Ritchie, Max

"What the heck Elder Ritchie I thought you were in Atlixco??" That's right everybody, this email is going to be about some miracles in my last area. But before I go on, I'm gonna give a recap on what's been going on here in Libertad. Not much. We've contacted pretty much everyone in our area book and we don't have too many people to teach so we've really been focusing on finding new people and visiting members. I really don't have too much to report besides the same ol grind of the mission life. But I do want to share a few miracles that happened during my last days in Angelópolis. On my last day in Angelópolis, Elder Dunn and I went to go get Carne Asada burritos to celebrate the end of my training and an amazing transfer together and you know we were in Mexico so we got burritos. Since i spent my entire training in Angelópolis I built many relationships and friends and I was lucky enough to get to say goodbye to all of them except for 3, which ki...

What's up everyone?!?! I hope everyone had an amazing week. I am absolutely LOVING it here in Atlixco. Libertad is sooooo BEAUTIFUL. We are literally living under the Volcano Popocatépetl. We exercise out on the roof everyday and the views of the volcano and the sunrises here are AMAZING. I'll drop some pictures down below. Also, Atlixco is famous for their flowers. They literally call it Atlixco of the flowers because they grow really good here. So hopefully over the next little bit ill take some awesome pics of the beautiful flowers. Well this week was kind of hard because we didnt receive our area book literally until yesterday. And so we didnt have any contacts, persons, or lessons. But its all good because we are going to absolutely GET TO WORK this week. My companion is from Nayarit, Mexico and he is really cool. We are getting along well too so thats a plus. Also, were living with the Zone Leaders until we find a place and it Is HYPE. One of them is Elder DeBry and he ju...

Hey what's up everyone?!?! I hope everyone had an amazing week. Puebla is as beautiful as ever, and the tacos are still epic. But I have some big news!!! I'm getting transferred!! But the coolest thing is, I'm opening a brand new area in my mission!! And I'm getting a latino companion too. I'm super excited and my new area is called  Libertad, Atlixco. I'm really excited, but it's gonna be tough for a little bit at the start. We have to find a house, we're not going to have any friends to teach, we both don't know the area, and we are going to get a new phone with 0 contacts. But it is an awesome opportunity that I'm looking forward to starting. Also, we are volunteering at the Ronald McDonald foundation this week!! For those of you that don't know what that is, it's like a foundation for orphans and other kids with troubles. So we started that and we are going to continue it for the Elders in Angelopolis in the times to come. The headqua...

Hey everyone!! I hope you all had an amazing week!! It was another beautiful and productive week here in Puebla!! So basically we had an attack in a neighboring area called Tlaxcalancingo.An attack is where our district all goes to an area and for a couple of hours we just talk to everyone, knock every door, and just contact everyone. It was literally so much fun, and it was really good to help out another area find some more people. We also found a lot of possible people and saw a ton of miracles!! Also, I am really loving my new strategy of contacting that I figured out. It's called "The Dumb American Strategy". So basically I kinda just walk around until we see someone doing something randomly. And then we walk up to then and say something like "Hey were from the United States and we're New here. I dont know anything about Mexico, what are you doing?" And then proceed to talk about all this randomly stuff until we find like a natural way to introduce were...