WEEKLY LETTER #39
FEBRUARY 17, 2014
It was another really long week. It always amazes me how much stuff can happen out here in just one week.
I left my planner for last transfer at home, so I'm going on memory here. Which is always shakier than you think.
Last Monday, Elder Wang and I went to the zoo to
visit the pandas there for the last time. He worked for a long time in
that area, and wanted to go to the zoo for one last time with some of
his investigators and recent converts. It was actually REALLY cold and
also raining, but it was still good to help my companion have a fun last
P-Day!
Wednesday we went to the mission office for Elder
Wang's exit interview. It was really somewhat surreal to be with a
missionary on his last few days. Mostly just really strange. But we got
through it and he's home now! Life just keeps moving on.
Friday was transfer meeting! I'm still here in
Zhonghe and companions with Elder Rasmussen. He's a young guy, came on a
mission straight out of high school, and he is one transfer younger
than me. It's nice that we have a similar level of ability and we can
really work for companionship unity. Our styles are a little bit
different, but we both want to work hard and love the people here!
Because Elder Rasmussen is younger than me, I've now
taken the responsibilities of being senior companion. These past few
days have been especially stressful because I've also been assigned to
serve as the district leader here in the Shuanghe district. It's a lot
of new responsibility, but with the Lord's help we can get everything
done!
Friday night we met with Sales, who just got
baptized. Because he got baptized after church last week, he needed to
wait a week to be confirmed in Sacrament meeting. When we met Friday, he
told us that he couldn't come to church because he had to work. He has
been injured recently and hasn't been able to work as much. He was also
scared to call his boss because he thought his boss would get angry
about missing work. We didn't really know what to do because we didn't
want his boss to be angry, but coming to church and getting confirmed is
also really important. We encouraged him to pray about it and figure
out what he needed to do. We were very surprised and excited when he
called us on Saturday night to say he would be coming to church! It was
definitely a miracle that he got confirmed yesterday!
We also were blessed to have a lot of our
investigators come to church yesterday! Our amazing investigator Zhou
Jiemei is working towards a baptismal date soon. We are teaching a new
investigator, Yu Jiemei who's boyfriend is an RM who goes to UVU. She's
really interested to find out what our church believes!
Today for P-Day, we are going to the Chiang Kai Shek memorial.
Keep adding that oil!
Elder Richardson
任長老
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