Grateful for another week

Hello Friends!!

Temple trip North area

 It has been a good week! I am grateful we got to start it off with the temple last Tuesday and I was able to be spiritually uplifted throughout the week! What a blessing.

 We had new missionary follow up training for Sister Morris this week. It went really well! We talked a lot about struggles we have in our specific areas and we also talked about the Doctrine of Christ. I love that throughout every Gospel related thing we learn about Christs Doctrine. faith in the Atonement of Jesus Christ, Repentance, baptism, receiving the gift of the Holy Ghost and Enduring to the end are scattered throughout the scriptures, words of the prophets and every-other thing you can think of!! It’s amazing!

We went to a 5 dollar car wash just so we could give
 these people an 'I'm a Mormon' card.. so worth it

 Sister Morris and I are trying to be more creative while tracting. We have spent a lot of time thinking about different things and we have decided to work with boards. We made one board that has different questions like, "what gives you motivation" or "how do you strengthen your family". On the back we have printed out different options that they can choose to put as answers to the questions. Kinda silly but it has been working! Especially with families who have little kids. We also printed off a world map, thanks to the amazing Ramsey family! We take the map around and ask people about their Ancestors and where they came from. We lead it into Gods love for families and doing family history work. So many people are willing to talk about their family history and I t is a lot easier of a way to have a conversation with random people. Hopefully that all makes sense! Ha ha! I know that when missionary work is new and different things are tried miracles happen so that’s what we are going for. 

 So this morning we were cleaning our house, because cleanliness is next to godliness apparently, and sister Morris came to me with the most horrified look on her face, all she said was I need your help. In our lovely ghetto apartment there is the water tank thing in our closet and that thing is nasty crusty dirty... she pointed to the base of it and said, "What. Is. THAT." I got down and looked at what seemed to be the largest dried up rat I’ve ever laid eyes on. So, I searched the house for a flashlight so I could see it better and after a few minutes of pep talking myself to look at it I got down on the ground and inspected it closer. My heart was beating and my mouth ran dry. I feared that today would be the day that an R.A.T. would leap onto my face and that would be the end of Sister Reynolds. BUT my fear was in vain. All it was a weird old piece of carpet covered in a mountain of dust bunnies. I was equally relieved and disappointed for the lack of an exciting ending. But I guess it is truly a blessing.

 Anyway, life is good! I’m so grateful that I am still alive and I have another day to live! Miracles are happening in the work here in the Washington Federal Way mission! I’m grateful every day to be here (even when the Canada fires make everything hazy) I love this Gospel and I love my Savior! I invite each of you to share your testimony with someone this week so they can experience the joy that comes from knowing about Christ! I love you all!!!

Sister Reynolds