Liebe Freunde, Liebe Famile.
HELLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Everybody.
Wow last week marked the most stressful week of my mission in my entire mission life. And it hasn't quite ended yet tomorrow and the stress is gone. But we received a call that my comp will be in Frankfurt Oder for an entire week for his arabic class and I am currently chilling with the Neu B Elders and it's AWESOME!!!! I also got to chill with the super awesome Elder Mayer and my best friend Elder bennett for like four days last week. The Neu B elders are such great guys and I am super stoked to learn from them.
Last week Michael fell out.......And he didn't come to church. It was rough. Satan is really working his butt off on this guy so that means we need to work harder and bring him on back. In my personal study this morning I was reading Teaching Like the Savior and I decided that I really need to start calling Investigators and really letting them know more of my love for them. But I hope this is just a phase. Satan is smart but Jesus is smarter.
Yestarday was an amazing day. In part of the stress of preparing for the week I still had to write a talk and so I decided to just do the talk about what my lesson was for District meeting about obedience. Well my talk was all ready to go and I was just about to give it when for some reason it just felt off. Like I wasn't supposed to give the talk I had prepared. I got up there and simply said. I wrote a talk but I'm not going to give it. So I didn't even opened my I pad and just started to talk about whatever came to mind. I know that I talk about hope a lot in my emails but that's what I talked about on Sunday. The day before my talk I was kind of thinking about life and what a life would be like without the Gospel. It would be so hard. What is there to hope for? I asked Bennett what he would hope for and he said his family. But even then there exists and end. People die and their legacy lives on maybe for a few generations and then it goes away there. There would be an end to all things. The world would eventually die off and life in general would cease to exist. What would be the point of living? Thank goodness it is not this way. We are here simply to become just like the being who created us and the hope that we can have is so bountiful. It's times that are so hard when I lay in my bed and go. "You know what, eventually everything will work out, everything will be okay" Imagine a life where every mistake we made would be remembered and regrets wouldn't go away. It absolutely kills me when people either leave this glorious gospel or when they don't accept it. They are throwing away Hope. One of the most amazing gifts that God gives to us that boost us and help us to keep fighting the fight against sin.
TOMORROW! Is ZTM. I love meetings like this. It's just kind of a boos for the week and it helps me keep going as a missionary. Lo and behold I am giving a lesson on what else......Hope.
Anyway I am super excited for this week and in fact the rest of my mission. Love each and every one of you God be with you till we meet again.
The Lord is My Shepherd.
Elder Riggs.
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