So Monday we spent the whole day down in Milwaukee with the zone leaders and the whole zone got together at the stake center to play sports and have a good time! It turned into a pretty fun P day! Then we got back to Port Washington and I started packing all my stuff... so that was pretty eventful, but not too bad.
On Tuesday we went and said goodbye to a lot of my favorite people. It was pretty sad to have only been there for 7 weeks. I had gotten to the point where I knew the area and was expecting to stay, so I was enjoying building relationships and suddenly it was gone. But anyway, we did some goodbyes, went and talked to Erv one last time, had a good dinner appointment and called it a night! I had to finish packing a decent amount of stuff....
Wednesday was transfer day! We had to leave about 8 am to get down to Milwaukee and be at the church on time for me to leave. I had to ride the transfer system for the first time in my entire mission! So basically from every zone a car leaves and brings all the people from that zone to Neenah, and then we all transfer our stuff to the car going back to our zone, and leave. So I rode up there, and then got to Madison around 2:30 or 3. Then we had to stay around at the church and wait for some other missionaries to get back to Madison that were driving directly from Milwaukee. So we didn't end up leaving the church until about 4, then we had to take stuff to the sisters and some other elders because it wouldn't fit in their cars and we had some extra space. So we went there and then to our dinner appointment and I recognized the guy who answered the door! It was pretty crazy, because I had met him when I was on campus, he works at the university. So that was kinda cool to see a face I knew right then! That was pretty much the day.
Thursday was a decent day as well. We had a lot of planning to do for our upcoming transfer, we have 7 exchanges in weeks, which makes things pretty busy! But it will be good for us! Then we also went and tried to visit a few different people. We also had a lunch and a dinner appointment and they both took us out. So I'm about to get real fat in this area. But it was good to get to see and know some members right off the bat!
Friday we spent the whole day in Oshkosh for MLC, mission leadership council, and that was pretty much it. It was a good meeting, spirit filled and motivating! Oh, we also had something pretty crazy happen when we got back. So the sisters call us and they are like, can you come give this guy a blessing, he is thinking about suicide. So we rushed over there and gave him a blessing. Hes not a member so that was pretty different. I have given few blessings to nonmembers, and it is always a special experience when you get to!
Saturday we had an appointment fall through in the afternoon, but then had a really cool lesson with the Tai family! They are from Ghana, and super prepared and ready for the gospel. The mom told us she was her ready to get baptized yet because she wanted to make sure she had time to serve after she committed. It was weird to me that she felt she wouldn't have time enough to serve. I mean she doesn't have any spare time, she is a single mom, who works two jobs and is going to school... so the fact that we get time to teach her is awesome! But anyway she is soo close, I'm excited about that family! Then we had a dinner appointment and that was pretty much it!
Sunday we had church and stuff in the morning, and then didn't even get time to do our studies and we had an appointment in Waunakee! It's like 10 minutes away from our apartment, but it's a super nice city! So that fell through and we had about an hour before dinner, so we went by a few people that missionaries had met before out there, and also met the Port family! They have been taught by a lot of missionaries, and everyone in the ward knows them and wants them to be baptized. But we were able to meet them and that was good for me! Then we had an awesome dinner with the Fackrells! It was a good time!
So it was a good week, despite leaving some of the coolest people of all time in Port Washington, I am excited to be in Madison and make some stuff happen!
Spiritual thought: "the Lord uses the unlikely to accomplish the impossible" -sacrament speaker.
That's all, hope you have a wonderful week! #LightTheWorld
Elder Reynolds
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