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Howdy!

 

Quick update on training: It's possibly the most fun thing I've ever done. Our biggest problem right now is that we get along too well - like, we'll start laughing when we shouldn't and can't stop. For example, we'll be praying and we'll accidentally say something funny and then we'll start laughing and can't finish the prayer. The struggle is real. Also, yesterday in church we went to the gospel principles class and the lesson was on the Law of Chastity, and the first thing the teacher asked was "okay, so what's procreation?" And it just went downhill from there. I think all of the missionaries were trying really hard to keep it together. After about 15 minutes we just couldn't handle it anymore so we had to step outside in the hall and regroup and come up with a plan of how we would be able to participate without laughing. Also, I think we've been really exhausted this week, so that hasn't helped. But we've gotten a little better and the focus is improving :)

 

I feel like our area is improving and we're getting a better grasp of what's going down here, and we're seeing lots of miracles.
I know that cool things happened this week, but I honestly can't remember what. One cool story.. We found an old investigator named Dominic, and he's been taught everything twice. He's pretty prepared (with a couple of holes that need filling - like he still believes in rosaries and things like that), but he just got out of jail and is on Probation for 10 years, so he'll have to get first presidency permission to be baptized. He's super funny - he always refers to us as "man." He also may or may not be a kleptomaniac.. we're gonna have to figure that one out.

 

We had 2 blitzes this week (where other missionaries come and help us find investigators in our area), and because of that we had to spend a ton of time planning. By the time Thursday came around we were just done with planning and I never wanted to look at my planner again. But, we found 7 new investigators this week. Which is a lot. There were a lot of miracles involved in that, but sadly all of the times we found new people where when we were on exchanges or they were found my other missionaries for us,

so our goal this week is to actually find some people together :)

We've been biking a lot this week and I've come to really love biking - especially when we're biking home at night and it's quiet except for the birds and the sun is almost gone and the fireflies are out - it's kind of magical. The not magical part of our week is that we have weird bugs all over our house. Like, in our shower we found a bunch of weird black bugs, and some other bugs in the kitchen, and then we found a huge cockroach and an earwig and so I'm ready for that to be done.

 

Oh also we had interviews with the President this week and that was super great - I had a really long interview with him and he answered a lot of questions I'd been having, and I also got to train on Body Language to the missionaries who weren't in interviews - it was super fun :)

 

Okay, well lots of love from here :) Have a great week!

 

Hermana Reynolds