Tuesday, September 15, 2015

MTC Final



9/3/15 - 
Hello to all the supporters of the Elder Richardson Mission Party!!!!!!!! How are all of you!? I'm great! The MTC is flipping amazing! The first day I got here was soooo slow! It felt like 4 years put into one day!!! But since then it has absolutely flown by!! Ok first off, I found a picture that explains how the food is here: Jeremiah 4:19. Look it up...it's interesting. Haha anyways, my comps name is Elder Halliday, I love him. He's a really fun guy who has an amazing testimony. For all of you that are thinking of serving missions, DON'T TAKE NAPS!!!! GET OUT OF THAT HABIT ASAP!! It will destroy you the first couple of days at the MTC. And be ready for a gospel overload! They pack so much information into you in 12 hours it's insane but you learn so very much!!! And my testimony has grown soooooooooooooo much. I know this gospel is true with every ounce of my being I know it is. I'm basically foaming at the mouth to get out to California already!!! I just cannot wait!!!! I hope you are all doing well. Unfortunately the computers here are modified so that you cannot send pictures and it sucks! So I will send pictures when I finally get to Fresno in 6 days!!!!!!!!!!!! BTW I won't be able to email for two weeks because when I finally get to Fresno I will have already missed that week’s P-day! I love all of you so very much and am praying for all of you!! Email all of you in two weeks!! #1weekdown103togo!

Monday, September 14, 2015

MTC - Week 2


I ran into a few friends along the way:



I was taking a walk around the Provo temple on Sunday afternoon with my district and ran into Caelan Schmid.  







Elder Luke Jackson
Elder Giavanni Pierre-Louis

From Mesa East Stake:  Luke, Me, Gio, & Keith. 






MTC


I'm rooming with Ethan and 4 other Elders (Elders Halliday (my companion), Luke (Ethans comp), Fleming, and Hill.  I love my district. We are all so very close, well...as close as your aloud to get with the sisters anyways....but it's still lots of fun! I got made zone leader!!  On my second day here too!! It’s really nothing but a title.  All I get to do is email the branch president every week which is really boring. I'm in class about 12 hours a day which is mentally exhausting but me and my elders still somehow find a way to stay up till 1 in the morning talking to each other and bonding.  Me and my comp are the only 2 missionaries going to Fresno in our district! The rest are going to Oregon with Keith!! This past week has just absolutely flown by!!!


The District inside the classroom.

Elder Luke and I - Showdown

My Companion:  Elder Halliday - Awesome!!!





My district on MTC grounds outside.


My district in front of the Provo Temple.

The POSE!!!! - Oh Yeah!!
E.Fleming, E.Halliday, Me, E.Hill,E.Luke,Ethan


Fun Pictures: Sister Campbell, Elder Luke, Ethan and I.





  Elder Luke and I.



Elder Hill & I are very alike.

Arrived in Utah



8/26/15 - Ethan and I arrived in Salt Lake City Airport where my cousin, Preston Richardson, picked us up, took us to lunch and then dropped us off at the Missionary Training Center.



Missionary

Elder Daniel Lot Richardson - Missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Days Saints.  Called to serve a 2 year mission starting 8/26/15 in the Fresno California Mission