This week has flown by. My mom told me last week that my emails always sound super similar so I'm sorry if I get repetitive, I try to say something different in all of my emails but honestly a lot of our weeks are pretty similar!
We still did our sports night this week and one thing that was different was.... WE ACTUALLY HAD SOMEBODY SHOW UP THIS WEEK AND IT WAS AWESOME!!!! We had to leave a little early to go to a different appointment but it was super cool! His name was Oscar and we went and played soccer with them, got his number and had a great time with him and his mom! He said that he wants to invite his brothers and sisters for next week(tomorrow) and so we are excited to see how it turns out!!! And THEN the next day we went to a Mexican restaurant and the mom was their with one of her daughters and told us that she was still excited to come to next week sports night!!! Miracles being in the right place at the right time:)
Also this last week I feel like we have been able to talk to wayyyyyy many more Hispanics even if they didn't want anything to do with us we were able to talk to lots of people! Almost everyone we talked to said we could come by and learn Spanish from them though so hopefully we can use that to start practicing our lessons on them in Spanish and have them teach us how to teach the lessons so it would be a win win for us! I am definitely learning to love to talk with all the Hispanics even though most the time I still can't understand them!
Also we were promised multiple times this last week that if we continue to work hard that we will find someone to teach! And we were coming up to the end of the week when we needed to report our numbers and the last door that we were going to know happened to be a former person that had been taught that is really good friends with one of the members in our ward! So we went in and taught a very simple point, set a return appointment and found ourselves a new person the day before we needed to report our numbers and it is so incredible that as we continue to work as hard as we can the Lord will provide. When we start to doubt but keep pushing forward the Lord will watch over us and keep us protected and open up the heavens and pour down blessings upon us!!
I have been reading through the Doctrine and Covenants and as I was reading I found a really cool passage about the importance of having modern day revelation and prophets to lead and guide us through life to keep us protected from the enemy! It is Doctrine and Covenants 101:43-54 and I would invite you all to go and read that! The prophets and apostles recieve revelation for the people of the world so that we can be blessed and protected! They stand on a watch tower to warn us of the danger ahead in the world! I know that as we follow the words of the prophets without questioning and trust that they have been called of the Lord and we sustain them by listening and following their council that we will be blessed from all of the evil in the world! I'm grateful for the knowledge and truth that we have today from prophets of old and also modern day prophets!
I love you all so much and am grateful for the opportunity I have to serve a mission! So many of you at home have had such a great influence on me and I am grateful for all of your examples! Keep on keeping on my friends and family!
DO GOOD BE GOOD
Love,
Elder T. Ricks
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