Hey friends and family, I hope you are having the best weeks! FIRST OFF, HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MY DAD!!!! He's a cool guy and I'm glad that he is my dad! I wish that I could spend this incredible day that he was born with him, but since I can't be doing that I am exactly where I want to be serving the Lord! I am so grateful for your example to me dad! I love you and hope you have a wonderful day!!!
This week has been pretty legendary for me! The members here are basically super cool and I love this area! The district I am in is super cool and it's just a fantastic time haha. Missionary work is truly the best! Also, some good news, the AC got fixed and instead of it being an oven in my apartment it is a freezer!
The Sisters in Janesville found and started teaching this guy names Julio and they thought with his situation it would be better for us to teach him! He had a pretty rough past, like super pretty rough, but it is so cool to see people change their lives! He found a church that basically saved his life in the fact he wants to do better and be better and now we are working on sharing the restored and true gospel with him!
No one came to sports night, no one came to English class, we didn't have Bible class... But it's okay because this next week we are going to do it all! People were just very busy this week!
One super awesome thing that did happen this week is that we got to go to the Milwaukee Brewers game against the Texas Rangers! And not only did we get to go, we got suite box tickets to the game with the Palmer family and his whole staff at work! We obviously had to get it approved from our mission president, so we did! And the way we did that was because his whole staff was not members of our church and we also brought a super solid potential along with another member and his cousin from the Dominican Republic! It was incredible. We got to fulfill our missionary purpose by talking to people who live in the Janesville area, set a solid friendship with a solid potential and watch a Brewers game!
I have been reading the beginning chapters of the book of Alma in the Book of Mormon and I love how apparent it is that when we follow the commandments and the prophecies of the prophets we are incredibly blessed, and when we are prideful we become wicked and stop receiving the blessings, not because the Lord doesn't give us blessings but because we are not willing to receive them! I invite you all to remember the importance of daily scripture study and prayer and the council of our prophet to repent every single day! I promise that as you do these things your life will become better!
Thanks again for all of your love and support! I love you all!
DO GOOD, BE GOOD
Love,
Elder T. Ricks
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