Goin' Up - 9/28/18

District Conference

President Tiger

We went to a Chinese circus for Family Home Evening. 

Hey everybody! 

I hope that you have all had sufficiently engaging weeks. This week's been quite the ride. I feel like it's kinda been like 3 weeks packed into one. We didn't necessarily do a lot, but for some reason it feels like we have - haha. 

On Saturday night and Sunday we had District Conference! It was a really cool time. I got to see a lot of people I haven't seen in awhile, including my MTC companion, Elder Ference! It was awesome to see him again. He's now one of the Zone Leaders up in Udorn. He's awesome.

We had Elder Woo from the area 70 here for District Conference. He is a way interesting guy. He talked about some pretty nifty stuff. Some things that really stood out are as follows:

·      Jesus is great. He is literally the perfect example for all of us, and we should always try to keep Him center in our lives. He has given everything for us and promises that if we build upon His foundation then we will never fail. That seems like a pretty great promise to me. I recommend you all try it out.

·      All of our branches need 3 major things at the moment:

1.   More worthy Melchizedek Priesthood holders. We need to try to build up the men into the people that God needs them to be to be his servants.

2.   More marriage. Hahahahaha, this one is a fun one. It's a really good time to constantly remind the young single adults in the branches about this. We need more of them to get married and start families. I make sure to do a good job at messing with all of my friends out here about this. It's really funny how awkward they all are about it. 

3.   More missionaries. Returned missionaries are so valuable for these countries. Missions allow the members to go out into the world, learn more about the Gospel, and to learn how to serve. 10/10 great experience. Make sure you get the members hyped about serving. Good thing Lao has like 6 missionaries out right now and more going soon. We're pretty much the best area in the mission/world ;).

SO yeah, that's a lot of what happened there. We also taught a bunch of English this week, got ready for the midterm exams we have to give these communist leaders, and visited a bunch of members. We also had President Tiger, one of the counselors in the mission presidency, who is also one of our favorite people in the mission, come up and visit some northern members with us yesterday. We also have the man himself, President Hammond, coming up tonight to spend his weekend up here. So, yeah it's been fun trying to organize all the stuff for them coming up and stuff. Exciting times.

Well, this was a longer email than I expected. Today we will be going on a way awesome all day hiking trip with the young single adults here, which should give me plenty of time to pair them off and get them married. Also it'll be a way rowdy time. I'm hyped. 

I love all of you so much. Thanks for supporting me! I miss you all and wish you all to have a dank week. <3

I pray 4 you. 

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Elder​ Ridd