NEW FACES, NEW FRIENDS; NEXT YEAR, SAME WORK!
March 2019
Welp... there goes the first full year of my Mission. I guess that happened. Yay?
I moved to this new area, the Bloomington Ward! It's crazy, because I started on the West side of the mission, and I've been moving east, basically as far as I could, and now I'm back on the West side! I'm so close to my Fontana home!
I'm also with my new Companion, Elder Robinson! Elder Robinson is awesome! I've seen him around at various Mission gatherings, and it's been a pleasure to work with him! He's from Utah, and everyone keeps getting Robinson and Richardson confused, so that's fun! He's always super happy and optimistic, and he loves talking to people! He always knows what to say to help people understand who we are and what we do! He's also on his last transfer, so I'm going to be sending him home, unfortunately. But we're going to have blast doing the work down here in Bloomington and Rialto!
I'm making lots of new friends here in Bloomington! We were biking around my first day, and this stray dog just starts chasing us on our bikes! He disappeared soon after we got off of our bikes to talk to some people, but when we hopped back on the road, there he was again! We called him our Missionary Dog, Patrick. We lost him, but one of these days we are going to track down Patrick again!
We've met so many cool kids, too! Two of them, brothers, are Roland and Jamel! They are just young kids, but they joined the church about a year ago and are the only members of their family! Luckily, missionaries and the Ward have been keeping up with them!
Things have been super fun and crazy busy, and so I'm kind of sad that I haven't had as much contact as of late. But I know that all of this business has been in doing the Lord's work! I've had lots of awesome experiences and I'm so glad to be here on my Mission, and to have another year to keep working!
Much Love,
Elder Richardson
1) Here's Elder Robinson and I! We spent, like, 3 hours in the rain, and we had to take a low quality Selfie!
2) And here's Elder Robinson holding my worst enemy: Snake the Snake!
Benjamin Richardson
California Redlands Mission
Feb 28, 2018 - March 3, 2020
