My life- Week 70

Hey everyone! I hope all is going well for all of you back at home. You are all in my prayers and i can definitely feel the love and support from all of you as well. 

Honestly not much has changed here and we are just working as hard as we can trying to contact as many people as we can! Everything is all good here!

I just want to share a quick thought. This is a quote from Joseph B. Wirthlin from the April 2002 general conference talk called Follow Me referencing Mathew 4:18-22. 

“They were fishermen before they heard the call. Casting their nets into the Sea of Galilee, Peter and Andrew stopped as Jesus of Nazareth approached, looked into their eyes, and spoke the simple words, ‘Follow me.’ Matthew writes that the two fishermen ‘straightway left their nets, and followed him.’ … ‘If the Savior were to call you today, would you be just as willing to leave your nets and follow Him?’ I am confident that many would. …… We might define a net as anything that entices or prevents us from following the call of Jesus Christ, the Son of the living God. Nets in this context can be our work, our hobbies, our pleasures, and, above all else, our temptations and sins. In short, a net can be anything that pulls us away from our relationship with our Heavenly Father or from His restored Church. Let me give you a modern example. A computer can be a useful and indispensable tool. But if we allow it to devour our time with vain, unproductive, and sometimes destructive pursuits, it becomes an entangling net. Many of us enjoy watching athletic contests, but if we can recite the statistics of our favorite players and at the same time forget birthdays or anniversaries, neglect our families, or ignore the opportunity to render acts of Christlike service, then athletics may also be an entangling net. … It is impossible to list the many nets that can ensnare us and keep us from following the Savior. But if we are sincere in our desire to follow Him, we must straightway leave the world’s entangling nets and follow Him”

I invite you all to think of how you can better 'straightway leave the world's entangling nets' in your own individual lives asking the Lord through prayer what you can do better starting today and then keep to that. I promise the Lord will bless you dramatically in your life. 

DO GOOD, BE GOOD

Love, 

Elder T. Ricks