July 22: And the work continues

This week marks the last week before Elder Fillmore goes home. The past week he gave his final testimony in our zone conference and I admit, I bawled. The following week my brother Austin takes off and finishes his mission. I'm super pumped for him and am grateful for his great example and stunning personality to all those he encounters. I will miss hearing about his funny stories and spiritual experiences but couldn't be happier for him.

This week we continued to work and work and work. We have been blessed with the power of finding through little effort. We didn't have a whole lot of time to find, but the few people we talked to, our words and spirit touched their heart and they let us in and we blessed their house. I am amazed at the number of people that are living their lives in darkness, who don't know what they are missing out on. Wonderful people whose hearts are so closed they aren't willing to listen or accept our precious message and blessings. My heart mourns for those who chose to deny our message. I think about the life of Jesus and his life, although he was a great and chosen man the people still decided to reject him, and eventually kill him. We are so incredibly blessed to have this gospel in our lives. 

A scripture that I really liked this week is in D&C 20:29 which says

And we know that all men must repent and believe on the name of Jesus Christ, and worship the Father in his name, and endure in faith on his name to the end, or they cannot be saved in the kingdom of God.  

This scripture describes the most basic doctrine of Jesus Christ. These ordinances are necessary in order to be saved or else it is impossible to be saved. We must repent, have faith, and endure to the end or else we can not be saved in the kingdom of God. 

Love Elder Rico

Found a golden man

Soccer this morning at 5:30