Happy Halloween

Hello One and All,

Well time just feels like it's flying by here in the wkm. Life is good and I am still very much enjoying my time here in Kennewick. So I don't feel like there's too much to report on. We do a lot of tracting. Every once in a while we have an appointment that goes through, but for the most part we are tracting. But it's ok, we get to have a lot of fun meeting a huge range of people. From vaguely offensive homosexual white men, to very accepting and interested Hispanics. There's all types of people here in Kennewick. Like a kid who came and banged on our gym's window while we were working out in the morning just to tell us about how he had slipped in the frost.

That's another thing, it is so cold here in the morning and evenings. Reminds me of my early Halloweens in Oklahoma when mom made us put on coats so no one could tell what we were dressed as. "I'm superman with a coat, look at the leggings...just give me the candy!" Hopefully someone picked up on that.

Church was way good this week. The branch took real good care of us, feeding us this last week. Last night I had some delicious tacos de lengua. It was good, but not as good as the lengua you can get back in Vancouver.

The sisters in our district had a baptism Sunday evening which was way cool. The branch came out and a bunch of the office couples from the mission as well, including President and Sister Greer. It was a big relief to see the investigator there, because apparently he pulled a run away bride at his originally scheduled baptism and did not show up. But they worked through his problems and he did it. He was so happy and excited about it.

We have found a few more really promising investigators. Jorge was going to come to church this last week but ended up getting pretty sick. Me and E. Anderson continue to enjoy one anther's company. Halloween was a little bit of a let down because the branch is so new and they didn't have an activity for it. Last night we were supposed to be in by 6 pm so as to avoid the tricker treaters, they don't like the competition. We spent a relaxing evening in the apartment conversing about things and getting caught up on letter writing. I'm actually still quite behind. (Speaking of which mom, how's Kat been doing?) We did have 1 kid come knock on our door, we had to send him away empty handed because we didn't have any candy. I felt kind of bad for him, trick or treating all alone in some shady apartments.

Well, life is good down here. I hope all is well with yall. The church is true.

Love,

Elder Richards