hola mis padres como estan
4-4-11
well first off, conference was amazing. i loved the part in priesthood session when president monson said if you have not read the book of mormon... read it haha and then president eyrings story in the beginning of his talk - it was way funny, yeah and also this last week i have been probably the happiest i have been on my mission so far. i think it is cuz i am finally realizing to think more of others and not myself and it is the best feeling in the world. i dont know to explain why i am so happy but i love it haha and even right now i am like freaking out cuz i am still so happy about who knows what, but i feel awesome and it is good to know that i am one of those 52225 missionaries spreading happiness to all and what i learned from conference was to be bold and after conference we had an expirience where we were talking to a man and he said that he knew about the church but everything he was saying didnt make sense and then he started talking about joseph smith and how he was wrong but could posibly be a prophet and i just said you know what is kinda funny that is probably what the people were thinking when the other prophets were in the earth and that the people here are doing the same thing they were doing back like in the times of noah and moises and even our elder brother jesus christ. they didnt think it was posible that they could be prophets so they rejected them and i just simply told this guy that that was what he was doing, then he started taking things back que el ha dicho and by the time we left, all we told him is to read and pray about these things and if he really wanted to learn then he would just, like in conference those who want to learn about jesus, they will, but those that are hard of heart will reject it even when they know it is true and just as nephi said the guilty take the truth to be hard, and their pride is going to be the reason they will NEVER live with our father in heaven and i have learned that. I can say that with authority and people can take it the way they want but like before, it is going to cut them to their very center and it will be hard for them to hear but ITS TRUE and we are sent to preach repentance so they CAN live with our father again in his presence but that is up to them if they want to reject us. we cant force anything on them and one thing i started doing is when ever we get rejected i just tell them that they are rejecting something good that is DIRECTLY FROM GOD and they are going to regret this, well this week we finally got someone to church. it was great to finally see the fruits of our hard work here in dallas and i know that as we continually work hard and be happy we will have exito and a sister last night told me that a happy missionary is more exitoso than one who is not and its so true if we are preaching happiness and we arent then whats the point? so i am still way happy to be a missionary for the lord. it is the best thing i could be doing and i finally realized that, well padres I LOVE YOU ALL and i hope you all have a great week
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Con Amor
Elder Ricobueno