SISTER RICHARDSON
FEBRUARY 18, 2014
Well to describe this week in one word: bipolar. The days right before sister Sullivan went home were really hard. I likened it to labor sympathy pains...when your companion is broken emotionally and physically, it gets to you too, because of sympathy and care. We weren't able to go and work much. It was hard for her to say goodbye to people and pack up her stuff. It was weird dropping her off at the mission home and leaving with her. But I have felt a physical and emotional burden lifted as she has gone home. Because she is now no longer miserable every day and has her family right there to support her and help her get better. She wants to come back out when they get her medical stuff figured out. The week just has gone up from there and has been a great last few days! Some highlights of the week were having a fhe lesson and dinner with recent convert family at the home of a great member family. We are trying to help the recent converts make more friends in the ward. And guess what! This member family, the Sonneys, Sister Sonney was in the first work and the glory movie! She was a bar maid. And is actually on the movie poster down in the palmyra scene on it. Pretty cool! Brother and Sister Fewkes from the war gave us cute iPad styluses to use with our new iPads. Mine is pink with polka dots! On mutual night, we had a missionary training for all the youth that are now ward mission leaders. Our ward mission leader who is incredible talked about the power of one. He showed us how one persons conversion or reactivation can start a chain that in just a few generations can lead to a stake of church members in numbers. Pretty cool! A good lesson to remember about the worth of every soul. So I spent a lot of time this week going through records of former investigators and typing them into our iPads...I've still got a long way to go. We are supposed to have it all done by next week....we'll see how it goes. The weather here has been perfect the last few days. Sunny and 70 with a nice ocean breeze. Makes me more thankful to have been called on a mission to Florida :) Last night the moon was huge and orange! Maybe it was an eclipse? So the rest of these week with the other wards sister missionaries has been really fun! Honestly it has just felt like a fun sleepover for me. It's so fun to work a little in their area and a little in mine. It's been a nice "break". But it does feel weird going tracting with three people. Last night, the family we ate dinner with turned on the Olympics. I heard the music and saw the ice skaters on the screen and it was sooo had not to watch it! I love the Olympics! Another highlight of the week was a lesson we had with our investigator Stephanie. She is friends with one of the young women. I felt strongly about teachings her the plan of salvation (lesson 2) first. It was one of the best spirit filled lessons I've ever been in! The spirit taught and the young woman and her parents testified strongly. It was a good reminder that us missionaries are such a minor role in this conversion process. It really happens by the spirit and the members. Yesterday we visited a less active sister who said that our little lesson was a diret answer to her prayer and that our visit gave her hope to go on. Love those moments :) People teach me so much here! So it is transfers tomorrow! I am getting a new companion. I know nothing besides her name and that apparently she knows some sign language. I think I may be in st. Augustine for the rest of my mission because so few people in the mission know sign language and it's such a her need! On Saturday we had a fun activity for the deaf members. We had waffles and played volleyball! They were all such great missionaries and brought their non member and less active friends. It was such a great turnout! It was a little stressful putting it together, but it all miraculously came together at the end. Had a hilarious cooking disaster this week. So I was trying to make muddie buddies for the volleyball activity. I put the chocolate, peanut butter, and butter in a bowl and stuck it in the microwave...apparently 3 minutes is way too long. I took the bowl out (it was plastic) and the sludge started pouring out the bottom. It had burned a whole in the bottom of the bowl and smelled of nasty burned chocolate. It was great. The fewkes family took us to a great beach restaurant called mango mango this week. I got some delicious fried shrimp. Then they took us out the beach and the full moon was so bright shining on the water and the waves were so big and loud. Someday I'll come back and actually go to the beach and swim :) I am doing well and am excited for a fresh start with this transfer. I can feel my faith grow with every month and trial on my mission. God is good! Sister Richardson
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