Bike week! Oh, the inspiration of President
Mansell under the direction of the Lord, I am so grateful for it! We love to
bike as it is but we saw even more miracles than usual this week because of the
unique opportunity to have our car grounded and to either bike or get a ride
with a member to wherever we were going. I wish I had the time to go through
miracle after miracle of biking all week but I think my favorite series of
miracles took place on Wednesday night.
We had biked to the institute building and
were walking all through campus, talking with everyone we could spot and we
came across one of the recent converts of our ward, Emmerson! She hasn't been
able to come to church in a couple of months because of work so we got to walk
with her to her work at Sonic and Wednesday was their special $0.99 hot dog
deal so we each ordered one of those and they had ran out o buns and different
things and it took about a half hour for us to get our hot dogs so it was great
opportunity to be able to talk with her, particularly about her recent studies
from the Book of Mormon. While we were there we got to see two other people
we've met before and were able to set up an appointment with them! We were
going out with a member at 6:00 so with the slight delay at Sonic we realized
we would be late and were going to call Kherissa to let her know we might be a
couple of minutes late but weren't able to do that because I discovered that I
didn't have the phone.
We left at 5:55 and began running the mile
and a half to try to make it back to the institute building on time and passing
through campus we stopped by the bench I last remembered using the phone at and
it was still there! We got back to the institute building at 6:03, a sweaty
mess and talked with Kherissa about our plans for the night and because she is
a lone female we couldn't ride with her so we gave her directions to where we
were going and took off biking to meet her there!
She followed us and we went to see a girl
named Taylor that we had met a couple months ago and felt inspired to go try
and knocking on her door another young woman named Kelly, from Cameroon Africa
and we got to talk with her instead for about 40 minutes and learned of some of
her life story and experiences and were able to share the Book of Mormon with
her and had a really spiritual experience all together.
We left there and began walking back to
visit someone else and stopped to talk with another guy, William, by commenting
on his shoes and asking about them which led to him sharing with us his story
about playing football in college and then having a cancerous tumor and how
upset he was with God and about a young girl nearly 8 years old who was at the
hospital also with cancer who became his best friend and supporter and turned
him back toward God and several weeks after he was healed and cancer free she
passed away and we were able to share the Book of Mormon with him also and had
another spiritual experience with him.
Still on our walk over to see this person
we had originally planned to see, we stopped and began talking with a man named
Alex who was carrying a little girl. We learned that he is from Greece and the
girl is his girlfriend's daughter and he asked what we were doing so we let him
know a little bit about us and what we were doing and that as missionaries we
get to help people come closer to God and to build their faith in Christ and
how we are visiting a lot of people throughout the complex and asked if we
could come visit he and his girlfriend and he cheerfully set a time with us
that we could come over.
It was such a fun and miraculous night and
I am grateful for the opportunity to only bike, to work more with these
remarkable members of Christ's Church, and to sacrifice and show Heavenly
Father our love and dedication to Him and we were greatly blessed to see so
many miracles that night and all through out the week, this is His work of
blessing and exalting souls.
Keep the Faith,
Elder Ricks
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