SISTER MELISSA RICHARDSON
SEPT 23, 2014
Well I have a new companion, Sister Hall, and she is great! Just on
our way home from the transfer meeting, the member who was driving us
discovered that a missionary she had been close to when she had lived
in Wales was Sister Halls sister in law. Crazy! But sister hall is
very hard working and obedient and outgoing! She is good at being bold
with people and not being intimidated. So she covers up some of my
weaknesses. So I am excited for this next transfer!
We had a great Book of Mormon reading time with Sister Luna and her
girls this week. They gave us their next question and we gave them
another Book of Mormon chapter to read. We also taught them about
family history later in the week and helped them get started putting
in information into family search. I even got one of the daughters to
start doing it too. I bribed her with a note and CD that Sister
Merchant had left for her. Also, sister Luna got a calling on Sunday!
So exciting! She came and told me but said she couldn't remember what
the calling was for, because she was so nervous and excited. She knew
it had something to do with relief society so we went and asked the
relief society president and she said sister Luna will be on the
activities committee. So excited for her!
On her first night here, sister hall invited a less active man who
hasn't been to church in years to come to church. He said he couldn't
because he had to do yard work at home. Sister hall offered for us to
come help him with it on Saturday. He said no and said he'd be there
Sunday. We loved having him at church yesterday.
Montee brought her two girls for all 3 hours of church yesterday! And
Crystal brought her mom! Yay! One of Montees daughters wants to be in
the primary program next week and so her primary teacher took her all
the songs yesterday after church.
We had a fun relief society activity and ward social this week. Sister
hall got to meet lots of the members before church on Sunday. At the
ward party, they had everyone play "speed friendshipping" which was
like speed dating, but not dating. There were all these note cards
with get to know you questions on them and you had about one minute to
ask the questions as well as to respond to them yourself. It was fun!
We were walking down a road tracting yesterday and this dad and their
two kids were practicing knife throwing! We went and talked to them
and I found out some cool things about that "sport."
I had an online miracle this week. On Monday, I started talking to
this girl that I was friends with that I hadn't talked to before. She
is in England and said she'd added a bunch of missionaries as friends
to see what it was all about and was interested in learning more. So
I've been able to teach her this week! She was so excited to know that
there is a prophet today! We had a member from our ward that is also
from England get on Facebook at the same time and help us teach the
restoration to her. We found the church near her and she said she'd
go! I'll have to check on Facebook later to see if she did. Pretty
amazing! She is very prepared for the gospel!
Also, we went back to those Chinese people we had met. And I gave them
a Chinese Book of Mormon. Elder Bao had written his testimony in it.
They thought it was really cool! They started asking me where the
church was and how to get there,..I didn't know how to explain that in
my limited vocabulary. So I called elder bao and had him explain it to
them. He said their accent sounds like they're from Taiwan! I also
gave them the Chinese restoration pamphlet that Hyrum had sent me in
the mail, they liked that too! But wanted to know which meetinghouse
was the one here...but those were all the Taipei ones! We went back a
few days later and the daughter was home and she spoke English and
said they already found a church. But I gave them he first 3 lesson
pamphlets in Chinese anyway. And the grandparents still seem
interested. So we'll go back with a member that speaks Chinese and try
to teach them. Elder bao wrote out the pinyin and characters for a
few phrases. And then he gave me the mandarin missionary language
booklet. I won't have much time to study it, but at least I could
figure out how to bear my testimony to them and pray. So it's an
adventure!
Hope you are all doing well and preparing yourselves spiritually for
conference! We are so blessed to have the knowledge of a living
prophet today!
Sister Richardson
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