Okay I only have a few minutes left... sorry if this email is short!!
This
week was crazy! I was sick for a few days, and so we had to stay in. I
had a head cold and it gave me an ear infection and everything. But all
is well! We have still had some great experiences! We have a cute
family we are teaching. The kids are always excited to see us! We are
teaching them the Ukulele and how to sing I Am a Child of God. (I may
have already told you this last week, I can't remembers. I may have sent
the picture too, but just in case I didn't ...there is a picture of
Luis! :)) We teach them in the park, because they are always there
skateboarding. But this week, the dad started showing more interest, and
even made us lunch. He invited us to come back next week to have a
picnic again. We taught them the restoration, and the dad has a lot of
questions. He is very humble, and allows us to teach him and his
children. We are encouraging him to pray to know if it is true, and we
are still trying to get them all to come to church. They were suppose to
come yesterday, but didn't end up being able to.
Hermana
Young is doing great, and she is taking good care of her sick little
companion! She makes me soup, and she is always asking me what I need.
Our District leader, Elder Phillips, got sick and had to go home last monday. It was really sad! He was a really good elder.
The
new elder is an english elder, and he told me I have vampire teeth. It
reminded me of the time the elder in the MTC told me I had a red nose
when I was sick...
Oh man. My testimony grew in
so many ways this week! First off, I received a Priesthood blessing
from my district leader! (the Priesthood is the power and authority of
God, to act in His name. In our church, worthy males can hold this power
and authority, and one of the things they do with it is give blessings
to little sick people like me!) Holy cow, I am so in awe of the
Priesthood, and I have such a strong testimony of it that I don't even
know how to describe it in words! But I am so grateful for it, and for
the knowledge and testimony I have of it. I know this church is true
because of the power of the Priesthood.
We had
a zone conference as well with Elder C Scott Grow! It was amazing! I
will have to write more about it next week. But I loved it!
Also!
On our way home from zone conference, we had to stop and get gas in
Arroyo Grande, and there was a worker there that came up the the sisters
we had rode with, and told them that he could see a light in all of us.
They started talking to him and we all found out he had a copy of the
Book of Mormon that he had been reading. He could speak English, but was
from Mexico so understood spanish much better. So we started talking to
him in spanish, and I realized that he lived right down the road from
Maria Santos (the one that was baptized in the wheel chair!) So I pulled
out my camera and showed him pictures from her baptism, and he said
that he knew them very well and was friends with them! So we were able
to tell him that there was a reason we ran into him that day, and we
invited him to take the discussions. He said the missionaries could call
him, so hopefully he is now investigating!
<3 Hermana Ricks
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