Do you all want to know a Mexican pick-up line? A que hora pasas por el pan? There ya go. Use it.
Well,
training is a very humbling experience! I am finding out very quickly
how much spanish I do not know, how much skill I do not have, and how
much I really do need to rely on my savior. I am so grateful for this
opportunity, and so grateful that I was blessed with such an awesome
trainee to work with me through this! Her name is Hermana Donnelly, and I
am so excited to work with her. She is hilarious, and she has such a
desire to speak spanish and share her testimony. She is doing better and
better every single day. The first couple days she felt very
overwhelmed and was very frustrated with herself. However, I have seen a
drastic change in her personality and I can tell she is settling in! We
are getting along great. She is incredible with spanish. Her accent is
so good, and she knows a ton of grammar and words that I just recently
learned! I definitely feel inadequate to be her trainer, but I know the
Lord will qualify me. I trust Hermana Donnelly, and know that she is
here to teach me, and the people in Morro Bay a lot about the gospel and
about just how to be awesome!
The area is
doing well! We did a lot of potential knocking this week, so we didn't
have a ton of actual lessons (no one would answer their door, or let us
get to the point of a lesson) but it was really good! I took Hermana
Donnelly to meet the bishop and the ward mission leader the first day,
and so she knows the ward well! :)
I have
grown a testimony this week of charity! Yesterday in church they talked a
lot about President Nelson's talk about keeping the Sabbath day holy.
We all discussed how we can't just go by a list of do's and don'ts,
because there is always a loop hole. That is why we have to go by the
spirit of the law, and allow our motive to be our love for Jesus Christ
and Heavenly Father. It is the same in missionary work. Every single
person has a different perspective and way of serving through exact
obedience, and I believe that if our first motive is to love God, and
our second is to love our fellow-man, then we will end up being exactly
obedient in all that we do.
Nothing
exceptionally funny happened this week because it was just a crazy week.
But it was a good time, don't worry! Hopefully I will have some funny
things for you all to read next week.
I love you all! Have a wonderful week!
<3 Hermana Ricks
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