Hello everyone!
Of course it was another busy week and it
flew by! I can't believe it is already that time to be writing this email
again. Where does the time go?
Anyway, life as a missionary is busy but
this week the work seemed to go a little slower than what we have been
experiencing. We get 1100 miles we can use to drive each month and we were so
busy going all over the place at the beginning of the month that we have been
needing to walk a lot more this week so that we don't run out of those miles.
Because of that we weren't able to see quite as many people as usual but those
we did get to see was great as always! We see miracles and blessings by the
Lord's gracious hand each and everyday!
We had a ton of fun in Stillwater for Zone
P-day and a very insightful, spiritual, and powerful STM (Specialized Training
Meeting). Following the training that night, I went on exchanges with Elder
Palmer, one of our zone leaders, in Stillwater. It was so cool to see the work
and progress of the work in another area of the mission. I got back to Edmond
on Wednesday morning. I loved the exchange and being with an amazing
missionary, I learned so much and am excited to apply it to my work!
I am Loving my companions, Elder Balch and
Elder Williams! We have so much fun and work so well together! We were all a
little questioning about a trio at the start but I don't think there is any
question among us. I think we all love it and are excited for the remainder of
the transfer with each other!
We just got a new Ward Mission Leader
yesterday, Brother Orgil, and we are so excited to have him! The members play
the most substantial and vital role in missionary work and we are so excited to
work with him and the ward even more/better than ever before! The position of
Ward Mission Leader, to me, is one of the greatest, funnest and most important
positions in the Church but that's just my opinion. All of the positions are
great:) Good things are happening but great things are about to happen I
think.
We get to see miracles and blessings every
day! Last week we had an appointment with a less-active member. We went to see
our investigators, Mary and her daughter, who is mentally handicapped, Eryn,
just before going over to our appointment with Sister Jolly. Mary invited us to
go to Eryn's softball game so we decided we should go and asked Sister Jolly if
we could reschedule for the following evening. We got to the game and met so
many wonderful families and mothers who were all talking to us and we have a
lot of potential to work with these people also so that was a huge blessing!
But what is more than that, we got a text from Sister Jolley a little bit into
the game telling us that we couldn't reschedule and we needed to come over that
night because she had a friend over who was asking all these questions about
the Church. We got to see Eryn bat a couple times and she is just so sweet and
cute! But anyways, we left the game a bit early to go over to Sister Jolley's
house and ended up talking to this friend, Hattie, for about an hour. She was
really interested, took a Book of Mormon, we had a wonderful conversation
talking about her and about what we believe and set an appointment to watch
Meet the Mormons with her and to continue teaching her. AMAZING RIGHT??
We haven't been able to make any contact
with three of our recent converts in two weeks to check up on them, see how
they are doing, and give them a brief lesson. We felt a bit anxious about this
because they are such good friends to us and we were worried about how they are
doing so we prayed and asked to be able to see them soon within the next week.
(Our focus this week is on less-active members, inn-active members, and recent
converts). So of course, about 10 minutes later we are asked by Brother Paul Vorel
to come do service with him the next morning! As we were studying the next
morning we got a call from our other two recent converts (a mother and a
daughter), asking us to come over and give the daughter a blessing before she
goes into rehab. We were able to see every single one of them and check up on
how they are doing the very day after we prayed and had an amazing day.
These are just two miracles. Things like
this happen to us nearly every single day. The Lord is so good to us and
blesses us bounteously!
I am soo excited for conference this
weekend and hope each and every one of you get to see it! Not only do we get to
hear from our beloved Prophet and those Apostles we have all grown to love and
admire but we will be able to hear from Three new Apostles that have been
selected by divine selection and inspiration. I love to hear the words of the
Lord through our Prophet and all of the Apostles. We are so blessed to live in
these Latter Days!
I love to hear from you all and pray for
you each day. Thank you for the thoughts and prayers on my behalf. Heavenly
Father does answer those prayers and it is very apparent to me in the work we
are provided with.
I love you all. Have a blessed and
wonderful week!
Keep the faith,
Elder Ricks
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