Homeless men...

Hello everyone!

 I would like to start out this email by telling you about what I am seeing right now. It might help you understand what it is like to live in Kent Washington. So I’m at the library and these homeless men came in. two of them are just sleeping trying to stay warm i assume because it decided to snow again, and then their friend showed up. He walked in carrying a stereo and a huge bag of weed. This man is now jumping around and singing while hitting the table like it is a drum. His friends are looking like him like he is crazy and he just keeps laughing and telling him to sit down. Update, he is now tucking in his friend and trying to play music. I love the people here! They make me smile. These are the folks who keep things interesting!

 Any way, this has been a good week! We have seen lots of blessings and we have been able to teach lots of people and we hopefully will have some new investigators soon! I’ll give some updates on that later.

 Lauren is getting baptized on SATURDAY!!!!! I am so excited for her! She is super stoked to be a member and she is going to do amazing things in the gospel! I feel very blessed to have been able to be a part of her process of becoming a member of this church! God is amazing! 

 Another fun story about the people of Kent, Apparently, the Oscars were yesterday (who knew). We went finding and we knocked on this man’s door named mike. When he opened the door he was smoking and had a cocktail in his hand. He told us we were interrupting his Oscar time but if we wanted we could come in and watch it with him. We told him we couldn’t do that and he stopped us and said, in his slurred speech, " no really. It’s not that big of a deal. You can come in, I’ll make cocktails for ya’ll and ill even put on pants." he was quite hospitable but we had to decline. We said maybe next time and then he said in a very concerned voice " do you not understand the Oscars are only once a YEAR!? Again, I just love these people!

 The work is good and Washington is still Washington! I am enjoying it here and I’m very grateful to be serving! I recently read 3 Nephi 19. I would invite you all to read it! It is amazing to be able to read about our savior praying to our Father. It is truly powerful to hear him pleading for us, his disciples to have the spirit. I know that Christ is praying for us and that he smiles on us as we pray to our Father in Heaven! Thank you all for being such amazing examples to me! I love you!

Sister Reynolds