LAST WEEK OF TRANSFER!

Hello my dear people of other states!

This is Shania! i met her while
on my exchange with Sister Hammond!
they are both great people! we had lots of fun together!

 What a week it has been! it has been full of miracles and fun times! We had the chance to have a zone Conference on Tuesday! AMAZING!!! I was so overcome with the spirit as all of the elders and sisters in my area came together to learn and bare testimony to each other! We focused on the Doctrine of Christ as usual and we also talked a lot about charity and love. (Well at least that’s what I got out of it :)) We, just as our individual Zone, shared scriptures that show us that Christ loves us personally. So many good scriptures were shared. The one that I had shared was 2 kings 6:16. I LOVE this scripture! It reminds me that I am never alone even when we think things are hopeless! Our heavenly father is always here for us! What an amazing blessing! Overall, it was a great day!

 I can’t believe that it is the last week of the transfer already! Time is flying and it is freaking me out a bit!! Ha ha! I went on an exchange with a sister who is about to go home. It really put into perspective how fast things go and how I need to appreciate every part of it, even the hard times. I am trying to recommit myself to the work and really try hard to do all I can to improve and help those around me! 

 On that exchange we went to a sweet Indian family’s house. They are recent converts and are trying to better understand the gospel. Their English isn’t the best but they are doing super good from what I can see! Their daughter is about 7 years old and at the end of the lesson she was determined to teach us how to dance in the Indian culture... so we did! I have found my passion in life. Indian music and dancing 😂 they kept telling me and my companion for the day that we were doing really well but that had to be out of pity! Ha ha! It was a fun time though.  I love the experiences I have had thus far on my mission! Memories for the making!

end of the exchange pictures i love them 

 GOOD NEWS!!!!!! Sammi, our investigator in Sunrise, and Paula, our investigator in Graham, are both thinking that baptism on June 10th is what they want to do!!!!!!! YEAHHHHH! Sister Tayco and I are so excited for them. Sammi bore her testimony about the gospel and how it has changed her life on Sunday! These two have such sweet spirits and I’m eternally grateful to know them! Keep them in your prayers if you would! 

 We got to watch the YSA devotional last night as a zone and it was sooo good! I’m not sure if any of you have been able to watch it but if you haven’t I would suggest you watch it! Kim B. Clark was the main speaker as well as his wife. He spoke about Joseph smith and the book of Mormon. It was so powerful. It was very different from other devotional topics I’ve hear but I definitely needed to hear about it! The spirit was there for sure❤

 One last thing and then I will close this narrative of my life... for now :) I have been reading the conference talks from April a lot and one talk in particular stood out to me this week. It was the talk titled 'Don’t Look Around, Look up!' by Elder Yoon Hwan Choi. I absolutely LOVED this talk when it was first given. Especially because it mentions Washington but something that stood out to me as I re-read it was this paragraph, 

"All of us are in the middle of an eternal family. Our role can be a turning point at which significant changes can occur in positive or negative ways. President Hinckley continued, “Never permit yourself to become a weak link in the chain of your generations.”3 Your faithfulness in the gospel will strengthen your family. 

I loved this! I think one of the biggest fears of missionaries is to come home and lose the spirit we have had for the past few years and to fall less active in the church. While reading this I realized that it is so important that I don’t just keep the spirit now but ALWAYS!! He also stated this at the end,

It’s not always easy to look up when your parents are opposed to the gospel, when you are a member of a small Church unit, when your spouse is not a member, when you are still single although you did your best to marry, when a child has strayed, when you find yourself a single parent, when you are physically or emotionally challenged, when you are a victim in a disaster, and so on. Hold on to your faith in those hard times. Look up to Christ for strength, balance, and healing. Through the power of the Atonement of Jesus Christ, “all things shall work together for [your] good.”8

We need to remember our savior in our times of trials. I know that we all face weak moments in our testimony but we need to LOOK UP! The savior will help us to feel the spirit more. If we do this I know that we won’t become that weak link and that the circumstances we are in won’t affect out testimonies. I hope that all makes sense to you but it really touches my heart! i love you all so very much! i hope that your week is AMAZING!! never forget that I love you all but more importantly the Lord loves you!

 Sister Reynolds