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