Transfer Week!

This week has been pretty crazy all around! To start out, transfer news! I am staying here in Appleton and elder Raymer will still be my companion! I love this area, and elder Raymer is really cool too so I am pretty excited! But on top of that this week was still pretty crazy! So we started out on p day going to a baseball game! The tickets were free if you ate lunch at a specific restaurant, and so we did and it was pretty fun! There is a kid that went to Pleasent Grove high school in Utah that is now playing for this team here in Appleton. Their name is the Appleton timberrattlers! They are pretty much like the Ogden raptors. So not a huge deal, but it was still fun.
Then on Tuesday we had the last district meeting of the transfer which is pretty sad because like half of our district is getting transferred. But life continues. And then after district meeting we had a couple of hours to find some people to teach! It was super fun and pretty successful! We have a lot of potential investigators that we are trying to follow up with but people are never home. So that's annoying.
Then on Wednesday we had exchanges so one of the hmong elders, Elder Green came over into our area and we were able to do some work. It was really cool because I felt like we should go knock this one street and so we did. And turns out there is a few Hmong people that live on thag street as well so we were able to do work for both of the areas at the same time. Pretty cool stuff.
Then on Thursday we didn't have a ton going on so it turned into a good amount of finding, which is never a bad thing for us! We also have this new member missionary work thing going on and so we had an appointment for that with the Webers and it was cool! The spirit works in really cool ways, and we were able to hear some of brother Webers mission stories and that was motivating for me!
Then Friday was a pretty good day! So there is a small town named Sherwood that is about 30 min from our apartment but in our area. There are a couple of members that live down there, and one of them is a part member family so we really wanted to visit them. We had a lot of time on Friday so we decided to go down there and check it out. Turns out that only one of the people we were trying to visit would be home.. But it was the part member family and we were super excited to be able to talk with them! Then we had dinner with one of my favorite families the McGinns and it was super fun. They had some extra kids because the other families parents and older siblings were at youth conference for the week! So there were a ton of kids running around, which was so funny.
Then Saturday we helped a member move out and then had 2 teaching appointments! It was cool because one of them was unexpected. We knocked on a potentials door and they let us right in and we were able to teach them a little more than the last time. The other one was with a part member family who was so excited to learn more about the church! The biggest problem there is that they aren't married, so we are working on that!
Sunday was a great day like Sundays always are. Church is great, every single week. I love that there is always so much to learn. Also we taught priests quorum this week and it was pretty cool! There are some super fun priests in the ward and their experiences from youth conference were way cool. They were in Nauvoo, and I was pretty jealous.
So it was overall a really good week and we hope to have another good one this week!

Here is a spiritual thought for ya.
John 14:15
"If ye love me, keep my commandments"
It is so simply put here that if we love God and Jesus Christ we should be striving to keep the commandments. The gospel of Jesus Christ teaches us that we should strive to do as he did, and live as he has asked us to live. By doing so we show our love for him and he can then give us blessings. Keeping the commandments is the fastest way to the happiest life 😊

Hope you have a great week!
Elder Reynolds