SISTER MELISSA RICHARDSON
MARCH 24, 2014
Hello everyone! I am still doing well! This transfer is almost over! I
think Sister Waldron and I will stay here another transfer together,
but I'll know for sure by next Pday.
This week was the schools spring break! So a lot of people were home
and available.
For fhe, we talked about what deep, true beauty is. We used a talk by
Sister Dalton about it. We did it with Jaime and Sierra, recent
converts. We got Sierra excited about doing the personal progress
program. Then we played ducky wucky...this funny game I learned when I
was a counselor at French camp.
We can read our emails all throughout the week now since we have our
ipads! But just like letters, we can only write back on p days. I was
thinking about it the other day, and I don't know what I would do
without using Facebook and iPads for missionary work. We are able to
use it so much and it's so effective. I'd have a hard time serving in
other missions without those tools now.
On Tuesday, we spent the morning delivering meals on wheels with Jaime
and Sierra. It was an adventure. It was difficult finding all the
houses. And also sad to see people living in bad conditions...it's
like I was in Kingsland/St. Mary's again.
For district meeting this week, we were learning about companionship
unity. So we did role plays of teaching lessons where my companion and
I had to switch off every word. It was hard! You really had to pay
attention to the direction of the lesson that your companion was
trying to do and compromise with what you yourself were wanting to
say.
On Friday, our 5 recent converts all made it on the ward temple trip
to do baptisms for the dead! We had been working with Jaime and Sierra
to prepare the names of Jaimes grandparents. And so they baptized them
at the temple. It was a great experience for them that I wish we could
have shared! But I will be at my halfway mark at the end of this
transfer so maybe that next transfer so I should get to go to the
temple for a session then.
Our bishop put in a request to make a deaf dependent branch. So it
would just be a sacrament meeting we would do separately for just the
deaf members. Hope it happens! For this next month, we decided with
the bishop to do a Book of Mormon challenge. The ward versus us 4
missionaries. We missionaries will try to pass out 100 book of Mormons
in the month of April. And the ward together will try to pass out 100
as well. Should be fun! Us 4 missionaries are also practicing the sign
language to be still my soul so that we can do it as a musical number
in April.
I really love St. Augustine! And think I will cry whenever I have to leave.
We have continued to teach a few people on Facebook and taught Frank
again this week. The bishop said that our ward attendance is now
consistently higher thanks to our missionary work with less actives
the past few months.
A cool experience I had this last week...the name of this less active
family kept coming to mind on Friday. But I kept pushing it aside
because we've tried before and they are just never home. But we went
to their house at like 8:15 at night and they had just gotten home!
And we had a great visit with them and we are going to watch
conference with them. God doesn't give up on anyone!
Love you all, have a great week!
Sister Richardson
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