Elder Rigby's Adventures

October 27, 2016 Ok gang,  I sent you all a letter. I love you all so much! Well I sent a letter to all of you but Mom and Dad. Mom and Dad I'm doing great I feel like I've grown up so much I love you and Dad I really hope things are going well business wise and calling wise you've been such a great example of serving others I'm trying to apply your example to our unique Spanish Branch that needs our help!  I'm getting along so well with Elder Sanchez and I feel like we are really being guided by the spirit! Noel and Jorge are still set for Baptism Noel- nov 19  and Jorge nov-12. I'm truly learning to listen. By listening I'm learning what they need then I ask an inspired question. Without God's help I could be doing none of this. I testify from the bottom of my soul that JESUS IS THE CHRIST HE LIVES!  Stockton good luck with your game tomorrow my prayers always are going strong during your games! Madsen I love you pal please read t...

My Dear Family, Uncle wynn what a great man. I remember going to Emry's party as we talked a little bit about my mission and he with his quiet kindness assured me I was going to have a great experience. I will pray for all of you especially his family as you all go through this hard time. Rev 21:4 And god shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away. Mom I'm so sorry about the pain you must be going through right now. I love you. I know it's sad. Just know today I will testify that the grave has no victory for Christ has taken upon him death that he may loose the bands of death that bind his people. The grave has no power here nor will it ever. Please know that I believe this with all my heart that we will all live again.  We will all one day have some of Grandma's sloppy Joes and you know what we'll invite uncle Wynn too...

  Our Saturday Emails are great, but there is nothing like a letter in the mail... this week Elder Rigby sent a letter addressed simply to Brothers and Emma... the letter is a keeper and probably something children of every age should be reminded of... I share his letter below. October, 17, 2016 Dear Brothers and Emma, How are you doing? Are you all getting along with each other?  I hope so! These last couple of weeks have been very interesting.  I'm really being humbled and stretched.  Learning a language while trying to find the answers to my investigators' hearts so they will commit to baptism has been hard!  Hey, but I am alive! I hope you all like my letters.  I love you all so much!   Leaving you has made me really think how much I truly love you all and want to be with you forever!  As we've seen in  mom's and dad's siblings a lot of times they don't get along!  This is not good! I want as well as God wants us to be ...

Thanks grandma Rigby- a nice big burrito to celebrate 2 months in the field! Dear Family and Friends,   Wow this has been the shortest week of the mission! Which means I'm being caught more up in the work-loosing myself! Personally, besides a little head cold I am soooo great right now! Recently I've been caught up in Alma 32-34 there is so much to learn from these Chapters! I personally learned after a week of study that we must humble ourselves and look to Christ. by doing this, we will come to know him and the burdens upon our backs will be made light through joy in him and we will receive eternal life. We must believe that he is the Savior of the World. We must have hope that if we follow him he will set us free. We follow him by repenting of our sins and enduring to the end(live the doctrine of Christ). It is hard, but we are only asked to begin to believe, plant the seed- look unto Christ. I know that Jesus is The Christ. He is the way! I know that as I look unto...

October 10, 2016 Hola todos, My goodness how things can change. Me and Elder Sanchez are now pals. He is not bugging me nearly as much or rather I'm putting away my foolish pride and not letting him bug me.  We speak a lot of Spanish until my brain is dead tired and I reach that point if I keep going I'm going to break something.  I'm learning...slowly. However, I believe there will be a day when I look back to now, a day when I was struggling to ask "how was visiting your family" and realize I can now speak spanish-puedo hablar espanol with a heart full of gratitude to God and utter joy he gave me this opportunity to be able to speak to more people and therefore influence more lives for good. During  my interview with President Lewis when he looked me in the eye and told me I had the priesthood, I felt this pure joy wash over me. I am so honored to have the priesthood. I am grateful that God has entrusted me a boy with many faults and weaknesses ...

Elder Rigby off to conference Hello Everyone! This week has been honestly pretty tough. Me and Elder Sanchez had a day when we really struggled getting along. We're just so different. He is so dedicated to the work but because of his personality(hey we're all different) and the cultural differences, and a language barrier we've been struggling. View of Moses Lake  We're doing better now and have set goals to improve, but he just doesn't communicate much with me I try to help him open up but he just hasn't. I keep trying to get him to open and talk to me by asking him questions about himself so I can get to know him better, so we can be better friends, and have more unity in our teaching, but he hasn't opened up until we had I guess what you could call an argument.  Our methods of teaching are so different. We had a particularly rough lesson where we just couldn't connect. It doesn't matter the details but after this rough ...