ANDRA CAME TO CHURCH!

Well, if you didn't notice by the title of this email, we had a really cool experience yesterday with Andra coming to church. She is from Ghana and is crazy busy, but so humble and willing to learn of the gospel. Well we went over in Saturday night to teach them and the first thing she told us was that she got work off so she could come to church!  I was soooooo happy! It was great when she came too! All the members were so welcoming to her, and when she got up in the 3rd hour combined class to introduce herself she talked about how she is on a spiritual journey towards baptism! I was so hyped! Anyway, I'll tell you about the rest of my week now too!

So Monday was the average p day in Madison, which means a whole bunch of missionaries go to the church and play basketball. So that was fun! Then we did some setting up and prepping for zone conference on Tuesday! And that was pretty much the day! Oh, we also go to seminary on Monday mornings now, so that is a little bit of an early start. But its good!

Tuesday was zone conference. It was a spirit filled meeting! I really loved the trainings given, as we talked about going back to the basics of missionary work. We had trainings about using the Book of Mormon, Preach My Gospel, and then how we can be a little better each day. It was all good!

Wednesday I was with Elder Smith in exchanges. We were working in our area, that I had been in for one week at that time, and so I am still trying to figure out a lot.... so it was an interesting day, we did a good amount of finding, and had a dinner! We also had a few potential lessons but none of them held so that was kinda annoying.

Thursday was a normal Thursday, that means we weekly plan! Then we had an appointment with a returning member, and she forgot about it so that was kinda awkward. But we went in and talked to her about light the world! It was good!

Friday a bunch of appointments we had fell through.... so it was a little rough. But turned out to be better than some other days I have had! So we went tracting and it was pretty eventful. We met a really old lady that was nice at first and let us in, and then about half way into our conversation she started throwing our religion under the bus, so we bounced outta there pretty fast!

Saturday the highlight was for sure the lesson with the Tai family! We show up and the first thing she says to us is, I didn't read the BoM, but I am going to be at church tomorrow! So it was kinda a happy sad, but it was really cool for her to have made the sacrifices to get to church! I was excited!

Sunday we had church and it was a perfect sacrament meeting for the Tais! We had just taught the word of wisdom and then the whole meeting was about Commandments! Like literally I felt like one of the talks was directed specifically for them. It was so cool. Then the rest of the day was good. We had our studies, dinner, and then a little bit of time to follow up with some people that used to he taught.

So overall it was a good week here in Madison! I hope you all have a great week and a Merry Christmas!! Remember to light your family this week! If you haven't watched the video for week 3 of light the world you totally should. It's my favorite one!

Elder Reynolds

Elder Smith and Elder Reynolds on exchanges