Ice Ice Baby!

Hey everyone, just Elder Reynolds here reporting on a wonderful cold week in Wisconsin. We got plenty of weird weather, which caused there to be almost a half inch of ice layering everything by Sunday morning.... so that was a little bit fun for us! But we had some freezing rain on Tuesday night, and the ice just never went away. I never thought it would be that bad, but then it snowed just a little on top of it and man, that made it real slick. So I may or may not have fallen and embarrassed myself at least once 😉 but other than the ice it has been a pretty good week!

We had a good p day on Monday, we went to guitar center because elder Olsen loves guitars and doesn't get to play one that often, so we went there and he played guitars for like an hour and then we went over to the church. It was a good time, but not a ton of other missionaries were there. Either way it was good!

Tuesday we had a day full of missionary work! We were on exchanges, and I was with elder Rich in our area. We did some finding, got to teach Emily a lesson! So this was a cool experience. We got to her house and the member was there too, so we get in and Emily walks into another room and comes back with her Book of Mormon and a notepad of questions!! People this doesn't just happen everyday!! It was really cool to see her questions and have the chance to respond to them, good times! It's always fun to get to teach someone that actually studies and cares to learn! It was one of my favorite lessons in this area so far!

Wednesday we had interviews with president Williams! So those pretty much take the entire day because our district is really big and for some reason we always end up going last. Anyway, after those we had exchanged with the assistants and I was with elder Pinter again! He is a really good guy, and we got to go to Zupas for dinner with a member! After dinner we had a couple people to drop by, and we gave a book of mormon to one of them, so hopefully it goes well as he starts to read it!

Thursday we had a pretty normal day. We were with the assistants for most of the day, so it was fun to go tract, and stop by some people. We tried messaging some old missionaries that had served here before to see if there was anyone that they thought would be good to stop by, and we got a couple of good responses! Then we had dinner with our ward mission leader and it was a great time! I love him, and his family.

Friday was a really good day! We started the day off with a church tour with Mary Ann! It is only the 2nd church tour I have done on my mission, and it was good! The spirit was really strong, and we invited her to be baptized while we were looking at the font.... she said no. Which wasn't a surprise, because she claims to be reading the Book of Mormon just to learn about it, but if you learn about it you have to decide if it's true or not and then that leads to change! She doesn't quite understand that we don't think, but it was a cool lesson at the church! Then Friday night we had a lesson with "Momma Jean"! She is a super nice older lady that we have met with a couple times now and she told us that "I usually go to an all black church, but I feel so much sincerity from you, so I want to come to your church". So that was pretty cool! She wasn't able to come this week, but hopefully in the future she can!

Saturday was a long day, we basically had weekly planning, calls, and dinner. The rest of the time was spent finding people to teach. And it was alright, but not the funnest day of the week!

Sunday we had church, and we spent about 30 minutes between ward council and church chipping away at the ice that was on the sidewalks. Turns out it was pretty useless cause we didn't even get half of the church sidewalks done, but maybe they will get there one day! I also slipped twice on Sunday.... one of them no one but my companions saw, so it wasn't as bad, but the second one was right as we were leaving a members house.... I slipped down the stairs and like 3 of their family saw it... real embarrassing moment for me right there. Good times tho!

BIG NEWS!
The missionary email address for me is changing from bryce.reynolds@myldsmail.net to bryce.reynolds@missonary.org
Kinda weird, but its cool! If you accidentally send something to my old email it will be fine, but starting tomorrow I will have that new email address!

Anyway, I hope you all have a great week! This week I was thinking lots about what it means to take the name of Jesus Christ upon us, like we covenant to at baptism. Well I decided that it can mean a lot of things, but that most importantly it means that we are willing to publicly say that we believe in Christ! We need to have the courage to stand up for what we believe in! I think that's interesting, and powerful too. 

Elder Reynolds

We met this guy who calls himself Corey "the truth". He apparently cuts missionaries hair really cheap....not sure if he does a good job or not, but it's alright!  It was really random and funny that we met him randomly walking down the street.