Hello One and All,
Well, we have succesfully moved to our new residence. My apologies but I do not know the address, Sheffield Road that much I know. I would imagine the area code is the same, and I'm still in Basin City. I'll have to verify that, but I think that's what it is. It took us 2 car fulls to get everything there. We could have gotten all our stuff in just one, but then there's the issue of all the crap every missionary before you has left behind. This includes a guitar, weights, a million vhs tapes, and other fun things. Our new place seems pretty nice. We've yet to sleep in it because last night we were in the zone leaders' apartment for some early morning training. I slept about as well to be expected (there are a lot of diseased and smelly feet in that apartment.) Our new place is nice, every member we've talked to about us tells us that the woman of the house is a super neat freak and that we will have to run a very tight ship.
This was a good week for the work. We have another woman on date for this month, she will definitely achieve her goal. Success is always nice to have. Apparently our zone is going to break some mission records on baptisms this month. We have a few more lined up which is nice.
I was looking at the different blogs and it sounds like everyone is having quite the time right now. New York looked real neat. And DC as well. Fun fact Whit and Cody, that weird shell thing you had on your blog looks exactly like something I've eaten on the mission. Spot on. Not terrible tasting, but it felt like it was swimming around for a while.
Happy belated birthday to whit, my bad, I forgot. Hopefully all of your dreams came true.
Mike, congrats on your television stardom.
My health is finally more or less normal. This last week a got a pretty terrible rash over most of my body so it was sort of one thing after another. Through the use of a lot of benedryl I was able to go through the week in a mostly itch free fog. Sister Greer was a little exacerbated with me and my body's increasing problems. But I think I'm all good now so it should be steady sailing.
Well, life is good here. I am enjoying the work and I love hearing from yall. The church is true and the Lord hears our prayers. I love yall very much.
Con amor,
Elder Richards
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
5 mins
Hello One and All,
Well, it was great talking to everyone on Sunday. And it's also fantastic being out working again. Nothing of note has happened in the past two days. Also all of my various missionary activities on the computer have eaten up my time. I have about 5 minutes left. But know that I will write a lot next week. I love you all and the church is true. Also mom, thanks for the birthday montage, it was fun. I guess I HAVE always been this good looking.
Love,
Elder Richards
Well, it was great talking to everyone on Sunday. And it's also fantastic being out working again. Nothing of note has happened in the past two days. Also all of my various missionary activities on the computer have eaten up my time. I have about 5 minutes left. But know that I will write a lot next week. I love you all and the church is true. Also mom, thanks for the birthday montage, it was fun. I guess I HAVE always been this good looking.
Love,
Elder Richards
Friday, May 6, 2011
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
Happy May
Hello One and All,
Well, I suppose first thing's first. Transfer info: Both Elder Bao and I will remain here in Basin City and Connell. Although about halfway through may we will be moving to another member's home, that keeps happening to me. I guess the members can only put up with me for 2 transfers, no more.
So today is my big day and the 1st was Elder Bao's big day. So we've had fun. I suprised Elder Bao by secretly asking Sister Davidson (that family we had fhe with) to bake him a cake. Then they made me a cake yesterday. They are a really cool family. I'll have to tell yall about lastnight on sunday.
Alberto's baptism went through, another thing that if you want you can ask me about. So this last transfer was a good one, 6 baptisms. We will have a bunch this tranfer as well. Exciting times.
Thank you everyone for the birthday wishes.
Sorry there's not much meat and potatoes in this email, but I just can't seem to summon the will power to write when I'll talk to yall in a week.
Well I love yall, have a good week, and we'll talk later.
Love,
Elder Richards
Well, I suppose first thing's first. Transfer info: Both Elder Bao and I will remain here in Basin City and Connell. Although about halfway through may we will be moving to another member's home, that keeps happening to me. I guess the members can only put up with me for 2 transfers, no more.
So today is my big day and the 1st was Elder Bao's big day. So we've had fun. I suprised Elder Bao by secretly asking Sister Davidson (that family we had fhe with) to bake him a cake. Then they made me a cake yesterday. They are a really cool family. I'll have to tell yall about lastnight on sunday.
Alberto's baptism went through, another thing that if you want you can ask me about. So this last transfer was a good one, 6 baptisms. We will have a bunch this tranfer as well. Exciting times.
Thank you everyone for the birthday wishes.
Sorry there's not much meat and potatoes in this email, but I just can't seem to summon the will power to write when I'll talk to yall in a week.
Well I love yall, have a good week, and we'll talk later.
Love,
Elder Richards
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Easter
Hello One and All,
Happy Easter. Ours was pretty good. On saturday we were working in Connell. There was a big Easter Egg Hunt going on at the park so we went and starting handing out passalong cards like crazy. At the end of it we went and OYM'd the Easter Bunny, gave him a card and got a picture with him. It was pretty cool. Turns out he comes from mexico. That's what his wife told us, he was pretty dedicated to the bit and wouldn't talk. But we shook his hand and told him about the church.
We'll have 3 baptisms this week probably, which I'm excited are finally happening. One of them Alberto asked me to baptize him which I'm flattered/honored by. We blessed/named his baby on sunday, it was neat because I had never been in a baby circle before.
Yesterday it rained a ton so naturally we went tracting. We got some possible trybacks as a result. Well this email might be lacking in the length department, but I am rather tired right now and will close as is. Thanks everyone for letters, I love you all. Say hello to everyone for me.
Love,
Elder Richards
Happy Easter. Ours was pretty good. On saturday we were working in Connell. There was a big Easter Egg Hunt going on at the park so we went and starting handing out passalong cards like crazy. At the end of it we went and OYM'd the Easter Bunny, gave him a card and got a picture with him. It was pretty cool. Turns out he comes from mexico. That's what his wife told us, he was pretty dedicated to the bit and wouldn't talk. But we shook his hand and told him about the church.
We'll have 3 baptisms this week probably, which I'm excited are finally happening. One of them Alberto asked me to baptize him which I'm flattered/honored by. We blessed/named his baby on sunday, it was neat because I had never been in a baby circle before.
Yesterday it rained a ton so naturally we went tracting. We got some possible trybacks as a result. Well this email might be lacking in the length department, but I am rather tired right now and will close as is. Thanks everyone for letters, I love you all. Say hello to everyone for me.
Love,
Elder Richards
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Welcome back Eric
Hello One and All,
Well another enjoyable week has passed by here in the BC Connell. I was just catching up on Jess' blog, happy belated birthday to Benson. I hope you enjoy your Gecko, I remember Mike's old Gecko, that thing was mean, it bit everyone. So hopefully yours is better. A big welcome back to Eric, hopefully you can get out of the service asap and be nice and civilianized and move on with life. Mom, my easter package came in yesterday, (I opened it surrounded by 7 other elders and there was something of a feeding frenzy, but that's ok it was fun and there's still plenty left for me) thanks very much for that, also I got the Barnes and Nobles notification email, thank you for that as well. I am very excited for that to come. I guess that's my bad I didn't know you thought it was a church cd. We played one of the movements for our ballad junior year of marching band, it's been one of my favorites ever since. But my copy somehow got misplaced in whit's collection...hope you enjoy it!
So this week was pretty good. Unfortunately no baptisms. But we had three people interviewed and ready to get baptized any time as soon as we are able to get everything else worked out. I hope those happen before the end of the transfer. Last night was an exchange that was pretty fun. At the end of it all the spanish elders met up and slept at the ZL's apartment, so for those who know anything about missionaries and exchanges you'll know I use the term 'sleep' loosely. But it was a lot of fun. So I went out with a fairly new elder and inspected his area. We taught his baptismal candidate. Or that is we went over a couple of principles before he got up and used the chalkboard (we were in a church) to teach me everything he had learned since the missionaries started working with him. He went on for about 2 hours, so our night was kind of shot. But it was funny and cool to see how much he had retained from the lessons and church.
We did a lot of tracting this week and found a lot of potentials from it. It wasn't our best week number wise on account of zone conference and all that going down. We had a really fun lesson with a less active woman and her 3 young kids. The kids got really into it and we taught them primary songs and had a lot of fun getting them excited about coming to church. They will be key in reactivating the mother. She likes the church, she just hasn't been since she moved here. Really nice lady. Her oldest is 8 so maybe we can get him baptized (I don't know though because there father is pretty against the church.)
Well it was a good week, not too eventful. Enjoy the pics, we took them at a members house during a dinner appointment, it was pretty fun.
Love,
Elder Richards
Well another enjoyable week has passed by here in the BC Connell. I was just catching up on Jess' blog, happy belated birthday to Benson. I hope you enjoy your Gecko, I remember Mike's old Gecko, that thing was mean, it bit everyone. So hopefully yours is better. A big welcome back to Eric, hopefully you can get out of the service asap and be nice and civilianized and move on with life. Mom, my easter package came in yesterday, (I opened it surrounded by 7 other elders and there was something of a feeding frenzy, but that's ok it was fun and there's still plenty left for me) thanks very much for that, also I got the Barnes and Nobles notification email, thank you for that as well. I am very excited for that to come. I guess that's my bad I didn't know you thought it was a church cd. We played one of the movements for our ballad junior year of marching band, it's been one of my favorites ever since. But my copy somehow got misplaced in whit's collection...hope you enjoy it!
So this week was pretty good. Unfortunately no baptisms. But we had three people interviewed and ready to get baptized any time as soon as we are able to get everything else worked out. I hope those happen before the end of the transfer. Last night was an exchange that was pretty fun. At the end of it all the spanish elders met up and slept at the ZL's apartment, so for those who know anything about missionaries and exchanges you'll know I use the term 'sleep' loosely. But it was a lot of fun. So I went out with a fairly new elder and inspected his area. We taught his baptismal candidate. Or that is we went over a couple of principles before he got up and used the chalkboard (we were in a church) to teach me everything he had learned since the missionaries started working with him. He went on for about 2 hours, so our night was kind of shot. But it was funny and cool to see how much he had retained from the lessons and church.
We did a lot of tracting this week and found a lot of potentials from it. It wasn't our best week number wise on account of zone conference and all that going down. We had a really fun lesson with a less active woman and her 3 young kids. The kids got really into it and we taught them primary songs and had a lot of fun getting them excited about coming to church. They will be key in reactivating the mother. She likes the church, she just hasn't been since she moved here. Really nice lady. Her oldest is 8 so maybe we can get him baptized (I don't know though because there father is pretty against the church.)
Well it was a good week, not too eventful. Enjoy the pics, we took them at a members house during a dinner appointment, it was pretty fun.
Love,
Elder Richards
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