Love the Lord, and Trust in Him Too - 10/9/17

Hey family!

This week was pretty good, and it was just full of hard work. Sometimes the work truly is just hard for a bit, but when you have a great companion like Anziano McConkie it’s always fun. 

Anyways, this week we made good progress with K. He is working on being baptized pretty soon, and is learning a ton every day as he is reading the Book of Mormon. Sadly, it seems we have been cursed during the last week with a lot of people who either broke their phones or lost them...that doesn’t help the work, to say the least.

But we trust in the Lord. For example, the curse also included us. Last P-day, at the end, we realized we had lost our phone. After a couple of minutes of searching at home, Anziano McConkie and I looked at each other and both received an answer to where it was at the same time...the beach. So we quickly left to go find it, and what do ya know,  it was on the beach, just where we imagined it. Thank goodness we trusted that quick prompting though, because a missionary is nearly powerless without a phone now days. 

Some experiences we have had recently have made me reflect on the thought - Trust in the Lord. I have seen in my life, when things don’t go as “planned” or the “way we wanted” we have 2 options. Show faith and go on with a good attitude and turn to the Lord for the answers we don’t have, or be miserable and stop progressing. As we trust in the Lord every day - in the little things - we see miracles. When you get stood up at a lesson, it’s easy to get upset or annoyed. The hard thing to do is trust He has a plan for you that hour...a plan that will bless your life or someone else's life. I’ve seen this so many times first-hand, so next time you feel things are not going right, look around. See if you can bless the life of someone else and trust in the Lord.

Love y’all!!

Anziano Ridd

PS - MK GOT BAPTIZED IN ROME.

SHOUT OUTS

1. WAY TO GO NICHOLAS GOODRICH, GETTING ENGAGED!!
2. WAY TO GO MARISSA EYLER, GOING THROUGH THE TEMPLE!!

Anziano Ridd and his friend MK