Sister Kendra Reynolds: Episode 19: Hello Lighting!!

~The Elders, Sister Wagner and Sister Reynolds~

The Mehalic Family took them to dinner:)

This week has been good, and a lot of little miracles have been happening. We have started teaching 1 new person!! We have yet to go back and see him. His name is Lawrence, an older gentleman who has a really cute pit bull and was very nice and had no history with dealing with the church, so a fresh clean slate. We are so pumped now that we have a vision in mind...things are falling into place and the Lord is blessing us for all of our efforts.

We have been out working this whole week and man have I missed that lol!! Of course it was in small spurts and my companion is struggling with a lot right now but she has even seen the difference and is able to really know and experience missionary work. We had a really awesome heart to heart about who we are and where we come from (earthly parents and such lol of course we know of the spiritual heavenly side of things). I got to know her and her relationship with our Heavenly Father better as well. I look up to her in so many ways now and I can't wait to see what is in store for her future! She cracks me up, she is so intense haha! I love it!! She comes from a military family and everything she says just has a little bit of command to it haha...I love it! The people out here really take her seriously! I hear its totally a sister missionary thing to take companion inventories seriously but they help so much!! Companion inventory is where you discuss strengths as a companionship, as well as individually, challenges both companion and individuals. It's basically a compliment session for half of it and crying your emotions out and helping uplift one another all in a one hour-ish lol! But I can truly testify the more you and your companion are in tune with one another, the better things will run. That goes for any relationship as well lol!! We also talked about it and dating life...like duh we are sisters, what do you expect!! But man, this gospel is so organized and divinely set up...you can literally apply anything, to everything!! The Lord will provide. That's it. I love that promise. He's got this!

So like...I'm sorry I'm not going to be at my brother's wedding (Kyle) but like...not sorry :( He gets married this weekend in the Payson Utah Temple. I'm upset I won't be able to be there to support and feel the love lol BUT I am here and testifying of the importance of this gospel and testifying to other families that they can have what my family has. I wouldn't want to be anywhere else at this time and I am so deeply grateful. Words cannot express how much this gospel means to me...I'm getting all teary eyed thinking and typing about it!! But it's true. I felt prompted to share my testimony yesterday in sacrament meeting. It felt a little weird because I didn't want to take up the ward's time to share with one another, but the spirit told me there was someone in the congregation that needed what I had to say. So I shared my testimony of the importance of short powerful statements. Two little girls went up and bore their testimonies that went something like this "I'd like to bear my testimony, I know the church is true, I love my family, in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen." You heard the chuckles that came from the congregation, but instantly the spirit was 10 times stronger because of the simplicity of that testimony. In Preach My Gospel, it says somewhere that short powerful statements will pierce the soul or something of that sort, and it was true. So I testified of that and how easy it is to share the gospel, and Alma 26:36-37...I read that during my studies that morning and tears came to my eyes as Ammon bore his testimony and in church I shared that and piggy-backed off of it. It is my life and my salvation, I am enterally grateful for that. Do not ever back down from an opportunity to share the gospel! Just like Paul, as we read in Come Follow Me, he was a savage!! He was not afraid of anyone or anything! He would bear his testimony and people couldn't help but listen to it!! I hope to become bold like him and not be afraid to ever share my testimony. Ever wonder why missionaries always seem happy? It's because we are sharing the gospel, which God has promised that if we do so, it will bring us joy!! Let's be joyful together!
I love you all! Have a joyful week!!
Sister Reynolds

3 Nephi 11:11

"And behold, I am the light and the life of the world; and I have drunk out of that bitter cup which the Father hath given me, and have glorified the Father in taking upon me the sins of the world, in the which I have suffered the will of the Father in all things from the beginning."