This week here in Wisconsin was pretty good, but also pretty dang cold! The winter is fast approaching and I am not sure if you can ever be ready for it to be this cold. But I have stayed warm, and continue to find happiness in the work! This week we definitely started to see some things pick up, we were able to have a man named Erv come to church, he has been taught a lot by missionaries in the past, but seems to have a strong desire to continue to learn. We also were able to come up with some cool object lessons for members, who have been super awesome to us! I also went on exchanges with Elder Chue, he is a Hmong elder!
So Monday last week was pretty fun, we did the usual zone sports, and then we did this weird thing where I went down to the Hmong area for the night with Elder Berrett and we were able to have a good time doing the work. Then when we got back that night we played a ton of ping pong. These Elders straight up got a free ping pong table and put it in there apartment and we had a good time playing. So that was pretty much the day on Monday, we balled up during the day.
Tuesday was another pretty good day, we had district council in the morning and then we had the exchange with the Hmong Elders. So I brought Elder Chue up to Port Washington and we had a dinner appointment and were able to do quite a bit of tracting. It was actually pretty successful! We were able to talk to a lot more people than the average day, and then we actually got into a few houses as well. We also got bashed by this guy that works for the christian radio station based out of Milwaukee, so that was kinda neat! But in reality it was good times!
Wednesday we did some more finding in the early hours of the day and then drove down to Milwaukee to meet up with our companions, and then Elder Mecham and I came back up to Port. We had a lesson with this man named Jordan. He is handicap, and can't walk. But he is friends with some members and that is how missionaries first met him. So he is studying to be a pastor somewhere, and he doesn't want to change what he believes... but we were able to have a good discussion with him, and he is really nice about the way he does things! Didn't want to bash us at all, just a genuine guy! Then we went home and had dinner and it was good!
Thursday we did a lot of walking and it wasn't super warm, but it was alright. So we drove to downtown and did a little bit of talking to the fisherman there, and then we walked to a couple potentials that we didn't think were too far, but we took a road that made you loop all the way around to get across a bridge so it ended up being a lot longer than expected.... but it was good! Then we had our weekly planning and did some work out in the boonie towns of our area and had an awesome dinner with a family that lives out there a little ways! We then came back to the church and we did some work on the float that will be in the Christmas parade on Dec 1st! I am super excited for that to happen! The branch will all be on the float and hand out Light the World cards with some candy canes, it is sweet!!
Friday was a good day! We were hoping that we could meet with one of the families in the branch and one of their friends wanted to ask us questions. But she ended up having to babysit so the members still fed us! She made homemade pizza and it was super super good!! Oh we also taught our main man Erv on Friday. He has a solid testimony of the Book of Mormon.... but he has to wait until 2020 to get baptized because he is on probation, so that is kinda sad! But honestly it was a super good discussion with him!
Then Saturday and Sunday were the classic weekend here in Port! Saturday we had our correlation meeting with the branch mission leader and then did some more knocking doors and then had dinner with the same family that we had it with on Thursday! They asked me what my fav food was on Thursday and I said tacos, so they were like "we are having those on Saturday you should come" Wasn't gonna turn down free food, so we were able to go over there again and it was awesome! Sunday was a good day at church! Erv came, and that was awesome! Then we had dinner with the same people as Friday... man these two families sacrifice a lot for us and I appreciate it so much! So it was a good week!
Here is a thought from church this last week!
One of the speakers talked about a talk that Elder Rasband gave as his first General Conference address. It was in October 2015 and it is a super good talk! But the jist of it is that we must learn to see people through God's eyes. I love that as a missionary I have had to learn that principle. It doesn't matter what people look like, how bad they might seem, how sketchy they might be, etc. It matters that they are a child of God and they have the potential to do even better than we are doing right now! Never forget that you are a child of God!
Hope y'all have a great week!
Elder Reynolds
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