8-15-11

hey fam. well this week was once again a good one. we had a meeting with our mission president and it was good. i learned a lot about the help of members, well this week other than that wasnt all to excited, oh and btw if this email is short its cuz the other missionaries are rushing me but any whos, so yesterday was cool. we had dinner with a family and they had invited over the fluckigers. he is an area 70 so that was cool to be in his company, well yesterday in church we talked a lot about member missionary work, and just how important it is in the conversion of people, i mean us as missionaries can do a lot but if they have no friends in the church there isnt going to be a lot of retention, and they will probably go less active and then inactive which just isnt something we want now-a-days. well we are progressing in the work. we are doing a lot of tracting still, still finding great people to teach which is always fun, cuz missionary work, being fun as it is (tracting) teaching is so much more fun cuz you really get to see those changes that people want to make so they can live with all of us when this life is over and we are in the presence of our father, but it is sad to see when they dont realize what they will be missing out on when they reject the message that "we know will change their lives". you know fam, i really do not like satan. he really is not a fun guy, a few days ago we had this lady come out of her door and come talk to us and just started talking about how joseph smith wrote the book of mormon and that she doesnt agree with "mormonism" and she just handed us these 2 little books and i just bore testimony about the book of mormon and joseph smith and i know they are true but she still rejected it, so it is sad but they have their agency and they are going to realize after this life when i look them in the eyes and say "i tried to tell you, but you didnt listen" its going to be tough to see a lot of brothers and sisters not make it but it is all on them and the choices they make, well family i know this work is true and that joseph smith really did see god the father and his son jesus christ and that they really did restore that same church that was once upon the earth back when jesus was here and that joseph smith did translate the plates by the power of god and that it is the most correct of any book on the earth and that we can come closer to god by following its precepts. i know these things are true without a doubt in my mind and i love you all very much and wish the best to you this week.

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Con Amor
Elder Ricobueno