So this week has just flown by! WOW!
Things are going so well. Last week when we were walking out from
emailing one of the host in the JSMB asked us if we could come with him to his
office and visit with a man who wants to be baptized. So we met with him and
his name is Trevor! Without going into too much detail, he has been really
prepared and is now living in Salt Lake and feels God has been prompting him to
look into the LDS church! Anyways, we taught him right then and there
and continued over the phone and now he has successfully transitioned
to the missionaries here. I am so excited
for him to receive the many blessings that Heavenly Father has been
waiting to give him!
We also got word that Fernando has a
baptismal date set for the 29th of September! We actually called him when he
was meeting with the missionaries in Brazil and talked to those missionaries on
the phone....kind of "fubeca" (portuguese word...look it up.)
Michael, who I taught with Sister
Kleine back in my 2nd transfer is also getting baptized that same day! It has
been a long road for Michael, but he really knows the church is true.
This last week we did a couple
Hospitality Bus Tours. When we went and picked them up from the banquet room in
the Lion House where they were eating, I
was telling them where the bathrooms were and then I said, "Where you able
to go?...." Then one of the men
spoke up and said, " Well, don't you think that's a little
personal?".........jokes were flying, everyone was laughing...and I was dying!
It was funny and we laughed a lot:).....woopsy
doo....
OK, I just have to brag for a second
this week....(I don't know why) but it just hit me that I know a lot of facts
about the history of this place. It's kind of cool. Ok done.
On Sunday We went and sang/spoke in
a ward in Murray Utah. I think I was
more nervous about getting there alive than I was about speaking. Ya'll know
how greatly I dislike driving and I had to drive!! But it was so good to be in a family ward.
Public speaking becomes a lot easier on the mission. I talked about faith in
Jesus Christ in our families. I started off by talking about my own family. I told
them about my dad and how every time I asked permission to go and do something
his response was, "Only if you promise to go on a mission and get married
in the temple!" I told them about
my dad and how it was never a question for me if he had faith in Jesus Christ
because it was taught to me through example. My dad knew that through serving
others and making and keeping covenants in the temple, that that was where we
could find peace and happiness. I shared about my Great, great, great,
(hopefully that's right) grandmother Mary Elizabeth Rollins and her example of
faith in Jesus Christ as she courageously saved those important pages
of scriptures from the mobs. There was a good spirit in the meeting and I was
very grateful to partake in it. Pres. Seppi (2nd counselor in our mission
presidency) showed up in the back and then afterwards invited us over for
lunch. It was a nice break from the Square.
Last P-day we went to the Greek
festival! It was so fun! I kind of feel like a celebrity walking around Salt
Lake as a missionary! Everyone is like OOOOOHHH there's the Sister
Missionaries! And they paid for all our food and we got all this free jewelry
from one of the booths! It was great! It was fun being out in the community as
well:)
Well life is good and I am sure glad
I am here and not anywhere else in my life.
In District meeting this week we
focused on "Crying repentance",
and that every single person needs some sort of healing through the
atonement of Jesus Christ and we can be a part in that healing.
Life is Good. Hurrah For Israel! Do
Some good.
Sister Reynders
-a Missionary for The Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
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