On P day last week we were able to play sports for a little bit. It was good to get some exercise in but we had to leave earlier than normal because we had an early dinner appointment with a recent convert. It was a really good dinner and then we were able to go try to go by a few people, but nobody was home. Then on Tuesday we had a really good day. We had two appointments set up but one of them ended up falling through. We were able to teach Crystal, and some of her family was even there too that we were able to start talking to and hopefully begin teaching. That was cool to be able to find while we were teaching! Our other appointment was with a family who the mom was baptized recently, but we now are trying to work with the kids. One of them was sick so they canceled. It's kind of rough to have appointments fall through, but that is part of life. So the rest of the day Tuesday was spent finding and we had an awesome dinner appointment with the Syring family!
So then Wednesday was transfer day in the mission and we were able to continue working and actually saw some success! It was cool because we had both a lunch and a dinner appointment and then we had an appointment to teach an investigator later that night. The lunch was at an all-you-can-eat Chinese buffet that was very delicious! Then we had dinner at the Wrights and they're really cool too, we were able to talk to their returned missionary son for quite a while. Then we went tracting and didn't feel like we had found anyone very promising, but Thursday we found out one of them was actually interested. Then we had the appointment with Caitlin who is 13 and it went pretty well. One of the members came with us and then took us out to get McDonald's afterwards, so we pretty much had two dinners.
Thursday was also a really good day we were able to take one of the young men tracting with us and we also were doing a lot of work in Little Chute. So the story from tracting on Wednesday. We walked up to this lady who was in her garage and on the phone. She told us that she was busy and to come back tomorrow at 12. So we went back at 12 but she wasn't home... So that was kind of sad. But then we were in the area later that night and had the prompting to go and stop by her again. When we knocked on her door she came right out and apologized for not being home earlier and wanted to hear more. She is really cool and we are excited to continue to work with her.
Friday was also a very fun day. We drove down to Sherwood, and help set up for a camp that the youth were doing. It was really cool because it was right next to the Niagara Encampment. If you don't know what that is you should look it up because it is really cool. I took some pictures that I will send by the rocks that it left. It is basically where a glacier dumped all the rocks that it was carrying. The rest of the day on Friday was spent calling the district, going to dinner, and doing a little more finding. We found a bunch of old people that weren't interested in the gospel.
Then Saturday was really cool. We woke up and were able to go to a meeting in Oshkosh with the stake president. All the missionaries in the stake were invited and we talked about how we can better work with the numbers. Lots of good insight there. Then we had brunch afterwards and it was really good. Later that day we stopped by someone I had talked with a couple times before named Penny. Her and her husband Fred know that the Book of Mormon is true but have not had a desire to come to church. We invited them and boldly told them that this is the true church and they need to be a part of it. Penny promised us that she would come to church and she did! So that was really cool to see happen. Then later that night we went to our Ward Mission leaders house to have correlation.
Sunday was also a pretty fun day. We went to church and sacrament meeting was all about charity. Which was much needed for me. We also were told 30 seconds before class started that we needed to teach gospel principles... So it went alright but not the greatest lesson ever.
So this week was a really good one! Also this email might be longer than normal because I talked it instead of typing it. If there are any typos that I missed I apologize and I hope that you can get the real meaning. I love you all hope you have a great week!
Elder Reynolds
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