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Bye, Bye, Ba Ba Trúc Bạch, Ba Đình

 Alô,

Hope you are having a great week! We have been having lots of storms here in Hanoi which has made things interesting. This week felt really long - nothing too exciting happened. The slower weeks come and go, though!

The most exciting thing that happened this week was our transfer calls - I will be returning to the area I previously served in here in Hanoi, Cầu Giấy! It will be a district of 4: My companion and two other sisters. 

Our mission is saying goodbye to a group of 7 Elders, meaning our mission is getting a bit smaller. [RIP Elder Khôi- I'll miss him.] Last I checked we had a total of 16 missionaries here in the North and 24 in the south. It is going to be an interesting transfer! I will be with Elder Hữu who is a fun Elder! I look forward to seeing what happens. 

I will be moving around lots! The apartment originally in the Cầu Giấy area for Elders got sold unexpectedly - meaning when we move to the area, we are going to stay in a temporary apartment, and then move again after 1 week into the new apartment. It's a bit of a strange situation. It will be nice to have a new apartment, though - it would be weird to get thrown back into the old one and feel like I'm doing a transfer all over again. We will see what happens. 

I'm bummed to be leaving Ba Đình because it is the first time I really got to stay somewhere and develop member relationships - but it will also be fun to go back to Cầu Giấy and see members there again. 

I'm still doing social media and advertising for the mission. Things have been going good. I actually used a marketing analysis method from my Marketing Class at BYU to test the effectiveness of an ad - I hope Professor Swenson is proud of me. 
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Last week we went to the air force museum in Vietnam. Surprisingly, not my idea. Check out Google Photos for some missiles and airplanes from the American War.
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Have a wonderful, fantastic, and great week!

Anh Cả Reynolds









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