Week Two [August 8, 2017]

Hi all!

This week feels less eventful than the last but still a great week.

On Wednesday our entire branch had the giggles and we didn't learn a whole lot but we had fun. We had a scripture study and one of the Elders read the condensation of God instead of the condescension of God and our teacher asked if that was like the sweat of God. He also said that large in stature might mean that he was a small Asian man that was buff. I also had my best and worse teaching experience this week. The best was awesome. I could feel the Spirit so strong and I actually talked more than my companion. The worst was my most humbling experience so far. We had no time to prep and we went on what we knew instead of by the Spirit and there was a big difference. We also did something as a class where we taught our teacher and when It was my turn I had the thought to ask him if he believed in God but I didn't say it because he was pretending to be a minister. When we finished he was telling us that we could have done better and he asked us if his person even believed in God. It made me a little frustrated with myself but it was a good learning experience.

We also had the coolest thing happen this week during our Sunday devotional. Before it started the MTC presidency said they wanted every missionary to watch The Character of Christ by Elder Bednar. Some of the missionaries were mad because they wanted to watch one of the other videos. After watching it they made the announcement that Elder and Sister Bednar were here and they would be answering questions we had. It was the coolest experience having an apostle of the Lord here to answer questions that we had. That's pretty much been my week. I will be going into the mission field on Monday which is also my P-Day there so we'll see if I get the chance to email then.

Elder Riches