Week Update
Yesterday I found out my. Returning group of
missionaries is me and two sisters which is wild! It's got some potential to be
pretty awkward but oh well. It doesn't really feel like I'm going home soon, It
still feels like I will be out here for another couple of transfers. It's
bizarre. I'm just making the most out of every day I have.
Elder Essler is up to his usual antics. That
kid can chat. He is doing good though He is having fun. It seems bizarre to be
realizing I'm not going to be a missionary forever. Missionary
life is pretty neat. But there is a time and a season for all things. I was
reflecting this week on how I've changed and I was thinking about my love and
my relationship with Christ and how much He means to me. It's literally one of
my most favorite things to do is to read about Him. It means so much that He
suffered for me and that He did it just for me and just for everyone. I don't
like to imagine His suffering. I don't like to think about it. But I know that He
took it for me. That He stood in my place and felt what I will feel and also
took my lickin for me. It hurts me to realize that I have caused Him that
suffering and it makes me want to not cause Him anymore. And it also makes me
want to help ease the suffering of others. Because as I do so, the Savior feels
their ease. I am eternally grateful for my Savior, who bled and died for me and
for everybody else. But I know He would have done it even it would have been
just to save me, and I know that I'm not unique in that respect either. But that
He would do it for anyone even if it would only save just them. His love is
truly incomprehensible. I really love being a missionary. Best choice I could
have made. The education I gained as a missionary is greater than any other
education I could have gotten anywhere else in the world at this time of my
life.
So let’s get going!
Update #1
The New Hartford Temple is nearing
completion! So as missionaries we have been handing out all sorts of
invitations for it which is pretty neat! Yesterday I was talking to President
Smith about it. And he was saying that missionaries could get permission to
leave the mission to go to it with an investigator or less active, granted they
met certain requirements but it is really cool that the missionaries here will
have that opportunity.
Update #2
I went on a split on Friday which was pretty
neat. I went with our Zone leader Elder Paullen. He seems to be a pretty cool
guy. We had a pretty good day, we met some interesting people tracting. We
found an abandoned Italian resort that has been converted to a low income
housing community, It seemed like it could be a scene of a horror movie it was
wild. We met some pretty wild inhabitants there also. We met some Pagans which
is always a treat.
Update #3
We have been talking to Kenny a lot about
baptism and also baptisms for the dead, he found out he can be baptized for his
father and it has really touched him. He has been really excited to be baptized
and he has moved his baptismal date up a week to September 11. He also shared with us
how he came to know the Book of Mormon was true which was something I had never
actually heard from him. But he said he was praying one day and he asked if it
was true, and he heard a voice tell him it was and then the same voice told him
to get up and walk and he did. And Kenny was in a serious car accident a while
back and so he struggles to get around and usually uses a walker but he said he
was able to walk fine. Which is an amazing miracle and he has a stalwart
testimony of the Book of Mormon which is super solid.
Update #4
We got to build a rock wall with one of our
investigators Jack, We were talking to him during it about classic cars and he
said he is headed to a car show on Thursday and he has some friends he wants us
to meet which is really rad!
Update #5
Yesterday I got to go to the returning
missionary meeting with the Smiths it was pretty cool! We talked about college,
work, dating, and marriage. It was a pretty cool meeting. The spirit was very
strong and I could feel President and sister Smiths love for me. It was a great
meeting and I got a ton of good advice! I took lots of notes!
Anyways that's the latest for this week! I
hope you all are having a good one!
Elder Richards
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