She came to the room with some messages in her hand and said: "I found this while I was arranging the desk drawers." I want to change it into reported speech

She came into the room with some messages in her hand and she said that she found them while she was arranging the desk drawers.

Explanation:

Reported speech is speech without direct quotations. All we have to do is rewrite the sentence in a way that still makes sense without the direct speech.