First Week!!!...........Check- Week 7

Welllllllllll, Everyone! This week has been pretty sweet! It was my first week out in the mission field and dang is it so much different than the CCM. Like, I get to talk to real people! It has been so awesome eating so many of these different Mexican foods and holy moly! I don't put any spice or anything extra on my food and my tounge just about falls off. I don't really know how people eat so many spicy things. But I hope I get used to it soon because the members have been very kind to me but I don't think they will be as kind in the upcoming weeks. They wanna get me right into the culture and food and stuff. Every single night my companion and I (Elder Belnap) go to a recently baptized dudes store that he puts up and sells tamales. He gives them to us missionaries for free so that is for sure a bonus. He is so amazing and I love being around him. We have been able to really talk to a lot of different people this week. We have a lot of new interested people and I am really excited to teach them. We met this family this week that was from the United States and that was awesome because they all spoke English! WOWOWOWOW How I love to speak English. Haha! But they are very kind and we have been able to teach them about the Plan of Salvation and that was really cool. This family moved to Mexico because the father got deported so that is really sad but they are trying really hard to make it work here in Mexico. The people here are very friendly but they just kinda don't want to learn about anything different than what they already know. They say, I believe in Jesus Christ and through him I can return and live with our Father in Heaven, so we ask them if they would like to learn more about this message and they say, no. I am good. I'm like WHATTTTT why not??? But I don't know how to say that in spanish so I just keep my mouth shut and say, okay, buenas tardes and walk away. After I shake their hands of course. Haha. But we had a lot of people come to church this week and that was so cool to see them all there for that. We had the craziest rain storm this week! 1 second it was completely dry and 5 minutes later it was seriously like a flash flood. Crazyyyy! so my companion and I waited underneath a tarp of one of the members. So funny! We are doing good here and I look forward to hear from all of you guys! Don't forget that when you are going through hard times or anything really just pray to Heavenly Father and I know that He will help you through your problems or challenges. Have an amazing week and thank you all for your prayers and thought. I love you all!!

Elder Ricks

Doubt Not Fear Not

Here are a couple of pictures too because the last couple of weeks I have really failed in this area... Hope you all like them. The middle picture is our house, the one with the door open. Pretty wicked!