ELDER HYRUM RICHARDSON #66 -- AUGUST 25, 2014

ELDER HYRUM RICHARDSON #66

AUGUST 25, 2014

This week was pretty alright. It was one of those weeks where there's a lot of tough things, but I can still appreciate the good things and look forward with hope for the future.

When I got to this area, we had two investigators. But last week, both of them left. On Monday we ate dinner with Carlos at the Pizza Hut all-you-can-eat with him and all of his friends from Mexico and South America. So Elder Wilson and I were the only ones who didn't speak Spanish. After that, on Tuesday, he left for Germany to go be with his wife and baby. We are thrilled that he can be back with his family, and we hope he can keep going to church there. We will hopefully hear from him soon! Because Samantha is Taiwanese, we passed her off to the missionaries where she lives, so hopefully she can start going there and get baptized soon! That means that we have no investigators...but this week had a few miracles and we are excited to meet with some new people next week!

We've also been working on meeting the members in our ward. Last week, we had lunch (BLTs) with the Klomps. Brother Klomp is in the Air Force, so they move around a lot. They say that they moved to Shanghai right after we left. They also know the Butters! Anyway, they have 5 kids and we went and shared a message about love and service to them. We are looking forward to visiting more of our members this week, and also looking forward to the American meals that they will feed us!

Elder Wilson and I found a Krispy Kreme near the 101 in our first couple of weeks. So now, every time we go to the 101 (which is fairly often) we inevitably go to Krispy Kreme to get a little taste of home. 

Elder Wilson is learning how to whistle, so often as we walk down the street we whistle a tune together. It makes me think of the story from Nauvoo about the whittling whistling brigade.

It was REALLY HOT this week. I might say that every week, but I think it's true every week.

It's nice to be well traveled, because for a lot of people that we meet I can say "Hey, I've been there!" and it's cool to have that connection with people. Like for example, we met a guy named Peter who is from the Czech Republic and we started talking about some of the sights in Prague that I had seen. This week we met people from Czech Republic, Virignia, Quebec, Germany, Paraguay, India, Afghanistan, and Saudi Arabia.

Now for the sad news. We received word on Saturday that two of the missionaries in our mission died from a carbon monoxide leak. I'm sure a lot of you have heard that on the news already. I was pretty good friends with Elder Xiong, and they were both in my zone. It was of course pretty shocking for all of us, but it's been especially tough for President and Sister Day. So keep them as well as the missionaries' families in your prayers. There will be a memorial service for the mission this week.

The Plan of Salvation is true! Their families will see them again someday, and there is always hope for the future! God is watching over us all, and everything will be made fair in the end!

Love you all,

Elder Richardson

任淳楷長老