Hooray, finally almost out of training. My comp goes home this week haha! I will be leaving the city of Marshfield and will be transferred to Janesville!!!!! Super excited to go there and see how the work is different. I will be going from almost the very north of the mission to the very south of the mission:) I have heard that it is very similar to the area I am at, just a little bit bigger and way more Spanish people, and Spanish members so I will be excited to continue teaching the people here of Wisconsin and continue learning Spanish!Thank you for all of your prayers and thoughts for me:) the blessings I have received really reflect to me how much faith you all have. Mark 9:23 "Jesus said unto him, if thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth (has faith)".This week we were able to plan and have a talent show for the ward here! It was super cool!! The youth and us as missionaries did a super cool break dance and I'm probably going to be a professional dancer when I get home now. People brought all kinds of talents. People baked brownies(me), danced(me), made a painting(me), and helped with the music for other people's acts(me). So as you can tell there was a lot of talent!! One of the older men in the ward also played the accordion, there were lots of youth who came and sang, gave poems, brought art work to show off in the back, singing without music(I forgot the word for that, actually I just don't know how to spell it) but it was super awesome! The Lord gave us many talents, so we should use them and always strive to gain more:)We haven't been teaching Kriss but we have been stopping by a lot and seeing how she is doing and always giving her things to read like The Family: A Proclamation to the World, The Living Christ, book marks that have different quotes and stuff on it for her Book of Mormon so that she is always thinking of Jesus Christ. I hope that we can commit her sometime soon to being baptized and start a new chapter of her life!There is a guy in the ward here and his name is Brother Hunter. We were having dinner with him and he told us that he has a cool relative who traveled across the plains as a pioneer! His relative is actually one of the 3 boys/young men to go back and help the pioneers cross the really big river and that is so awesome! Such a huge sacrifice and it makes me want to share the gospel even more because there were so many people suffering and doing everything they could so that we could have freedom and be where we are as a church today!I went on an exchange with the Elders in Steven's Point and they happen to be the Zone Leaders and I love them to death! Elders Allred, Isaacson, and McConkie are the Zone Leaders and it is incredible to have them help me through the mission and give me advice! I was able to go with Elders Allred and Isaacson and it was so fun. I love missionary work with them! They have a ton of fun, but still work super hard! We were able to give service to this wonderful lady of the ward and she had a dog that was like no joke 225 pounds and slobbered everywhere... When we got to the house we got out of the car and heard this Loud bark and I was like what the... And she lives in like the forest basically and it echoed and woow, no me gusta. When it was coming toward me I thought my life was going to end😂 But it was actually a really sweet dog! We put in probably 8 or so logs in the ground so that she could build a fence for all her horses! It was super good, giving service is such a blessing:)I am so grateful for the opportunity to be serving here in Wisconsin and am so grateful for all of your support, love, and prayers! I love you all!DO GOOD, BE GOODLove,Elder T. Ricks(I figured I should put a T in my signature thing because now there are 2 Elder's Ricks serving😊)
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