May 30, 2016

Tuesday, we had appointments with a few people. We taught two youth in
our ward who's mom asked us to go through the lessons with them.We were able to have a sweet
lesson with W.W., a recent convert who's family is all members
as well, and they fed us one of the best things I've ever eaten; it
was a pineapple brat that they had bought out of the casing and mushed
into the shape of a burger then grilled and then topped with grilled
pineapple and spicy mustard; we haven't stopped raving about it.

Wednesday, we had district meeting. This might have been the kingpin
of the awkwardness. Things just didn't blend at all, and nothing was
clicking... Its too long to write about, but let's just say, I still
don't know what happened. After District Meeting we went on exchanges
with the Olathe 3 Elders. I went to Olathe 3 with Elder Roberts and
Elder Gill stayed in Olathe 1 with Elder Bagley. We were able to get
some good stuff done in the Olathe 3 ward. We visited a less active
family and a few other people for a little and then at the end of the
day we visited with the Relief Society President and discussed people
on the ward roster.

Thursday, we had to help a family in the ward move early in the
morning and so we went to help. Afterward we went and
didn't have much going on for the rest of the day, just a visit with a
less active family. What happened was when hurricane Louie, made that
up, came blowing in to Olathe and sideways rain insane winds parked us
for a little.

Friday, we hit up some weekly planning and then found a group of some
pretty sweet guys who said we could come back so we were excited about
that for sure and later we were able to visit a less active family in
the ward so that was pretty exciting. Nothing really memorable
happened.

Saturday, we had one of the coolest Restoration lessons I've had on
the mish. We visited a Hispanic family who speaks a lot of English
with a member who's known them for a while and when we showed up, they
made us a feast (pics attached) and we got to know them pretty well,
good times. After the meal we were able to have a great lesson! We
read "The Family: A Proclamation to the World", the spirit was super
strong for that, then when we did the first vision, Elder Gill asked
them to close their eyes and imagine themselves with the boy Joseph in
the grove as he recited it; that was a super powerful experience,
where they themselves addressed the feelings of the spirit, insane.
Well that lesson was a very powerful witness to me of the truthfulness
of the experience of Joseph Smith. He really saw God the Father and
Jesus Christ, the spirit told me it is true. We were able to see
another boy we are trying to work with who is 10 years old and not a
member but his family is. His name is L.M. He's a super quiet
boy who is really nice, just has a few worries about being baptized,
unfortunately he is going out of town this week for basically the
entire summer, so we meet with him for a while. Not much else
happened.

Sunday, we had correlation meeting and ward council. Church was good.
We were edified about the principles of family history and learning
how and teaching others how to follow the promptings of the spirit.
Gospel principles was about baptism, unfortunately no investigators
showed up to be reprimanded for not being baptized. Well, Priesthood
was about I don't even know what, it ended up being a conversation
about a crazy lady knocking on a mans door and just being drunken
crazy and the cops coming to pick her up; not really a hot gospel
topic. After church we tried to contact people most of the day but
didn't have much success.

This week was just weird honestly. Things worked out but looking back,
it doesn't seem like it haha. We had some awkward, funny, frustrating
moments, I guess it was just a week for the books, a week to remember.
I hope everyone is doing well and loving life as you should.
God speed,
 Elder Hinrichsen

Pics
The D family's feast with us and Mama L's on Saturday. Mama
L is the member who everyone just sort of refers to as Mama, it
fits.