Weekly Wanderings (and Wonderings)

We've had some fun developments this week! At the beginning of this transfer we had been sharing our house with a trio of sisters working in the Edinburg YSA branch, and then about 2 weeks into the transfer another sister in another area had to go home for health reasons, so one of the sisters from the Edinburg trio went over to be with her. then on Saturday, another companion here in Edinburg had to go home, so now the last companion is in a trio with us. So until Transfers it will be Me, Hortal, and Sister Perez :) It's been fun! 

Also, remember when President said we had to cut back on our trips with the APs to other zones? well, he completely cut that out now, so we're going to have to do 100% of our travelling by ourselves. Not a big deal, but we actually don't get unlimited mileage like we thought we would, so we'll have to be a bike area and then just use our car for far trips. Transfers happens next week, and as much as we'k love to stay together I'm pretty positive that we're not going to. I don't know if I'll leave or if Hortal will leave, or both, or what, but I'll let you know next week when I know :)

Okay, so here's the spiritual thought for the week:

I read this talk somewhere called "becoming Christ-Centered" by Steven R Covey. Sadly, I can't find it anymore. But, it changed a lot of my perspective and thoughts on life, and I"ve pondered it a lot since then. Basically the premise is that we all have parts of ourselves that are identified by other things - by our positions, our relationships, our leadership, etc. But that can become a problem if one of those things changes or gets taken away, because then our "identity" gets shaken. Also, it can cause us to compare a lot and be unhappy. So, the trick is to make it so that Christ is the only thing that defines us. It's a life-long process, and has a lot to do with listening to the promptings of the Holy Ghost, but I thought that was a really cool thought. I've caught myself many times since reading that comparing myself to others, and then realize that it doesn't matter and I just have to care about what Christ thinks! It's actually quite liberating. 

Anyway, I hope that made sense and gives you something to chew on mentally for this next week :)

love you all!

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Hermana Reynolds

3 day!

first off, the shift key on this keyboard is not functioning very well, except for exclamation points. so don't judge any lack of proper capitalization in this email. 

we had "3 day" this week! it's a 3 day training (go figure) for all the leadership - zone leaders, district leaders, sister training leaders, and we receive trainings from president maluenda and his wife and the zone leaders and stls and aps all give trainings, too. it was very inspiring and i learned mucho.

here are a couple of the golden nuggets that i gained:

the importance of the book of mormon: president maluenda had us read from the first page before the intro, where it's the introduction taken from the end of the plates. in it it says that the book of mormon was writted by god through revelation and is for the convincing of everyone that jesus is the christ. he emphasized that we have to have a rock-solid testimony of the book of mormon, because that's what's going to keep us firm. he said that if we can learn to use the book of mormon for the basis of all our teaching, especially with our family, then it will be so much more powerful. he talked a lot about the importance of basing our families in the teachings of the book of mormon. he said "you will learn who you are from reading the book of mormon"

our divine identity: president maluenda shared alma 13, where it talks about the melchizedek priesthood, and read verse 3 where it says what qualified the holders of the melchizedek priesthood for that privilege. he said that the percentage of people who hold it is somewhere around 1.5 out of every 7,000 people. he also said that the women who have access to it are part of those people who in the pre-earth life had "exercised faith and had exceedingly good works" and because of that, all of us are here, holding or with access to the priesthood, and that's one of the biggest privileges ever. it's pretty astounding! i don't think any of us really understand who exactly we are. but that makes a big difference in my teaching, because I've been able to be with people and think "what if they were selected to have the priesthood and they just have to be taught?" and i'm able to be a little more diligent in my efforts to help them have the gospel.

well, i love you all!

until next week

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Hermana Reynolds

Re: One Year Older and Wiser, Too?

Love your new red/purple hair Megan!

On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 10:55 AM, Roslyn Geertsen <roslyn.rr@gmail.com> wrote:

Thanks so much - love the pictures...love YOU!

On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 10:55 AM, Megan Reynolds <megan.reynolds@myldsmail.net> wrote:

Hi! I took time catching up on personal emails today, so this will be short. Mothers Day/Birthday were both magical - it was fun to Skype and see those of you who could make it!

hope all is well - here are a couple of pictures from yesterday :)

Love you!

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Hermana Reynolds

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Roslyn Romney Reynolds Geertsen
Mentor, Eternal Warriors/Mothers Who Know trainings, Preventing Addiction and Building Self-Mastery
Author, Solo -Getting It All Together When You Find Yourself Alone now available at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and www.heartbreaktohealing.com
email roslyn.rr@gmail.com
www.roslynreynolds.com
(801)867-7031

Re: One Year Older and Wiser, Too?

Thanks so much - love the pictures...love YOU!

On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 10:55 AM, Megan Reynolds <megan.reynolds@myldsmail.net> wrote:

Hi! I took time catching up on personal emails today, so this will be short. Mothers Day/Birthday were both magical - it was fun to Skype and see those of you who could make it!

hope all is well - here are a couple of pictures from yesterday :)

Love you!

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Hermana Reynolds

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Roslyn Romney Reynolds Geertsen
Mentor, Eternal Warriors/Mothers Who Know trainings, Preventing Addiction and Building Self-Mastery
Author, Solo -Getting It All Together When You Find Yourself Alone now available at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and www.heartbreaktohealing.com
email roslyn.rr@gmail.com
www.roslynreynolds.com
(801)867-7031

One Year Older and Wiser, Too?

Hi! I took time catching up on personal emails today, so this will be short. Mothers Day/Birthday were both magical - it was fun to Skype and see those of you who could make it!

hope all is well - here are a couple of pictures from yesterday :)

Love you!

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Hermana Reynolds

Re: another week :)

These are beautiful!!!!

On Mon, May 2, 2016 at 11:00 AM, Megan Reynolds <megan.reynolds@myldsmail.net> wrote:

a few more :)

On Mon, May 2, 2016 at 11:58 AM, Megan Reynolds <megan.reynolds@myldsmail.net> wrote:

Hi! 

Nothing too new happened this week - we saw lots of miracles, I got to go back to Brownsville, and life is still good. I'll include some pictures, and then I'll include some of the transcript from when Holland was here - it's really good :) 

Love you!

M

"I'm really quite easy to get along with and I'm especially partial to missionaries but there is one thing I cannot live with. I'm warning you now. Im warning you now. There is one thing I can't live with. And that is a missionary I find who has forgotten, or dismissed, or walked away or was failing devotion, and belief, or commitment. But I can't live somehow, emotionally, with a return missionary who doesn't keep the faith, I would rather find somebody who never knew it. I would rather find somebody who never had it. As sad as I am about anybody who wouldn't go on a mission, I would rather find somebody who didn't serve a mission and was struggling or disbelieving, or unfaithful, but for a missionary to come and do what you do, and to say what you say, and feel what you feel about them, and it's all true. The gospel is true, and they're true, and you're true, and the lessons are true, and the scriptures are true, for you to come and have that, and say that, and do that, and believe it, and then to walk away, I can't live with that. So look I'm warning you now, if you're gonna go home and crash and burn, don't meet me. If you're walking down the street somebody better cross over. Because I go ballistic at that. I've gone ballistic in a missionary meeting where I thought the missionaries weren't getting anything out of the meeting.

We don't make any u turns in this church this isn't something that you do for a couple years and somehow you just check it of your list and then you're gonna go back to real life.. listen right now, listen, this is real life. This is closer to real life that you are ever going to come. Capital R capital L. This is the way the truth and the life. We are not the church that believes that you go out and have this moment this divine confrontation with the spirit of the Lord and power from heaven and then walk away from it. We do not move from the celestial kingdom to the telestial, this is the church that believes in eternal progression. And were on this angle and this route and this progression and you do different things you are gonna go home and you're gonna get married and you're going to have children and you're going to have great experiences, yes. But those will seem to be progressive steps in your exaltation and you cannot walk away and turn aside and forget and disregard and demean what got you there, what gave you the opportunity to even talk progression to even talk about the celestial kingdom a celestial experience. "

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Hermana Reynolds

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Hermana Reynolds

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Roslyn Romney Reynolds Geertsen
Mentor, Eternal Warriors/Mothers Who Know trainings, Preventing Addiction and Building Self-Mastery
Author, Solo -Getting It All Together When You Find Yourself Alone now available at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and www.heartbreaktohealing.com
email roslyn.rr@gmail.com
www.roslynreynolds.com
(801)867-7031