Dear
Family and Friends,
Happy
Early Thanksgiving!!
This
week was incredible! Elder Thornton and I were on fire!! We've been going
through our ward list and seeing if people are living there or not and if they
would like to have missionaries to come by. Basically we're updating the
ward list for the ward so we can get them to trust us more. And while doing so
we are finding new people to teach as well!!
We found 5 new
investigators!! One of my favorites that we found this week is named Mahesh
Natarajan. He's a super cool Indian man that teaches yoga and is a massage
therapist. We found him through his daughter Rea, who is friends with a girl in
our ward named Abby Rogers. Abby told us to go see her friend and we did!
Mahesh is super open to hearing about the gospel. He was raised Hindu but went
to a Christian/ Catholic school, so he believes in a higher power. He was most
interested to really start hearing our message when he found out that we
sacrifice 2 years of our lives to go out and do missionary work!! We are
excited to keep teaching him and start teaching his daughter as well
And that's not
even the least of it. We were surprised yesterday with something incredible. As
of before Sunday, we had no solids for the month of November. Therefore we were
not going to be able to help the mission reach the goal of the power of one!!
But Sunday rolled around and our Bishop had us come into his office after
church. As we walked into his office we saw one of our less active brothers in
the ward sitting in the room. We sat down with him and Bishop and then was
surprised with this wonderful thing: There daughter who is 8 right now wants to
be baptized on her 9th birthday...which is on November 27th!!! We've already
been teaching her in hopes of helping the family become more active and helping
her get baptized. It's a miracle!! We just have to finish teaching her a few
things (mostly tithing) and have her interview! Elder Thornton and I are so
grateful. We know this is an answer to prayers of faith and hard work. But we
also know that we can still work even harder and we are going to.
I hope everyone
has a wonderful Thanksgiving filled with Turkey and mashed potatoes! Haha
I know I'm going to have a good time. I am going to a Samoan Thanksgiving this
week. So you already know I'm going to be eating really well. And it's supposed
to be a pretty big get together...so big that the family has rented out the
cultural hall for Thanksgiving!!
Love you
all,
Elder Richardson
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