Hello all,
Don't have much time today but such is missionary life when you have fun adventures planned for your P Day. We are fulfilling one of Sister Corbett's mission goals and heading to the Zoo with a few members and the Marble Cliff Sisters. It's been a pretty standard missionary week. We did A LOT of talking to people, and just listening to their stories. I think that is my favorite part of missionary work, most of my time is spent asking people deep questions and helping them understand their deepest
feelings. It's a deep thinkers paradise and I'm having a lot of fun helping them see all of the deep love that comes from Heavenly Father. We finally got to talk to Matt again and he is still Golden as ever.
We are working on helping him feel more comfortable at church this week. He is still on track to be baptized and has no huge hurdles to clear so we are very excited. Shep came to church yesterday and we had a lot of fun. He enjoyed meeting the members of our ward especially some of the kids sitting in front of us. He is a gem and I hope he continues to make the changes he needs to be baptized in November.
Funny highlights of the week include Sister Williams observation, "I've never seen so many trees before in my life; except in a forest..." Also Shep took the liberty of using my glasses during
sacrament meeting to look through the hymn book (he left his at home) and the craziness that was practicing for the primary program yesterday...lets just say 94 kids in about 70 seats, are much
louder/crazy than 6 leaders and 2 sister missionaries could ever hope to be or control. But hey they're adorable so I can't complain about spending the afternoon with them ❤also I really did cross a nerf war zone yesterday evening to deliver some muffins and got shot. Don't worry I got Egan back when I came out of his house.
Shep actually inspired the spiritual thought of the week. I loved the theme of strengthening our personal faith that came through in conference. As we do the small things like reading scriptures, loving others, saying meaningful prayers, and attending church our faith is strengthened. Faith is a principle of action and as our faith is strengthened our desire to act and make changes in our life increases. I've seen this personally in Shep. He has gone from "I've already been baptized, my soul is fine!!" To "I will get baptized in November if it kills me!". Each time we come teach him more, and each experience he has with the spirit increases his desire to change even more. Having faith in the atonement allows us to make those changes that allow us to come even closer to Christ every single day, and the beautiful cycle of growth cont nudes on and on. President Uchtdorf said, "Faith in the Savior taught me that no matter what happened in the past, my story could have a happy ending." in the Women's session of General Conference. I know that this is true. I know we can all use the
atonement to change and to find our happy endings. This week take some time to grow your own faith. Do some extra scripture study, listen to a conference talk, say more meaningful prayers, whatever works for you.
I love you all and pray for you daily. Party hard, but not too hard.
And enjoy the little things this week!!
Sister Reynolds
Don't have much time today but such is missionary life when you have fun adventures planned for your P Day. We are fulfilling one of Sister Corbett's mission goals and heading to the Zoo with a few members and the Marble Cliff Sisters. It's been a pretty standard missionary week. We did A LOT of talking to people, and just listening to their stories. I think that is my favorite part of missionary work, most of my time is spent asking people deep questions and helping them understand their deepest
feelings. It's a deep thinkers paradise and I'm having a lot of fun helping them see all of the deep love that comes from Heavenly Father. We finally got to talk to Matt again and he is still Golden as ever.
We are working on helping him feel more comfortable at church this week. He is still on track to be baptized and has no huge hurdles to clear so we are very excited. Shep came to church yesterday and we had a lot of fun. He enjoyed meeting the members of our ward especially some of the kids sitting in front of us. He is a gem and I hope he continues to make the changes he needs to be baptized in November.
Funny highlights of the week include Sister Williams observation, "I've never seen so many trees before in my life; except in a forest..." Also Shep took the liberty of using my glasses during
sacrament meeting to look through the hymn book (he left his at home) and the craziness that was practicing for the primary program yesterday...lets just say 94 kids in about 70 seats, are much
louder/crazy than 6 leaders and 2 sister missionaries could ever hope to be or control. But hey they're adorable so I can't complain about spending the afternoon with them ❤also I really did cross a nerf war zone yesterday evening to deliver some muffins and got shot. Don't worry I got Egan back when I came out of his house.
Shep actually inspired the spiritual thought of the week. I loved the theme of strengthening our personal faith that came through in conference. As we do the small things like reading scriptures, loving others, saying meaningful prayers, and attending church our faith is strengthened. Faith is a principle of action and as our faith is strengthened our desire to act and make changes in our life increases. I've seen this personally in Shep. He has gone from "I've already been baptized, my soul is fine!!" To "I will get baptized in November if it kills me!". Each time we come teach him more, and each experience he has with the spirit increases his desire to change even more. Having faith in the atonement allows us to make those changes that allow us to come even closer to Christ every single day, and the beautiful cycle of growth cont nudes on and on. President Uchtdorf said, "Faith in the Savior taught me that no matter what happened in the past, my story could have a happy ending." in the Women's session of General Conference. I know that this is true. I know we can all use the
atonement to change and to find our happy endings. This week take some time to grow your own faith. Do some extra scripture study, listen to a conference talk, say more meaningful prayers, whatever works for you.
I love you all and pray for you daily. Party hard, but not too hard.
And enjoy the little things this week!!
Sister Reynolds
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