ELDER HYRUM RICHARDSON LETTER #65 -- AUGUST 18, 2014

ELDER HYRUM RICHARDSON LETTER #65

AUGUST 18, 2014

Hello family and friends!

We had a pretty good week. We walked A LOT. I carried a pedometer for the whole week, and at the end it said we walked 82167 steps. Needless to say, we often had sore feet in the evening. But we met a lot of cool people this week, and are really hopeful for new investigators next week!

We have a really cool recent convert in this ward. Her name is Angel, and she is Indonesian. She's probably got the most fire for the gospel than I've ever seen before. We asked her to share about a scripture in Gospel Principles class (which we've been teaching the past three weeks) and she shared her whole conversion story and shared a great testimony. She's here studying to be a surgeon, and the other day she gave us a giant box of Indonesian cookies (pictures included). We also found out that her dad got baptized this past Saturday. Apparently, he is a governor of an island there in Indonesia, so when he got baptized they killed 8 cows and 22 goats. Sounds like it's a party there!

We spent a lot of time on Friday in the hospital. Elder Wilson is still having back problems. Anyway, we waited for three hours on Friday morning, and while we were waiting, a lady came up to look at the Liahonas that we were reading. We started chatting with her, but before we could say much, her number was called and she had to go. But we at least got her to take the Liahona with her. It was a cool miracle that we might not ever see the effects of, but we still got to play a part in God's plan! A lot of things on a mission are like that. We do things, and we, at least, in this short time, don't see the full effects. Especially in the English Ward because a lot of people that we meet don't live here permanently. But God is in charge, it's His plan, and I like to think that someday in heaven I'll finally understand more of it!

Our investigator Carlos is leaving us tomorrow. He is moving to Germany to be with his wife and baby. We'll miss him, but we will hopefully be able to help him get in contact with the missionaries there.

Our other investigator Samantha is doing good too. We are working to help her get switched over and go attend the ward where we lives, so we'll be working with the missionaries there to make that happen. She loves to read and come to church though, so hopefully she'll keep progressing there!

One of the investigators that I started teaching in Zhonghe got baptized this week! Even though I wasn't there, I was really excited that she got baptized!

This week we met people from Israel, Singapore, Mexico, Scotland, Germany, Jordan, England, India, Wyoming, Bulgaria, Dominican Republic, Canada, Ireland and Russia!

My English class had a kid who's English name was Hooray. I guess his parents were feeling really happy when they gave him that.

Most of our ward were back in church this week. There are a lot of families to know, and Elder Wilson and I have been working on names a lot. Facebook helps a lot! We have a couple of member visits set-up for this week, and they both insisted on feeding us. So it will be nice to have a nice home-cooked Americanized meal!

Add oil!

Elder Richardson

任淳楷長老