First of all sorry I didn't send an email yesterday, mostly sorry I forgot to mention I wouldn't be in my emails last week.. my bad! But we are here, I'm alive, and all is well! The reason we weren't able to have p day yesterday is because we had our interviews with president William's! I love the days that we are able to do that, it's the best! So we moved our p day to today because we had those meetings yesterday! So the week has felt really long with that extra day before p day but it has also been really good! The work in our area is starting to pick up we are finding more people to teach!
So I will start with a fun story that happened on exchanges! So we get to do exchanges with the Spanish elders who also don't have a car so that makes things pretty interesting. But I was in their area with Elder Rollo and we were in the same area that we had worked in last time we had an exchange, so I felt like we should go and talk to this lady that we had met while I was there last time. So we go and knock on this door and her 18 year old daughter came out and was super nice and said they could come back and teach her too! So now the whole family will probably be taught and that will be sweet for those elders! So that was Wednesday, so I'll rewind to Monday! I forgot that we actually had 2 exchanges this week, so after p day last Monday and then after district council on Wednesday! So basically Elder Winborg and I didn't work together in our area until Thursday afternoon! So that was pretty crazy, but also pretty fun! On Tuesday in our area, I was with Elder Thacker and we got the privilege of teaching Brennan! He is so excited about the Gospel I love it! We told him about the plan of salvation and he really liked the concept of it and said it felt more like a God that loved him and wanted a better life for him! I think that is exactly what the plan of salvation should teach all of us! Anyway that was an awesome lesson!
So it's been rainy all week which makes life pretty difficult for us because we have very little opportunities to talk to people on the street because people don't like the rain! So we tried a few different things but it was good! We had our district council on Wednesday and that was great as ever! Then that was the day I was with Elder Rollo, and then we got back to our area together on Thursday and we had a good time since then! We had institute Thursday night and then we met with a member to help her do missionary work after that and it was pretty much the day!
Friday we had service at the food pantry in the morning, where we actually got someone that was interested in having the missionaries come over! Sadly she wasn't ysa so we sent her over to the other elders but she's awesome! Then we had our studies still, had a short amount of time to find and then had a game night at the institute with the ward! It was sweet, because 2 non members came!! We were able to talk to Son some more even though he won't set up an appointment with us, so that was super beneficial!
Saturday was really interesting, if you follow me on Facebook you probably noticed we had a little stand at the Farmers Market here in Madison! It was worth trying but really it wasn't that successful.. we were able to hand out a few cards and stuff and then one person even wanted the Book of Mormon! So that was really good! We have so many ways to find people here in Madison, and that was a new idea we had! It was worth a shot but it didn't go quite as well as I thought it would haha! Funny story of the week though, while we were there these weird "missionaries" from all over the place walked up to us. There were 4 of them and they talked to us for a little while and you could tell they weren't actually interested in the Book of Mormon or anything we had to offer, they just wanted to talk about God! But after our conversation ended they asked if they could pray with us, and so they start praying and it wasn't super weird, and then the guy saying the prayer blesses Elder Winborg to have visions and dreams and all sorts of crazy stuff like that.... I was kinda scared for my comp that night, but all went well!
Sunday we had a great sacrament meeting where 2 no members came to that as well! The two people that spoke in our ward are both super good member missionaries and invited people to come and listen to them talk and so they came! We also had a new ward mission leader called and he is super ready to do the work and get stuff done, I am excited for that! Also we learned about how important general conference is! It was a super good Sunday!
Lastly we had interviews yesterday, which took a long time because we had to bus over to the other church! But it was sooo good to be with president and sister Williams and learn from them!
For my spiritual thought I just want to tell you to get hyped for General Conference! President Nelson last year told us we all need to be prepared to receive revelation and I think that means that we are going to get some more revelation here at conference! I am super excited for the chance to hear our prophet and apostles speak to us! Please prepare yourselves and invite someone else that wouldn't usually watch it to watch it with you!
Love
Elder Reynolds
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