Elder Jason Riches

Week Ninety-Six: "Go Ye Therefore..." [May 27, 2019]

Hi Everyone!

It's been a pretty good week so far! Tuesday night we were able to have a good meeting with David and had our Assistant Ward Mission Leader with us. We taught him the gospel of Jesus Christ and committed him to be baptized. It's something he wants to work for so we'll be helping him progress towards that!

Our meeting with Dizi was a little shorter Wednesday since we had an appointment later in the evening with the members I talked about last week who invited us to come teach someone they invited over to dinner. Come to find out the person they invited didn't really speak English that well. Fortunately one of the members spoke Spanish and he translated what we said. Afterwords the member wanted to see if we could handle some hot peppers they had. All I'll say is that we were pretty miserable for about 20 or so minutes.

Not too much happened Thursday. We taught Bob and went by a few people, but that was pretty much it.

Friday after District Council we took a pretty good District picture! All of the members of our District dressed up and posed as the apostle statues that are in the Rome Italy Visitor's Center and it turned out pretty good! Since there are 11 members of our District we got our mission president to pose as Peter (since he holds the keys). After that we had a lesson with Sebastian where we read 2 Nephi 9 and showed him the "Because of Him" video which he enjoyed!

Saturday morning we went to a baptism for someone Elder Pack taught when he was in Camarillo the first time. We also had a flood in another area and our dinner was with the Woolsey family. One of the things that was talked about was what his thoughts were while he was progressing towards baptism. It was pretty cool to hear and I'm still impressed by how much he's progressed since I've been here!

And yesterday we got a blessing from our bishop to help with the work here in Camarillo! Also we were able to catch Iris in the evening for the first time in a while. Things have been rough with her since we last saw her. We'll see her again tomorrow.

That's about it for this week! I hope you all have a good one!

Elder Jason Riches