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WEEK 2: Sept 25th - Oct 1st

Hi everyone! 

Hope you have been having a great week. Things have been pretty normal here at the MTC. Lots of studying and district/group activities. It has been fun to be district leader, I really love the group I have. We have a fun dynamic and have great unity. To help with our sanity, I got a deck of Uno cards. Unfortunately, card games are not allowed at the MTC. Therefore, I designated Uno as a "group language learning activity" for us to practice colors and numbers. The only rule is we have to say the number and color of the card that is played. Other than that, it is regular Uno. The Elders in the room below have come up with a new type of game in their room. I don't know all the rules, but it involves kicking a hacky sack above some soda cans, without knocking them over, but then landing it in a Pringles Can. If you knock the cans over you lose points. I will attach a photo of it below, maybe I'll try to get a video of it sometime. It gets pretty intense. People get very creative when they get bored.

I have come to appreciate the time we have to exercise and do field time. It is a great way to destress and have fun with the district. I'm not too shabby at volleyball. Today we will be meeting with the Chairman of Religious Affairs of Vietnam. He will be visiting during one of our language classes, and we will briefly introduce ourselves. With only having one day of language immersion under our belt, (We started on Friday, didn't have any this weekend due to General Conference) I'm pretty sure we are going to nail it.

I will give an update on Vietnamese next week, because I can't judge how it is going with only one class so far. We are joking if we mess up, he is going to deny our visas. (Ha ha ha... he really could though). We have been practicing introducing ourselves as "volunteers" and not as "missionaries". I hope we can be good examples/representatives. The church can do a lot of good for the people in Vietnam, even aside from the spiritual aspects. 

Thank you all for your kind messages and emails. I can email back and forth anytime on Mondays, so always feel free to reach out. I love hearing from friends and family.

Elder Reynolds
Anh Cả Reynolds

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They flew the Italian flag :)


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Rocking the hair nets on cafeteria duty 


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Elder and Bennett and I waiting for devotional to start


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Creative game


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Hanging out watching Elder Hurst sleep


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In class


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Treats reminding us to "Treasure up the word"

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