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Member Ministering

 Author's Note: Hi everyone, Elder Reynolds here. You might have noticed you got a little sneak peek of this email already with a different title - "Member Ministering". Apparently, the technology both on my keyboard, Google, and other things had decided to work against me. Somehow, Gmail sent an early draft of the letter I wrote first, deleted the rest of the beautiful letter I wrote, and then decided not to follow the schedule time I set it to and deleted itself. Quite unfortunate and my apologies for spamming your inbox. 

Alo-

Hope you are having a great end to your month! This week was full of random events and stories. Which is pretty typical for missionary work. 

Preparation Day:
Last Prep day was pretty slow and relaxing. We got lots of rest. We went shopping with the Adams at the supermarket and helped them navigate the store and where to find the "good stuff". We did some of our own shopping and then went and got lunch together. The Adams treated us to ice cream at Mixue afterwards which was 10/10. They are amazing! We found a bowling alley in our apartment complex (our apartment complex is connected to a massive underground mall, which has the bowling alley) and did a quick round before we ended our day. It was probably the worst game of bowling I have ever played, but it was worth it. 

Exchanges:
This week I had the opportunity to go on two exchanges - one with Elder Blair and Elder Kotter and one with Elder Vassantachart and Elder Kotter again. It was a blast. 

On the exchange with Elder Blair we went and visited a bunch of members. While looking for a member we had to go through a big fish market. It was crazy - just buckets and barrels filled to the brim with live fish. We had McDonalds for lunch and then packed for our exchange with the AP Elders. 

While on the exchanges with Elder Vassantachart and Elder Kotter we got ambushed by two guys who were part of an illegal Christian church here in Vietnam. I wrote more on it in my previous email - but basically the guy who originally signed up to meet with us sent a different guy to meet us, who then invited a different friend to meet him and start bashing. It was pretty crazy, so we just left. 
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I am so sad the first draft of this email got deleted because I wrote the story out so well and had so many witty comments. Then, it got deleted. I can't remember how I wrote it but I promise you it was hilarious. Maybe it was just too good, so it was taken from the email, like how Heavenly Father didn't let the prophets write things down on the golden plates because they were too spectacular to be written. That is what I'll tell myself at least. 
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With love and hopefully a successfully sent email, 
Anh Cả Reynolds


Note from Sally: The picture of Ethan and his companion riding their bikes was taken by the new wonderful missionary couple, The Adams. They were in a taxi driving down the street and saw the missionaries and snapped the picture. I think it may be one of my most favorite pictures from his mission yet. 








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