Elder Reynolds in Hanoi

Hi Everyone! Hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday for those of you celebrating. Good luck to all of you who are preparing for fall finals! You've got this. This week was great! Elder Mayne and I did a lot of contacting (stopping by and saying hi to people) and some lessons too. We had a wonderful Thanksgiving dinner with some members, then visited an assisted living home for those who may need an uplifting message.  I've decided "tracting" in an assisted living home is the best because: 1). It's warm.  2). People are friendly and happy to talk.  3). Everyone has their name on their door.  4). All the doors are already open. No knocking required. On Friday we attended the Bemidji Christmas parade and lighting of the city. For being out in the middle of nowhere - they know how to celebrate! They have over 750,000k Christmas lights this year, hoping to hit 1 million in a couple years. Although the celebration was fun, I have never been so cold in my life.  I

  Hello all!  Hope you have been having a fantastic week, and are preparing for Thanksgiving/the holiday season.  TLDR: Left MTC Thursday and flew to Bismarck. Assigned in the Bemidji Minnesota area, a 6 hour drive from Bismarck. My companion is great - the Native American reservations are a little sketchy but fun.  Thursday morning I left the MTC to my reassignment to the Bismark, North Dakota mission. It was hard to say goodbyes, but I know we will see each other again soon! We left on a private bus which dropped us off in SLC, where we then flew to Minneapolis, then to Bismark. I stayed the night at the mission home and met President and Sister Camp. They are wonderful! The next morning, following our training/orientation I was told I was assigned to the  Bemidji Minnesota  area - around a 6 hour drive away from Bismarck. This mission area is massive and includes Montana, North and South Dakota, Nebraska, and NW Minnesota. We do lots of driving.  Within this mission area, we serve 3

  Hello everyone!  I hope you all had a great week! I got to chat to lots of people this week - it's so fun to hear updates from everyone. I hope school, mission, work, or whatever adventure you may be on is going well! As said in the title, this is my final week at the Provo MTC! This Thursday I will be flying to the flatlands of Bismarck, North Dakota where I will meet my trainer and new district. I have to say I'm pretty sad to be leaving my district. They feel like my kids, hahaha. We have bonded and become very close throughout these past 8 weeks. I feel very grateful to feel this sad about leaving. I have really enjoyed serving as a District Leader as well. It was so fun to get to know everyone and serve them - each person helped strengthen my testimony in different ways. Overall, this experience taught me about trusting in God.  Once again, Heavenly Father has proven to me how I need to trust him and his process more. Truly, when I have decided to put my trust in his han

Hi Everyone - This past week was pretty busy and eventful! Friday I was notified my visa for Vietnam had not arrived. Apparently, my "in-country visa" along with all the other missionaries going to Vietnam are waiting in country. However, we need a piece of paper with a stamp on it that proves my name is on a list. So, now it is just waiting on the Church to get things moving.  I received my reassignment to Bismark, North Dakota. Yup - in the middle of November, when I have no winter clothes. It doesn't snow much in Vietnam, so I didn't pack any. If my visa arrives by this Friday, I will be able to travel to Vietnam. If not, I'll be up with President Camp in North Dakota!  Tuesday, I had the opportunity to speak with Elder Homer. It was a super fun experience and went extremely well. Both the MTC Presidency and Elder Homer said it was perfect, that we did a great job. It was a nice compliment to hear - positive feedback is hard to find at the MTC :). I will attach