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Familia!

Sounds like everyone is having a great time with little Lucy! Must be
nice! Haha I like the pictures of all the boys with that little cutie.
She looks like a pretty happy baby! And let her know I can sympathize
with the double chin! Hahaha

Had a pretty great experience early this week when we were teaching a
lady. I has talked to her about a month ago just walking around, but
every time we went by after that she said she was busy or just didn't
answer the door. This time she answered the door and said she only had
a few minutes, so we took advantage of the chance to share the message
of the restoration! We started with a prayer and began to talk about
her religious background and the role that God has had in her life up
to this point. She was of course raised catholic but never really went
to church or anything. We shared the restoration and really focused on
the fact that God really will answer our prayers if we truly ask with
faith. We asked her to pray about it right then and she did! (With a
little encouragement.) By the end of the prayer, she had some tears in
her eyes and was pretty quiet. I felt like I should ask her how she
felt as she was praying and right after I asked that, she started
crying. I immediately felt the spirit super strong and got a little
emotional as well as I testified that the spirit testifies to us of
the truth and that the gospel will bless her life. I think that was
the strongest I've felt the spirit out here so far. It was a powerful
experience.

Not very many people kept their appointments this week, so there was a
lot of walking around haha. We met some cool people though, so
hopefully we'll be able to meet back up with some of them. We taught a
lady from Acapulco, México a couple times and she seemed to have some
potential, but she's going back there for at least a month and she's
leaving tonight haha. We found out that Heidi and Gloria both moved
away for the rest of the summer, so we won't be able to see them.
Super disappointing haha. They really were both ready for baptism.
Just gotta try to find the others who have been prepared though!

Thanks so much for the emails this week! I've been reading through the
Gospels in the New Testament and it's been super good. I really hadn't
read the bible much, but it's nice to have an understanding of where
other people come from with their beliefs. We had a Christian lady
come up to us yesterday and start going at us with a bunch of false
stuff haha. I had to tell her that with all respect, she was not able
to tell us what we believe. Then we invited her to read the Book of
Mormon haha. Great times! I love you all! Have a great week!

Elder Reynolds



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