Leap Day

This week was a little rough. It's interesting because we struggled
all week to get anything done, than Sunday, the last possible day, we
found three people to teach, how solid they are is in the air but
three people said we could come back.

2/29/16 LEAP DAY!!
 Monday, the usual p-day stuff, basketball, emailing, shopping,
laundry. After dinner we had a lesson with some investigators, it went
pretty well. We talked a lot about church attendance,

3/1/16
 Tuesday, we had stake reports. We spent most of the day in the
apartment calling companionships. Luckily we finished early and had
some time so we went and did some service. Then we had dinner and
prepped for and had the stake correlation meeting. So on the first
Tuesday of each month, the meeting isn't just with the Stake
presidency, it is with them, the mission presidency, and all of the
ward mission leaders... So there's a little pressure for you! Ahaha,
luckily the meeting went pretty well this week!

3/2/16
  Wednesday, we had to set up miles for our zone for this upcoming
month. After that and studies we had lunch and then went to a lesson
with an investigator, M. The lesson went pretty well, we talked
about the Word of Wisdom and obeying the law. After the lesson my
stomach was a little upset... Uh, oh. I had gotten sick at M's
house the time before and I didn't want it to happen again haha,
luckily it didn't, but after M we had a lesson with S, our
recent convert, the ward mission leader, Brother A, came and the
lesson was going well, until my stomach just turned upside down.
Luckily we were able to end the lesson fast and get home where I was
all kinds of sick... I spent an hour between my bed and the bathroom
before we had to run to a family's house who was having us taste test
a recipe the mom made, I thought I could stomach it, I was wrong. We
ate the food and while I was backing out Elder Hunt gave the taste
tested food back to Mother Nature, so we called our dinner, who's
house we were about to go to, and asked them if we could pick it up to
go, they said yes. So we spent the rest of he night in the apartment,
 with me just dying, it was rough, very rough.

3/3/16
  Thursday, it turned out I just had a gnarly stomach flu on Wednesday
because Thursday was fine. It was transfer day, and we had to
coordinate certain things, missionaries giving up and receiving cars,
and who was driving who where. Well, we had lunch with some of the
missionaries that were in town, the only new missionary there was
Elder Conley's new companion, Elder Booth, whom he's training, so
that's sweet! Well, we gave a blessing to an investigator and then had
to run some missionaries out to Leavenworth, Kansas. Following
dropping them off, we did some weekly planning and then had another
lesson with M, where we talked about the priesthood and how it's
only used to serve others. From the lesson with M we headed to
dinner. well, after dinner, we had a lesson with A, turned out he
had a group of friends there so we taught them all the Plan of
Salvation, that was sweet! After the lesson we went to the same
members house and taste tested the same dish because I demanded a
re-taste since I had thrown up everything I had the day before haha so
we did another test. It passed. After that we visited with a less
active family we are working with and talked about the importance of
the family.

3/4/16
 Friday, studies, followed by service. At service one of the managers
of the thrift store fed us lunch because of all the help we give and
because we're tight with the managers at the thrift store. After
service we changed and spent a long day with little success in trying
to find people, we barely talked with anyone and those we talked to
were very uninterested, es la vida normal. Well, after many attempts
and fails we decided to try and come up with good ideas to find new
people to work with, mainly through ward members because they, or you
I should say, are the key to finding people to teach. And even more
than just baptisms, people's exaltation, and eternal happiness really.
With the members involved, the work is so much more effective! So we
are trying to come up with some good ideas there. Well, anyways, we
had dinner followed by a lesson with S D where we
watched "The Testaments" and discussed the Book of Mormon.

3/5/16
 Saturday, we had studies followed by some service at Hillcrest.
Following service we visited with A. So after A we tried
some people before dinner. After dinner we had a lesson with M.
S., on tithing and fast offerings. The lesson went really well, to
the point where M. asked if he could give tithing before he was
baptized!

3/6/16
  Sunday, fast Sunday; the slowest Sunday of the month. well we had
our missionary correlation meeting which went well. After that we had
ward choir practice, we sounded pretty good! Testimony meeting was a
little rough, some long and drawn out testimonies that's for sure. We
had A come to church and bring a group of his friends which was
great, but not the best testimony meeting to bring them to. After
sacrament those people we had at sacrament left and we had to teach
Sunday school about service, the lesson went pretty well! For
priesthood, S. D. was given the Aaronic priesthood so we
stood in for that, and then apparently, he was able to turn around and
stand in the confirmation of a boy to be a teacher, so that was
awesome! The elders quorums lesson was on focusing on Christ in the
church, which is exactly what was needed! After church we were able to
try knocking some doers in an attempt to find some people to teach. We
were able to come across three people to teach in the future so that
was pretty good! After the finding spree we had dinner with the Bishop
and his family. They invited S. D. over as well which was
super cool! Dinner was great! The Bishop is super awesome! After
dinner we went and chatted with our ward mission leader.

So the week might not seem like it, but it was just a funky week.
Things just didn't seem to click and other things fell through, but
that's the mission life I suppose. It's not meant to be easy. It's
meant to push us, and humble us; both of which come through trial. But
through it all, if we look closely, we can always see the hand of the
Lord. This upcoming week, on Saturday, Elder Gary E. Stevenson, a new
apostle, will be at our mission to soak to us, it's just a short
meeting but he will be here nonetheless, so we are stoked for that!
Hope everyone is doing well and has a great week!

Much Love,
 Elder Hinrichsen