ELDER HYRUM RICHARDSON WEEKLY LETTER #34 -- JANUARY 12, 2014

ELDER HYRUM RICHARDSON WEEKLY LETTER #34

JANUARY 12, 2014

Had an awesome week this week! Elder Wang and I are getting along really well, and we're having a lot of success with our investigators and everything else.

We scheduled quite a bit of time this week for visiting less-actives and exploring the area so that we don't get lost all of the time. Zhonghe is a really confusing area. All of the roads are small and none of them are straight! On the ten-minute ride to the chapel, we have to zigzag back and forth on like 10 different roads. Our area is also fairly large. We rode to a member visit last night and it took us about 25-30 min to get there.

We have an amazing investigator. His name is Brian, and he might be one of the most humble people that I've ever met. He has such a sincere desire to follow Christ and to obey the commandments. Every time we walk out of a lesson with him, Elder Wang and I are just amazed at what a spiritual and honest person he is. We really hope that he'll be able to get baptized at the beginning of February. Right now, he's struggling with quitting smoking and coffee, and he feels like he isn't able to do it, so we want to keep helping him understand the power of the Atonement to change his life! I'll keep you updated on how he is doing.

We found a pizza place that was REALLY good and not terribly expensive. We might be going there again soon.

My companion's English is already really good, so recently I've been teaching him some more advanced idioms and slang.

This week, we found a buy 1 get 1 free for full size snickers bars. I then bought 4, and ate them all in one day.

There was a guy from Texas that came to church with his aunt. He is Taiwanese, but mostly speaks English. I thought it was funny because as Elder Wang and I were talking to him, the roles were reversed, and Elder Wang was not understanding some of the more difficult words like I usually do with Chinese.

We have members who live right next door to our apartment. So every once in a while they ring our doorbell and bring us food or other things. They are just such nice people, and it's great to have good neighbors!

Had a good week!

Keep adding oil!

Elder Richardson

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