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WEEK 5: Oct 16th - Oct 23rd

Hello everyone! 

I hope you are all having an amazing week and getting ready for the fall season. The mountains here in Utah are beautiful this time of year, full of orange and red colors from the trees. It makes me miss studying at the library at BYU on a cold day. 


This week was busy with plenty of language study and fun stories. This week, I ran into some sisters who are here at the MTC from Northern Italy. They didn't speak any English, and my Italian was certainly not great - but it was fun just to be able to introduce ourselves and say "Ciao!". 


To be honest, this was probably my hardest week at the MTC. It seemed like one thing after another would start to build upon each other, trial after trial. 


Many of you know, this week my wonderful grandmother passed away. She has always been an inspiration to me, especially as a missionary. She always gave her 100%. I remember she told me to "Do good" the last time I talked to her. That phrase has been an inspiration for me this week. 


Today we got to go to the temple which was uplifting. I learned a lot about the power of joy and how we can focus on it in times of trial. Although life is difficult, joy was created for us.


In other news, one of our sisters sliced her hand open with a knife. She is doing good now and will be recovering for the next couple weeks - I am just happy she still has high spirits.


I will be creating a Google Photos soon where I will share all my photos for people to view when they would like. I will put the link on every week.


Love you all,

Elder Reynolds

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