Week 9

Well this week was amazing as always! I still can not get over how beautiful Colorado is and how blessed I am to be here. Lets start with the amazing people we got to teach this week! We tried for the goal for 20 restoration lessons, and we almost made it hahah. We got 17 but I am still proud because man was that hard. Especially for me because I can be so awkward, so finding a way to try and go up to somebody out of the blue was hard hahaha. My companion would laugh at me for the first couple of tries because I would knock on the door and say hey how are you and forget what to say next haahah! She would introduce us, and it was just hard at first hahaha! BUT by the end of this week my companion was laughing at me because I rolled down the window in the middle of driving and handed a resto pamphlet out the car window. I do not know how I finally got some nerve, but I do know that through the lord we are so blessed! So this week we got the opportunity to teach all sorts of people. We had like three Jehovah's witnesses, A million Catholics, and I even met a few Atheists. We had a lot of amazing lessons and experiences this week. This week was definatley a growing week for me personally! We started out on Monday after emailing with teaching a less active member named Brother White. He is really old and sweet and he has so much dedication to reading the Book of Mormon. I say this because he is blind.... HE READS THE ENTIRE BOOK OF MORMON IN BRAIL!! Man, after I realized this I really thought twice about the times that we say to ourselves I'm  too tired to read or I have too much going on. Because we have it so easy he reads a chapter in an hour that we can read in 2 minutes.... He is amazing and we are really trying to work with him to get him back to church so please send your prayers his way!  After that lesson we went to Eagle Diner here. Which is adorable!! I LOVE LIVING IN A SMALL TOWN!  The next day we did heart attacks for members that are struggling or just because hahah! And this day was an amazing tracting day. We knocked a whole apartment #lastfloorlastdoor #Elderuchdorfstalk #womensconference. I have a new love for tracting and i have decided its not about me. I know that before I would get scared about being awkward or about my Spanish. But this week I figured out that it is about Heavenly Fathers Children. It is about going wherever the lord needs me. My new motto is "I fear no man" hahah. I got it off of this amazing story called the Ricarrdi Letter, PLEASE go and read this!! IT IS AMAZING. I decided my goal is to become a riccardi missionary. We have tracted a lot this week and it is amazing how many people have not even heard this marvelous message. Wednesday we had some more tracting and we found some awesome people. It is funny because I actually am starting to feel blessed to be Spanish speaking hahah. Im not going to lie you say I have a message of Jesus Christ and they just invite you right in they are amazing, and then when we do get white people...... Im not going to lie sometimes they don't respond as well ahah! But me and my companions goal is to baptize a white person! On Thursday we had our first Zone conference and it was amazing! We had training's by Elder souraus and Elder Wall the Zine leaders, and Sister Hiatt the sister training leader. The whole training's were basically on discernment. LIKE AMMON!! Read Alma 18 and you will understand how to be a missionary hahah! It was all about how to ask inspired questions so that our investigators can gain a testimony! I am so grateful for the people i serve with, they inspire me everyday. Especially my trainer, she inspires me to be bold and to love the people. She teaches me more and more every day! Then on Friday was our miracle for the week. We had fasted all of Thursday for our investigators and especially for Lorena, we prayed that she would get a spiritual prompting, because she was struggling to call us and with baptism. Then on Friday she texted us and told us she wanted to meet us and have a lesson! Our lesson went so well and she is now committed to learn again. After that a girl we surveyed Lynnae called us and said that she wanted to meet with us soon. AND GUESS WHAT SHES WHITE!! hahahah. I know that the lord answers our prayers every day. Whenever I am sad or discouraged I can literally feel him lifting my burdens like in ALMA 26:27 I know that when we have patience in our afflictions he gives us success. Saturday we had exchanges with the sister training leader. So i went to Rifle with her. And she Is amazing!! She only has 2 months left on her mission and she is so inspiring, she gave me some amazing advice after and told me to work on my accent ahahah! Everyone here says I have a country Utah accent! I don't even know what that means??? Then on Sunday it was the temple dedication for the Fort Collins temple. It was so good. Uchdorf led it and there were some really good talks about temples and doing missionary work and family work. I just have had an amazing week. I have grown a lot this week and learned a lot!! I am so thankful for this experience and to you all for helping me get there!! I know that if I go where I am meant to go and do what I am meant to do I will have success. And if I don't convert millions it is fine, because I am converting myself everyday! Love you all!!! Have a fabulous week, and good luck in rainy Utah ahahah! It has been in the 70s all week here!! Te Amo!! Tienen un marvolisa semana. Siempre recorden como mucho jesucristo ayuda ustedes cada dia!! 

Love Siempre, Hermana Tams/ Hermana Ricarrdi/ Ammon! 😂😘💞💙💜❤