ELDER HYRUM RICHARDSON LETTER #86
JANUARY 12, 2015
Well, I forgot my planner at home, so I forgot everything that happened this week!
Last Monday was really fun! We went to the chapel and played Uno and Bang with some of the members of our district!
We had a lot of new investigators that are really good! About two months ago, Elder Mayhew and Elder Naasman contacted Brother Luo on the street, just a couple of days after he got back from a trip to Salt Lake City. His older sister is a member there and took him on a tour at temple square. We sat down with him this week and had a really spiritual lesson for him. His wife died not too long ago, and we can definitely tell that she's working on him from the other side! He goes out of the country a lot, so it'll be hard to meet with him consistently, but we have high hopes for him!
We got a referral named Jonny from my old area Songshan. One of the investigators that I knew there brought Jonny to church and then the elders there sent the referral here. He has a really sincere desire to find truth, and he's really excited about reading the Book of Mormon. He came to church yesterday even though we just met him on Saturday!
We've been working harder to get member visits, but the problem is that when we schedule member visits, they turn out to not be member visits because there is a non-member or RCLA there! Last night we went to our friend Brother Liao's house (the one that let us use his skype). We planned on just sharing with him, but were surprised when his parents came down and listened to our message too! We invited them all to have family prayer every night, and we are going to go back next week to see them again.
One of the recent converts in the ward hit his one-year mark yesterday, so at the end of our gospel principles class, he got down on one knee and proposed to his wife, asking her if she would be willing to get sealed with him in the temple. Apparently they didn't have a formal proposal, so he decided to do it again. All of the girls there thought that it was really cute!
After church on Sunday, we met with the Bishop and the ward mission leader to talk about the ward mission plan. We set a goal with them and the ward to have 15 baptisms in the ward this year. It's a pretty ambitious goal, and I'll likely be in this ward until May, so with some faith and some diligence, it'll get done!
Well that's all that I remember this week. Add oil!
Elder Richardson
任淳楷長老
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