This week was pretty fun! I sadly had to say bye to my last companion Elder Freeman, but I got a new one right out of the MTC, his name is Elder Bird! He is super cool. He is from Houston Texas and is going to play college football after the mission. It was been a pretty cool experience to be his first companion out here.
We had to cancel last week's sports night because we drove to Milwaukee to get our new companions, but this last week we got a random call from somebody asking about it and they said that they wanted to come which is awesome! So we are excited for this next week to have some people come for sports night!
English class went super good as well. We taught the lesson thanks to the help of the Lord and the gift of tongues! Then we invited them to a ward activity which they ended up not coming to but the activity was fun and we had our recent converts there an investigator as well.
We have actually done quite a bit of tracting this week, only for like an hour or so at a time but it has been nice to go and talk to everyone. We have also done a lot more studies because all the new missionaries have to do the additional companionship study which is actually super cool so that we can both learn Preach My Gospel better and also understand our purpose as missionaries! It's great.
Yesterday the Palmers daughter had a friend that had a birthday and were having a party at their house, and they found out it was my birthday as well so they invited us over and it was super cool because there was probably like 10 of her friends there and we hadn't met any of them before! So we got over there and had a good time getting to know people telling them about us and then had the opportunity to ask them to take the missionary lessons! We asked them if they could help us practice our lessons, but they said yes so we will be able to teach all of the people that were there! So we are looking forward to teaching hopefully a lot of new people this next week!
I ran into this quote the other day that I thought you all would like:
Worship gets you through the hardest times in your life because it shifts your focus from the problem to the problem solver
And I just want to add my testimony that I know when we rely on Jesus Christ and show Him how much we love Him by studying the scriptures, praying, giving service, going to the temple(even just temple grounds) we will be able to get through all the hard times in our life and not only will we be able to get through them but we will grow and become stronger because of them!
Thanks for all of your love and support!
DO GOOD, BE GOOD
Love,
Elder T. Ricks
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