He got Transferred!!

Kyle never did like change.  Missions are all about change so this will be a learning experience for him!

So I got transfered. It was a very difficult move for me. I had to go
say goodbye to all the people I met all my friends and everything it
was rough. But Eliana emailed me and said they moved Elder Lied out of
the area i was in cuz the sisters in my old district got robbed by a
guy with a machete so they switched the elders and the sisters cuz my
old area was a really safe one. Im now in Teresina, the heart of the
mission in an area that the last missionary finished his mission and
didnt leave us with a whole lot so we are just starting over. oh and
its super hot. I think I might die its so hot here. its almost
unbearably hot here. theres missionaries that have melted shoes just
walking in the streets. My new comp is Elder De Los Santos....hes from
Argentina and he doesnt speak portuguese very well. He knows all the
words hes 100% fluent its just he has to have a problem or something
cuz nobody understands what he says. So he teaches an entire lesson
and the person will look at me with a blank look and then I have to
translate everything he said for them. Its so so so hard. I speak very
well now but nowhere close to perfect so I have my own problems but
now I have to translate for him. We had a lady yesterday, she was the
first person in a long time that could not understand me (she cant
read which proves my theory that uneducated people cant understand me)
and a member that was with us had to translate for us both. Its going
to be a very interesting transfer. Im not all that excited about it
still. But my ward here has 155 people....imperatriz had like 50. so
it tripled in size. I live in a house with 5 other missionaries. Its
alot more fun that way. We all joke around and stuff. In a house with
just one other elder it gets boring and like awkward but with 6 its
awesome. ummmm I dont think I have anything else for you guys other
than I think I could drink from a firehose all day and still be
dehydrated and exhausted at the end of the day. I think thats all I
have for you guys love you!

Will he be transferred?

 I am sure it is such a feeling of anxiety not knowing if you will be transferred or not!  It sounds like he would like to stay for one more transfer period.  I guess we shall see!

so we have transfers today. I dont know if im staying or going again.
it drives me nuts. Ive really grown to love Imperatriz. its known as
the worst city on the mission but i love it. the people here are so
awesome, yeah its over 100 degrees everyday and all we do is walk
around in the sun but its cool. Lets see cool or interesting things
that happened this week....i dont think there was any. We have alot of
solid investigators that weve found, and if i stay theres gonna be
baptisms in the next few weeks, if not theres still gonna be baptisms
i just wont be a part of them. Oh yeah one of my shoes broke. the heel
came apart kind of. im gonna take to somebody that fixes shoes. I dont
think theres any kind of shoes made to withstand brasilian streets. i
feel bad for my shoes. oh yeah tell alan that i saw him playing with
Mo Tab. there was some special and i was watching it in our chapel and
there was a few pretty good close ups of him. ask him if the main
singer has been baptized yet, if not he needs to introduce me to her
so i can baptize her.....and get married. Oh yeah funny story so we
were talking to a guy this week about getting help from God and he
said something along the lines of God helps people, and satan does
too. It just depends on how you look at it so as long as im getting
help from somebody im good. Kind of a funny way to look at it. Well
thats pretty much all I have from here. Next week I could be in a
different place. I hope not but who knows. Love you guys byeeeeeee

FINALLY got my packages!

 I'm thrilled that he finally got our packages!  I just wanted him to feel some love from home!  He also sent a lot of pictures this week...I will post all of them as well.  A lot of them are from the English class that he was the guest speaker.  The rest look like they were from zone conference.


ok so i got the 2 packages, I had to call the president to get them
picked up cuz i was told they were just sitting in the post office but
i got 2 packages and the large envelope of letters and another
handwritten letter from you so it was like christmas here. The week
was alot better. we finally baptized Eliana! I first met her in April
and she passed a baptismal interview at the end of April she just
didnt want to be baptized. So me and elder azevedo worked really hard
with her for 3 months and she was finally baptized. it was a special
experience. the whole ward loves her. her husband is a doctor and they
have more money than i think they know what to do with. but shes not
like a snobby rich person. she buys us medicine when we are sick she
always feeds us if we dont have lunch, everytime we go there she makes
us food or something. the ward had a service project and asked her to
donate 10 kilos (22 pounds) of rice and beans, she donated 50 (110
pounds) of food. just cuz thats the kind of person she is. Shes
awesome. After her baptism she gave me a hammock and told me to never
forget her family, good thing i didnt cry......but that was for sure
the best part of the week, and i think my mission so far. Things have
come together as far as the work goes. Elder Lied is going to be a
really good missionary. he learns really fast and he just has
instincts on what to. And the time just flew by. We have transfers next
week. luckily I'm training so theres a really good chance that I'll stay
here for another transfer. I'm really happy about that. Its going to
be weird to leave here. I have family here now, I'm gonna spend a
quarter of my mission here. its sad thinking about leaving but its
cool I'll be here until september. Thats pretty much all I have from
Imperatriz but i love you guys byeeee

His Soccer Team Won!

He had mentioned in an earlier email that his soccer team was in the Championships.  Apparently they won and he was in Teresina for training so he got to witness some of the festivities!

COOOOOOOORRRRRRINTHIANS!!!!!! my team won the championship here. I was
in Teresina when it happened and it was the craziest thing ive ever
witnessed. After goals are scored they go nuts and shoot off
fireworks, after the first goal there was about 20 minutes of straight
fireworks. But the best part was after they won (at 1 in the morning)
everybody was going nuts. I watched a guy walk out of an alley
(clearly intoxicated) and set fire to a stop sign/the road and walk
away. It was hilarious. But I have a package in Teresina, the
secretary saw it there and didnt pick it up why i dont know but its
there, Im hoping the President brings it when he comes on Wednesday.
The bus ride to and from Teresina is the worst bus ride ever. and we
had a baptism the day I got back and our bus was delayed like 6 times
and I almost missed it. I walked in for the actual baptism. But we
baptized another little girl, shes the cutest thing ever. shes 9 and
she goes to church by herself. Her dad was baptized but he stopped
going, so he drops her off at church every week and leaves. I had no
idea she wasnt baptized she always sat by me in sacrament meeting and
always gave me hugs and stuff so it was really weird that she wasnt
baptized. Oh yeah and we woke up this morning to an Iguana in our
house. It was super cool and hilarious. Neither of us know anything
about iguanas, we dont know if they bite or what not so neither of us
wanted to touch it. But i picked it up to take him outside and he
flipped out which startled me and i dropped him, I then chased him
around the house until he ran under Elder Lieds bed. It took us awhile
but we got him outside into the wild. I still have no idea how he got
into the house. I love all the little critters we find in our house.
Only in Brasil do you wake up with lizards bats frogs and other things
just chillin in your house. But I think thats it, I love you guys and
miss you!

Guest Speaker

This is last weeks letter...with the holiday I didn't get it posted earlier.  I love how big a difference he is making with his area.  It's great that he was chosen to talk to Ronny's class about English and now he can talk about the reason he is there and send referrals all over his District!  How cool!!

So this week was exhausting but it was pretty cool. So that English
teacher that stopped me in the street is named Ronny and ive started
making my English school tour with him. Basically I go talk to schools
in English and its cool it always ends up being a discussion in
English about the church and why im here. So we pick up people to
teach and pass them along to my district so it turns into a missionary
work type of deal. But there was like a giant book fair and Ronny was
giving a lecture about English for people and he wanted me to come
watch. So we go there and we are watching it and at the end he was
like we have a special guest who wants to talk to you guys about
English....that special guest was me, and I didnt want to talk to a
crowd of 100+ people. So im up there and he told me to motivate them
in English to learn English. So im talking in English you know no big
deal and then Ronnys friend Estelito was like alright now hes gonna
say all of that in Portuguese. So I gave a lecture in Portuguese about
learning English. It was pretty cool and also really terrifying. But
it was cool I went through like a 10 minute lecture with no problems.
Ronny has pictures of it so im gonna try to get them from him, it was
pretty funny. But this week we were running around in the sun all day
and it was awful. Last night I collapsed in my hammock and didnt wake
up until 10:30. And I got news that Im going to Teresina to get some
training...yay. My favorite 13 hour bus ride ever. I hate that bus
ride. Its definately the bus that people take to outer darkness, and
Teresina. But it was Presidente Dias' last week on the mish. He left
last week but he visited all the areas with his family. Its crazy that
hes gone but ive heard our new president is awesome. Im gonna meet him
this week. Its just him and his wife, all their kids are grown up. So
they have a massive apartment with 5 bathrooms for 2 people, i think
its kinda funny. Oh and my soccer team is in the finals for the best
team in all of South America. I think thats it other than we are gonna
be baptizing the crap out of Imperatriz the next few weeks. That is
all

The busy life of a District Leader!

 So many adjustments with being a District Leader...a new companion and trying to keep the ward together.  It is humbling to hear about all his efforts.  I couldn't be more proud!


This week was a crazy one. I dont like being a district leader and not
being able to speak Portuguese. The sister missionaries get annoyed
with me when I dont understand what they say but really its cuz they
broke their cell phone and it cuts out every other word making it
almost impossible for me to catch anything. But yeah its super fun. I'm
now in charge of 7 other missionaries, 2 sisters and 2 americans. Its
crazy Elder Embree is like best friends with Kyle Brown and a bunch of
people from Spokane. He was showing me pictures of them down at BYU
and they're all going back to live together once they all return. Such
a small world. The life of a trainer is really fun. Now we do what I
say and that's awful cuz I'm bad at plans, but its funny how the Lord
works sometimes. We make a "wrong turn" or something and we run into
somebody. For example we took a taxi from another area back to our
area and I gave him the address of our church as like a reference
point not that we needed to go there. And he made a wrong turn and
missed our chapel by one road and he was like let me drive you to the
church but we got out just cuz we were gonna go walk around anyways
like not a big deal. But we ran into a girl that we only would have
found if that taxi driver had made a wrong turn. There's little things
like that that happen everyday. But our biggest challenge now is our
ward. Our ward is like dead. We have over 300 inactives and we have
about 30 more that are on the cusp of leaving. Bad news bears cuz
that's our whole Ward. We spent a majority of our time this week with
members cuz nobody in the bispado goes to there houses anymore and
everybody is feeling spiritually weak. And we cant bring investigators
to the church when the members are all down and stuff so now its more
of a save the ward thing. Its gonna be tough and we probably aren't
going to baptize many people but with the current condition of our
ward we aren't going to baptize anyways. But this week I ran into an
English teacher and he had me come talk to his class about the US and
English and what not. It was awesome and hilarious. The first class
was mostly teenagers and so a lot of the questions were like are you
married do you have a girlfriend have you thought about dating
Brazilians that kind of thing but the second class was more of like
how the people are in the US the cultural differences it was really
cool. And it was all in English which was even better. It was a long
week, and I feel like this transfer is going to be a long one. The
good news is I'm teaching 80% of the lessons. Elder Lieds biggest
problem is that he's smart, sometimes too smart. His examples and stuff
goes right over peoples heads. They have no idea what hes talking
about. Our goal is to keep things as simple as possible and for me
thats easy cuz I have a very simplistic vocabulary in Portuguese. But
the whole world loves Elder Lied, hes a really friendly outgoing
person which is what I needed cuz I still dont like conversing in
Portugese, I stink really bad at it. So he talks, I teach, problem solved.
He's fine I don't have any real problems with him. The only one is that
he touches me a little more than I would like. He´ll like walk down
the street with his arm around me or like hug me at random times its
weird and a little creepy. But that's an easy fix. Oh and Tang release
rasPberry juice down here. you know you're a missionary when new
flavors of powdered juice get you excited but Tang is oh so delicious
and has oh so many flavors its awesome. Well love you guys, ill talk
to you next week!

He's a District Leader and Trainer!

 Kyle told his Dad in a separate letter that when he went to Teresina this past week to train and pick up his companion that President Dias pulled him aside and told him that "He's left the area of Imperatriz in my hands and to not let him down." I am grateful for the faith and trust that our Heavenly Father has in Kyle.  I know he is committed to the work and loves the Brazilian people.  He's told me so!  In case you missed some of the past posts, Kyle is going by Elder Hal (after one of his Grandpa's) he had to come up with a name that the Brazilians could understand.  Rindlisbacher and Kyle don't work in Portuguese!

Well the news is in on my transfer. who has two thumbs and
is trainer\district leader? Elder Hal. I now have my own district and
a trainee, Elder Lied. I saw his name and I wanted to cry cuz I
thought he was American and I was scared out of my mind but he's
brazilian so its all good. I had to travel to Teresina, 13 hours by
bus....not cool, to pick him up and bring him back. So I left tuesday
at 8 in the morning got to Teresina at 11ish woke up at 6 30 the next
day went to 3 hours of training to train, got my comp and left teresina
at 5. We got to Imperatriz at like 6 in the morning the next day, worst
3 days of my life. Brazilian buses stink I hate them. But Hes from Rio
Grande Do Sul which happens to be the rich smart area of Brasil. He
definately different than Elder Azevedo. Hes...interesting. Hes gonna
work alot which Im happy about, the only problem is hes a little
intense and odd. I was asking him stuff he liked to do before the mish
and all he did was study and work for the goverment. so like hes super
smart but hes kind of a jerk about it, especially with people that
arent nearly as intelligent as him here. But like we are fine. I like
living with him cuz hes educated has to have things super clean and
can cook just about anything. Im just gonna try to call him down. He
was bearing his testimony like 3 inches from an 84 year old mans face
for like 15 minutes and stuff like that but I mean hes new he'll figure
it out. I have no doubt. oh and my district has 2 sisters in it. I
havent really talked to them all that much yet but the transfer was a
disaster. We had 2 Elders stuck in our house without keys to their
house and without a cell phone. When I got back to Imperatriz I met
the Sisters stranded alone in the bus station without a cell phone
keys or knowing where they were going. Lucky I knew where they were
going and had their keys but my cell and their cell phone I brought
was dead. It was a mess but we got it all figured out and everything
went fine. But the work here is still a little rough. We had another
person pass a baptismal interview but say they didnt want to be
baptized. We have like 4 people that can be baptized at any time if
they wanted. Obnoxious. But it is what it is. They good thing is I
hate talking to people in the street just cuz Im shy in English im
worse in Portuguese but Elder Lied loves talking to people so we meet
tons of new people cuz he loves making contacts. Its kinda weird tho,
I was coasting off Elder Azevedo for teaching and stuff and now 12
weeks later Elder Lied is coasting off me. Now I have to take the lead
in teaching people and everything now. Its kinda cool and has shown me
how much I really know. With Elder Azevedo I never said a whole lot,
it was more of just me being there. Now I almost have to talk and
figure out what to teach. But the funniesy thing happened. I do
baptismal interviews for my district now and I think Elder Vitor is
getting a little desperate for baptisms, so I interviewed this guy and
it was going awesome until question 4 about homosexual relationships.
So I asked him if hes had a problem with that before and his response
was thats between me and God....I didnt know what to do so I asked if
he wanted to explain a little bit for me and his response was only God
knows. Basically he didnt pass, kind of humorous. My first baptismal
interview, good times in Imperatriz Brasil. But thats how things are
here, Im gonna be here for at least another 12 weeks it looks like.
Which is good I really wanted to stay here but I do miss Elder
Azevedo. He was a bum but I loved that man well thats all ive got from
here love you all!