Howdy,
The long and dreadful day has come where I
have to say "goodbye" to this beautiful place that I have come to
love so much. This is my home. I will work on finding the words to describe how
much I truly love this place and the tremendous blessing that every individual
has been for me. I am excited, however, to be serving in Lawton Oklahoma with,
in my opinion, one of the greatest Elders this mission and Church has to offer!
Elder Dutson and I came out at the same time and he is from Rexburg Idaho:) He
is absolutely phenomenal and I am excited to be with him come tomorrow morning!
It's been yet another busy, busy week full
of miracles and people progressing towards baptism, re-activation, and most
importantly towards entering the temple. It never ceases to amaze me just how
much God loves us and how many blessings He pours out upon us all!
We received a call from a member in another
ward who is a locksmith that he did a job for somebody that was interested in
meeting with us. Brother Mueller picked us up and took us to this man's house
and he wasn't home but, we saw a group of people down the road and Brother
Mueller takes off towards them. They saw us coming and all 10 or so of them
quickly headed for the house. Brother Mueller said "No, wait! Don't go in!
We want to talk to you!" They acted like they didn't hear and kept filing
in. Wow, what a humbling experience for me. I, who have been called as a
full-time representative of Christ and minister of the gospel was just going to
pass them up and say "Oh bummer, he wasn't home. Well, hopefully we have
better luck next time!" and gone on with life.
But no, Brother Mueller took the lead
and tried to talk to everyone about the gospel. Now that was extremely
humbling. He taught me a great lesson and it was a wonderful reminder for me of
just how important it is to try sharing the gospel with everyone we can
possibly meet.
With this reminder and renewed excitement
to talk to everyone, we started walking back towards the truck and saw a group
of kids playing basketball so we went up and talked to them and asked to play.
Before we could even establish teams the father of the house came out and said
it was time for everyone to go and time for his son to come in and then he shut
the garage behind him. We got to stay a minute though and talk to one of the
young men, Junior. He just graduated and we quickly taught a principle of the
gospel and before we concluded with a prayer, he accepted an invitation to be
baptized next month. Brother Mueller's example of diligence and reaching out
with love taught me a great lesson and was the source of this miraculous
experience.
Keep the faith,
Elder Ricks
Rusk, Elder Ricks, Tessa, Heidi, Brother
Kinnison, Elder Santana, Eva. (FHE, Heidi's last one before going back to
Equador)
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