This week has truly been incredible. I was able to go on 2 exchanges this week and we saw so many miracles. We worked super hard during the exchanges but we also had a lot of fun! My first exchange was with a guy named Elder Heflin who has been a District Leader in some of his last areas and he was able to help me a lot and give me some ideas to be a better leader. And the other exchange was with one of our Zone Leaders, Elder Hamilton, and that was also super fun! He served in Marshfield after I did and so we were able to talk about a lot of our fun memories in that area and talk about some of the people that are there. It's so cool and interesting how different missionaries can have such different experiences in the exact same Ward or Branch!
During my first exchange Elder Heflin and I were able to work super hard in my area and find 1 new person to start teach and find probably about 10 posible potentials which is really good for Spanish work especially in Wisconsin. We also set a couple return appointments for later that week/the following week. We were super proud of the work that we were doing and we both went back to our areas wanting to continue working hard and following the Spirit of the Lord. During that exchange as well we were able to have dinner with my Branch Mission Leader, Payano, which was super fun! We had home made sushi😍😍 wow. That was amazing, I want home made sushi like at least once a week. Payano also gave us a ton of sushi to go:) what a kind soul.
On my next exchange which was just a day later we were able to go out and work super hard as well. And Elder Hamilton taught me a lot about what talking to everyone means. He would talk to literally everyone we passed. Within the first 10 seconds we started our exchange he had already got a super solid potential that I could visit later that week or the following week. Amazing!! So during this exchange the Lord blessed us with the opportunity to teach 2 families and a couple other people bringing our total of new people found for this week to 9!
I was so impressed with how the Lord was blessing our area and I was talking to Elder Hamilton on Saturday and he made a joke about us finding 14 people for the week and as we were daily planning I told my companion that we needed to find 5 more people to show him that we can do anything we put our minds to through the Lord! And so we scheduled about 2 super solid people to stop by on Sunday. We went to church, had dinner with an awesome family and then went on our way to start finding the people who will listen to us! We visited 1 of the people we planned for and went and visited another solid potential because we were pretty close(we thought... It ended up being about 2 miles away from where we were at😂) and both of them didn't answer/rescheduled. We went to Payano's house so I could use the bathroom haha and then he offered to take us home which was a huge blessing because we wouldn't have been able to see the other family we wanted to stop by. We stopped in at there house and they had their whole family there! It was so awesome! We taught all of them (6 people) and got to know them all a lot better! So this week we were able to find a total of 15 people who accepted a message of the Gospel of Jesus Christ and invited us back to hear more! Wow. What a blessing!
One of my favorite chapters to read in the Book of Mormon is the last chapter of 2nd Nephi. It's basically Nephi's final testimony and it's super powerful which is incredible because he says that it's not as powerful than when he was teaching it to his people! I invite you all to go and read that either for your personal study or with your families and maybe even share all of your testimonies together. I love the Book of Mormon and I know it's true and that it's the word of God. It brings us closer to Him and makes our lives better as we live its principles. I'm grateful to have the Book of Mormon and it is evidence that the true Gospel of Jesus Christ has been restored onto the Earth today. I love my Savior Jesus Christ!
Also watch this - https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/blog/my-2020-invitation-to-you-share-the-message-of-the-restoration-of-the-saviors-gospel?lang=eng
I love you all and hope you have a wonderful week.
DO GOOD, BE GOOD
Love,
Elder T. Ricks
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