1st Area and new companion

HEY!
Wow what a week it has been, After we left the MTC we met President
and Sister Omer and have a mission feild breifing and then an
interview with President, after we went to the Transfer Meeting and
met our compaions, My trainers name is Elder Foster he is from
Aberdeen Idaho, hes a patotoe farmer hahaha but hes a good guy, really
helping me a lot getting used to the area and mission techinal stuff
like how to use planner take referals ect. He only has about 6 weeks
left so its kinda werid i just got here and he is getting ready to go
home. But we have been assingned to Open a new area!!!! The Roodeport
area, we cover the roodeport and raumsig wards. I live right across
the street from the MTC so that was a BIG move hahahah but its nice we
live next to a senior Couple the Levitts they are from Nevada. They
feed us sunday dinner and stuff they are really nice. But yeah like a
said we are opening a new area and its hard, really hard. We are on
bikes to, so we ride about 30-40 k's a day (kilometers) all over the
city. WOW what an experience that is, its so crazy all the people
riding through them, geez i cant even describe it. and at night its
just sketcky....even scary sometimes, but its all good hahah we
basically have no one to teach and tracking is near impossible because
everyone has gates and dogs so you buzz the gate the dogs come running
out, and you speak to the person throuhg the intercom, you say hi we
are missinoaries, we have a message, they say no thanks i already have
my church bye. so its pretty hard, so thats why its so critcal to get
referals from member and thats what we are working on right now
getting the wards on board and excited about mission work they seem
really excited and willing to help so that is good, we got a few
appointments set up at church so things are looking up but its still
hard. Anyways i had an amazing expereince on Friday. We had a list of
part member familes from the bishop to go visit so we rode our bikes
all over up hill pretty much half the day ( MY LEGS WERE JELL-O! ) but
anyways we had went to every house on the list and only met with one
person, either the rest had moved or were not home, so after the last
house Elder Foster looked at me and said, well Elder i dont know what
to do now, what do you think we should do....uhhhhhh talk about
dumbstruck! hahah i said i have no idea where we even are! he said i
know just as well as you were we are so its your turn just go wherever
you feel you should. So i said a prayer PLEASE HELP ME! LET ME FEEL
THE SPIRIT and what do you know it worked! i was peadeling my little
bike around looking around like a lost puppy i had noooo clue! we came
to an intersection and one way was up the hill and the other was down,
and i did NOT want to go up another hill....but i did got to the top
of the hill stopped looked around somemore i was still lost.....rode
across the street and decided that i needed to do something so i
started on the corner house and knocked on the gate, nothing so we
rode up the street a little ways and i saw house number 10 and bam i
knew i needed to buzz the gate, so i did, the dogs started barking
like usuall and a man came out, i was like oh great he looks like a
really scary dude. but he stuck his hand throuhg the gate and said hi
how are you would you like to come in? HOLY COW! talk about amazing,
anyways turns out this family had some really good member freind who's
daughter was on mission right now, so they new about missionaries and
took some pitty on us cause he said they know we walk around all day
and were tired and boy was i ever, But as we visited with Jan and
Carol they were so amazing, we talk about lots of stuff just getting
to know them and talk about the states and afica and all the cool
things and place we had been and just made freinds and built a
relatioship, then we set up a dinner appointment and are going back to
share a little message about families, after we got back home. i was
thinking and i asked Elder Foster do you think riding around all day
was worth it to just get into that one house? he said absolutly, do
you think it was worth it? The excitement i felt about being able to
talk with someone and just thinking of the possiblities of what can
happen i would have rode my bike up 5 more hills if i knew someone
was up there that would just listen! Elder Foster said if we had not
riden around all day to that point we wouldnt have been in that area,
i watched and the spirit led you right to that door! ITS SO
AMAZING!!!! im really excited and hope that they are receptive!
anyways thats my cool experience for the week hahah i love you all so
much! miss you lots hope all is well.
LOVE ELDER REEVE

p.s. can you give me jesses email address please!