This week was basically exactly the same as every other week! Woke up at 6:30, get ready prepare for the day, study, finding time, teaching appointments, late dinners, guitar time, bed time at 10:30. Pretty sweet right!!? I love being a missionary and just trying to help anyone and everyone come unto Christ so that they can feel the same joy that I feel!(Mosiah 28:3)
I was able to go on exchanges with the Assistants! It was a blast!! I was with a guy named Elder Hansen who is from Sugar City and was a supe good wrestler! I asked if he knew the Ingrams and he said that they were good friends and he remembered Paxton as a super good wrestler! Such a small world.
I've been reading this talk that you should all read too! It's called 'The Fourth Missionary,' by Lawrence E. Corbridge. It was written for missionaries but it has incredible principles for all people! Here are some of the paragraphs I have liked about it so far from what I've read -
"Your greatest work: your most important creation is and will ever be you. What kund of person will you become? ... I don't mean will you be a lawyer, engineer or accountant. I don't refer ti what kind of car you'll drive or clothes you'll wear or what kind of spouse you will marry or family you will raise. I mean, when all of that is removed and there you stand alone, who will you be?"
"What persinality will you have? What strengths? What knowledge? What character? What emotional state? What presence? What qualities? What virtues? What will it be like around you? Who will YOU be?"
"There are 2 ways of evolving: deliberately OR accidentally. You can either decide who you want to become and deliberately work toward that end, OR you can just go with the flow and become whatever life makes of you. [If you do that], you will become whatever the circumstances of life and society will make of you, whatever us currently considered to be popular or whatever is easiest. But, whatever you become accidentally it WILL NOT be nearly the full measure of your potential."
So I know that was a lot but I know that we have big decisions on who we want to become and who we can become. God wants us to be happy so I want to invite you all to think about what might be making you happy or unhappy. Not your circumstances or situations you are in but the personality, strengths and qualities you have. And then whatever makes you unhappy I invite you to take action and converse with the Lord how to change it so that you can and will be happy! As we 'seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness' the Lord will bless us so much and we will be able to see a transformation in ourselves that 'all these [good] things shall be added unto you'(Matthew 6:33).
Ezra Taft Benson taught "When we put God first, all other things fall into their proper place or drop out of our lives. Our love of the Lord will govern the claims for our affection, the demands on our time, the interests we pursue, and the order of our priorities. We should put God ahead of everyone else in our lives. … We should give God, the Father of our spirits, an exclusive preeminence in our lives. He has a prior parental claim on our eternal welfare, ahead of all other ties that may bind us here or hereafter" in the May 1988 General Conference talk called 'The Great Commandment-Love the Lord.'
I know this church is true and I know it changes lives! It has mine for sure. I love you all!
DO GOOD, BE GOOD
Love,
Elder T. Ricks
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