Jan 3-9, 2021

 Hey everybody I hope you all had a fantastic week. I can tell you right now that I love serving the Lord's people here in Pasco.

REPLY TO YOUR LETTER

   I love talking with you and the family every week it is really awesome to hear how everyone's week went and also get to share some of my experiences with you all and I really do love it too mom. 

    Mom I've heard that things are pretty crazy right now and Satan is just leaning back and watching the show and it does seem like he has a lot of power right now. But I know that we have power over Satan as long as we strive to ALWAYS have Jesus on our mind, because we have the choice to let Satan have power but we also can choose to absolutely avoid everything he does with the help of our Heavenly Father.

   I am so sorry to hear about Uncle Kay. That is really hard to deal with and I bet that is super hard for aunt Sherlyn. I will definitely keep them in my prayers. That will be super fun for you to go the basketball game on Saturday though and then also go to Taylor's farewell. He will do so awesome!

   Basketball sounds good. Thanks for the updates mom I really love hearing about it! I am glad Kinley had a great game that is so cool. I also saw that video of Ty...😮 that was so cool to see him throw down and hear everybody go crazy. 

   Doctrine and Covenants is truly amazing. Everything about it just prooves to me that Heavenly Father really does reveal his truths and guidance to his prophets. Amos 3:7 is a really good verse to help me understand that. I love what you said mom about how we are not following blindly because we all have gotten that confirmation that the Lord loves us and he will guide us. I know Joseph Smith was a true prophet. I love teaching people about Joseph Smith because whenever they call us crazy I just bare my simple testimony that I know he restored this church and is a true example to me. 

MY WEEK

This week was pretty good for Elder Hamblin and I. We did a lot of contacting and we set a goal to find 3 new people this week and it was so amazing to see the Lord's hand and his help in our life because we accomplished our goal and found 3 new people to teach this week all thanks to our Father in Heaven. Not a lot happened this week but we did teach Michelle about being married and she wants to be baptized really bad but also wants to make sure that Israel is right for her so please be praying for her. Also we found out that we are not allowed to have any sports because of covid so  my morning basketball got wrecked but that's ok because now I am limited to go run in the mornings but that will be really good for me. Also Kristopher came to church yesterday and he is getting ready to get the Aaronic Priesthood so we are so happy for him. Also on Saturday it was Elder Ross's (the elder that is going to UT. State) birthday and him and I have become really good friends. We made him pancakes in the morning and then his parents bought our whole apartment dinner and we played some birthday games and it was really fun. On Sunday we watched Elder Gong's devotional and it was so good. I loved his invitations for us and if you haven't watched it please do because it is amazing. His first invitation stood out to me which was, "be still and know that I am God." No need to worry, Heavenly Father is all in control. Something funny that happened on Sunday was we were walking down the street and I looked in the window of this house and the Browns vs Steelers game was on so I kinda stopped and tried to get a score.... but then I ducked my head and kept walking and then I heard the good news that they won which was so cool!

I love you all so much and thank you for the prayers and support, they really mean so much to me. Just know that Heavenly Father loves you! So much that we cannot understand. If there is one thing I've learned so far it is that our Savior Jesus Christ knows exactly what we are going through, we are never alone! Keep being safe! Love you all.

Love Elder Reiley