I had a wonderful week here in Valle Verde! We continue to find more people choosen by God to teach every week. Mexico really just needs a little bit more love and they would turn to God so easily. You never know when someone needs a hello, or a smile, or any type of service. Being a missionary I have been able to recognize that a simple wave to someone is a service. Just smiling to someone is a service. I know with all my heart that each and everyone of us can wave or smile just a few more times each day to someone that we don't even know.
The scriptures say that when we are in the service of our fellow beings ye are only in the service of your God. As you strive to be just a little bit more Christ like every day, you will fill the power of Jesus Christ in your life more abundantly. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is the only true church on the earth that allows us to make covenants with our Father in Heaven that lets us return and live in his presence one day in the future.
Read your scriptures, pray, and have love in your heart constantly for those around you. A promise I can give to you all right now is that as you do this things, right now in this very moment it is a sacrafice, but as you do it for a week, maybe a month, or possibly a whole year, you will start to have a change of desire in your heart and it won't be a sacrafice anymore. It will be a want, a need and a desire.
Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ are always there waiting for you to turn to them. We just need the faith to do it.
I love all of you so much and pray for your success. Keep working hard. Thanks for all that you do for me.
Elder Ricks
"Look Unto Me In Every Thought, Doubt Not; Fear Not" - Jesus Christ
Sorry dad... They don't have a Wendy's here. Only McDonalds..
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