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| Graham Washington |
How are you all
doing? I hope that your past week has been marvelous :) Life in Washington is
great and I sure love this weather. Rain every day! It’s my favorite ;) haha
but really it hasn’t been bad and now I can leave the house without tights or
leggings of some sort so that’s a plus! Everything is blooming and the sun
still tries to come out even when the rain is there. i appreciate its
effort.
Graham is
absolutely beautiful! I really love everything about it! My heart is happy
every time I drive around and see all the trees, flowers, and animals that are
out and about. God is good and He has blessed us with an amazing place to live.
I have lots of pictures of the area I’m in so hopefully ya'll can get a better
idea of what it looks like.
Sister Tayco and
I have had lots of fun this week. We have met some interesting people and we
will have stories for days by the time our time here is done. I can’t share all
of them because I will get carpel tunnel. One that I would like to share though
is from sacrament meeting yesterday. So first off, y’all need to know that we
double cover 2 wards and their ward council and sacrament times overlap so one
of us is with one ward and the other one is in the other ward. This week I was
in the Graham ward. While sitting there listening to
the speakers and trying to
listen hard and receive some guidance on somethings I hear one of the speakers
start talking about his yellow canary. He proceeded to tell us about how much
he and his wife love these birds and how they sing beautifully, especially on a
sunny day. He told us that one afternoon the bird wasn't singing and it was odd
because it was a beautiful day. He and his wife held the bird and examined it
to see what was wrong. During his inspection he found a bump on the bird’s
ankle right below a ring that it had on its ankle. (Apparently all the canary's
are given this ring when they are born.) His idea was to cut the ring off and
see if the swelling would go down. So, he took a pair of pliers and tried to
cut the ring off. During this he scraped the birds toe and made it bleed a lot,
he also got the ring off by the way. He looked at his wife and told her that
the bird was going to die because of the loss of blood, at this point he said
his wife was crying and telling him to fix it. So here is what he did. He said
the only logical thing he could think of was to cut the bird’s entire foot
off..... So, HE DID!!!!!! This man just took the pliers and CUT OF HIS BIRDS
FOOT!!!!! I was dying. I’m pretty sure my entire body was moving from trying to
hold in laughter! Everyone, when your birds toe is cut please don’t jump to
cutting its foot off!. The story ended by him telling us that the bird lived
and now he can balance on his little nub foot. Sister Tayco and I will be
visiting the family so hopefully I can see this bird for myself and possibly
send a picture... hahaha |
| Sister Tayco and Sister Reynolds |
Anyway, life really is
good and I am so grateful to be here on this mission. It’s been kind of hard to
not think about the fact that mother’s day is soon AND my half way mark. I have
been able to make it through though because of the atonement of our savior
Jesus Christ. I recently listened to a broadcast of this talk with sister Tayco,
it was called the 17 points of the true church. (or something like that) if you
can find it PLEASE listen to it! It is his search for the true church and it is
powerful. As I was listening, and then studying the 17 points, I have had my
testimony of this church grow so much. Through the things that Christ taught us
we can know that this is his church and that we are part of something greater
than we could ever imagine! it is amazing!
I love you all
so much and am grateful for your prayers, emails and letters! You are all
AMAZING! Have a good week! Love you all
Sister Reynolds
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