ELDER HYRUM RICHARDSON #90 -- FEBRUARY 9, 2015

ELDER HYRUM RICHARDSON #90

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

The most exciting part about this week is that Jonny passed his baptismal interview! He is pretty excited to get baptized and to keep learning in the church. It's also cool to see the members of the ward get to know him and include him in things. During the lesson in Priesthood meeting yesterday, we split up into groups to talk about agency. Our group had Jonny get up to share with the rest of the class. He applied what he had just learned in Gospel Principles class about Adam and Eve and he did a great job! He'll get baptized this Saturday!

Last week, I was looking through the area book, and decided to call one of the phone numbers on an old baptismal record. His name is Brother Cha. I called him again yesterday afternoon, and said we could go up and visit him. So we went there last night and shared with him a couple of scriptures. It's really easy to see his sincere desire to come back to church. His work schedule is fairly busy, but he said that in April, his work schedule will be back to normal, and he will be able to come to church every Sunday. He was certainly one of those lost sheep who wants to come back, but maybe didn't know how. We are excited to keep meeting with him and help him come all the way back!

We met with our investigator David again this week. He's just a really cool guy. He works at McDonalds, and he said he's willing to be baptized if he knows it's true. It was cool to have a lesson that was really relaxed, and joke around with him while still teaching the gospel. He is going to be great!

Our companionship got gifted two guitars in two days! We visited a less active who had one that she didn't want, and then the next day found a perfectly nice one by the trash in our building. So now our apartment has two guitars!

Thursday and Friday were pretty crazy this week. Elder Hawkins, our district leader, had to go to some meetings in Taipei, so we had a trio with his companion and traveled back and forth between our two areas to cover all of the lessons that we had. It was pretty fun though, and we still got a lot done.

Last night we visited the Liao Family, the parents of one of our awesome members. They really liked the Plan of Salvation and we can tell that they are really learning a lot from the scriptures and slowly developing their faith in Jesus Christ! It's always neat to have them ask us questions rather than the other way around!

That was about it for this week.

Elder Richardson
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