Okay...this email may not be as exciting as the last
couple. I don't even remember what happened this week. It is all going
by so fast!!! I can't even believe it. But sorry if this is just a super
random email... good luck following!
We had a really cool experience on Saturday night though. We had planned to just go contact people on one of the main streets in town at 8:30 until it was time to go home. We didn't end up getting there until about 8:50
and so we only had 10 minutes! We decided to say a prayer before
getting out that Heavenly Father would place someone that needed to hear
the gospel in our path. Well, the first person we talked to was named
Lois! He is 22 and from Mexico. He started telling us all of these
questions he had like, "Is there really a God?" "Why does God let bad
things happen to good people?" "Why does God let bad people exist?" and a
bunch of others that I can't remember..but the coolest part was that Saturday
morning during studies, we had read in Preach My Gospel the part about
how the Book of Mormon answers "questions of the soul" that are both
temporal and spiritual. Each one of these questions that he had are
listed in that section! The spirit is real. It guides us! So we told
Lois about the Book of Mormon and how each of these questions he has
can be answered by reading it. Hopefully we will be able to teach him
now too!
I was also able to give a talk on the
atonement yesterday in sacrament meeting. No matter what problems we
are trying to help solve he atonement of Jesus Christ can always solve
the problem! Hna Zurita (one of the other Hna's serving in the branch)
and I had been asked to speak last minute because the other people that
had been asked had cancelled. We weren't assigned a topic, but when we
got to sacrament meeting, all of our talks had a common theme - that
Christ can heal us and help up become better than we have the strength
to become ourselves. It was really incredible to see how the spirit
touched each of us to share something that everyone needed to hear.
Also
yesterday, we went to go to a "pass-off lesson" with the zone leaders,
(that's when the person you met has to be taught by different
missionaries because they would go to a different congregation..) and
they totally backed into someone's car. They only left a little
dent..but they had to leave a note because they couldn't figure out who
the car belonged to. We told them to take a picture so that the lady
couldn't claim more damage was done than actually was... good thing!
Because this morning she called and said that they had knocked off the
fender... awkward. Thanks for teaching me the ways dad! The elders are
grateful.
We also got to go to a quincenera for the branch president's daughter! That was cool. It is like a wedding! holy cow!
Oh! And last monday we played bubble ball...I will send pictures.
I
don't really know what else happened this week... we went to KFC with
the Ramirez family, but I forgot to take a picture. (they're ones who
got baptized last week) and they are just the cutest. Those kids are
going to be such incredible missionaries!
Pray
for me this last week that we will have prepared people put in our path
and that we will be able to use our time wisely! I know this message is
so important, and that it is true. I am so grateful for the time I have
been able to spend representing my savior, Jesus Christ. He is the way,
and the only way to have happiness in this life, and in the life to
come.
Love you all!!
<3 Hermana Ricks...
I promise it's fancier than you can tell in the picture... this is the quince! |
And here is one of us at dinner last night. |
Stunning!! love anything to do with bubble's so relaxing. anyways I found someone that custom make bubble chandelier or bubble strands of different size and lengths of Bubble.http://inflatablebee.com
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