Honestly nothing too amazing happened this week! Just that we were able to find 2 more people to start teaching and ... it snowed haha! We were walking around town at about 10 in the morning after it had snowed a lot and basically everyone already had their sidewalks and driveways shovelled or snow blowed! It was actually pretty amazing.
We just go out basically all the time and try to talk to and share the Gospel with everyone! Its lovely. I guess another cool thing is that we have been starting to use the busing system more and everyone always said that it isnt a very good busing system but I haven't really had any problems yet! It's been fun haha.
Oh also this lady called the Hmong Elders in my District and asked them to go to their house to give it a blessing because there have been lots of activity with the unseen world there with Spirits and all! So we were on exchanges when that happened and I got to go and help this lady. So we went and shared a super amazing lesson with her about the light of Jesus Christ. She had a lot of questions and stuff like that but you could tell she needs and needed the Gospel in her life and so we taught her and then blessed the house and some other Sisters in the area were able to go later on that day and teach her the Plan of Salvation. Super cool!! They are planning on continuing teaching her and hopefully she can progress and come to church eventually.
Thats basically it for this week. I started the Book of Mormon over and am planning on finishing it the morning of the April General Conference which I think is gonna be suuper cool! But I have been studying a lot about Lehi, Nephi, Laman and Lemuel. I love the part where Nephi starts building the ship but Laman and Lemuel come over to him and start persecuting him and telling him he cant build a ship. I love Nephi's response and the fact that he knows the power that he has because he is a man of God.
1 Nefi 17:46-48
"Y vosotros también sabéis que por el poder de su palabra omnipotente él puede hacer que la tierra deje de ser; sí, y sabéis que por su palabra él puede hacer que los lugares escabrosos se hagan llanos, y los lugares llanos se hiendan. Oh, ¿cómo, pues, podéis ser tan duros de corazón? He aquí, mi alma se parte de angustia por causa de vosotros; y mi corazón está adolorido, porque temo que seréis desechados para siempre jamás. He aquí, estoy lleno del Espíritu de Dios, a tal extremo que mi cuerpo no tiene fuerzas. Y aconteció que cuando hube hablado estas palabras, se enojaron conmigo, y quisieron arrojarme al fondo del mar; y al acercarse para asirme, les hablé, diciendo: En el nombre del Dios Todopoderoso, os mando que no me toquéis, porque estoy lleno del poder de Dios, aun hasta consumirme la carne; y cualquiera que ponga sus manos sobre mí se marchitará como una caña seca; y será como nada ante el poder de Dios, porque Dios lo herirá."
As we strive to live the commandments of God and do all we can to become like His Son we can also have that same power that Nephi did. We probably won't have to command people to not touch us but we can be filled with the Spirit of the Lord and can change the lives of the people around us. I'm grateful for the scriptures especially the Book of Mormon. I love Jesus Christ and I'm grateful to be here in Wisconsin at this time. I love you all and hope you all have amazing weeks!
Also I hope you all enjoy the photoshoot me and my family did!!! The photographer was crazy good at some edits and made us into LEGO people!! (Sorry you werent there Shay😭) I'm grateful for my family!!!!
DO GOOD, BE GOOD
Love,
Elder T. Ricks
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