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| Elder Richins and Rivera Era Comes to a Close! |
Tuesday: December 29th, 2015
So for my 20th birthday... which is super weird to say... no longer a teen so I can't use that excuse anymore (snaps fingers) we had a great day. We did some serious potential finding and God gave us a wonderful lady to teach who has been taught before about year ago and she has had a bad experience with any type of religion lately but I asked her if she would give God a second chance to help her and to show his love for her and her being willing to accept it and she did and so we planned to meet with her this coming week but because of the changes, the sisters will take care of it now.
Wednesday: December 30th, 2015
Today we went on exchanges with the Assistant's and I got to work in Crawley with Elder Clark and it was a super great exchange. On Wednesday night, we went running around in the boonies near this village called Kingsfolk and we literally knocked on every door in the village that night in the pouring rain! We came to a point where we ran out of houses to knock and we saw a strip of road next to this farm and we saw houses with lights on them and so we pulled up an app on the iPad to see where the road went and it was the only road that could get us to those houses so we ran about 300 yards down the road to get to the houses and we knocked on all of those as well. (it only turned out to be one house but it was a mansion which owned the entire farm... it was the biggest plot of land and the biggest house I have seen in England so far...! But again, it was a great first night of the exchange and I learned a lot in just the few hours we were working before we had accounting.
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| Elder Richins and I On Our Last Visit to Tammy's |
To start the day, Elder Clark and I went and did some more potential finding in another area called Billingshurst and we had some serious guidance from the Lord during the few hours we spent there. We were going around knocking and we felt that we weren't achieving anything so we went around a corner to pray and as we finished the prayer asking for guidance on where we should go, we looked up and we saw a lady walking her dog about 150 yards away and we looked at eachother, smiled and shrugged and ran all the way to her. Turns out she was totally interested! Weird right...? NOT! God knows exactly what he wants us to do and he wants us to trust him and everything worked out wonderfully. We taught her while walking toward her home and then we received a referral from her as well which was an amazing miracle! Later that night we headed up to Didcot to do our final exchange of the transfer and it was a great one! Elder Phelps and I went running around the town knocking and talking to everyone that was heading to the parties to make decisions (bad or good, who knows but hopefully our influence helped them) I kept telling everyone we talked too to make good decisions that you wouldn't regret the next day coming!
Friday: January 1st, 2015
With leadership calls being today, again we were edgy every time the phone would ring (missionaries might understand why...) but we were knocking and running around this road called Samor Way and we only had about an hour left to knock before we had to go and do our exchange review and the coolest thing happened. So we knocked on the last house on this road and a very nice gentleman named Clive answered the door and we talked for about 10 minutes on the doorstep and then we asked him if we could come in and share a message with him. Keep in mind he used to be Christian gone Atheist in the last 3 years but he was totally open to it and he shared a lot of his life story with us which was very heartbreaking, he has gone to heck and back he said multiple times. He has also died on the operating table twice and came back and so he said there had to be a reason why he came back alive and one time being taken to the morgue. But anyways, don't want to give to many details but we had a good 45 minutes lesson with him and he was interested to learn more and the funny thing is that we asked him if he has a Book of Mormon and he actually had one on his shelf which also had a Plan of Salvation Pamphlet on it... again, weird huh? Its like we were suppose to knock on his door and talk about such a plan and just give a run down of what we do and set the expectations. He also had been taught by sisters about a year ago in March of 2014 so it was good. But the Didcot Elders will be teaching him this coming week so it will be good to hear about.
Saturday: January 2nd, 2015
Today, we literally spent the entire day inside the flat cleaning and packing. We were doing a very nice deep clean as we were going to be having sisters moving into the flat we used to be in so we had to make it all pretty and stuff for them:) I also found out that I somehow couldn't fit everything in my suitcases so we had to make some extra trips to deliver stuff which was good because the sisters had the same deal so it worked out wonderfully!
Sunday: January 3rd, 2015
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| The First Selfie of the Mayes and Rivera Era! |
Verse of the week: Started the Book of Mormon with the new year now here, new things to look for and learn!
1 Nephi 1:20
"And when the Jews heard these things there were angry with him; yea, even as with the prophets of old, whom they had cast out, and stoned, and slain; and they also sought his life, that hey might take it away. But behold, I, Nephi, will show unto you that the tender mercies of the Lord are over all those whom he hath chosen. because of their faith, to make them mighty even unto the power of deliverance."
So there you go! A week full of events and a lot of changes!
Love you all!
Talk to you all very soon!
Happy New Year!
-Elder Rivera
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