Enjoy what you do!

Remember to take every moment and laugh. Enjoy what you do, if you're doing it, why waste your time on being so sad and so negative?

While Sister Galeria and I were tracting, there was this really mean guy. He was closing the door and Sister Galeria tried to get in a word to this rude guy. She points up to the window that connects one side of the door to the wall and says, "Look! A spider".(  While we were at the door I pointed out the spider to her because I think they're cool and she's not a fan of them, and neither was my last companion. )Once this guy heard Sister Galeria says this, he jumped back and completely freaked out. We laughed for a long time after that, no matter how people treat you-- be happy.

You also never know how they might treat you after they were rude. That same day, we went on this one street and tried to talk to this gentleman outside, he was pretty mean and pushed us away. We went up and down this tiny street. When we came back he was pulled into his drive-way, probably forgot something, then two seconds later when he came back outside from the house, he handed my companion and I both a water bottle. It was super sweet. Remember, as was brought up in the Women's broadcast Saturday night, always treat others as best as you can, no matter how they may act towards you.

Another day this past week we were seeing if we could stop by a friend  of ours. We accidently went to the wrong house. As we were at the steps of the front door, two dogs came over barking at us. They were the cutest things ever. As a dog-lover, I HHAAAAVVEE to go up to the door and play with them from behind the big glass, screen door. As I did so, they got super excited and started running in circles. One of the dogs is big and one is pretty small. The littler dog was moving left and right like crazy and then hit the bigger dog in the face with his tail. He reacted as if he were in shock for a little bit, but then went back to normal being happy and silly. Something about that just made Sister Galeria and I laugh so hard.

We backed out of the super long drive way of this house and went up another long driveway to the right house right next door. On the way up through the woods of the super scary driveway, we saw a deer. Sister Galeria gave me a banana she had in the car, and told me to hand it to the deer. I was kinda confused, but did it anyway and then she quickly took my camera and took a picture of me, with the banana, and the deer. She then told me to throw parts of the banana at the deer, it was hilarious. I promise that I didn't hit the deer, I would've been greatly upset if I did that to him/her. 

At the beginning of the week it started getting colder. Then it got pretty windy.  I felt like we were going to be blown away sometimes when we were doing something outside. By the end of the week it started getting super cold. I've been told that the weather has been colder this time around than what it's normally like in the past. Some people are predicting that this winter is going to be one of the worst ones. I'm super excited for the cold, I love it so much!! The only problem is that I have to figure out how to drive in the snow, but hopefully by then I might have a companion who can actually drive on her mission.

So if you can remember one of my past emails forever ago, I said that I could be a model along with an actress. Sister Burke was sick and so I took a lot of super "awesome" pictures of myself. Well this past week we went over to an investigator's home, Tara and Sven.  Tara asked me if she could take a picture of me. She's a photographer, and she's taking a picture of someone every day to represent what she did that day. I felt like I was taking pictures at school all over again, "Move your chin down, etc.." But this proves that I totally can be a professional model now. 

This week as been pretty awesome in the fact that we've been able to enjoy so many silly moments together. We were able to stop-by some people who were on our former investigators list. We were able to contact 4 of them, and 3 of them are wanting to meet with missionaries again. When Sister Burke was my companion, we tried to find these people and talk to them, but they were never home or available. The Lord works in mysterious ways, whether they weren't ready yet, or the right people didn't come in contact for them and their progression. Whatever it was, I was thankful to meet all of them and I'm excited to meet with some of them more.

My cute little 9 year old Bryce met with us. He expressed that he's not sure about wanting to get baptized in November or December anymore, and that he thinks he wants to do it in October. Their family is super busy in that month, but its super amazing that he wants to do it even sooner! We told him to pray with his family about it and let us know if he finds a specific date he wants to have it.

I also met with Alexis and her two kids. While we went over to stop by pretty fast because they told us they didn't have much time, we found out that they were having this big, kid hang-out with those that live on the street. While waiting to teach them a little bit, Sister Galeria played and hung out with the kids. This one girl wanted to sing songs, she was about 5? and she's a member of the church. I rolled up my sleeves and got a bunch of little kids to sing some girl's camp songs. Then we played some hand games and other stuff as well. I love kids and I'm thankful for all the opportunities that I'm given to be able to play and hang out with them.

On Saturday I helped out with a service project early in the morning. We did a clean-up of one of the main roads near me. The mom of the members I'm living with told my companion and I to take a jacket. I didn't, but my companion did. It was kinda cold outside, but I liked it. My hands froze a bit, and were starting to get numb so it was pretty funny dealing with that. After the 7am-9am service project we had a lesson with an investigator. She didn't let us in her house and we just sat outside, I was freezing and I finally regretting not bringing a jacket. I thought that I was going to be fine because normally it would've heated up by 10 am, but Saturday it just didn't want to budge. I would definitely rather the cold than the heat, so I was happy by that. But the lesson is, no matter what kind of mom it is, always listen to them.

That night I also helped out with another service project, but don't worry, I was nice and safe and warm inside. It was super cool because from the activity day girls (girls who are 8-11) and up were at this service project. It was right before the women's session of general conference. It was super cool to see all the blankets, dresses, t-shirt bags, meal kits, etc that these wonderful sisters of the church were making. I'll never cease to be impressed by all the service the members of this church give to others. I'm so thankful to be a member of this great and glorious work.

Before I end with a more spiritual thought, I need to tell what probably is my favorite story of my whole mission so far. My companion, our zone leaders, and another Elder call this the "Scary Gary" story. On Friday night this guy named Gary texted us. Sister Galeria had the phone near her and asked me who that is. He said he wanted to meet with us. I was super excited because Sister Burke and I met with a guy named Gary at the beginning of our transfer/ near when I first got to Colorado, and Gary wasn't interested in meeting or talking to us or letting us do any service for him. So we were texting him and he asked us when the next time that we are available is. He then asked us what time the next day. We told him the time and then he informed us that we weren't going to make him become mormon. We told him that wasn't our intention. He told us not to bring anyone with us. As missionaries, we sometimes like to bring some people with us/ fellowshippers for the investigators. We like to find some friends for these people because that's the way the community of our church works, and missionaries move on, but members don't, so it gives them a friend who is stable in one place. We told Gary that we wouldn't bring anyone if it makes him uncomfortable. We have taught some people that don't want other people besides missionaries there because they feel pressured and don't like more people crowding their house or offering their help. Then... and this is where it gets weird, and where most people would stop telling their family and friends the story, but I have nothing to hide. Gary told us that "Sometimes I like to wear girls clothes, like a tank top and a skirt." We contacted our DL and then our ZLs. Our district leader told us to have a member watch from afar. As Sister Missionaries, we can't go into someone's house if it's just one or two males. Then we also got the Brother who is in charge of missionaries over the stake involved. He told us not to go over there as sisters. We got our zone leaders to go over and meet Gary at noon. They went to his door and then he asked if he could meet an hr later. We decided to go see him to actually see if he's interested, so that's why the elders went. Since the Elders, one of our Zone Leaders and his companion that he was on exchanges with/ one of my wonderful elders that was in the mtc with me, sat in their car for an hour and waited. Then they went over back to his house and.... no answer. We texted him and it turns out that it was a different Gary that was in the other ward boundaries. The four of us drove in our two different cars to my house to see the other teaching record for Gary. We keep teaching records for people to see what the missionaries have taught them and if they are a person that could be dangerous and to stay away from. Long story short, he has some mental disabilities, lives with his parents, and is 100% harmless. The Elders left and told us we could visit him ourselves. We went to his house and at first he wouldn't come to the door because he was too shy because of what he was wearing. We then drove about 3 houses down to get some service to call him and he texted us "wait, I'm sorry, please don't go". Finally he came out to the door and we talked on his doorstep. He was wearing a tight, multi-colored tank-top and a short and small jean skirt. He was also a chunkier guy. He's going through a bit of an identity crisis and he knows it's not right, so he was reaching out to the missionaries for some help. He is a very special-ed person, but we will always meet in public with him, take someone else with us from now on, and be very cautious when we meet with him. Super long and crazy story, but those are always best for telling for when you are on your mission. Sorry if I worried you, but this is completely safe and lots of leaders know and are aware of this situation and they agree.

At dinner last night my companion led the dinner message that missionaries will share with members of the church. The dinner I had was with Bryce and his family. It was about being a child of God, and how no matter what, that'll never change. I shared how I loved a talk from the Women's session of General Conference about your worth. No matter what you do, your worth through the eyes of your Heavenly Father will never decrease. One member, who is a young grandpa and I love him because he is about as preachy as my own dad, shared a story he would tell his kids. He said that he told their kids to go to the richest part of the town they were in, pick out the richest house and the richest car. Now go to that house and knock on their door every day telling them that their car and their house is worth nothing. Do that a few times. Then they'll just hand over their house and car to you, right? Sounds like a super good business plan? No? Well then why do you let people tell you that you're worth nothing and buy it? The buyer, our Heavenly Father, has already spoken. You are worth everything to Him, don't let horrible business plans rob you of that truth. 

Along with your worth, I love another one of the talks given in the women's session Saturday night. Don't let others rob you of your happiness, especially because they don't care about you being happy. Let yourself control whether you're happy or not. Find the joy in the journey :)

Please please watch General Conference this coming weekend. I wouldn't want anything more, but to hear all of your comments and things you loved. What talk did you like the best? Why? What were some quotes that you enjoyed? Please share and please watch and I'll do the exact same :) :)

Shout-outs;

-Thanks to my grandma and the jacket she gave me to use for my mission, it's coming in handy. 

-Thanks for the friends that keep me entertained by talking to me as I write these emails.

-Thanks to my mom for always giving me advice

-Thanks to my dad for being preachy ;p

-Thanks to my lil sis for being a good example of someone who can love others and be happy.

-Sister Reynolds :)

Endure to the End/ Continue to be dilligent

This past district meeting, I gave about a 15 minute training (lesson) to 4 Elders and one Sister (that's everyone I have in my whole district). The training was on a talk about the Holy Ghost and Diligence. There was this one analogy that I love;

Make sure you continually deposit money into your bank account. You can do this by always being diligent and active in working hard and doing the best you can in everything you do. The more you do this, the more money you'll have in your account. As a result, those you may teach or people that you're around will be able to get more out of the things you have to say and what you do. You'll also have more money in your account to be able to do more things and have more success in whatever capacity or situation that your strive to diligently work at. I know that you have this wonderful ability to have wonderful and marvelous things come to pass for you, but you have to show that you're worthy enough to receive these great blessings and outcomes.

Just like the pictures I have, you need to continuously work on doing what it is that you have in your life. Don't be like a Sister Reynolds and think that waiting to the last moment (Sunday night/ night before) and then press forward far (like taking a bunch of random photos all at once) will be good enough. You need to press forward daily so you have more wonderful and amazing things happen, so you can end up with fun and cool things happening throughout your life, and not all in just one half hour span.

We got 3 new investigators this week, and two of them are a super sweet couple named Sven and Tara. They were potential investigators that were left to us by some Elders. I've gone over to their place 3 times, but haven't made it past the front door and  less than 20 minutes for our conversation. We stopped by them this past week, Sven (German), opened the door and said that he was really sorry but they just sat down to eat dinner. We walked down the stairs and halfway down the garage, they offered us some soup and let us in their house. They're super sweet. A little later after we arrived, they invited their 6 year old daughter to join us. She knows more about the bible than her parents, she even has her our children's version of a Bible. They want us to come back and talk some more with them and I'm super excited! Remember to never give up on people, you can still be diligent with them even if you don't think you're making it anywhere.

So transfers officially happened this past Wednesday the 13th. I love my new companion! My old companion had some mental issues and that held us back from being able to work as much as other missionaries. My new companion doesn't have an problems, so we are able to press forward and work super diligently. It's been an awesome experience for me personally to experience these two different dynamics. I'm so thankful and blessed to be on my mission right now and for being able to go through different situations!!

One day this past week we had service to perform. We got up earlier than usual, went to breakfast with the Elders of my stake at 7, went to do service at my new companion's old place to make sure it was taken care of, then went to see the wonderful Steph Kelly, of the horse ranch.  After that helped out a new investigator clean around her home because she's currently going through a really rough divorce. We pushed through the day, and when we finally had some time to fit our studies in, we came back home and the mom of the member we live with laughed because of how exhausted we looked, she especially made fun of me because she's never seen me that exhausted before. It was super fun to see how pushing through the day and diligently giving my time and serving others felt good -- even though I was about dead at the end of it.

At the service we did I found myself leading my companion on the different things we have to do. When you push through and continue to do your best, you find out that you're able to help others on the things that need to get done. If you don't try your best, then you'll see that you have no idea what you're doing. Somehow I was able to know exactly what to do with the different areas we have to work at. 

Shoutous;

- I have more pretzels, I'm forever bragging about you to my companions movie boy.

- I'm sorry to my little sis for my dance moves. It's been a long time since I've been to a dance and I was super awkward, so my moves are worse than what you're used to seeing. (Mom edit: she sent videos, but they don't upload on the blog).

- Thanks again to my lil sis for sending me pictures of my dogs, she understands how to reach out to my heart and make it happy ;) :p

- Thanks to my wonderful Nana who is crazy enough to send me endless amounts of super fun and crazy stickers.

- Thanks for the dude who I stole the jacket from and for me using it as a prop for my bike in the silly and random pictures.

Love you all and forever will!!!!

- Sister Reynolds :) :)

Where in the world?

I'm not exactly sure what's been occurring, but I've heard so much about all these hurricanes and fires. I know about Harvey in Texas and I've heard a little bit about Irma. I also know that there are two others, I think. That's completely insane. Then there's the sun turning red and smoke in the air where you can't clearly see the mountains in some areas in Parker. Know that wherever you are in the world that have these disasters going on, that lots of people are praying for you, and prophesies in the scriptures are coming to pass. 

Traveling from place to place is currently a struggle. I calculated how many miles we can go per day, and we keep going over it a bit. We are trying to find some members to help us out, but it's difficult to get people to pitch in and help out. There's this one Sister who just got back from her mission and she wants to travel with us. The only problem with that is that she is working all the time so she's never available to take time and help us. 

As I've said before, my cousins are right next door to me in Colorado Springs. I got their address, and put it into my gps. It is an hr from the place I'm currently living at, and about 45 minutes from where the place I do service at. So they literally are basically within arm's reach. 

This past Saturday-Sunday was the Stake Conference in the stake that I'm currently living in. On Wednesday someone called Sister Burke and I and asked if we could do a musical number. I was going to play the flute, but then the flute was really out of tune. We added an Elder to sing with Sister Burke instead. Then I was going to flip the pages for the Elder playing the piano, but then I got replaced again. So I almost shared some talents/ "talents" I have with others, but then, out of my control, I didn't. I have no idea where in the world the owner got the flute, but it was a whole note off AFTER I did 3 different things to tune it after I cleaned it.

Every transfer, in the CDNM (Colorado Denver North Mission), most missionaries decorate their planners. I picked this theme for this group email, then a day or two later, I decorated my planner with my companion. I noticed, while I was taking pictures of my planner, that one part of the decoration goes with this theme. I have the front cover, the back cover, then in the middle of it is the bookmark thing for it. 

I also thought the "swan" worked well with this theme. We go to dinner at a member's house most nights. One night, Sister Burke wasn't able to finish her food, but she wanted to take it home. The member wrapped her food up in tin foil, and pretended she knew how to make a swan, it was super funny. Remember to be like a swan, be beautiful and open your winds and fly in the world. Don't be of the world, but be in the world and try to do good and the best wherever you fly.

I realize how bad I've been with my spiritual thoughts and comments, so I'm trying to get better. In 2 Nephi 15:26- 30 you'll see Nephi prophesying about travel. He knew and saw how we, in today's day, was going to be transported from place to place throughout the world. One of my favorite scriptures.

The people;

This week my companion and I taught Bryce once again. His energy and testimony is still as strong as ever. He still doesn't want to get baptized until either November or December because he wants his family to be present. It's super sad that he wants to wait because once he gets baptized he can receive the Holy Ghost as his constant companion, and he is really struggling right now and we want him to feel that comfort feeling and that constant companion. This is his decision though, and we don't want to force anything upon him, it's super wonderful that he wants to get baptized at all though.

We have started teaching this women from New Zealend named Hannah. She was born in London and lived in New Zealand and now lives in Colorado, talk about traveling the world. She has the best accient ever and her two younger kids are still getting this crazy accient too. We aren't teaching her too much of a specific doctrine, but there is a lot of here and there being taught to her throughout the times we've met with her.

Last night we had dinner with and taught Malea McLaws. She is out cute little 7 year old and she grew up in the church. She has a baptism date set for October and I'm extremely excited for her. We taught her the first three lessons and we are done teaching her. I am so proud of her and the wonderful enthusiasm she has to become an official member of this marvelous work.

After being with the McLaws, we went to stop by this women who said she could use help with some service that a member in our congregation referred us to. Her name is Alexis and is super sweet. After many stops, she was finally home this past Sunday night. We talked to her for a little bit, re-gave her our number because she lost it, and then she brought her kids outside. Recently she has been talking to her kids about religion, and she wanted us to meet her and talk to them a bit about what our basic believes are. One wasn't home, one just turned 9, and the other one is 6. They are super cute! The 9 year old went to a baptism a while ago for a friend she has in school. She described to us how she felt "happy.. happier than I've ever felt before". We explained to her that the feeling was the Holy Ghost trying to help guide and direct her. After talking to them and hanging out, we departed and she thanked us for making her have that happy feeling back. That moment literally made my heart melt, I'm so thankful to be out on my mission.

We did wonderful wonderful service at Steph Kelly's house again. First we went on a walk with her dog, most relaxing service I've ever done. Then we helped train Bear for the first time. Her dog's name is Skippy and the horse's name is Bear. We took tons and tons of pictures. I was able to train Bear perfectly. Steph Kelly and Sister Burke were surprised because I don't push people out of the way like my companion might do. I do understand animals more than even those who just love animals, so I feel like I can connect with them in ways others can't really. We also took pictures of her beautiful house. 

I know many of you are struggling with different things. From my experiences with someone I've met while out on my mission, I've had some struggles with handling them. No matter what you do or where in the world you go or who in the world you meet or whatever burdens you currently carry, press-forward. Make sure to show love to others, but know who you are and who you stand for, don't let others run you over. I love you all and I believe in you. Remember, you probably aren't going to stay in one place with the exact same thing forever. Stay positive, look up, remember all the good in the world. God puts you in specific situations because He trusts you to handle it and to grow, so please trust in Him. and He does all these things for you and for you to get the best you that He knows and believes you can be :)

Transfers just came out and I got to figure out where in the world I was going or who in the world I am with. I have been called to stay in Parker for at least another 6 weeks over the same two wards. Sister Galeria is going to become my new companion. She was my STL (Sister Training Leader over a zone, she was actually over two zones though). I went on exchanges with her in her area at the beginning of this transfer. I love her soooo much!! She has so much energy, wants to go go go go all the time, is super positive, very nice, I love her and I'm so excited!!

Shoutouts;

-Thanks to my family members and your ability to let me have one of my childhood candies; candy corn. A member gave me like 7 and it was super good, very sugary, youre crazy for letting that happen tho

-Thanks to my best friend for giving me a 5 lb bag of one of my childhood candies, but this isn't a hint to do it with candy corn ;p 

--Sister Reynolds

Bullet Points!

I decided not to be lame and name it "Labor Day" like most people would, plus that wouldn't go with my theme this week. So life sometimes feels like it's broken down into little bullet points, so that's how I decided to do my email this week. To prove how much all of you are always on my mind, I'm going to show how everything I do relates to at least one of you, whether I mean it to or not. See how many times I call you out, if ya want.

Tues- I made my companion go to 7-11, and I bought her a drink. Brings me back when I'd take any friend there, especially one with a silly hat. I remember when I first got my driver's license, I took my little brother there too, went there, then came back home, parked the car, and sent a photo to our mom with a silly fake-dead face on, she wasn't very happy by that. I also liked going there with my dad and we'd go out and get seeds. One day, when I was out and about in my younger highschool years, this crazy mate and I went to a few different gas stations and got free slurpees at different places. Once upon a time I told a friend about my love of this place and he went to a different country and found one for me, he better take me there sometime though.

Wed- I went and taught someone. As I left some boy gave me a hugged and told me he loved me. Then said the adult women, "I bet you didn't think you'd get hugged by a half-naked boy today, did ya?" That boy is like 3 yrs old and is super cute. He just was only wearing a shirt. The opposite of that is wearing everything but a shirt, there are two boys that I tease that I've seen with no shirt on, you know you are.

Thurs Night- The members that I live with left for a few days. It was cool to be home alone. But it wasn't as crazy as that movie, which was fun watching that with my family.

Sat- Once again I past that silly street sign name, I figured it was about time I showed proof of that and I took a picture with me by it, and hmmm, recognize the dress too? someone might have done that on purpose.

Tues- I met someone who some Elders previously met. My companion and I decided to go pay him a visit. It turns out he's involved with the military, not marines, but still military. He has this giant house, I expect the marines to be that rich some day.

Sat- Another person that I stopped by owns this really old husky. Super cute, wondering how the road to getting a husky is for one of my dear friends.

Fri- I had pizza with an awesome family. It was so fun to have dinner with this family on their "pizza night" because it's pretty nice to get something so simple every once in a while. I had BBQ hawaiian pizza, pretty cool. I remember when I was over with a friend and we drove across the street to get some pizza, pretty fun day hanging out with ya all the time.

Fri- My companion has this USB and we were listening to her music inside. I stole the USB for the car because my wonderful mom got me one, who was helped out by my awesome brother, and there's a bunch of church songs on there. There was this one song from Lilo and Stitch that played, wonderful movie, as one of the best people in the world would know.

Wed, Sat, and other days- I was asked about my future, and about my wedding plans, and college plans, and so much in that area, but in lots of details about it. I realize that I know about absolutely nothing, so I need some help from my fellow friends that I've talked about this stuff with.

Tues- My "mom" that I'm living with gave me some crystal light stuff. It's crazy how I leave my real house, and then at the new house my moms are just so alike. I went to the store yesterday and I bought some. Also, next to that, I bought a thing of MIO, blame it on my dad for getting me to like that stuff too.

Sat- I drove by some fields and for the first time since I've gotten to Colorado, I've seen a cattle of some cows. It's like I'm back in Texas, but I didn't even see that much there. If my two people from TC are reading this, do you remember a million years ago to when Fred existed.

He was across the street from 7-11, I think, he was a lama that chilled with some cows, cool stuff.

Fri- Mon morning- I've been taken care of two adorable cats. The older one is named Lily and the younger one, just a few months old, is named Daisy. Since the family was gone, they needed someone to look after them and feed them, I took upon that responsibility.

I miss my two wonderful dogs at home. Hey Megan, I'll trade you Copper for Daisy! I took some videos for you, enjoy

Sat- My companion made her and I some milkshakes. It had cookies and cream ice cream, some oreos, and a banana in it. It was sooo good. We were both super excited, so we decided to mess around and take some pictures and a really goofy and pointless video.

It made me think of my friend who likes milkshakes at chick-fil-a, be jealous, jk.

Sat- I got a small package from my wonderful grandma. She gave me some stickers. Crazy enough my companion and I have really liked stickers recently, so if you have any laying around we'll very gladly take them. My companion also loves sunflowers. I found one and pressed it, then she taped it and kept it.

If you also find any sunflowers laying around will you please please do the same thing and mail them to me? I'm trying to secretly make a bouquet of sunflowers for her, I'll send you something cool back, I promise.

Fri- While the family was gone, I went to the garage and took some pictures for those who are fans of cars or whatever.

I know my dad knows too much of that stuff, and I remember I went to this cool car thing with an awesome person one time, thanks for that, it was really fun!

Sun- I watered some plants in the front and back yard too while the family was gone. Once upon a time this crazy girl named Aubrey tried to plant some flowers. One time it worked out, the other time it didn't end very well. It doesn't matter much though because her family moved away, so she wouldn't ever see them again anyways.

Mon- two Mondays ago, after I did my emailing, Sister Burke and I went out and took pictures in our little down town area next to the library. So there's a bunch of random stuff like that. Doing random things with those you love is always fun, keep up the good work fabulous friends.

Mon- I went to IHOP yesterday. Dinner cancelled on us so my companion and I agreed to go there. I forgot what drink my crazy friend told me to get, so I tried different stuff.

Right outside of the resturant was Gamestop. Shane, Megan, and Brady, how often do you get to go there, and what was the last thing you got? Also, while we were at IHOP, my companion had a burger, they didn't have any avocados, so she went up and asked for some, they put a lot on here plate, I had to take a pic for the crazy one who dyes her hair to show that I guess you aren't the only one in the world that likes that stuff.

Mon- yesterday I went to kneaders again. Thanks again for introducing me to that place nana. I went there for wonderful breakfast French toast and took silly pictures.

I also went there another day when dinner canceled, and got another skateboard. The first person to MAIL me a super cool spiritual thing, sunflower, and stickers, can match me and get this awesome gift that you'll love forever and ever.

Long ago- about 3 weeks or more ago Sister Burke and I went to Hobby Lobby. Warning! Very very dangerous place. Your fav customer had trouble in that place. There was a stuffed dog pillow thing and it was super cute so I took a picture with it. Stuffed animals are the best, you never can go wrong with them in Sister Reynolds' opinion.

Just so you know, if you do send me something, it takes about 9 days for a regular letter to get here. It first goes to the mission office, then they send it off to where-ever we are living. That is why my address will never change throughout my entire mission. If any of you have ideas on cool messages I could share for the dinners I have, please let me know. Sorry for asking for so much.

I love you all, you're the best and forever will be through my eyes!!

- Sister Reynolds