This week has been really good! The first couple days we were able to say goodbye to some members in the YSA ward over in Madison. It was rough to leave that area, but it has been a really good change for me! My new comp elder Mecham is from Oregon! He is hilarious, and we have gotten along pretty well so far! So Monday turned out to be kinda lame. So we thought about going to a corn maze, decided that we didn't want to and we would play sports, but then the whole zone decided to go to the corn maze so that kinda screwed us over! But it turned out to be pretty good still. We got to play a little bit of sports and then we had some good times playing! I played basketball the best that I have in a really long time!
Then Tuesday we ended up having a dinner with Joseph and Son at some little hole in the wall Vietnamese restaurant called Nams Noodles. It was pretty good for my last dinner in Madison! Then I had the great adventure of packing on Tuesday night.. I always think I have tons of room, and then I don't, so it makes for a fun time repacking things the second or third time! But in all reality it wasn't too bad and I got it packed up!
Wednesday was pretty crazy honestly! We drove to Milwaukee and then we had to wait at the church for like 3 hours... so that was rough. Then we were on our way back and we get a phone call that we need to help someone move, and that was interesting. We left right as we got back to the apartment and got back at 9... so it was a pretty long move, and all we did was put the stuff into storage! But they have a 12 year old kid who isn't baptized and might want to be in the next couple months so we are really excited! Then a member took us to dinner after the move so that turned out to be a really good day!
Thursday was pretty normal for a Thursday here in this area. We have this pier in our area that a ton of people fish at, and it has been one of the ways that Elder Mecham and his last companion have found people is by talking to them on the pier while they fish. So in the morning we went down there and tried to do some of that sort of contacting and it went alright! We met this really nice guy who was from Germany and had moved here a few years ago. He was nice, but as soon as we started to try and bring up the gospel it didn't turn out so great. Then we walked back, and we walked a ton. The pier is probably like 30 minutes away, but we have been doing a car fast kinda to save miles. It turned out to be really good, because now I know the area pretty well, or at least the downtown part of our area.
Friday we ended up with a lot of things going on. We thought we were going to have service in the morning, and then that fell through, so we ended up with a lot of time to find. So we went down to the pier again and that ended up to be a not so great idea. There was a storm that made it so nobody was there, so we ended up pretty much turning around and walking back... It was pretty sad! Then we had calls... and oh my goodness. We have a huge district, so that means I have to call all of them, so we ended up with 2 hours of calls in a single day. That is way too long for me to sit in one place on the phone, but such is life. It turned out to be good, but then we had a dinner appointment clear up in Random Lake, and yes, there is a random lake there... and yes, it is super in the middle of nowhere. But the members were super nice and the family we helped move in was there as well! I loved that!
Saturday we were able to teach Jawan, and that made the day turn out way better than it looked like at the beginning. Jawan was someone we found while knocking doors on Thursday and he had told us to come back on the weekend! We didn't think he would actually hold his appointment but he did!! So we were really excited for that to work out! He didn't have the chance to come to church this week, but we are planning to meet with him again this coming week! There is a lot of good work starting here.
Sunday was a pretty normal Sunday with our church and studies and then we had a dinner appointment that was really far away again so we ended up hitting some potentials on the way up there so we could get some work done! It turned out to be really good because we found this guy named Alex, who wasn't on there already, but lived at the same address of someone who had been interested before! Anyway he said we could come back! So I am pretty excited for the work here in this area!
So a little bit about my new area. Port Washington, Wisconsin!! It is about a 45 minute drive north of Milwaukee. So everyone in the mission is like how is Milwaukee?? And I'm like, I'm not even in Milwaukee. But turns out that this place is really pretty sweet! I don't know the population but it is small! There is only a branch, not a ward. So this is branch number 2 for me on my mission. But there are probably 3 or 4 surrounding towns that we have the potential to work in. The biggest one is called Grafton, and it is actually bigger than Port Washington! But the branch here has only been around for like 15 years, and the building we meet in only has been there for like 8 years! So the church is young here in this area!
Well I hope you all have a great week! Love ya!
Elder Reynolds
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