1985- Week 62

Hey everyone, I hope you are all doing super well and that you had a good week. 

HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Analee yesterday!!! I'm so glad that we can now call 2 times a week so I got to call here and sing her a happy birthday:) I love you Analee! Can't believe that you're already a teenager😱

Honestly, not too much has happened this week! Just been keeping on practicing the guitar, trying to find people, lots of Zoom meetings and LEGO's! 

Oh, I actually fully cut my own hair this week too.. the sides the top.. everything! It was getting super long on the top as you can see from pictures but I kinda (really) miss it.

For our zone we have a local Facebook Page and about every other week we have to make a 'quality post' which basically just means that we find a creative way to make a cool video about the Gospel!! Just like the ones that I've made with  making the temple, and when Elder Cook and I sung with the guitar! We have another post TOMORROW!!! It's going to be great! And it's... MORE LEGO STUFF!! We are recreating a scene from the Book of Mormon! Thanks for all the LEGO's mom!! 

We will be recieving 23 reassigned missionaries on the 12th of May. Pretty cool that all these missionaries want to go back out and continue serving the Lord! Big shoutout to then and especially my brother Carson! What a great example he is of yielding your will to the Lord.

So the April 1985 General Conference has kinda a ton of super cool talks given. I was looking for some talks that I could share with my zone and have a discussion about and I came across this talk called Look for thr Beautiful by Keith W. Wilcox. It is such a good reminder that we NEED to be focusing on the good and building our foundations on Jesus Christ and as we do that we will have joy and happiness in this life. The joy we feel is all a matter of our ATTITUDE. If we are focusing on the ugly of life or the storms happening around us we will naturally have a negative attitude. I know life is a hard thing but I know that this principle is true, when we look at the successes of other people, enjoy more fully the sunlight instead of seeking out the storms, and searching for the beautiful in life, the good, the strong, the decent, and the virtuous in people than that is when we will find joy in our lives.

DO GOOD, BE GOOD

Love,

Elder T. Ricks