Happy New Year!

Hey everyone, I hope all is well for each of you! This week here in the Madison area was pretty good! We had a lot going on with Christmas eve and then Christmas and all sorts of stuff going on! But it was good! On Tuesday we went over to some members homes for Christmas and that was super fun! The first members we went to were the Fackrells, and they had some good stuff they had gotten for Christmas that they allowed us to be a part of! So after we skyped home with them we had some competitions with the new toys they got. For example, they got this massive nerf bow and arrow and we competed to see who could shoot it the farthest! We also had a competition to see who could ride the new scooters the fastest (I won that one) but sadly I wasn't good enough with the bow and arrow to win that one. But it was such a good time! Then we went to the Rankins for dinner and we had some real delicious steaks! We also played some ping pong with them and it was really fun!  Oh, we also had a zone party, and everyone brought a ton of sweets and junk food... somehow we ended up being the ones to bring it home.. not good for us!

Wednesday was pretty normal, we did our weekly planning and the day felt pretty long, but then we also found a few people that could be interested in the future! So it was also like way warmer than it should have been and all the snow (so not very much) melted!

Thursday we thought we had interviews with president William's so we got ready for those in the morning and all that fun stuff, the we go to pick up the other elders and they were like really confused as to why we were picking them up.... well long story short we missed the message that said it was moved to Friday... so we went back to our area and did some good ol missionary work in the RAIN! yes it was raining in December... that means it's too warm and it's going to get cold way too fast! But oh well, it is about time!

Friday we had interviews and it snowed! There is actually a little bit of snow on the ground, and it's only supposed to snow more today and tomorrow so I'm excited! But interviews were good, president Williams always says the right things!

Saturday I had the blessing to be with Elder Purvis and we had a full day planned. Then during our first appointment at 11, 2 of our other appointments texted us and cancelled... so that was kinda rough, but we had 2 super good appointments! One of them was with the Tai family! They are doing so well, last week the 8 year old daughter threw out all their tea after we taught them the Word of Wisdom, it was awesome to see! I really enjoyed the day with Elder Purvis, it was a blast! We also met this cool couple tracting that hopefully we can get back in with and start teaching!

Sunday was the last 3 hour block I'll ever go to!! That was neat, and it was really good too! Like everything that was spoken seemed to be directed at me in Sacrament meeting, so that was good. Then we had some good lessons and it was just good!

Well I hope you all have a happy new year! And I hope that you have some resolutions to make your life even better than it already is!

Elder Reynolds