Good morning friends and family! And happy 4th! I hope you had a fun and safe holiday!
So.
Last P-Day we had a tire changing competition with the zone for our
zone activity. Guess who won! Hna Young and I. I mean, only two other
Elders participated (Because really, who wants to learn how to change
tires on pday...bad idea ZLs) But it's okay! Because we were good sports
about it, and we won gummy bears. And we found that one of our bolts
was completely missing...so now we have to take the car in to get a new
bolt.
We were going to go to a parade in
Cayucos, but our district leader told us right before we went to bed on
the 3rd that he had a bad feeling about us going. I don't know what
would have happened, but Heavenly Father is looking out for us! So we
didn't go to that. :) We did get to spend the day at a birthday party
for our investigator, Alejandra (One of the two that sang "I Am a Child
of God" last week). We made her a birthday cake and got to hang out with
them in the park all afternoon! It was super fun.
So
you know how we have our pet spider Silvestre? Well, on the night of
the 4th, the people that own the house were there to watch the
fireworks, so we tried to show them how cool it is when we catch moths
and throw them into his web. But First, Hna Young was struggle bus-ing
and could not catch a moth. And then we she finally did it went through
the web, and then she caught another one and it stuck, and Silvestre
just sat there! Like he was all stage shy our something. Then after the
visitors went inside, he finally went and attacked the moth. Hna Young
told him, "Man Silvestre, you made me look like a fool!"
Then Alejandra and Luis then came to church again on Sunday,
and they shared their testimonies this week! Their parents want to come
as well. They were going to come this week, but the mom got called in
to work. The kids love church so much! They are always so excited to
come and learn. Their cousin Omar isn't too fond of us because they
always leave him to come listen to our lessons (Omar is invited too of
course, but he doesn't like it as much). So when we came earlier this
week Omar said, "No let's go skate!" And Luis said, "No! We like church
more than PLAYING!" hahahaha so funny. But! When we got to Alejandra's
birthday party, Luis started singing "I Am a Child of God," and then
Omar and their little brother Angel (Who is like 2 and can barely talk)
all started singing it as well. The whole family knows the song because
they sing in non-stop! WOOHOO! 10 points for Hna Young y Hna Ricks.
We
are able to use music a lot to teach them. We have been able to teach
them, "I Am A Child of God" along with the Plan of Salvation, "Scripture
Power" with the commandments, and "I Hope They Call Me on a Mission."
We teach them how to play the Ukulele as well, and Alejandra wants us to
teach her how to play the piano.
We also have
another investigator named Daniel that is really interested in music.
He is not a member because his mom was inactive for like 20 years all
while he was growing up. So he doesn't know anything about the church,
but his mom is an active member now. He is in choir in high school, and
so we asked him if he would sing with us in church! We are singing with
him and Elder Peterson (District Leader) and Elder Pace this next sunday.
We are so excited! We are going to sing the EFY medley. We practiced
together last week and we felt the spirit so strongly. It is so amazing
to see how we can use our talents to bring people to Christ!
I love you all! I hope you have a great week!!!
<3 Hermana Ricks
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