Day of the Eclipse

Friends!

 HAPPY BIRTHDAY President Monson!! Isn’t it amazing that we have a prophet of God leading and guiding our church today!? What a  blessing it is. I know he is a prophet of God. We are a part of the restoration of the church. It’s amazing that we have been blessed to be here and see the miracles of each day. I am so grateful for the priesthood power of God!!

On another note,  TODAY IS THE DAY THAT EVERYONE HAS BEEN SAYING IS THE END OF THE WORLD. So far I have yet to die. The only thing is that my eyes can’t see much because the sun has decided to be as bright as… well, the sun I guess. This solar eclipse has been all the rage here in Washington! Everyone we meet has been talking about it and how they are planning on going to Oregon or Idaho to see the full thing. We were able to get special glasses thanks to our STL's and watched it today. It was 93% covered by 10:20. It truly was an amazing thing to see and it was a blessing that we had a clear blue sky day here in Washington. I won’t lie though, even with looking through the glasses my eyes and head hurt... hopefully all will be well ;) 

 We had a crazy week. Some weird things went down but I guess those make for good memories. Sister Morris and I were knocking doors and we went down to talk to these guys who lived on this random farm in the middle of a normal neighborhood. They were outside roping. We said hi and apparently one of them had spoken to missionaries previously and so we talked briefly but they said they weren’t interested. I was going to try to salvage the conversation by asking to rope with them but then one of them had this sly look in his eyes and said, " we don’t need anything but would you ladies like to have a beer with us?" oh my lanta. My friend the only beer that is good for the soul is root beer. I don’t think that was what he was offering so I declined and quickly made Sister Morris walk away with me haha! Good times, Still sad that I didn’t rope but of well. 

 Members in the Garrison Creek ward found out it was my Birthday a few weeks ago so they took us out to lunch on Saturday! We went to this restaurant called Amantes and it had some amazing Italian food! I got a Calzone that was the size of my face. I’m STILL trying to finish it! They also brought me flowers which was very kind of them. Renton is a great place :)

 I don’t know if I talked about this last week but we got a new car! It is a 2017 Toyota corolla. I don’t understand how they trust teenagers to drive these cars but I’m grateful. As I’ve been driving I’ve found out it has some fun features, for instance, when I go out of the lines at all, it beeps at me and then takes over the wheel and puts me back in the lane. Whenever I put it on cruise control I can set how many cars apart I would like to be. I feel like I’m invincible... but also like I’m driving something that may be smarter than me so that’s freaky. We are trying to think of a name for it so if you have any ideas let us know :)

 We were contacting the other day and we talked to this man who at first said his name was Mula. (like money) turns out it was Ed.  Ed was nice, his mom is a member and his sister just got baptized not too long ago. He wasn’t interested but he talked to us for a while. He said we should add him on snapchat and I told him we couldn’t have snapchat till we got home. He said he knew that and he had a past missionary who took his snapchat name and added him later. So I now have a snapchat name from Ed. I told him I would send him scriptures and he just laughed. I can honestly say this is a first for me! He was super cool though and I pray that his heart will be softened towards the gospel.

 I am so grateful for this call to serve. I’ve realized that this isn’t an easy thing to do but so far I haven’t done anything that was this rewarding. I was reading in Jacob 2 and I loved verse 8, 

 "...come up hither to hear the pleasing word of God, yea, the word which healeth the wounded soul."

I know this is true. I have seen so many times in my own life and in the lives of others how the word of God has healed them. We met with this woman who was finally coming back into activity after many years of not coming to church. She said it wasn’t until she truly read the Book of Mormon for herself that she realized her potential and the blessings that God is waiting to pour out to us. I love that. I know that it is true. We go through these times in our life s that are so hard and for us we may not see the hand of God helping us but if we will read from the scriptures and study the words of the prophets all things will be made known unto us and we will be healed! What an amazing thing! I have said it a million times before but I would invite you to read the Book of Mormon either for the 1st time or the 100th time! You will always learn. I know it is true. I feel it in my heart. I have found healing in the things it testifies of. I love you all and I love this gospel!!

Have an AMAZING week!!!

Sister Reynolds