What a week!

Hello,

 I hope you all have had a good week! It has been a great couple of days here in Renton Washington! We have seen a lot of miracles this week!

 We were able to find 2 new investigators! Both were tender mercies! One of them is named Lani. She is from Micronesia and has the sweetest little 2yr old boy. When we met Lani, we were actually going to her house to have a lesson with her step-dad. He was outside smoking and talking to someone so he told us to just go in and talk with Lani. So we went in and waited about 10 min but he never came in so we just started teaching the restoration to her. (it was a very smooth transition that both sister Morris and I are quite proud of ;)) As we talked she was really in it! We got to the first vision and right after Sister Morris finished saying it i looked over and saw Lani's brother in the kitchen and smoke was EVERYWHERE! so we all ran in and tried to stop the house from burning down. It is amazing how everything seems to happen during or right after the First vision. Satan works hard to distract from the spirit. But it didn’t work!! As we came back into the room Lani saw the Book of Mormon sitting on the couch and her eyes lit up. She asked if she could look at it and we told her she could keep it. For the rest of the lesson she sat hugging the book of Mormon to her chest. She committed to be baptized on November 11th and she was already double checking her schedule to make sure it would work! We knelt and prayed and then she promptly asked where she could start reading from in the book!!! We showed her the intro and told her it would be awesome if she could get to chapter 4. We came back a two days later and she had read to 1 Nephi 5 AND she took notes about every chapter! She was re-telling us what she learned and what she liked as if she had read it a million times! Sister Morris and I sat in awe with the biggest smiles on our faces! We are so incredibly grateful to be teaching her!! :)

 We went on exchanges this week. I went to another area in Renton. We met the sweetest family. One of their little boys put my arm around him during the prayer and there he stayed for quite some time and he did not want to move when we had to leave. As I was walking away he wrapped himself around my legs and wouldn’t let go. He was so darling!!! He also came up to me and whispered in my ear, “you’re pretty..." then he walked away with a smile on his face. SO CUTE!

 Also that day we met with one of their investigators who had Anti-Mormon information sent to her. When we went over to her home she showed us a bit of the video. I asked her to pause it at a specific part where I felt so dark inside. We talked about what we felt and then the spirit took over. I’m not sure exactly what I said but I know it was from God and not me. I testified that some of the things were not wrong but in order to know truth from deception we had to pray. That really is our only way to know what is from God and what is made up by Satan. At the end she said she didn’t really care about the videos anymore and that she would keep learning. ANOTHER MIRACLE :) it breaks my heart that stuff like that is out there but i am so grateful that we are able to tell what is true with the help of the Holy Ghost.

 

 On Sunday we got a new ward mission leader. We are sad to not be working with Brother Ramsey anymore, but i know that the Lord is in charge. Our new WML is a great man and we will see a lot of miracles as we work w with him. During one of the talks on Sunday something was said along the lines of, "Build upon others virtues even though we see their stains." maybe that’s not what was actually said but either way I must have needed to hear that. I know it is so important to see others as children of God. That is the only way we will be able to have charity, and without Charity we are nothing.

 I love you all and love this work! Keep on keeping on! The Lord is always there for us in every situation! I hope you have an amazing week!❤

Love,

Sister Reynolds

1. Not the best picture, but we had dinner at a members house and their little boy James was the CUTEST!! We read books together and he had them all memorized :)

2. I love my savior and i know He lives!