ALSO, good luck to Payton in this next semester in college! I hope you have a fantastic first day today:) thanks for being such a big part of my life Payt😀❤️
I love sharing the Gospel of Jesus Christ with others. We are seriously sharing salvation and what could be better!? I challenge all of you to think of someone this week and maybe send a quote from a modern day prophet or apostle, or a verse from the Book of Mormon about faith or hope or even how if you read the Book of Mormon with intent to learn and then pray about if they will know that it is true! I promise that as you share your knowledge of the truth of Jesus Christ, the Lord will pour down blessings upon you!
The work here in Janesville is going so good. The past 12 weeks since I have been here we have just been laying the foundation of where all of the Hispanics are and ways we can find them and start teaching them and we are finally starting to see success and with starting to teach people that speak Spanish! Hard work really does pay off! In the last couple weeks we have been able to start teaching 2 people from Honduras that only speak Spanish and 1 that speaks English but it is so cool to see all of the many blessings that the Lord gives us.
We had our New Missionary Summit this last week in Oshkosh because Elder Bird is a new missionary! It was super fun to see my old companion and a couple of the people I have served around! We also had interviews with the President. President Murphy is such a cool guy! And yesterday at church a guy spoke and said missionaries get called to a mission president and I was like heck yes! I was called to President Murphy and so that was hype.
The gift of tongues is real! Everytime I need to randomly teach a lesson at either church, FHE, or Bible class I have been so blessed to always have words come into my head and frases to help the others feel the Holy Ghost! Wow it's such a cool feeling when the class is done and then think back and wonder how I was able to talk and teach for an hour! And it is all because of the help of the Holy Ghost and the love our Father in Heaven has for us!
Also Brother Palmer is super cool too. He let's us come over to his dental office and work out with him at 5 in the morning... So we wake up super early and work out with him! It's super awesome haha. Before my mission I hated getting up super early but now I kinda like it because I get soo much done in the mornings!
I am reading in Alma right now and just finished Alma 39. I always love reading when he is talking to his sons and giving them council on how to be successful and become men of God. But near the end when he is talking to Corian ton and he says in verses 13-14 in chapter 39 of Alma "That ye turn to the Lord with all your mind, might, and strength; that ye lead away the hearts of no more to do wickedly; but rather return unto them, and acknowledge your faults and that wrong which ye have done. Seek not after riches nor the vain things of this world; for behold, you cannot carry them with you." and this really stood out to me because the Lord wants us to turn back to Him and come unto Him no matter what we might have done in the past or are doing. He always has His arms open wide for us. When we repent and change our lives in order to follow Jesus Christ I have seen in my own life that we become better people.
I know this is the true church! I'm grateful for the knowledge that I have. And I hope that you all continue to always read from the Book of Mormon and to pray! Thank you for all of your prayers and thoughts and packages that have been sent to me so far! You are all incredible and I hope that you all have a great next week!
DO GOOD BE GOOD
Love,
Elder T. Ricks
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