Tuesday - well today we had District Council. We have been studying the new update to preach my gospel and learning about it. It is kind of boring to just read through preach my gospel for the district Council, so I decided to play jeopardy to make things more entertaining. It actually went really well, and everybody liked it a lot! Then later today we had exchanges with the zone leaders. Elder Cox came to our area with me, and we had a good time.
Wednesday- all day today I was with other Cox. Well until like 7. Most of the day was spent trying to find more people to teach, and actually went pretty well! We were able to find a few people who invited us to come back! Then we also taught a lesson on tender mercies, which I really loved. If you get the chance read elder Bednar's talk about them, it's from 2005 and it's called the tender mercies of the Lord. It is super cool!
Thursday- today basically consisted of finding and weekly planning. A lot of it was taken by that, then at the end of the day we were finally able to teach the Stoltz family! Sadly... The kids were not as ready as we had been told, but they are still willing to learn and their mom would love to see them join the church so it's cool to be able to teach them!
Friday- so today I was in the Hmong area again. It was super fun to be with elder rich and to learn to speak a little bit of Hmong. I tried to learn a door approach, but that did not work out very well. I just sounded like an idiot trying to sing a foreign language... And I thought it was easy... But then later in the day we met four Hmong girls that are going to be seniors in high school. We weren't sure if they were meeting with us because they were interested in the gospel, or in us... but they told us we could come back, and Hmong people usually don't do that so we were excited, but also scared because they were four high schoolers.. so we had a good discussion with them outside about what they believe and all sorts of weird stuff. The funniest thing about it was that one of them goes "do you have girlfriends?" So that was pretty weird... But I will say, I am glad that I don't have to worry about them being interested or just flirting. Elder Rich can handle that 😉
Saturday - today was bomb! We were able to get back in with two of the people we have been wanting to get in with and teach them! We also were surprised when one of them promised us and told us he would be to church. So miracles do happen in Appleton!
Sunday - well today was pretty good, but nobody that told us they would come to church did... So we were pretty sad. It was still a good meeting, and spirit was very strong! We had a super fun dinner appointment, and then went to teach some members how they can better do missionary work! It was really fun, and a great overall week!
Spiritual thought:
This week, I have been studying a lot about tender mercies! As I said before, Elder Bednar gave a super cool talk about it and I also like 1 Nephi 1:20. Nephi tells us that the tender mercies of the Lord will be over all the Lord's children, and he'll give us the power of deliverance! I usually don't think of tender mercies giving us that kind of power, but I know that it is true and that the Lord is willing to bless us and does bless us! We will see it more when we are aware of it!
Hope you all have a great week!
Elder Reynolds
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