So this week was another cold one here in Wisconsin! On Wednesday the highest temperature was like -10, but the windchill made it like -20.... either way it was really cold. Luckily we were told to stay inside and try to do missionary work from the apartment. Later on in this email you will see how well that went! But other than that day, this week was really good! Lots of good times in the mish.
Monday last week it snowed a decent amount, and we didn't really notice until after p day was over because we were inside all day balling up. It was a pretty fun p day! Elder Lewis and Olsen tried to build a snowman but the snow was too flaky, so that was rough. But it was a good p day!
Tuesday we had district council, and it lasted way longer than it was supposed to. But it was super spiritual and good! We did some work, but it was in the negatives so it was a little rough. People think we are pretty nuts for being outside, and they aren't wrong lol. It was real cold. But we were able to visit a few people that we had met before, and they didn't think we were quite as crazy.
Wednesday, we had what some are calling the "polar vortex". I have no clue what that is supposed to mean, but I know it was really cold outside. On Tuesday night we went to the other side of Madison and I was on an exchange for Wednesday. It was terrible timing since we didn't get to do much missionary work, but it was a good time. I was with Elder Kleinmann, and we sent some boiling water into the air and most of it didn't hit the ground... that was neat. But also a little scary... so we were told to stay inside unless we had appointments, and we had 1 in their area. So we did that and played board games the rest of the day pretty much.... we tried to do some missionary work, but its hard to stay focused. So we had a good time!
Thursday I was back in my area for a day. But it was also really cold outside, so we did our weekly planning and then stopped by some people that we knew had kids at home because school was cancelled so we thought they would be home, but turns out nobody was home. We did get free Chick fil A though so that made it a good day!
Friday we had MLC, and that was the good ol meeting that makes life more exciting. We drove to oshkosh early in the morning and had a good hour and a half drive. Had a great meeting and then drove the hour and a half back. That was pretty much our entire day. We stopped at a Wendy's on the way and we met this really nice guy that is now messaging us, so hopefully something good will happen and we can teach him! It was cool.
Saturday we had a good day! We knocked some doors on Elder Place, so that was pretty neat. We met one person that told us we could come back. Other than that it was a lot of nice people that weren't interested. All the appointments we had set up got cancelled, so we tried by a few more people, did some more finding, and had dinner! It was a good day, full of real missionary work. It was hard work, but that's always a good thing.
Sunday was normal for a Sunday. We were at our bishops house for a while last night, and while we were there he goes "hey Elders, how are dinners looking this week?" So we told him that the calendar was pretty empty.. he then proceeded to email the ward and tell them that... so now we have a dinner every day this week lol. Bishop came in clutch!
Well that was my week, I hope you all had a great week and were able to stay warm! Here's a good scripture for you to look up, remember that no effort is wasted! Moroni 9:6
Work hard and make the most of anything you do!
Elder Reynolds
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