Thanks for the birthday wishes sent my way! Can't believe I'm 21 years old haha. Time goes quick. My companion wanted to make sure I didn't feel bad by reminding me that he's 27 haha. I got a letter from one of my trainees, the letter from G&G Lott, and then a couple packages from Shannon that I opened this morning, so it almost felt like a birthday! No better place to celebrate a 21st birthday than the mission field. A family invited us over for dinner tonight, so we'll have a Mexican dish called bambazos (or something like that) and some tres leches cake. I'm looking forward to it! As for doing something special, we're pretty limited since we're on bike, so I think we're going to try to play some ball with some other Elders and then just hit the streets and talk to at least 20 people about the Gospel!
Thanks for the update on sports! I heard about the super bowl, but hadn't heard anything about basketball or tennis. I've been surprised that I really haven't been updated much out here from people we talk to. They're all just into soccer I guess haha.
About 2 months ago, I made the conscious decision to strive to immediately act on every single prompting I receive. At first, it was pretty tough, because I always find myself thinking, "That was probably just in my head." I haven't been perfect at it, but as I've tried to do that, I've seen a ton of great miracles and met a lot of great people! A lot of the times, it's just walking past a house and having the thought to knock the door, or sometimes it's going down a specific street. Many times, nothing comes from it, but sometimes there are obvious tender mercies. On Friday, we were walking around this neighborhood and there was a white guy sitting outside on his porch, smoking a cigarette and talking on the phone with a huge pitbull sitting next to him (without a leash or collar). He looked like a pretty rough guy and every natural instinct in me told me to just keep walking haha. But I had the impression that I needed to talk to him. We stepped onto his lawn and his dog started barking at us, and then he yelled at us from his porch and asked us if we were "slanging Jesus" and where our horses were haha. I almost felt like it was a waste of time and was not too excited about being destroyed by this pitbull, but he actually hung up his phone and said he wanted to hear what we had to say. We found out he works at a Hot Rod shop and has had a pretty rough life. I asked him what his favorite car is and he took us around the back of his house and showed us his perfectly restored 1926 Model T! He invited us inside and we ended up having a great talk about the Gospel and he promised us that he'd go to church at least once just for us and gave us his information.
I'd invite you all to act on those small promptings that you receive and I promise that as you do, although maybe not immediately, you will have faith-building experiences. I love the Gospel! I have no doubt that the true church has been restored and that it is this church. I know the Gospel blesses families and that it gives us the chance to continue to improve and become more like our Savior, Jesus Christ. I appreciate all the love and prayers! Make this week the best one yet!
Elder Reynolds
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