Questions and Answers

I feel a little silly because I am so bad at writing letters that dear Mother has to give me a questionnaire...but hey I like it ....I don't have to think! You should do this more often. I will just copy and paste your questions here.

Tell us more about who you are living with.  Are there children in the home?  Do you just have a bedroom?  Have they had missionaries living with them long? The Wilkinsons are the best! Seriously, I love them! I am so grateful I have people to take care of us! They have a daughter but she doesn't live here permanently. She comes and goes on weekends. Both of them are perfect and I want to be like them when I grow up! Bro. Wilkinson is a crack up and I have to be careful to not let myself get to sarcastic when I am around him! He's hilarious!

How did transfers go?  Hopefully you are in the same spot with the same companion. Yeah! I am still with Sister LeDoux and we are in the same area but they added another ward to our area! So we now have, Saltese, Mika Peak, and Greenacres. We are living in the same spot.

Tell us a little more about Sister Ledoux.  Are you friends or "Bosom Friends"?  Is she going back to BYU after the mission?  Would you want to live with her? Ahhh, so you wanna hear more about Sister LeDoux eh? Yes we are "Bosom Friends"! I would love to live with her if she was going to BYU but she's probably not. She has a pretty balanced personality  so I don't have to balance things out to make things normal....ok that's probably confusing.....but this is kind of the root difference in being "friends" and "bosom Friends."  What I am trying to say is that Sister Ledoux is balanced, thus resulting in me not having to put out any effort to make things balanced so I am able to completely be myself! I have never had a companion that we've been able to have the "yellow" personality trait in our companionship.  I love her because she is obedient, wants to do her best, wants to follow the spirit, and is hilarious. Our sense of humor is grand....I've never really considered myself a funny person...till now! If I could relate her to one person it would be Janna Blair.

Have you been riding your bike as much in the cold?  Do Sisters from the ward ever go on splits with you? We haven't been out on our bikes as much since its been cold...but we are going to have to soon because we have a new ward and they didn't give us more miles so that means more biking.

Are you guys teaching any one right now?  Of course we are! We are teaching like crazy!.....now is anyone progressing...well....yes! haha We've got Annie Oakly (name changed for her protection..could you tell?) She was a referral from a lady in our ward. She is Christian and has 3 kids. Right now we are just trying to figure out if she spiritually is interested or intellectually. We are also teaching the Rudolfs (haha these name changes are crackin' me up)..They were another member referral and they are elderly:) By the end of the lessons my throat hurts because I have to yell the whole time so they can hear me!  We work a lot with less actives and this week we put our heart and soul into helping Bobby Beercans.(hehe) My heart hurts so much for him. He is very sad, and so stuck in his life and he doesn't have the motivation to change his ways. He is an alcoholic, very old and isn't taking care of himself. This last week we cleaned his house, played him tune on the guitar, lied and said we knew how to cut hair...when we didn't....so he would let us cut his.  We also got him to shave his beard and  to change his sweater(first time since I've been here.) We sang him "Nearer my God to thee" and we all just wept  along with his other inactive neighbor. I feel so bad for him, because I feel God's heart aching for Bobby to come onto him. 

Have you done any fun outings on your P-days? Nah, sometimes we hang at the Stake Center with the Elders in our zone they play basket ball.

How often do you interview with the President? I don't know...I've never had one except when I first got here.

Have you gotten my snail mail letters? Yes I have and they make me VERY happy:)

Are you not sending pictures by choice or because you are not allowed to or what? By choice. I don't take that many and I am just lazy.

This week has been crazy because we've been in a trio because a temple square sister came on Wednesday. Sister Fleginskaya is from Russia. Yes, I knew her and was so happy to have her! She is the one Sister missionary that made it into the conference Ensign. Anyways it was a miracle  because 2 weeks ago we ran into a Russian couple but had no way of speaking to them because they don't speak English. We just gave them a daily dose card (a English speaking class) and left. But then Sister Fleginskaya came and the first thing we did was go teach them and guess what?  We've met with them twice and are meeting with them again tonight! They have read 16 chapters of the BOM already!! 

I do want you to know I know God loves each of us very much and knows what we all are going through individually. He wants us to make and keep our covenants! Don't break your covenants.

I love you all and hope you had a great Thanksgiving! Feel free to send me your favorite talks, tender mercies, your testimony, your heritage stories...anything.  I love to feel the strength  of those I love and respect so much!

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Hurrah For Israel!

-Sister Reynders