ELDER HYRUM RICHARDSON #70: SEPT 22, 2014

ELDER HYRUM RICHARDSON #70

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

This will be a shortish email. ..because I forgot to write down stuff that happened. But I'll do better next week!

Our Mongolian investigator Jaagie is doing really well. She was a referral from Neihu (my first area), and she came to church for the first time last week. She really loved it and the Relief Society just scooped her up and loves her. She came to church for the second time and we taught her the first lesson on Saturday. She really enjoyed the lesson, and we also got to hear some Mongolian! I'm glad I'm not learning that language...it sounds hard...she came to church again on Sunday and thought it was great!

The Williams family we have been teaching is doing great. It's been a new experience for me and Elder Wilson to try and teach a whole family together, including some small children. But we are going to keep planning and hopefully get better at it! We are also going to ask the sister missionaries in the area that they live to do follow up visits in Chinese for the mother and daughter.

James is someone we met on the street and had lunch with once a few weeks ago, but we weren't sure if he was really interested in learning more. But last Thursday we got a facebook message where he said something like: "I read all of the chapter summaries in the book you gave me. When can we meet again?" So we are really excited to meet with him tomorrow!

On Wednesday, our whole zone had our outdoor zone conference! So we all went on a hike up a mountain and received some training on the way. It was pretty fun! Pictures attached!

I met a fellow Arkansan! He was from North Little Rock, and is studying at the university here. That's a first for me I think!

A cool idea that I heard in our Gospel Principles class. There is one scripture about Jesus Christ from the age of 12-30, and it says this:

"And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and man." (Luke 2:52)
Our teacher mentioned that during that time, Christ grew intellectually (wisdom), physically (stature), spiritually (favor with God), and socially (favor with man). So all four of these areas are really important to us, and we have to find the right balance between all of them!

Have a good week!

Elder Richardson

任淳楷長老