Ritchie, Max

What's going on everybody?? I hope you all had an amazing week because this week absolutely flew by for me. It was an amazing week out here! I sure did learn a lot! We were really busy and so we got a lot done. This Tuesday and Thursday we had our leadership counsel and our zone conference!! They were so good and we talked a LOT about making our culture in the mission a culture of living the doctrine of Jesus Christ. Through having faith in the Savior's Atonement, Daily Repentance and remembering and keeping our baptismal and temple covenants, relying on the Holy Ghost to cleanse us, and moving forward until the end is what brings blessings and happiness! We are really striving to live the Doctrine of Christ to the highest level and teach it to others as well. We set some awesome goals as a mission and we can't wait to keep working hard on them! We also had one of the coolest experiences of my life. So on Friday night we were on our way back from a lesson at about 8, so w...

Hey everyone! Well, it was another great week out here in Puebla, with some insane news, some new beginnings, and a brand new batch of crazy people. So this week was the mix of Halloween and Day of the Dead! Basically Halloween is like the P-Day of Day of the Dead, but it was so cool nonetheless. Everything was decorated with flowers and ofrendas, even though it was a little less coco-ey than I thought. Something cool that I learned is that Day of the Dead is actually like a week, and everyday celebrate a different age or circumstance of how they died ex. a day of infants that died, or people that died in accidents Day. But as always, the Mexicans went HARD to celebrate. About the title, we found out that the church is going to open 36 new missions and a new Puebla mission is one of them. So sorry for the clickbait title, but we are going to split the mission! We are going to lose about 40 missionaries in the changes and so I could finish my mission in the Puebla North, South, or East ...