Christmas? Already?

Well folks, it has been another good week here in the good ol Port Washington branch. We had a lot going on that made this week seem like it lasted for no time at all. But at the same time it kinda felt slow by the end of it. It is starting to get dark here at like 4 or 4:30... so that doesn't help the work out too much. But it has still been good! This week we started off with staying in Milwaukee Monday night, and then most of the day Tuesday for an exchange with Elder Ewell, my MTC companion!! It was a super good time in downtown Milwaukee, I don't get to see that place too often, but I got to see a little bit of it this week! We had district council and then Elder Ewell and I went and visited some people with a member of their ward, and we met this really nice recent convert that has been struggling a little bit. We were able to talk with her for quite a while and share a short message at the end, and then she said that she wanted to make her way back to church, and that made me pretty excited! So then on Tuesday night we had a dinner up in Port so we had to fly back up there and had an awesome dinner appointment and then went to the church to help get ready for the parade that will be this Saturday. We taped like 900 candy canes to #LightTheWorld cards and that took way less time than I expected, we had it done in like 30 minutes with the youth! I am super hyped for the parade this next Saturday, but it blows my mind that it will be December already too, so that is crazy.

Then Wednesday we had a pretty good day, it was pretty long though. We had a good walk to the downtown area, and talked to some pretty cool fisherman about the Gospel and then we went to get an oil change.... which really sucks up your time pretty quick. This one was a little longer than normal and Elder Mecham zonked hard in the waiting room... it was pretty funny! Then we had a dinner at a restaurant with a member of the branch and it was some delicious food!

Thursday we had Thanksgiving!! It was a good day. So we woke up and went to the church for the Turkey Bowl that turned out to be us and one other member, lol, but we still had a good time with him throwing the ball around. Then we went home and got dressed and it was time to go to our meal appointment, that was at a nonmembers house! We were there with the family from the branch and this family that they are friends with. So then we had a really good dinner, and stayed around for a few hours and played some pretty fun board games! Honestly some of the best times playing games with them, it was really fun!

Friday was another pretty normal day, we had a lesson with Erv, and that was pretty good! He is doing well, and he wants to keep reading more of the Book of Mormon. So we were reading 3 pages a day, and he said he wanted to do more, so now it is up to 5 pages a day... that puts us into 2 Nephi in less than a week... so it will be fast pace reading with him.

Saturday we helped move a member out of their storage unit. This is a really old couple and they have a lot of stuff.... we moved 2 storage units of stuff into a semi trailer with a few members, and there is another semi trailer at their house... it was a lot of stuff that still needs to be packed, so we will probably end up helping some more with that!

Sunday was a pretty normal Sunday for us here, we actually went out as a branch after church to help this same family pack some stuff up, and we were only there for a short time because a lot of people went. That was just putting it in boxes, not moving things into the trailer yet, so there is a lot still to be done..

Well it blows my mind that it is already that time of year where we get to celebrate Christ's birth again, but I love this time of the year! I hope you all can remember the reason for the season and enjoy the chance to worship Jesus Christ! Remember how much he loves you and wants you to be happy! Love you all!

Elder Reynolds