Thursday, October 14, 2010

04 October 2010

 Mon 10/4/2010 11:35 AM


Semana De Conferencia y Mucho Trabajo!

Que onda???

So yah. This week was really good. We worked so hard this week and gave like 4 blessings. We did service like every day. It was a weird week. Just everyone in the ward needed our help and also the English wards. They don't call the sisters, they call us. It was so weird, but it was a good week. Teaching was alright. We are struggling to get a lot of investigators right now, but we are hitting it big with the less-active people. So every appointment scheduled, we have a less-active as a backup. So every investigator wasn't there, so we taught the less-active people, and they were always there. It was so cool and good. We got most of them to come to at least one or two sessions of conference! So it was super good! We didn't have any way, awesome lessons this week, nor any crazy spiritual experiences, just the great feeling that I always have when I am serving other people. As some people would say, "Service is like peeing your pants: everyone can see what you did, but only you get the warm feeling." I truly believe that.

So the service opportunities we did: Wednesday morning we had to crawl underneath a trailer and turn someone's water back on and then paint her kitchen! This lady is an old, crazy lady. She looks a bit grumpy, but she is soooo funny! Oh my gosh. She doesn't believe in prophets at all. Weird huh? So every time I see her, I always bring up prophets and see how angry she gets. It’s so funny! I just keep doing it though. Thursday, we helped another old dude, Brother Guerrero. He is American, but speaks Spanish. He is our usual team up. But we moved like three tractor buckets of dirt into his backyard and took some window coolers out of his house! Then later that day, we went and watched a kid’s football game. It was way fun! He is in 8th grade, I think? So it would've been like Colt playing, which was cool. It made me miss football a lot. Oh well!!! Then Saturday was the usual Habitat for Humanity!

On the missionary part of things, seriously though, we tried like so many people this week! No one was home to teach except for the less-actives, which is fine by me! But our primary objective is to bring others to Christ, not ones who have fallen away. I mean, we care for them too, but you know what I am saying! Oh well. I think this next week will be a lot better. We also gave two blessings to two newborns. I didn't take part because I have been coughing up a storm. I didn't want to get the babies more sick. Babies are so cool. Crazy how they just come from Heaven. It’s a great principle. Every baby I say Jesu Cristo to, smiles. So you know that they just left his presence and that’s why they can't speak yet? The Plan of Salvacion is awesome!

And now to conference. I LOVED CONFERENCE!!! I always do. It was a lot about missionary work, and that wickedness never was happiness and Plan de Salvacion. It is just so awesome to be able to hear all the General Authorities speak to us. Everything applies to what I need in my life at the moment. I took like 10 pages of notes. They are all in Spanglish too. But I don't really have a favorite talk, I loved them all. But some stuff did stick out to me a lot: The fly fisherman with Elder Ballard, the Cow and the Fence with Elder Arnold, Elder Lawrence’s talk when he mentioned sleepovers and stuff and how parents need to be bold with their children, oh and how Elder Holland just bore testimony of his mission his whole talk. I love that! Man the gospel is just so great! I could go on and on for hours about conferencia! But I don't have that much time, as you know!

So I got to see Luz this weekend! It was good to see her. We talked about when I baptized her. How we were both so nervous. It was a good little talk with her. She came to visit with her husband, who baptized the familia Catalan. So it was good to see them. Things are going super well here. I am just loving the mission more and more. I can't believe the time is going so fast. It’s so crazy. I know that this church is true. There is no way that it’s not! The conference just strengthened my testimony more and more of missionary work and how important it is that we do it all our lives! And part of missionary work is raising kids in the gospel! So thanks Mom and Dad for being great missionaries and always watching out for your crazy son Bradley. But always heed to the Prophets and Apostles words. They speak truth and love from our Beloved Heavenly Father. I love this so much!

Well, this is it for the weekly update of me and my life! I love you all and thanks for the love and support you give me each and every week! You are all the greatest things ever! We all are part of a very important work, and we should be consecrated in it! I love you all. Have a fantastic week!!

con amor,

Elder B-Rad Rigby



The family tradition of making carameled popcorn at conference time is carried on in the mission field.


The Spanish often read my name as Elder Ruby, so here I am on North Ruby street


Out standing in my field . . . or rather in a Nebraska field


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