Fatherhood

Hello One and All,

Well another week has come and gone and with it, my year mark is just around the corner. That'll be a strange day, granted it feels like I've been out for an eternity, but a year seems to have passed by quickly. And the other big news would be my training a new missionary I suppose.

His name is Elder Swenson, he's from Riverton Utah. Youngest of 4 (2 sisters and 1 brother). His Spanish is as good as any white boy fresh out of the MTC, but he's constantly improving on it. We get along pretty well, he's a little quiet, but there's nothing wrong with that, when he has something to say he'll say it. He's a really good worker and we are currently trying to reestablish contact with all the former investigators in our area book.

One cool story we had this week was we were out tracting, it wasn't very productive or successful. We knocked on a door we saw a Hispanic guy go into, but he wasn't interested. We turned to leave and I said let's knock a door over on the other side. So we do, and this black girl, Jessica, answers. She lets us in and we start talking to her. I asked her why she let us in and she goes on to tell us how not 10 minutes earlier she had been praying real hard to God to do something and help her in her current struggles. Then we knocked. She was pretty impressed by that and recognized it as a sign from God. After a short lesson we referred her to the English elders, they tell us that she's golden. That's the life of the Spanish elder I guess, sending out referrals to everyone else.

Believe it or not but I'm actually getting a lot darker these days, we've been having bright sunny days everyday. Combine that with tracting and walking and you get one tan Elder Richards.The days are warm, but it's still only in the mid 80's. That's a heck of a lot better than what Pasco would be getting right now.

Well I think that about covers it for the week as of right now. Thanks for the emails, and I hope to keep hearing from everyone.

Love,
Elder Richards