ELDER HYRUM RICHARDSON LETTER #99
APRIL 13, 2015
Wow, 96 is a lot of weeks.
This week had somewhat of a slow start, but the end of the week was really great!
Last week, we felt like we should go visit a less-active Melchizedek Priesthood holder whose phone number on the ward list was wrong. We got to his house right as he was leaving, so we got to talk for him a minute, and we'll get to go back again this week. On Thursday of this week, we felt like we should go again and visit him. He wasn't home, but we knocked the door next to his. We met a guy who was really willing to listen and chat with us, and he became our new investigator! So now we've got 2 people in that new area so go and visit!
On Friday night, we had dinner with a couple of members and recent converts. When I got here in December, our ward didn't have any 30-yr-old YSA members. Brother Liao starting coming to church and got called as the YSA representative, and then Jonny got baptized in February, Lucy started coming back to church in March, and Brother Peng got baptized in April. We had dinner with all of them on Friday, and they are all going to a stake FHE activity tonight. It's cool to see how the Lord has brought them all together, and is giving them all friendships in our ward!
Sunday afternoon we decided to go visit one of our members. Usually we call ahead of time, but we didn't have a landline so we decided to just go. When we got there we discovered that Brother Li's entire family was there. They welcomed us in and we got to share a message about General Conference and family to his 5 children and 1 grandchild, all who are not members. Brother Li thanked us for coming and told his kids that the Spirit had brought us there!
We had some appointments cancel on Sunday night. So I called one of the less-active members (Sister Huang) of our ward to see if we could visit. She said she had also been feeling like she needed to invite us over, so she accepted and said that she would feed us too! We got there and her boyfriend cooked some delicious food for us. When we started to share about the Book of Mormon, he said he has always wanted to be a Christian, but he had never really felt anything when it comes to church stuff. We had a great lesson with him about how to get answers from prayers, and about reading the Book of Mormon. He was really excited about reading the Book of Mormon and Sister Huang is really excited about introducing him to the gospel!
Conference was awesome! My companion said he just loved having church in English again. It really is great to hear from the Apostles and Prophets and to feel the Spirit as they teach us about Jesus Christ. I think my favorite talks were President Eyring's on fasting, President Monson's in the Priesthood session, and Elder Nelson's on the Sabbath. But there were soo many great talks! Hopefully our conference Liahona's don't take as long as last year!
Well it was a good week, and I'm looking forward to 6 more great ones!
Elder Richardson
任淳楷長老
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