7-18-11
well hello my family how have all y'all been doing, well here it is still going a little slow but we are getting more people to teach so that is all going good. well this last week we had interviews with our new mission president and it all went well. he is pretty cool, then we all went to subway for lunch with the president, well i am glad to know that delbert and mary are married and i hope that they are happy with that, well that is cool about what leon baker said and i know that if we all just keep making that effort of just going and doing all we have been told to do, like keeping the mandamientos, i just finished 2nd nefi in el libro de mormon and i love the promise it contains that if we keep the mandamientos we will prosper in the land, and the same with now a days if we go to the temple reguarly we will see the blessings of getting a new one and i think that would be totally awesome to have one in moses lake, so i hear that miles is going to get his call this week or something like that. i cant wait to know where he is going, my companions little brother just got his call to lima peru, so i am really excited for you, so i guess an update is needed now i dont know if i told you but do you remember the investigator i told you about that got drunk that one time, well she got baptized about a month ago and now she has her patriarchal blessing and she goes teaching with the sisters, it is so awesome to see her progress, well that is pretty much the update. i am staying in this area for another transfer so i am happy about that haha, well my fellow family members, i love you and hope all is well, hasta luego
7-11-11
hey familia how have you all been doing, well this week we have been doing a lot of moving this last week with the family we are living with. they are getting their house ready to show so they can move but it wont be for a while, well it is still a bit hard to find some people to teach, and the family we are teaching is a little slow right now but we are still trying with them, well this week we have interviews with president durrant for the first time so i am excited about that, well i am going to try and get you all some pictures that i have taken, but this email will probably be a little short cuz we didnt find any new gators this week and we taught 1 lesson but we arent going to get discouraged and just keep moving forward and hope that something good will come of it, well family i love you all very much, oh and remember when i told you that elder merkley, (my last companion) found his backpack that was stolen a while ago, he let me know about that, i thought that was pretty cool, well i love you once again and hope you all have a great week
7-4-11
well hello my family, how are you all doing, well i am doing good, well this week we did a lot of finding and we found a couple of new families that look like they are going to go somewhere we hope, well this week we also had the chance to visit with our new mission president, president durrant and his family, they are pretty cool and yeah he is tall, well right now i am going to try and just remember what president smith said to us and just remember that president durrant is our president now and that he was meant to be here with each and every one of us so i am going to do the best i can to love president durrant as much as i loved president smith, so this morning our ward had this breakfast and it was pretty fun and now we are just doing emails, well we had a couple of run ins with a few people that were just annoying, but i got to remember that the lord loves all his children, just some of them arent prepared to hear the gospel right now, well sorry this is a bad letter and short but thats just life, full of ups and downs right, well family i hope you are all doing well, and i hope you all have a good week love you all
6-27-11
hey family. well this week was a good one. this weekend we had the chance to go to an 11 stake project that took about two years to finish, so this weekend was the final production of that and us as missionaries we got to participate in it and we sang a song and waved some flags around and i got the us flag for the first go around, haha, then japan and korea. we did 3 shows it was really fun, well these last couple weeks have been hard cuz we dont find a lot of hispanics to teach cuz of the area we are in so we arent really finding a lot of new gators but we arent going to let that stop us from keepin on searching for those chosen people, well we had our final goodbye with president and sister smith, they are leaving this week and we are going to be meeting with president durant this week and i guess he is just going to get to meet all of us so i am excited to meet him and sad to see that president smith is done with his 3 year mission but i figure that he will be a seventy soon cuz he and uchdorf are like pilot flying buddies haha, well the family we have been teaching, the dad got a new job and that is stopping them from going to church, but we are having the whole district pray for them and if you all wouldnt mind praying for the family coheto, they are a really great family and i dont want this job that he just got to get in the way of their salvation so a prayer is always good, well i really cant think of anything more to write other than i love you all a ton and if i think of anything else i'll write it down and put it in the letter next week. i love you all a ton and i hope you all have a great week
6-20-11
so this week was also a good week. we went up to north dallas to my old area and we had the last training from president and sister smith and she wanted a tie from all the elders so she could have something to remember us by and i took my favorite tie right off my neck and i gave it to her, haha. it was pretty cool and i felt that she deserved, they have done such a wonderful job here in texas i am going to miss them so darn much, well i found out that my last 2 investigators that were in my last area, the ones who i have mentioned the one lady and another part member family the dad got baptized this last weekend so it was good to here that i have once again helped someone reach the waters of baptism. i was so happy for them, well this week we are going to be going to do a thing with 11 stakes from this area of texas and all the missionaries that are in the area are going to be participating in it and we heard that an apostle is coming so it is going to be quite the expirience. i cant wait. we are singing a song, haha. that is it, so the family that we have been teaching came to church this sunday and brought their daughter so it was good to see an entire family at church, they are so getting dunked haha. well we have also been doing a lot of tracting so i really like finding new people to teach. yesterday we found some dude that i knew we were supposed to find, we got talking with this guy and he started talking about how god has helped him in his life so much and that he has seen many blessings from doing service and i shared mosiah 2 :17 with him and that whenever we do service we are serving god and that it is a mandamiento to serve one another and that when ever we are keeping the mandamientos we will recieve blessings and he can tell that when you serve, you get those blessings, it was a good expirience for me just knowing that people are out there and they are looking for us and, then we started talking about the BOM and then he said, "speaking of" he went and got his own copy that some missionaries had given him and we left him with some chapters to read, so this week we didnt get into a lot of doors so we are really going to focus ourselves on doing just that. this week is going to be a good one, i got a feelin, woo woo, that this week's gonna be a good one haha. well familia i love you all a ton and hope you all are doing great, IM AN UNCLE AHHHHH haha. that is so awesome. congrats shayanna, love you all take care
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Con Amor
Elder Ricobueno
