Well Hello Family and Friends!
Another great week on Temple Square!
The weather is getting warmer so this brings happiness to my soul! Although the
picture I am attaching will show you otherwise.
Well, I am not sure exactly
what to tell you. Things are busy. We Have been very blessed. Sister Elliott
and I accept every lesson and tour we can get and every person we talk to has
an open heart. I don't know if it's coming back from outbound or what, but I
just feel like everyone is so nice! I always feel extremely blessed on Temple
Square. I have felt this my whole mission. Why am I so lucky to serve here - it
is such a special place. This week I especially have felt so lucky to get to
witness people really feeling the spirit for the first time... I have heard it
my whole mission but it just meant more to me this week, when people say things
like, "everyone here is so nice!", "this is the cleanest city I've
ever seen", "This place is so happy". I was also able to hear
peoples small testimonies, "I know Jesus is my Savior", "I have
a testimony of tithing too!", "that makes sense that God would have a
prophet today".........It's just so good to feel of people's goodness and
to see people's countenance's change.
Yesterday we had an investigator
lesson. His name is Nick and wants to be baptized so we helped him set a date for
April 6 (I don't know how that's going to work with conference). He just didn't
feel like he was good enough and didn't think he could be baptized! We shared
with him Mosiah 18 and that all he needs is that faith in Christ and a desire
to follow him the rest of his life. Nick is a sweet man and I was grateful that
Heavenly Father let me feel his love during the lesson.
Things are pretty crazy with the
concert coming up on the 15th. We use our dinner, lunch, and texting time to
practice. I am grateful I get to sing Amazing Grace with sister Osorio. It
sounds good. The other numbers I am in I am not a fan of.... choreographing...blah..
This last week we met with our zone
to explain that the Key indicators that we use for the mission were going to be
changing. We focused on our purpose and tried to help them to have faith that
this will be a good change. I know that this mission is in the Lord 's hands
and that line upon line it is changing and shifting to be what the Lord wants
it to be. We have meetings all the time with the missionary department as to
what we need to do to be more effective. Its good.
One other thing that makes things
crazy is Sister Elliott and I cover for our zone in the venues when things come
up. So, that means we are in west gate and guest services a lot. it's all good
though.
Sister Elliott reminds me a lot of a
combination of Jessica and Sarah. She's got a cackle like Jessica....so ridiculous.
After planning at night we always end up lying there like lazy bums until like
10:15 and then we scramble to get everything prepared for the next day in 15
minutes. We just can help but talk all the time and laugh. Life is Good. Oh
to answer your questions about Sister Elliott, the reason she wears the French
flag is because she has French citizenship and she speaks French. Her mom is
Tahitian (French Polynesia) and dad is American. Her Dads in the
Military so she's grown up all around the world. Her family currently resides
in Germany.
Oh one more announcement. President
Gillette read us a letter from the First Presidency telling us that
missionaries are now allowed to communicate with family and FRIENDS over email.
We now have another hour for email
time. So feel free to give my email out to people so they can write me. I doubt
I will ever use that extra hour of email time...haha...
Hurrah For Israel!
Sister Reynders
PS...Guess what we are doing for p-day
today?! Disney on Ice! Woot Woot!
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