to
give another blessing to an elderly lady who had fallen.
Sunday, we had ward council. Then we translated sacrament meeting into
Spanish which was fun and difficult, then we learned about the
creation in Sunday school. Priesthood was about our priesthood
responsibility. After church we went and gave a blessing then we found
the member in Dresdon and visited with him. After that we tried one of
the new investigators and he reschedule the meeting for later this
week. Then we went to dinner. After dinner we had a lesson with the
Hispanic less active family, only the dad was there and we talked with
him and taught the Restoration.
Well, this week was good. We found a lot of people which is awesome
because we've struggled with that for a while. Hope everyone is doing
good! Take care!
Elder Hinrichsen
while and ended up tracting and again found ANOTHER investigator, but
this time they were Hispanics. Then we had dinner with the ward
mission leader in his new place but mid dinner we got called to give a
blessing so we had to run. After that we went and visited with a
Victor and Jessica at their place.
Saturday, we had correlation, then we went to the Y's and had lunch
with them. After that we went to Dresdon and tracted out almost the
entire town to find a member who had moved there, we didn't find him.
After that we went to the M's for dinner. Then we got called to
give another blessing to an elderly lady who had fallen.
Sunday, we had ward council. Then we translated sacrament meeting into
Spanish which was fun and difficult, then we learned about the
creation in Sunday school. Priesthood was about our priesthood
responsibility. After church we went and gave a blessing then we found
the member in Dresdon and visited with him. After that we tried one of
the new investigators and he reschedule the meeting for later this
week. Then we went to dinner. After dinner we had a lesson with the
Hispanic less active family, only the dad was there and we talked with
him and taught the Restoration.
Well, this week was good. We found a lot of people which is awesome
because we've struggled with that for a while. Hope everyone is doing
good! Take care!
Elder Hinrichsen
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