Happy birthday this last week to my good friend Logan❤ It's amazing the affect that someone can have in your life as they are true disciples of Jesus Christ.
This week has been crazy!! The Lord is just waiting to open the heavens and pour out blessings upon you! 'Consider your ways' to know what might be stopping you from having the 'eyes to see and ears to hear' the blessings and miracles of the Lord.
I was able to go on real life exchanges! Not virtual exchanges anymore! We got approved to do them which was awwwwesome. I went on an exchange with a guy named Elder Eskeets. He started his mission in Brazil and so he was learning Portuguese. It's kinda crazy how similar that and Spanish are but how different they are. He is the coolest dude though I learned a lot from him! We also ended up contacting 50 people, it was a grind!! Also in that time of our exchange in both of our areas combined we found 7 new people. So many miracles! It was amazing. I love exchanges.
Eating healthy is also sooooo good, I bought some lettuce to make some salad last week and wow it was so good! I love it!
I wanted to share a little thought from Come Follow me today from what we learned last week. Alma and Amulek are some amazing examples of how to endure trials in our lives! This also applies to everyone because we all go through trials! In the beginning of the chapter we know they take innocent people who were followers of the prophet called of God and burned them in front of them. He also burns scripture that they had been using to teach the word of God. Threw them in jail and didn't give them a good living situation at all, spit on them, no food or water, took their clothes. The whole time they didn't complain or ask God to take away their trial! The actually wanted to turn outward and bless/save the people by calling on the powers of God and to keep their faith in the Lord. Think in your life, how could you maybe turn outward instead of inward when you might be going through a trial and how do you think that would help you grow as a person? I think my favorite part of the story is the prayer they offer in complete agony saying 'O Lord, give us strength according to our faith which is in Christ, even unto deliverance' and then this is what happened 'And they broke the cords with which they were bound; and when the people saw this, they began to flee, for the fear of destruction had come upon them.' As we pray IN FAITH for strength to overcome our difficulties (not to change them) the Lord will in return give us strength and will help us grow as a person! I invite you all to turn outward instead of inward in trying times and have faith in the Lord enough to pray to ask for strength and know that He can and will help you and you will become something and someone amazing! (If you want another example just look at the story of Job!! Job 1;Job 42, also see John 14:26-27)
I love my Savior, Jesus Christ and I know that the message that I have been sharing for the past little while really does and can change lives as we trust God and put all of our faith in Him.
DO GOOD, BE GOOD
Love,
Elder T. Ricks
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