Hey yall! This week was a good one. Nothing too crazy happened, but just a solid week of missionary work!
This week I went on exchanges with an Elder Guymon who is serving in Roswell. It was such a great time! We taught our friend Loica from Cameroon the Plan of Salvation. It was a super powerful lesson and she loved it. She had lots of really deep questions about it, but it went well! We really focused on Christ's Atonement, and I've discovered as I do that on my mission, almost nothing else brings the spirit as powerfully as that does. We invited her to be baptized, and she said she'd have to think about it. She hasn't been taught The Restoration, so she doesn't understand why she has to be rebaptized. But pray for Loica that she can receive an answer as she reads and prays about The Book of Mormon!
We were able to teach a bunch of inactive members this week. We've been trying for weeks to get in touch with them and we were finally able to, and we had some great experiences with them. Two of them even came to church on Sunday, which was the first time for them in over a year, so that was huge!
Texas Tech campus is starting to get really really exciting. School is starting up so it's getting super busy, which means there are way more people to talk to. This week we prayed everyday that God would guide us to many people who are willing to let him prevail in their lives, and we found 9 people on campus!! It was so incredible to see that miracle and receive such an immediate answer to prayer. Three of the people we found even told us that they have been looking for a church to call home here in Lubbock. So awesome!
Our friend Omar has been in Mexico, so we haven't met with him for 2 weeks and we've been really stressed. We've been praying for him and the other night he texted us saying he's read The Book of Mormon and prayed about it every night! He's loving it, but he's still waiting for an answer about when he should be baptized. Please pray for Omar!!
That's about it, sorry for the quicker email. Wasn't too eventful, but I definitely see miracles everyday out here. A scripture I loved this week was Alma 31:38 "And the Lord provided for them that they should hunger not, neither should they thirst; yea, and he also gave them strength, that they should suffer no manner of afflictions, save it were swallowed up in the joy of Christ. Now this was according to the prayer of Alma; and this because he prayed in faith."
Love yall!!
Love, Elder Ryan
The top pic is "The Masked Rider" and the horse that leads out the football team from the tunnel every game. Super sick!
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