"Was that thunder or was that the dishwasher?"

Heyyooo!

This email is going to be long. Buckle up.

Well my friends. My family. My secret admirers. How are y'all?

I'm doing swell! You know... Because FLORIDA! Also, fun fact! Today is my 8 month birthday as a missionary. 🎂🎂🎂 I emailed my trainer today to ask her how she felt about it and this was her response: "Come closer.... my child.... my old eyes..... are growing dim... and the light at the end of the tunnel grows nearer..... though I may give up the ghost soon just know that my soul lives on through you............... if that answers your question"

I recorded some sick recordings for y'all, but due to the fact that we had a lil rainstorm this week I had to empty out my bag so it could... you know... dry. And then I forgot to put the cord for my recorder thing back in my bag. So you'll get double recordings next week. 

Let me tell you some exciting things.

First of all, we have an investigator on date for baptism! Her name is M and she is hopefully going to get baptized on June 12th if we can get everything taught by then. Everyone pray for her and for us that it all works out! I am so excited I can't even handle it.

Second of all, would the person that keeps telling everyone I'm a singer please reveal yourself... I've been asked to sing at zone conference on Thursday with more than a third of the mission and I was also asked to sing in church on Sunday... K... Do you think it would be fine if I just sang our mission parody song that I sent y'all two weeks ago? Hahaha 

Let me tell you about my favorite parts of the week.

Monday at FHE we played murder in the dark. I was the murderer and nobody suspected me because you know... The smallest sister missionary would never hurt a fly. Haha #Winning #TheWholeWardWasDead

Tuesday's exciting events included temple service at the one and only Orlando Temple. Per usual we planted flowers all over the place and had our homemade chipoltle style burritos with BBQ sauce. My other favorite part about Tuesday was having our lesson with M when we invited her to be baptized. That is what missionary work is about people! Every slammed door, every rude person, every long day is made up for when someone decides they want you know... get baptized and stuff. 

I love missionary work.

Wednesday we had district meeting. I gave the spiritual thought. Then we went to Subway with Hermana Shelley and Hermana Stone. #EatFresh Then we went to our JustServe assignment at Second Harvest Food Bank. Sister Hill and I packaged cookies and had to put like two hundred cookies in packages. And then to be more efficient I sat on a wheelie chair and piled all of the packages of cookies on my lap and then Sister Hill rolled me around and I dropped the cookies into the giveaway bags. It was a real good time. Then we had another bomb lesson with Mayra and she accepted a baptismal calendar. whooo!!! Then we went to Night Games and played a sweet game of volleyball. I love Buena Vista.

Thursday we called like a whole bunch of people in the ward. Sister Hart was calling people and she was leaving a message for this less active in the ward. She was trying to say "We would love to hear from you.." But instead she accidentally said "I love you." I laughed for like 10 minutes. We also did practiced music for zone conference with the Lake Reams sisters, had dinner with Kaitlyn and Kristen, a lesson with Elena, and INSTITUTE! I love institute with all my heart.

Friday we weekly planned a lil bit. We practiced music with the Lake Reams sisters again. Then we went to dinner with Sam and Kaylee and went finding with Brooklynn. It was the most fun time. We were laughing so hard we were crying. She also bought us ice cream. Brooklynn is my FAVORITE HUMAN.

Saturday we built a desk for Lacey. Friends... Sister Hart and I need to have our own HGTV show. You would be so proud mom. We also had a lesson with a girl named Megan in the ward and we finished weekly planning.

Sunday we had a ward council meeting. Then Brooklynn spoke in church. She had told us a few days before that she was going to give us a shout out in her talk, but when it cam to it she said she couldn't because she knew we would make her laugh. haha. Mayra came to church! Then we had lunch with Kristen and Brittany and then watched Meet the Mormons and had a lesson with a bunch of sisters in the ward. It was great. Then we had dinner with Brooklynn and Sarah. BROOKLYNN BOUGHT ME GRAPEFRUIT JUICE BECAUSE SHE LOVES ME. You guys. This ward is so good to me. Dinner with Brooklynn and Sarah is always a party. Then at night Sacrament Brooklynn spoke again. She gave us a shout out this time but WOULD NOT look at us. haha it was really sweet though. She talked about how much we have helped her and all the blessings that have come to her life because she's helped the missionaries. It was so nice.

Today we are going shopping with Lacey. It should be a good time.
I'm sorry this is such a long email. I just really have a lot to tell you and am sad I can't upload my voice recordings. I hope everyone has a swell week! I love ya'll lots

Here are some "out of context quotes" from the week

"It's like a dog died in our bathtub"
"Have enough faith that God can make the bathtub drain, but don't be surprised when He hands you a chopstick."
"Was that thunder or was that the dishwasher?"
"I'm selfish... I want the freaking blessings."

"I just want you all to know I still don't have the Wii."

"somehow I was a prisoner, but I was like... in charge."

Well friends, I love y'all more than Elder Bednar loves to make lists!

Sister Whitney Reid 

Florida, Orlando Mission

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Citrusfruitsister.blogspot.com

Feelmysunlight.blogspot.com

When you're 4'10" and they put your grapefruit juice on the top shelf... #TheStruggle

My fruit snacks were stuck together and they looked like a duck.. #DistrictMeeting

We got caught in some rain

POP ROCKS

"These are like stair master stairs... and I'm more of a ramp girl..."

Well hello my friends!

First of all, I've had several people tell me they really like both of my blogs this week. I just wanted to say thank you so much for your kind words. It really means so much to me to know you guys read them and that you care what I write. And if any of you have cool spiritual or missionary experiences feel free to shoot me an email about them! I'd love to include them in some of my posts. 

This week has been oh so good. 

Transfers happened, but Sister Hart and I are staying together for another one! Whoo! I just want to be with her for forever and a day.

Because of transfers and some other things, we didn't have very many of our regular organized service activities this week. But that was good because it gave us some extra time to do service and finding!

This week we did a whole lot of lot of service! Our entire day on Tuesday was just service. I walked my bishop's dog with pink hair. I took some sweet selfies with that dog. We also helped the Lake Reams sisters move apartments and washed windows and cleaned cars. It was a splendid week of service. Go do some service. It will make you real happy about life.

This week also consisted of a whole lot of finding, tracting, and contacting people. Like for hours and hours and hours. And not very many people wanted to listen. So at the end of the day on Saturday we were feeling pretty bummed about missionary work because we have happiness and nobody wanted us to share it with them, so we decided to run over to Publix to get some ice cream. The checkout lady asked us what our name tags were, so we told her. And she said "oh like for the temple up the street!" And then the bagger dude said," hey I went into that temple the other day! I was just curious as to what it was all about and the front desk guy talked to me about the church and the secret service going on inside." Yes, he said secret service. But anyway, so he said he was interested in learning more so now he are going to teach him! All you need is one good thing to happen, and the bad day turns around! 

We are also working with lots of less actives and a couple investigators. Our most solid investigator's name is C. She's real cool and she reads the Book of Mormon and prays everyday and I'm pretty dang proud of her.

Anyways, this week has been pretty average. We've been working hard. I'm dead tired everyday but that's the best way to do life.

I love you all more than the people in the Book of Mormon like to pass out.

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     -♥-

Sister Reid

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Me walking my bishop's dog

Please enjoy the cutest picture you have ever seen

My comp picking up dog poop....#Service

Service

I made Clementine wear my name tag

This is what Florida is like

My tortillas are "mission" brand... so I took a picture with my name tag

Pass along cards

More pass along cards

lots of cards

This is me...everyday...at the walk....trying to get people to listen

The Walk

cultural

Tagolog

This cockroach was like 3.5 inches long.....I died.

"I have a bunch of dead bird in my mouth"

Hey hey hey!

So I talked to you yesterday. Not much more has happened since I last talked to you. haha

But for everyone that doesn't know I have some info for you!!! As you read last week in my email last week I have been asked by my Mission President to start writing a blog! It is just a trial so it might only be for a little bit, but for those of you who want to check it out it's citrusfruitsister.blogspot.com. It is mainly going to be used to help strengthen the people in the areas that I serve in, but if you want to follow along then you can! You can also keep following feelmysunlight.blogspot.com which is the blog maintained by my mom that has all my emails and pictures on it. Gotta love that blog life!

Per usual I made a voice recording. Sister Hart and I also wrote a song this week. Ask my mom if you want to hear it. You can now add singer/songwriter to my list of things that I do. But be warned...I never said I was a good singer/songwriter... haha

One of my favorite parts of the week (besides skyping my family) was teaching our new investigator Cassie who was a referral from Keri and Abby in the ward. Keri is her roommate and she had shared a Book of Mormon with her and invited her to learn more. Cassie was interested so Keri invited us over for dinner and asked us to teach the first lesson. We had an incredible lesson and both Abby and Keri bore powerful testimonies. Wow members are the coolest and so much better at missionary work thank us goons. 

Share the gospel my friends.

My other favorite spiritual part of the week happened after church yesterday. After every lesson we like to ask people what we can pray for. A little while ago we had a member tell us about a trial her family had been going through. We have been praying for her and her family for a while. Yesterday she came up to us and said "hey sisters, can I talk to you?" and then she told us that the trial that they had been going through was over and then she bore testimony of how prayers work and she thanked us for praying for her family. It was so sweet. Prayer works people.

My other favorite parts of the week were FHE, Temple Service, District Meeting, JustServe, Blitzzs with Hermana Stokey, sushi, dinner with Brooklynn and Sarah and SKYPING MY FAMILY!!!

Shout out to Hannah for making the graphics on my new blog and shout out to Kami who goes to the MTC this week! Wow! I have cool friends.

Out of context quotes for the week:

"I'm just going to knock with my head"

"Have you done any tumbling lately?"

"Ya I did a handstand the other day."

"Oh good because when you get to our age you can't do 'em. It's like you do cartwheel and then you're on the ground."

"You've got a long way to go dude."

"It talks about how you need to visit the naked..."

"I would smile but I can't because it's broken... for multiple reasons... Number one: I have a bunch of dead bird in my mouth."

I love you more than Giddeon and King Noah love climbing towers and fighting... I don't know if it is because I have been living by Disney World for a while, but when I read this story this morning I pictured it as a cartoon in the Rapunzel tower... I love Buena Vista. 

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     -♥- 

Sister Reid

 

Blitzing with Sister Stokey

Mini door mat

I found  a bug

I made a mural on Sister Stokey and Sister Shelley's board

Sister Hart & Sister Shelley

 

Some of the awesome members of my ward