This last week was leadership training!
It's where President Perry invites about 65 missionaries to come and learn how to be better missionaries. It's awesome! We go over the eight fundamentals of Preach My Gospel, which are:
1 - The Doctrine of Christ - The missionary purpose
2 - The role of the Holy Ghost in conversion
3 - Revelation through prayer
4 - Revelation through the Book of Mormon
5 - Revelation through church attendance
6 - Teach people, not lessons
7 - We invite, they commit, we follow up
8 - How to begin teaching
Basically we spend about two and a half hours discussing each one of these and then role playing them. It's really a spiritual boost. Then add conference into the mix and it's freaking amazing!!!
The missionaries I stayed with during this were really fun. One of them looked like Sheriff Woody from Toy Story. It was really fun. We had a lot of miracles those four days.
Here's a really cool one.
Tuesday night, the elders whose area we were in dropped us off at this apartment complex to contact some former investigators. So we were talking to people and going around and it started raining. There were three of us walking around and we were with the sheriff Woody elder, Elder Giesick. Elder Trotter (the other missionary) and I were kind of worrying about the rain when Elder Giesick said that he was found by missionaries during a thunderstorm. So we said a prayer, in the rain, and went searching. We were going back to try and contact a former investigator again for the second time that night because that's what we felt we needed to do. Well, it started raining harder so I knew we were on the right path because everything gets harder right before the miracle. The former investigator we tried to contact wasn't home. So we decided to go contact another person. As we were walking across a street I felt we should go down that street. It was raining even harder now. So we got under this awning in front of this door to a section of the apartment complex. I felt we should knock on those doors. When we got inside I felt really strongly that we should go to one of the apartments on the second floor. So we did. All three of us were soaking wet. There are puddles of water collecting around us because of how wet we are and all three of us have the biggest smiles on our faces. When we knock on the door a girl about our age who was putting extensions in her hair opened the door and saw three soaking wet missionaries with the biggest smiles on their faces. So we just started talking to her about..... I don't remember what we talked about. I do know that we gave her a Book of Mormon and got her contact information. She made the comment that that was the only day she was home that early because she plays volleyball and doesn't get home until about 9:30 or 10pm.
When we got out side under the awning again, we stopped and gave a prayer of thanks and then ran across the parking lot to another section of the complex. Running through the parking lot and hurdling over small rivers of water (well, my companions hurdled the whole distance. I somehow managed to step in almost every single puddle in between where we were and where we were going) we got to the apartment complex to find..... no one home. Then we decided to run to another street. So I led the way and with every step I was "parting the Red Sea" as Elder Trotter said because every step I took made a little area of dry ground that he could step in. So his shoes didn't get that soaked. Elder Giesick was running and almost took a tumble. Elder Trotter said that Elder Giesick was literally sideways about to fall over, but was back upright like nothing happened. I believe angels were helping him because of our diligence. Anyway, as we were running, the other elders who had the car pulled up and got us. They told us that right before they saw us they were like "great how are we going to find them in this weather?" And then all of the sudden they see me just booking in around the corner. They were like "Oh, found 'em".
That was just one of the many miracles that happened last week.
I LOVE THIS GOSPEL!! No one else would have had that much fun running around in the rain unless what they were sharing was the truth. I testify that this is the truth and that no other church or organization has the fullness of the gospel, in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.
Loves
-Elder Ricky-dude
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P.S. The Church is true!
P.P.S. FROG - Fully Rely On God
The first picture is of the elders I was with.
Left to right: Elder Beardall, Elder Trotter, me, Elder Nielson, and Elder Giesick
Left to right: Elder Beardall, Elder Trotter, me, Elder Nielson, and Elder Giesick
and Jake, I thought you'd get a kick out of the next picture. (just remember it's a song by Weezer)
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