So I've never actually been in a heavily Spanish populated area here in the mission so far, but the last couple weeks there have been so many blessings with Spanish work! We have really been trying to listen to spiritual promptings that we have and then listening to them right when we get them. So there was this one day where we were at Bible class and we ended a little early so we left and on the way home we felt like we needed to go to a certain store(Dollar Tree haha) to get what we needed for class the next day. We walked in the store and wouldn't you know it! The first people we see are some Hispanics! So we go up to them and start talking to them about how we can learn Spanish better and they have us some ideas and even said that they wanted to learn English! So we invited them to our English class and gave them our number if they had questions so that they could call us. When we were walking away I felt so happy inside and I just knew that we were supposed to be there at that time so that we could talk to those people!
When we follow the Spirit we are blessed! We listened to an amazing talk on spiritual promptings and sadly I don't remember what it was called but it was fantastic. He said that we ALWAYS need to act on the first prompting we have even when it doesn't make sense you need to act on it. If it is a good promoting it us from God and he is trying to tell us something and He needs us to be somewhere! When we are second guessing thoughts we are dismissing our spiritual promptings. The Lord knows what everyone needs and when they need them so He always prompts us to do good things for others!! Satan is not, he doesn't want us to help others. So when we have promptings to do good things for others and we try to come up with a reason to not do it than we are dismissing what the Lord wants us to do and are doing what Satan wants us to do! For example: if we get a prompting or a thought that we should read the scriptures we should do it! When we start to come up with reasons to not read the scriptures like 'my scriptures are too far away' 'I don't have time' or other things like that we are putting the promptings of the Lord to the side and following the promptings of Satan! So I invite you all to start your days in your morning prayers by saying 'Heavenly Father, trust me with one prompting today and I promise I will act on it immediately' and then when you recieve the prompting, do it! I promise your eyes will be opened to how much the Lord prompts you and how much more good you can do in the world for the people around you by following those promptings!
I love talking to people in Spanish! Even if I don't understand what they are saying or anything like that or I don't know what to say I'll just open my mouth and ask a question and words will be put in my mouth and I'll have like a real conversation with people in Spanish! It's like the coolest thing ever haha!
We have also been teaching English classes as you all know! And there is always 2 people that show up. This last Saturday at the end of our class I had a prompting to ask them if we can teach them what we do as missionaries and they said yes so we were able to go to their house and teach them that we teach about Jesus Christ and we learn from the Bible and the Book of Mormon! Their names are Dina and Astrid and it was like my first real kinda lesson here in Janesville in Spanish! It wasn't a very long lesson but we were able to testify of Christ and testify of the Book of Mormon and wow the gift of tongues is real! Sometimes I feel I have no idea how I'm going to speak Spanish or even what I'm going to say right before I open my mouth and then words and phrases come into my mind! I'm grateful for the opportunity I have to serve the Hispanic people here in Wisconsin!
I love you all so much and hope you have great weeks!
DO GOOD, BE GOOD
Love,
Elder T. Ricks
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