No transfer yet!

Well, i feel really good right now just slightly hungry.  we had the changes and guess what! i didn't leave my area! that means I'm  going to be 7.5 months here and 4.5 with the same comp but its fine i really like this area and i am not sick of this comp yet, i did catch my self arguing with him for no reason once.  so i need to not do that.  

 

we started to talk with more people in the street, its fun! i learned a bunch of different ways to start talking with people so that helps a lot. my favorite is to contact the people who have dogs cause it always gives me a reason to talk to them.

 

It's been a really good week though. i did not have a new agenda so i got stuck using pieces of paper and i got really sick of it cause i never had room to write what i needed to. but we are teaching a lady who has had contact with the church almost her entire life, her brother is the secretary in our ward.  we taught her a lot! i like to teacher her cause she really applies the things we teach, she just was not quite ready to give up her other religion but she said she would get baptized.

 

 we are working a lot with the family of the guy we baptized about two weeks ago.  his wife likes to listen but she needs to start applying the things we teach in her life. its really funny to see how different her husband is from how he was before. 

 

well that's it for now have a good day to all and to all a good night. 

Elder Ritchie.

 

Faith by Actions

This week was really good, i have been getting really tired but its not much of a problem, just every lesson right after lunch i feel like just laying down and sleeping. i tried it once but as soon as i sat down i felt like i wanted to do some thing.  

 

we had interview with the president YEAH i think i passed i got done in less time then every one else i didn't cry and i still have no idea if i am going to leave my area tomorrow or not.

 

YEAH thats right we have changes tomorrow and i wont know if i am leaving or not until nine tonight. our mission is a little bit different than most other missions. our whole mission had a conference with a seventy and we could only go if we had an investigator or a new convert. we took an investigator and a new convert. but there was not enough room for the missionaries so we all were in the temple visitor center.  its quite suprising to all the investigators to see all of us together.  

 

we played  futbal again today and like always i won. it helps that i keep getting put on the teams that pass me the ball and i then kick it and it goes in.  but YEAH i got a lot of goals with out having to run much or actually work that hard so i am happy.

 

As for the work right now, well there is work just allt of it involves looking for people who are not home.  i am slightly negative about not being able to find the people i want to teach and my companion says were is your faith! i had to think for a second  then i realized i was about to say some thing i have almost never said, "I have faith".  i never have liked saying it, and so i didn't, i said we look for these people every day that is my faith.  actions are the greater part of our faith, every one can say i have faith, or i believe.  its those that don't need to say i have faith that truly have faith. you can just look at them and in every action they do you can see that they have faith.  this is the kind of faith i am trying to develope.  where i will never have to explain my faith to any one they can just see it.   yes i know i have to explain my faith to people that is part of being on a mission but you understand what i am trying to say.

 

Well love you all. 

wow i messed up more then thirty times just trying to write  the line above. 

Elder Ritchie

Celebrating the Fourth of July

well, well, well

 

i feel great just in case any one wanted to know. 

 

we had divisions today and i went to the other area that aparently is one of the most dangerous in our mission but i never noticed any of it. i thought it was a really good area and all the people seemed really nice a few a bit nicer than i like, but still its not like they are rude. i had an awesome 4th of july, i was not working, well, at least not in a potato field. i did not go and eat a hamburgur like we planned cause we ended up eating tacos  with our investigator and that was after i ate a huge bfast.  when i got back to my area the other elder would not stop saying how much he loved my area and i could not figure out why but eventually i found out they contacted a bunch of girls by beating them in a game of futball.  so yeah, i missed out on that. but i am not really sad about it, just a little.

 

our investigator who wants to get married is having alot of problems with his wife, mainly she does not want to get married right now.  he can't get baptised unless they get married and his daughter really likes the lessons and is talking with her dad about baptism and stuff and she is only ten but her mom has plans for her first communion.   we are trying to talk with her but she is refusing to talk with us right now. i think we will  have to wait untill after their daughter finishes this before we can teach them more. 

 

we baptised a girl who i have been teaching for over 5 months, she had problems in her family before so we were not able to get her  baptised but every thing finally calmed down so we started to teach her again and we baptized her on Saturday along with granddaughter of a less active member.  all we had to do for them was invite them to church and they started to be active.  

 

well, right now we were told by our president to mark a BOM in a special way i started doing it before he told us to cause my comp was doing it and i thought it was a good idea. i got a different color for faith, repentance, baptism, the holy ghost, endure to the end, prayer, Christ, and atonement.  i found out so far the when ever it talks about faith that it always includes some thing else never just faith. and it talks a lot more about Christ then i remembered. 

 

well that's it for now 

 

Elder Ritchie