Thank you for all you do for me!! For all of your love and support and also for all of your prayers and thoughts! I know that because of your faith at home I am receiving blessings and I feel so blessed to have such great family and friends back at home! I hope that you all know how much I love you!
This week was crazy! I don't even know where to start. We didn't have a car because my companion scratched the truck we have and it was a huge scratch so we had to take it in to get it painted and stuff like that. We took it in on Tuesday morning and didn't get it until Saturday morning sooooo we rode bikes:) it was awesome. And we went on exchanges and I stayed in the area and had to ride bikes without a car even though I didn't even ruin the car!!! Haha it was super cool though and I definitely saw many blessings from riding bikes and being out in the public where people can see us and we were actually able to stop and talk to people that were out gardening and things like that! So great:) so even though Marshfield is so spread out and it takes a while to get across town there were definitely blessings from still working hard! The Lord works in mysterious ways:)
People are starting to graduate (HUGE SHOUT OUT TO CARSON MY YOUNGER BROTHER FOR GRADUATING AND LOOKING GOOD WHILE DOING IT!!!) and here in Wisconsin they have HUGE parties for the people that graduate! It is sweet. Especially as a missionary because what better place to meet and talk to people than at a fun graduation party where all of the members introduce us to literally all of their friends! So cool. We were able to meet more people there than I think that I have met this whole mission and we were able to tell everyone who we are and what we do and talk a little about Jesus Christ! The bishops son here graduated and invited us to his party and thankfully it was at a real bar where we were able to go and have fun doing missionary work:) while people are partying we were busy at work doing the most important thing, which is sharing the gospel of Jesus Christ! I love this work and that I have the opportunity to invite others to come unto Christ! It doesn't get better than this.
I went on exchanges with our new zone leader Elder McConkie, who is Bruce R McConkie's 4th great grandson or something like that so as you can all probably tell, he is a great man and an amazing missionary! We didn't have a car but we were able to work hard and find some very nice people that we get to come back and teach! We were also able to teach Kriss about faith and how we can strengthen that through our actions to show the Lord how much we love Him! It was so awesome to see the Spirit work on her during that lesson. We extended an invitation to her that I want to extend to all of you! We invited her to read 10 minutes out of the Book or Mormon and to pray to Heavenly Father in the name of Jesus Christ! I invite you all to find at least 10 minutes of your day, every day, to read out of the Book of Mormon and look for the blessings that come from that! The Book of Mormon is the word of God and I am so grateful for the peace, knowledge and happiness that it has brought into my life. We as members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints should take advantage of the knowledge we can gain from this book! As we study faithfully for even 10 minutes a day and pray to our Heavenly Father with real intent we will see a change in our lives!
I am so grateful that I get to be here in Wisconsin to teach others about the truthfulness of the gospel and to represent my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, and be able to invite others to follow Him! This is the greatest work and I am so blessed to have this opportunity. Thank you again so much for all of your prayers, thoughts and love! I love you all.
DO GOOD BE GOOD
Love,
Elder Ricks
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