Week
92 – July 15, 2013
Aloha,
We
didn't have any time to pick up my driver's license this past week so
we went today, not realizing that today's a national holiday (Beach
Day) and that all of the government places are closed. I'll be going
to get it tomorrow.
I
went on exchange with the Yokohama zone leaders this past week, Elder
Hill (my former companion) and Elder Young (from New Zealand.) That
was a lot of fun. It almost felt like I never transferred out of
Kanagawa.
Yesterday
I had an interview with President Wada. We had a great time talking
for about 50 minutes. I'm so grateful for the relationship I have
with my mission presidents. They have been such a great source of
inspiration and support.
This
week will be a busy one. We have staff meeting (a weekly meeting)
followed by transfer calls tomorrow morning. I'll need to go get my
license tomorrow because we're picking up eight new missionaries
tomorrow night and I'll need to drive one of the cars home. Wednesday
will be spent training the new missionaries and getting them off
right. They'll attend our eikaiwa and stay in the mission home/our
apartment (Sisters in the mission home and Elders in our apartment)
another night, then we'll train them and their trainers a little
Thursday morning and send them off to their areas. Then on Friday we
have a mission leadership council where we'll train the zone leaders
and sister training leaders. Normally we have mission leadership
council at the beginning of each month but we've called this one
specially because we have a bunch of things we want to train and
'cascade (pass on) to the mission.
Is
Elder Hathaway still in the ward? Sister Hathaway doesn't know this
yet because we'll be making all of the transfer calls tomorrow
morning, but she'll be white-washing into a new area and training a
new missionary. It'll be an exciting call for her and I'm sure she'll
have a lot of fun.
Regarding
my returning home, I've changed the date again. With the mission
split, the transfer dates for the Tokyo South mission have been
offset from the Tokyo Mission by three weeks causing my original
return date to fall right in the middle of the transfer. We talked
with people from the area office and I've been able to extend my
mission to November 19, 2013. November 19 is two days before that
transfer will end, but that day is 2 years and 45 days after the day
I entered the MTC (October 5, 2011) and there's no extending longer
than 45 days without going to the Bretheren. I am excited to return
and see everyone, so I hope you don't feel like I don't want to see
you. But I think that will be a good time to finish my mission. And
I'll get back just in time to spend Thanksgiving at home. Also,
thinking about plans after getting home, as far as school I've been
thinking about either trying to go straight to BYU or maybe take a
semester at UH-MC. If I was to stay there on Maui it would be cheaper
and I could take a lot more classes (maybe 21ish credits) and maybe
work part-time and save some money. I'd also be able to spend time
with Keanu and Keawe (and mom and dad of course), going to seminary
every morning and doing things on the weekends with them if they have
time. I know mom and dad are probably thinking you'd rather have me
off to BYU as quick as possible, but I'm sort of leaning towards
staying on Maui for a semester. I haven't really put a whole lot of
thought into it, there's no time to, so it isn't decided or anything.
Let me know what you think.
Time
has really flown. It's hard to believe my mission's gone by so
quickly. Of course I still have about four months left, and I promise
I'll give as much as I can and sprint to the end. I've loved my
mission so much. I've grown so much and had so many good experiences.
I'm so happy to hear of all those leaving from the ward on missions.
It's so good to be a missionary!
I
do have a favor to ask, if possible. Would you be able to buy two
copies of a book, 'The Power of Everyday Missionaries: ' by Clayton
M. Christenson for $6.99 each? Here's a link to Deseret Book:
It's
an amazing book on how to do member missionary work. If you could I'd
love it if you could buy two, send one to me and have the other sent
to you for you (mom and dad) to read. Could you do that? If
shipping's really expensive to here will you at least buy just one
and read it? Let me know.
Thank
you so much for all of your love and support! I hope you're all doing
well and finding the joy of the gospel! I love you so much!!! Have a
great week!
Love,
Elder
Rindlisbacher
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