tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86820964335999324822024-03-04T21:40:11.545-08:00Elder Brayden RichardsRRichardshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08578421959217607160noreply@blogger.comBlogger104125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8682096433599932482.post-34347506572527912782016-09-28T09:10:00.003-07:002016-09-28T09:18:12.059-07:00September 28, 2016 Joe's baptism is on Friday!<div class="p1">
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excited to see you soon! We have been
pretty busy lately, making the rounds! This upcoming week is gonna be wild! I'm
looking forward to it though! It's gonna be super busy! With conference and
everything! I sure love you guys lots! I hope you are doing well! </span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: 17.0pt;">this last Sunday we
got to go to the Hartford temple open house with our investigator Joe, it was really neat! I enjoyed it! It's really pretty inside and our
investigator really seemed to enjoy it. We got to leave the mission to go which
is wild! We ended up in the Boston mission but we got permission so it's cool!
All in all it was a really great experience! The temple is amazing!</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: ".sfuitext" , "serif"; font-size: 17.0pt;"> </span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: 17.0pt;">I had my exit
interview with President Smith yesterday and it went really well! He gave me a
lot of advice and it was a great experience! It seems weird to be so far into
the mission! President Smith is a good guy and he really loves the
missionaries. I learned a lot from him!</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: ".sfuitext" , "serif"; font-size: 17.0pt;"> </span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: 17.0pt;">Joe's baptism is
coming up on Friday which is pretty exciting! I won't be here to see him
confirmed but I will get to attend and speak at his baptism which should be
really cool! I'm really glad we were able to teach Joe a little bit! And get to
know him before his baptism! He's a good guy!</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: ".sfuitext" , "serif"; font-size: 17.0pt;"> </span></span></div>
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RRichardshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08578421959217607160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8682096433599932482.post-10671090823791880342016-09-21T15:02:00.000-07:002016-09-21T15:02:01.071-07:00September 21, 2016 The Hartford Temple open house and Joe is getting baptized.<div class="p1">
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baptized again which really stinks, it's seems the day before his baptism he
always decides he's not ready and gets cold feet, which stinks, but ultimately
it's his agency, so we will keep helping him. He has set a new baptismal date
for October 9th which I will miss. But it's alright. We will help him increase
his faith so that he can hopefully be baptized this time.</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: ".SFUIText","serif"; font-size: 17.0pt;"> </span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: 17.0pt;">Joe is a
investigator the Newburgh elders were poaching, hardcore. But they passed him
off to us, so he could be baptized. He had his baptismal interview yesterday
and he passed which is nice, his fiancé is a member and I guess his family is
really ticked that he is joining the church and is giving his fiancé a hard time.
So it was a little wild hearing her story about all that is going on. It was
actually the first time we met with them with out the Newburgh elders but it
went well. We talked about baptism and all sorts of good stuff and had a couple
of laughs all in all a good time.</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: ".SFUIText","serif"; font-size: 17.0pt;"> </span></span></div>
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excited about it! I sure miss you guys though. I am excited to go to </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 22.6667px;">The Hartford</span><span style="font-size: 22.6667px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 17pt;">temple
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: 17.0pt;"> and we got permission to leave the mission to go to
it. If we have a member drive us and we bring a less active or a investigator.
I was pretty sure we weren't going to have a opportunity to go because none of
our investigators or less actives were able to go. But it turns out Joe and his
fiancé want to go! So we get to go with him on Sunday which should be really
cool. I'm looking forward to it.</span></span></div>
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are good here! We are looking to have Joe's baptism on the 30th which should be
nice! We are having a good time and working hard! Hope you all have a good
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again, His sister was telling him he wasn't ready to be baptized because he
wasn't familiar enough with the bible. So that really stunk but he attended
church on Sunday and was talking to the members and decided he did want to be
baptized again, so he set a new date for this Sunday. Hopefully this one will
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in the branch and it was a wild one. They have a very unique lifestyle and it
was a very eye opening experience. They were baptized just a few weeks shy of a
year ago and they are getting ready to be sealed which is really cool. So we
went over there and talked to them about the temple and family history. We want
to help them have some names they can take with them. although they need to do
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the orders for people in the stake and it all comes to the New Paltz chapel and
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<span class="s1">This last week has been good Kenny has been busy going to the US open. He used to be a big tennis player and then a big coach in the tennis world. But he has been down in Brooklyn at the tournament all week but he told us he was going to leave so he could make it to church and he did which which was really awesome. To keep his word and be willing to give up his tennis stuff to come to church</span></div>
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<span class="s1">Kenny had another baptismal interview this week and he passed so he is scheduled to be baptized on Sunday and we are hoping it will all work out well! </span></div>
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<span class="s1">The leaves are starting to change colors which is pretty beautiful! I'm excited to still get to see the fall in the upstate area. The woods up here are pretty thick so it's cool to be able to see all the sights with the fall colors that are starting to appear. It's definitely some Americana up here.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">We found out some elders in the zone below us have been poaching a investigator!! THey wanted to baptize a guy in their ward, but they couldn't because he didn't live in the boundary so they had to refer him to us. He's a really cool guy and he wants to be baptized, S<a href="x-apple-data-detectors://embedded-result/1204"><span class="s2">ept 30th.</span></a> SO that's really cool. But he doesn't know anybody in the branch and all his fellowshippers are in the other Ward and he wants to hang out there which really stinks. moral of the story when you find out someone's not in your area reassign them.</span></div>
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RRichardshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08578421959217607160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8682096433599932482.post-80652370599966539282016-08-31T13:56:00.002-07:002016-08-31T13:56:19.614-07:00August 31, 2016 College has started in New Paltz! Ton of new people to find!<div class="p1">
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">This
last Sunday was a pretty wild one, Elder Essler was assigned to give a talk and
we told our investigator Kenny a</span></span><span class="s1"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">bout it and he was super pumped! So fast forward to
Sunday and we arrange a ride for Kenny and all that good stuff, And Kenny comes
and all of a sudden the stake presidency is here. And so sacrament meeting
starts and It turns out we are getting a new Branch President! The guy who gave
Kenny the ride to the chapel is the new Branch president! But anyways the stake
president gets up and has All these people bear there testimonies then he says
that Elder Essler doesn't have to give his talk! Elder Essler had much rejoicing.
But Kenny and I were upset because we both really wanted to hear him speak! We
are going to do a good job to remind the Branch presidency.</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: ".SFUIText-Regular","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">This last week we
were able to have a good lesson with Jack. He has had a hard time reading the
Book of Mormon and understanding faith. He really wants to have a big miracle
happen that converts him. Which sort of stinks. But anyways we had a really
good lesson with him about the book the Book of Mormon. And we got him to
understand it a bit better. The major highlight that came from this lesson is
when we left he was pretty pumped read the Book of Mormon which is what is best
for him right now.</span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">College has started
and there is a state university here in new Paltz which means there are a ton
of new people to talk to which is great hopefully we can find some solid people
to join the church!</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: ".SFUIText-Regular","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">We are planning on trying to contact people at the
campus, it think it should be really beneficial.</span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Kenny used to be a
really big hotshot tennis player and he runs a tennis management company. And
he always told us these big stories which were wild and very big stories, so we
were never sure if they were real or not. But we found out that he is going to
be super busy these next couple of days because he is going down to the US open
to sign some new players which is wild! It adds some depth to his stories!</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: ".SFUIText-Regular","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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RRichardshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08578421959217607160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8682096433599932482.post-5653731723111697022016-08-24T08:32:00.000-07:002016-08-24T08:32:08.540-07:00August 24, 2016 Kenny is progressing and visits with the President<div class="p1">
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">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. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">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 </span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">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.</span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">So let’s get going!</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">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.</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">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.</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">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 <a href="x-apple-data-detectors://embedded-result/1183"><span class="s2"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-ansi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">S</span></span><span class="s2"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-ansi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">ept</span></span><span class="s2"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-ansi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">ember </span></span><span class="s2"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-ansi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">11.</span></span></a> 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.</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Update #4</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">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!</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">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!</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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RRichardshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08578421959217607160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8682096433599932482.post-48435601269361329822016-08-17T12:40:00.001-07:002016-08-17T12:40:35.170-07:00August 17, 2016 Last transfer and its Elder Essler!<div class="MsoPlainText">
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Things in new Paltz are going well, our investigators
Kenny is doing pretty good, he has rescheduled his baptismal date which is good
hopefully this one will work out. Our investigator Anush has disappeared which
stinks, we haven't heard from him for a while which really stinks, the last
thing we have heard from him is him asking if we were a Baptist church.
Hopefully he didn't get into anything bad on the Internet. Our investigator
Jack has some interesting theory's regarding church history, he was telling us
that he thinks that Joseph Smiths visits from Moroni we extra terrestrial. It's
weird. He was telling us about how there are a ton of gold records hidden in Kanab
Utah which is another random story. He's got some weird ideas. Those are really
our most progressing people. We did meet a lady whose arms and legs were gone,
she told us she believes she a reincarnated Indian prince. Which is really
weird all the people here seem to be a little crazy!</div>
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Week highlight #1</div>
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This week we got invited to a weird private Ward party
with a few family members in the branch. A Jamaican couple brought some jerk
chicken and I tried it and it was killer! They told me I need to learn English,
because I'm a Jamaican. They are super funny people!</div>
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Week sort of highlight #2</div>
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Kenny had a scheduled baptism and he passed his baptismal
interview, but he decided he wasn't ready for baptism which stunk. He came to
church though which is a good thing and had a really good time at church and
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Week Highlight #3</div>
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The baptism on Sunday was for a primary kid and it was
nuts! The kid that was baptized was a wild man! After the baptism they wanted
to confirm him but he was not down! He made a run for it and they had to catch
him! Then they had to plop him down and his parents held him and they quickly
gave him the Holy Ghost. It was a wild day.</div>
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Week highlight #4</div>
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We got transfer calls on Saturday night, Elder Matson got
transferred to the city and I got Elder Essler! The honey bear! He's wild! This
is the area he was trained in which is wild! I didn't expect it to happen or
him either! We were both companions at the start of our missions now we are
comps at the end of our missions!</div>
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Week highlight #5 this week started my last transfer
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It's weird! I don't really feel different though! So that
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RRichardshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08578421959217607160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8682096433599932482.post-79597763473551904942016-08-10T07:28:00.001-07:002016-08-10T07:28:54.061-07:00August 10, 2016 Transfers next week.<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">
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of our investigators named Anush. He is a referral from a member. He is
straight from India but he is a really good guy. We talked a lot about what his
views on God are. He has some weird ideas but we are working to get them sorted
out soon. He is committed to pray to find out if there is a God, he has a Hindu
background, which is pretty interesting. Its always a fun time to teach people
with no Christian Background. We got to start from the foundational principles
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<span style="color: #353535; font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>We got to meet with our investigator
Jack Klix on one of those days this week. He is doing well. He has investigated
the church for a long time and I'm surprised at how little he knows. He has</span><span style="color: #353535; font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"> a very
spotty knowledge of the gospel. As we talk we usually end up finding one or two
principles he has never heard of and once we implement them he usually really
likes the results in how it ties things together. We also found out he is a
revolutionary war re-enactor. He couldn't come to church this week because he
is the captain of the New York 18th militia or something.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #353535; font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>We were at the
Branch Mission leaders house for correlation and afterwards we got to resurface
a road for the widow who lives across the road, then we stopped to go pick up
the car at the Branch Mission leaders house and someone had put gas in his
Kubota tractor so after a long discussion on tractors I ended up syphoning out
the gas, and then filling it with diesel. Felt good to get to fiddle with
tractors again though. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #353535; font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>We got to help
with the bishops storehouse yesterday which was pretty neat. They utilized our
strong backs and weak minds. We ended up unloading the truck then sorting the
food then filling the orders and then hauling them to people's cars. All in all
a good time. The best part was that at the end they had some food that nobody
took so they divided it out to the people helping. And I got my hand on a jar
of cannery salsa, which is some of the best salsa out there. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #353535; font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>After District
meeting this week we destroyed a Chinese buffet, which is always a good time<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #353535; font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Kenny our
investigator has a baptismal date for this Sunday, which should be pretty good.
We have been keeping daily contact with him to make sure that he is feeling
ready and working towards his goal of baptism. I think things will work out. He
is doing well so far. But he has missed a lot of his baptismal dates in the
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Elder
Richards </span><o:p></o:p></div>
RRichardshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08578421959217607160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8682096433599932482.post-18393347916908190082016-08-08T09:41:00.002-07:002016-08-08T09:41:55.685-07:00August 3, 2016 Zone Confrence and Splits!<span class="s1">Week Update</span><br />
<span class="s1">Highlight #1</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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<span class="s1">Thursday we had Zone Conference, We had a lot of
different trainings which were all pretty neat, we had the guy in charge of all
the church's fleet vehicles come out and check out all the cars we have in the mission
and he gave us a training it turns out the mission spent some pretty big bucks
on preventable repairs on the cars so he told us to be careful. We had a
training on the Book of Mormon as well and all other sorts of goodies. All in
all it was a good meeting.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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<span class="s1">Highlight #2</span><br />
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<span class="s1">Saturday I got to go on a split with Elder Frei, he
is my Zone Leader up here. He is a really good guy. We had some crazy shenanigans
happen while we were on a split so we ended up doing a lot of Zone leader
stuff. It was one of the wildest splits on my mission but we had a good time.
We had some good chats.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></div>
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<span class="s1">While on the split we had their ward correlation
with Ray Smith, I don't know if I've talked about him before but he basically
is like Santa for the missionaries, He travels around the mission and hooks up
missionaries where ever they are. Anyways he is the ward mission leader in
their ward so he took us to lunch at Red Robin which was pretty fun. I got a
tasty hamburger and had great conversation.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">This week our mission got selected to be a test
mission for a new style of nightly planning. Which is pretty neat! We aren't
going out of preach my gospel but instead we basically have a glue in for a new
style of planning. This new planning really emphasizes helping your
investigators progress and seems to be less key indicator focused over all I
really like it. We focus on one person at a time and discuss what they need. I
think it should be really effective.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">We got to take the car in this week and we got some
sweet new Bridgestone’s on it. During Car inspections at Zone Conference we got
informed that we needed to get new tires an oil change and a new safety
inspection. So a couple of days later we took it into the Firestone because the
church has a fleet deal there. Anyways it took a while so elder Matson and I
wandered around the area trying to talk to some people.</span></div>
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went super long which sort of stunk, It went for three hours when it's usually
a hour and a half, it sort of stunk but it was whatever.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></div>
<span class="s1">All in all this was a pretty good week. Today we are
probably headed to the county fair which should be pretty fun I think! Hope you
all have a great week!</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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Elder Richards</span>RRichardshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08578421959217607160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8682096433599932482.post-37351937046846240562016-07-27T11:34:00.000-07:002016-07-27T11:34:05.154-07:00July 27, 2016 Set a date for Kenny!<div class="p1">
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had a branch BBQ on Saturday which was pretty neat. We had what I guess is a
ton of less actives come, because there were a ton of people there who weren't
there on Sunday. Anyways it was all pretty fun, there were horseshoes flying
all afternoon. Elder Matson was really into that. After all was said and done I
think the best part was we got to take home the leftover hamburgers.</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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I got to speak in church and it went pretty well. My topic was keeping the
faith and I hope I at least said something useful. I used a lot of quotes and
talked about the iron rod.</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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week we have been getting some really random isolated thunderstorms, but they
have been really cool as well. I guess this part of the state is in a drought as
well. But it's been nice to have the rain and thunder!</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Matson broke a tooth or something so we headed to the Dentist on the other side
of the mission twice this week. It all taken care of now, but it sure took a
lot of time. He is feeling a lot better now though which is good.</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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got to help a member’s sister move yesterday. We spent the majority of the
morning and early afternoon helping these ladies move. They were really nice.
And one of them was a first responder during 9/11 It was really neat to hear
her story. She has gone through cancer since then and the Doctors think it was
due to all the crap that was in the air from the aftermath. It was neat though
to hear how she would do it again if she needed. I'm proud to be an American</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Investigator Kenny called us Monday morning and told us that he has decided on
a baptismal date. Which is great he is thinking August 4<sup>th</sup>. He has had a couple of baptismal dates in the
past. But we are hoping that this is the one. Kenny leads a really interesting
life but he is a good guy. He has got a ton of health problems though which sort
of stinks. But he keeps a positive attitude.</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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RRichardshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08578421959217607160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8682096433599932482.post-72064994416778670662016-07-20T15:35:00.000-07:002016-07-20T15:35:48.113-07:00July 20, 2016 First week in New Paltz was great!<div class="MsoPlainText">
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This has
been my first week in New Paltz, it's been great and I love it. It is
definitely the backwater part of the state of New York. It's pretty fun though!
Everything is super green and there is a state park in the area which is pretty
neat! Everything is super spread out though and that is the only weird part.
There will just been corn fields or forest for a couple of miles and then all
of a sudden there will just be three random houses and then back to corn fields
I’m having a great time though! There are deer that live in our back yard but
anyways I will get to the week</div>
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Week Highlight #1</div>
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There is
a Cracker Barrel in the zone we hit it on the way back from a meeting on
Thursday and it was a treat! A ton of food for a small price and its way good.
A chicken fried steak is always a treat.</div>
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Week Highlight #2</div>
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I met
pretty much all of the investigators this week and they all seem to be classic
car enthusiasts which Is rad! Kenny our investigator is a retired tennis big
shot and used to have a ton of nice cars back in the day, He had a baptismal
date for a couple of weeks ago but he lost a ton of money in a sketchy bet and
he told us he almost got his legs broken! I didn't know the mafia was in the
boonies. So he didn't get baptized that day so we are thinking now about a date
in early August. I met another one of
our investigators named Jack Klix, He is a old Volvo gear head. And has a ton
of old Volvos. But we were chatting with him. He's a very no nonsense guy He
told me he doesn't believe in the word of wisdom or the law of tithing. So we
will have fun with that. All in all he is a great guy though!</div>
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Week Highlight #3</div>
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The
Branch is definitely a branch. I met with the branch mission leader on Friday
and he was telling us to focus mostly on less active work, so I figured ok, we
will have a list of 30 people and most of them will have probably moved. Fast
Forward to Sunday and we cruise into church and there is like 30 people and the
records have like 150 so we have some work to do. There is a lot of recently
less active and part family less actives as well so it will be fun!</div>
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Week Highlight #4</div>
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One of
the less actives lives in a Rest Home so we were able to go visit him and he
was telling us a ton of stories about when he was a US Marshal and it was
pretty neat. There are a lot of really cool people that are out in the sticks
here who have cool stories and are now just hanging low. But anyways he was
telling us about when he was in Vietnam and about his trip to Gettysburg, then
about some of the people he arrested when he was working for the government.</div>
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Week Highlight #5</div>
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This
area is one where the elders give a lot of service which is pretty fun. We chop
a lot of wood and move a lot of stuff for people.</div>
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In the upcoming week we are digging up a stream bed. It's
fun though to be able to do some physical service.</div>
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Week Highlight #6</div>
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I found
out that it's not safe to drink the water here! So I've been drinking bottled
water! I feel like I'm in Alaska! I want to take some samples and send them
home to see if the rumors are fact or fiction!</div>
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That is pretty much all the highlights of the week I can
think of right now! It's been great! Have a great week everybody.</div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Week
Update,</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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last week has been a good one! Here is what happened. Wednesday in the latter
part of P-day we went to the World Trade Center and we got to take an elevator
to the top which was pretty fun. It was neat to be that high up, we got some
sweet pictures of it. I will attach them below. Later that evening we had
dinner with Ray Smith, He lives in Poughkeepsie, but he has an apartment on the
Upper East Side, so he comes down but he took us to dinner and it was really
fun.</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Thursday we got to go visit Sally Kader, She is the UN lady we ran into a while
ago. Anyways she called us and wanted us to come visit her at her office. So we
went over there. And it was pretty neat! I didn't take any pictures which
really stinks but oh well! Anyways she had a ton of interns that work for her
and she had one who was a transgender from Singapore and she was in the army
there and also she went to prison there for attacking her mother with a knife!
I don't know how she got out but she is a student at NYU and interning for a
peace organization at the UN. Anyways she was basically raising up an insurrection
at Sally's offices and turning the other interns against Sally and encouraged
laziness. And she would do weird chants in the office with all the blinds
closed and lights turned off. Anyways she was being nuts one day and threatened
to kill Sally so she fired her and all of her other interns. She was having a
rough day so she felt inspired to call us. And we hadn't talked to her for a
long time. So we went over there and talked to her, we blessed the office she
has, and gave her a blessing as well. Then we talked about temples. And she offered
to hire us as replacement interns. This was pretty neat. We told her we would
think about it after we got home from our missions but it would be neat to work
so close with the UN.</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="apple-tab-span"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></span><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Friday
we were at the Fed-ex Store while elder Burton Mailed some stuff home and I was
fiddling around with one of the Kiosks designing calendars. When this guy who I
ran into on the subway way back when I was with elder DeGraw came walking in.
On first Glance this gentleman looks crazy, but talking to him he seems pretty
sane, anyways when I was with elder Degraw we told him to come to church and we
would set up times we would meet weekly during church. Which I regret doing.
Anyways, he didn't come to church that Sunday and I forgot about him. Then we
saw him all this time later. So I started talking to him and he was telling me
about how badly he wanted to meet with us. And how he wishes we would have
called him. I started to feel so guilty. He then told us about how he has been
lately. And how he is diagnosed with kidney cancer and isn't expected to make
it past March. I felt horrible at this point so I apologize to him for my
laziness and set up a time we could meet and told him we would see to it he was
baptized soon.</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></span><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Needless
to say I had a long prayer that night. God was giving me someone to teach and I
was to prideful to teach him. I felt horrible. Thankfully God gave me a second
chance and I didn't let him down this time.</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Saturday
we got transfer calls, They are combining my area with the morning side heights
Ward elders, and I got sent up to New Paltz NY, So I made sure that the elders
knew all of our investigators</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> and</span></span><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">
Made sure they would meet with Wade (the guy from the fed-ex place) I guess I
missed my opportunity to teach him due to my negligence but I'm glad at least
he will get taught. <a href="x-apple-data-detectors://embedded-result/3484"><span class="s2">Saturday night</span></a> we
killed what we think is the last of the mice infestation. I and Elder Newbold took
the night shift, and killed a big mouse! And we also got the crap scared out of
us by a cockroach I caught it on film so I will also attach it. (you have to
watch the whole video it's hysterical.)</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Sunday
was good, it was fun too run into all the people I taught and interacted with.
We saw Bryn Bass, she is a recent convert from the morning side heights ward,
but she had me baptize her for some reason. Anyways she gave me here final
parting wisdom. Afterwards we went to Central Park with Dwight and had a good
visit with him there.</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></span><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Monday
was a lot of packing and stuff. And then yesterday were transfers. New Paltz is
in the Boonies. I actually really like it though. It's way nice to have some
quiet and be in nature. I'm really looking forward to my time here. I don't
know how much work is here right now, but I'm sure if there isn't a lot we can
find some. The branch here is really small. It's where Elder Essler started his
mission. There is a lot of need in this branch, not only spiritual and
temporal. But they need strong backs and weak minds. So I've heard from the few
members I've already met that they will be having us doing a lot of physical
service which I'm excited for. My Companion is elder Matson from Orange County
CA. Elder Dutson one of my favorite comps trained him and he seems really cool
so far. Today we are running errands getting settled in. The apartment here is
super nice! The nicest one I've had on my mission! My desk is legendary! And we
have a fake fireplace and a deck! It's great! I hope you all have a great week!</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> We had another solid lesson with Alex, he has had some struggles
with his family and some legal issues and his dog has been sick, and this guy
loves his dog! We had a really good lesson where we talked about forgiveness
and how we work on forgiving others and why trials come to us. He really opened
up to us and it was great. It was a wonderful lesson. Hopefully things will get
better for him! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> This week we have set a bunch of traps and caught a ton of mice in the apartment
which is pretty neat. They are all over the place but we keep catching them
which is good. Hopefully they will be cleared out soon. The Fourth of July was
pretty uneventful, I've been really sick the last couple of days, since Saturday but we had lunch
with a member, (and we saw a fight break out which was neat) but then we went
home and I yakked it all. So that stunk. I’m feeling pretty good today, which
is good.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"> Nothing much is really happening. A lot of people were
out of town this week which stinks and it's already got hot today. </span>It's usually nice when it's raining but it stinks after
the sun comes out.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">It's been wet lately and today is the first
sunny day we have had in a while and it's super humid. I've sweating like
crazy. </span><br />
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so long ago I forgot it was this week, it was weird to see people from home it
seems like home is a whole different world, mostly because we deal with
a entirely different crowd here. It was fun though.</span></span><br />
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RRichardshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08578421959217607160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8682096433599932482.post-35314662845437562002016-06-29T10:39:00.004-07:002016-06-29T10:39:54.933-07:00June 29, 2016 Teaching two great lessons and interviews.<div class="MsoPlainText">
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> Last Wednesday we went to the museum of modern art, it was
pretty modern. We had a good time though.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> Thursday was pretty good also, I can't really remember anything
notable about Thursday other than we had a lesson with Alex that went pretty
well. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> Friday we had an appointment with Dwight, he really hates
his job and doesn't want to go we were talking about that. Luckily he is
quoting soon.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> Saturday was also a quieter day. Nothing really notable. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> Sunday was good. I got to speak in church and it went well
I think. I was hoping it would be useful to someone! A lot of our members
weren't there due to the big gay pride parade and just business trips and
vacations. So that sort of stunk. Elder’s quorum was really small there were
only four of us. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> Monday was good! We were running around looking up less
actives most of the day, we ran into a couple that were very kind, but didn't
want to listen to us. Yesterday we
had an interview with president and they got running late and it went super
long. It ended up taking most of the day. But afterwards we had a dinner
appointment which was nice, we went with the YSA elders to one of their dinner
appointments it was a treat! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Hello all, this week has
been a relatively quiet one! But that's alright, here are the highlights. On Sunday our investigator Alex came to church
which was really good. The branch president had a meeting with him during elder
quorum and they discussed being gay and being a member of the church and what
sacrifices that would require him to make. Our branch president is a really
cool guy, and I'm glad he handled that conversation for us. Anyways Alex is
still doing pretty well, it will likely be a while before he is ready to be
baptized. But his testimony is still growing really well! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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a pretty good time, we were originally scheduled to have people sign waivers
but a lot of volunteers didn't show up so we got to help in all other sorts of
ways. The one job that we spent the most time at is keeping people in line and
not butting for a paddle board ride. Citi bank brought a huge pool into the
middle of Central Park and hired people to give short paddle board lessons and
we got to keep the lines straight. I was amazed at how some people waited four
hours for a three minute paddle board ride. I would have bounced way before
then. I did get a free hat and t-shirt though which was pretty cool. Anyways
those were really the highlight this week. Hope you all have a good one!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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RRichardshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08578421959217607160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8682096433599932482.post-34640156281156577252016-06-15T09:59:00.000-07:002016-06-15T10:02:47.269-07:00June 15, 2016 The book of Mormon is the word of God!<div class="p1">
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week has been a pretty good one, really one of the best highlights is our
investigator Alex. A couple of weeks ago he said his testimony of the Book of
Mormon was questionable, he said he hadn't found anything wrong with it but he
didn't t know if it was true or not. But that he would continue praying about
it and thinking about it. And then in our most recent lesson with him he told
us that as crazy as it sounds he believes the Book of Mormon to be the word of
God. And he also said he believes that Joseph Smith was in fact a prophet.
Which is great news, his current concern is he knows that these things are true
but he also wonders if other churches are true as well, so we are going to be
heading that up soon. It's amazing to see his progress from when we first met
him and he thought Mormons were a cult to now. It's been awesome. One thing
that I've been thinking about this week is how cool captain Moroni is, I am striving
to be like him. Because, “the devil had no power over him” which is pretty
neat. So I'm working on trying to be like him in addition to Christ like
attributes. Also one thing that has been on my mind is how we often profess to
have the faith to do big things and we will do what is asked of us often if it's
a big thing. But I've been thinking about how it's often we are asked to do the
little things and how it requires less faith then say, leaving your home and
moving west. But yet we all struggle to do them. So I've been trying to be more
concentrated on showing my faith by doing the small things that are asked
faithfully. Most of this week was fairly quiet but we are out and about. It's
been a fairly cool week which has been nice! Anyways that is this week! Have a
great week at Strawberry Days!</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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RRichardshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08578421959217607160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8682096433599932482.post-85208443103008542772016-06-08T09:23:00.001-07:002016-06-08T09:24:34.565-07:00June 8, 2016 Elder Bennett visits the mission!<div class="p1">
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<span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></span><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">This week was a
pretty quiet one, mostly because I was down with the sickness, I got some sort
of food poisoning or something, but we will get into that later.</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="apple-tab-span"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></span><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Thursday
was pretty good, Elder Burton went to Scarsdale for a meeting that the
returning missionaries go to so I was in a trio all day but it was good. We got
to do some really solid contacting in Central Park. Which is always a good
thing. It’s super nice in the park right now. Everything has greened up and
it's beautiful. It was hot though which did stink. But it was good to talk to
people.</span></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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was the start of me feeling sick which really stunk. I spent most of the day in
bed or in the bathroom</span></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="apple-tab-span"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></span><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Sunday
was good though I was feeling better, we went to church and it was good. We had
our Investigator named Alex come. He is probably our most solid investigator
right now which is good. We had a wild Gospel Principles lesson that he attended.
We were talking about final judgment, and our teacher gets really side tracked
and was talking about all sorts really deep doctrine and stuff. And we got into
the three degrees of glory inside the celestial kingdom and we got lost. Then
we started talking about sons of perdition and outer darkness and that was
wild. We had to clear up that it is pretty hard to become a son of perdition.
One of the members in attendance said some crazy stuff that offended our
investigator so that was wild. Anyways in our next class before we started we
were able to clear up any questions or concerns with Alex. And he's a really
good guy so he didn't really care.</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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was quiet, we had district meeting which went well. Elder Burton had to
practice the piano for mission tour, so I ended up splitting with Elder
Newbold. He is a really good guy.</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="apple-tab-span"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></span><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Tuesday
was really good, we had mission tour with Elder Randall K. Bennett. And it went
really well he is a really good guy. He taught us all sorts of stuff and I feel
like a lot of it can be used really well in the branch. Out of all the general
authority's that have visited the mission I think this one was one of the best
ones that I learned the most at. He taught us all sorts of cool stuff about the
premortal life and how to be good missionaries</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> and</span></span><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">
a ton of other good stuff. I really enjoyed it! And afterwards we even had a
dinner appointment which was awesome!</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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is Elder Burtons birthday so I told him he gets to decide what we are doing.
And I don't think he has figured it out yet. So I don't know what we are doing
today! Hope you all have a great week!</span></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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RRichardshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08578421959217607160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8682096433599932482.post-50415730784642974122016-06-01T09:48:00.003-07:002016-06-01T09:48:47.203-07:00June 1, 2016 Finally getting to teach Anthony!<div class="p1">
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">This
week has been a pretty average one, here is what went down. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> Thursday was a quiet day. Oscar
cancelled and wanted to meet on Saturday instead. So most of the day was spent doing
finding. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> Friday's highlight was our
investigator named Dwight, who has been investigating the church for a little
over two years now took us to dinner with the girl from Utah who introduced him
to the church. So that was pretty fun, it was a good time. Dwight is an interesting
guy, he knows pretty much all he needs to know about the church. He is just
missing something that is holding him back from being baptized. Hopefully we
can figure it out soon. It was still fun to go to dinner with him though. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> Saturday was pretty good, it got
really hot outside, in the morning we did a meals on wheels service
opportunity, we delivered a ton of meals to elderly people in this huge senior
apartment building. So that was pretty fun. It was Fleet week this week as well
which was pretty fun. All that really entailed was a ton of sailors and marines
everywhere, and they got sick discounts everywhere! The highlight of fleet week
was they had one of those helicopter airplane hybrids (like the ones at the
start of the first transformers) flying around.</span></span><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <a href="x-apple-data-detectors://embedded-result/1235"><span class="s2"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Saturday
night</span></span></a></span></span><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> brought with it transfer calls,
Elder Burton is staying another cycle and he goes home at the end of it. </span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> Sunday was a pretty quiet day, our
investigators weren't able to come to church due to it being Memorial Day
weekend. So that sort of stunk. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> Monday was pretty good, once again
it was wicked hot. The highlight of the day was we got to teach Dwight. He
opened up to us during this lesson and we were really able to understand some
of his concerns and help him to overcome them. I think it went really well. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> Tuesday was a weird transfer day, although
neither Elder Burton nor I got transferred we had to go up to Inwood to a weird
technology training meeting. It seemed a lot like a transfer meeting though. So
that was fun. Elder Moss one of our roommates went home and we got Elder Tatafu
from Alaska taking his place. Later in the afternoon Anthony actually showed up
and we got to teach him. We told him that he really needs to commit more and
show up much more regularly. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> Today we are I think headed to the
met which will be nice. I think. Anyways it has been a pretty good week. Hope
you guys all have a great week! Also, I just remembered on Tuesday we woke up
way too early to go play kickball as a zone, I don't quite know if it was worth
the lost sleep to stand around in a field. But a cop showed up and played for
bit so that was fun.</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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RRichardshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08578421959217607160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8682096433599932482.post-41883998644569555952016-05-26T09:52:00.001-07:002016-05-26T10:29:49.279-07:00May 25, 2016 We had some good meetings this week.<div class="p1">
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">This
last week was pretty good, <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> <a href="x-apple-data-detectors://embedded-result/45"><span class="s2"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Wednesday night</span></span></a> we
had a solid member present lesson with our investigator Alex, we went over to a
member in the branches apartment and it went really well. We were able to find
some of his concerns and help resolve them. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> Thursday was quieter, we weekly
planned, and Elder Burton had a doctor’s appointment. Nothing too crazy! <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> Friday was quieter as well. We had
pretty much all of our appointments that day cancel which stinks, so we spent a
lot of time trying to contact people in Central Park. It went pretty good. Saturday was pretty cool, the sisters had an
investigator who we would talk to sometimes, and she wanted me to baptize her
so that was a great experience. I didn't get a picture though so you guys will
have to take my word for it. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> Sunday was pretty good as well.
Church went well. Gospel principles class was a roller coaster ride like usual.
We always get a lot of opinions and gospel facts without sources. This last
Sunday it was a good thing that our investigators weren't able to make it to
gospel principles. Anyways Elder Johnson came to visit the mission with his
parents so it was fun to see him and meet his parents. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> Monday we had district meeting. It
went pretty well. We went to a pizza place on the upper west side for lunch, it
was pretty fun. The place we went is infamous for really big slices. So that's
always a fun place to go. <a href="x-apple-data-detectors://embedded-result/1357"><span class="s2"><span style="text-decoration: none;">On Monday night</span></span></a> we
were able to go to Alex's house and teach him the plan of salvation. It went
really well! We were able to get through it which is really cool and he did a
really good job of understanding it. And he always has great questions. Yesterday I got my temple recommend
renewed in the morning which was really good. Then in the afternoon we were
able to teach one of our investigators, Dwight so that was real nice. We had a
member come, and he sort of led the lesson all over the place, but I think
Dwight got the jist of it. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> Today we went up to Harlem to look a
guy up and he wasn’t home, so we went to come back down to the lower part of
the city but the subways were all shut down so we had to take a bus, supposedly
a lady fell onto the tracks and was run over. Earlier we wondered around an
area called SoHo and we were looking for stores that are going out of business
because they have awesome sales, we found a Ben Sherman’s store that was
closing and they had suits for like $50 dollars and they are usually $300 but
they were all weird colors and stuff! It was a quiet day in a quiet area. The President
has asked us to do a lot of service to fill the days so we work in central park
sometimes. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> Next week is transfers and I have no
clue what is going to happen!</span></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> But I will do whatever the lord asks of
me! <span class="s1">Anyways hope you all have a great week!</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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RRichardshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08578421959217607160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8682096433599932482.post-43716946519780590262016-05-19T08:25:00.001-07:002016-05-19T08:25:08.041-07:00May 19, 2016 Alma academy with New Canaan youth<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">This week has been an alright one, here is the
lowdown. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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was zone Conference. It seemed to be a long one this time around. We talked a
lot about family history the restoration which is pretty fun. We got free shoe polish
as well which is always a treat. One of my take always from Zone Conference was
the importance of the position of my body during prayers and how to really
focus as I pray. This is something I’ve been focusing on lately. All in all it
was a pretty good day. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1"> Friday
was a quiet day we did our weekly planning, and that took a long time. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1"> Saturday
was a pretty good day, The New Canaan youth came down to the city for a youth
activity called Alma academy. They got assigned a missionary to be a companion
with and they spent the day with us as a missionary which was a real treat to
see the people from up there and also Elder Holtom and Judd came down too, and
they are my main homie’s so it was awesome to catch up with them. Me and my
companion for the day had a pretty successful time which is a good thing! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1"> Sunday
was a pretty quiet day. This is good I guess. Oscar came to church which is a
good thing and he stayed for two hours. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1"> Monday
was pretty quiet as well. We had district meeting in the morning and then spent
the rest of the day contacting. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1"> Yesterday
was a lot of not acting as well, except for we had a lesson with Oscar. It went
pretty well. We invited him to attend an earlier church so he could go to all
three hours. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1"> Today
we are taking a tour of Central Park it should be pretty fun. I'm looking
forward to it! Tonight we have a lesson with an investigator named Alex, he is
openly gay. And he is progressing the best out of all of our investigators, anyways;
we are having a lesson with him at a member’s apartment so it should be a pretty
good experience I think. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">I hope you all have a great week!</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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RRichardshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08578421959217607160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8682096433599932482.post-19234459348151280552016-05-17T14:32:00.002-07:002016-05-17T14:32:22.157-07:00May 11, 2016 Happy Mother's Day!<div class="MsoPlainText">
This week was a pretty good one, </div>
<div class="MsoPlainText">
Thursday
was alright, we got skunked all day and twice by the same person, so that
stunk. But oh well Elder Burton had a doctor appointment, so that was a pretty
nice break in the day.</div>
<div class="MsoPlainText">
Friday
was pretty quiet as well. Nothing really happened just a lot of trying to find
less active people. Friday was really very similar nothing really happened. </div>
<div class="MsoPlainText">
Saturday
was a nice shake up, I got to go on a split with my roommate Elder Newbold
which was fun, we spent the morning doing some service in Central Park. We did
a lot of weeding but it was really fun to be able to work with dirt again.
After words we were supposed to meet some people but they didn't show up which sort
of stunk. We spent the evening wandering around trying to talk to people, </div>
<div class="MsoPlainText">
Sunday
was pretty good, the morning was quiet we did Weekly planning, then we went to
church, and then we had dinner at the chapel then we Skyped home, it was really
fun to talk to everybody at home.</div>
<div class="MsoPlainText">
It was a real treat. </div>
<div class="MsoPlainText">
Monday
we had district meeting and then we spent the day contacting. It was a bit of a
long day. Tuesday we spent the
morning painting benches at Central Park which was pretty fun. Then we were
supposed to have lessons with two people and then they cancelled. One cancelled
twice in the same day after we rescheduled for later the day, and they didn't
show up again which really stunk. ! I've been working on trying to have
Heavenly Father plan our days, sometimes it's a little hard! Oscar is
progressing slowly and Anthony keeps flaking on the lessons, he won't show up
so we call him and reschedule for a couple of hours later then he doesn't show
up then which stinks but oh well.</div>
<div class="MsoPlainText">
Sally
was the lady from the UN we haven't gotten a hold of her yet, but we plan to
soon! Not much is going on today. We are
hanging out. I hope you all have a great week!</div>
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<br /></div>
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Elder Richards</div>
RRichardshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08578421959217607160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8682096433599932482.post-11151010852014775692016-05-05T07:01:00.001-07:002016-05-05T07:01:17.019-07:00May 4, 2016 What a crazy few days!<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">
<span style="color: #353535; font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">Week Update,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #353535; font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>This week was a
pretty interesting one, here is what happened. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">
<span style="color: #353535; font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><a href="file:///x-apple-data-detectors/::embedded-result:77"><span style="color: #dca10d;">Thursday Morning</span></a> my roommate wanted to go to
this diner for breakfast, it's a diner where people who want to be on Broadway
go to work when they can't get a job on Broadway, anyways it's pretty unique
because they sings Broadway songs and it's pretty good. Anyways we went there
for breakfast and it was pretty cool. Then after words we went to the UN to
hopefully meet with the lady we met last week, so we went over there then Elder
Burton didn't want to go in. So we didn't, we went back home. We went to a
thing for a service opportunity we wanted to do. And then we headed home. That
evening Elder Burton got really sick and started puking pretty much all night,
I slept through most of it but I heard about it in the morning. Anyways the
next day Elder Burton was out for the count, then in the afternoon we went to an
urgent care, they are all over the city. Anyways he was in the doctor’s office
for a while and after he came out they told him what causing the barfing and
pain was a allergic reaction to a antibiotic he was taking so they prescribed
him a ton of different medications. So we went home and he laid down again.
Then in the evening he wanted to go back because his head was still hurting so
we went back again. This time the doctors thought he might have appendicitis.
So they sent us to the emergency room, we were there all night, Around <a href="file:///x-apple-data-detectors/::embedded-result:1439"><span style="color: #dca10d;">11:30</span></a> pm Elder Burton was in a lot of pain so
they gave him morphine, after that he was pretty much out for the rest of the night.
They did blood work on him and gave him a cat scan around <a href="file:///x-apple-data-detectors/::embedded-result:1625"><span style="color: #dca10d;">3 am</span></a>, the rest of the time he was out. I did
see some crazy stuff while waiting in the emergency room, they brought in this
homeless guy, and he was wigging out. They had to strap him to his hospital bed
and he was yelling and barking like a dog. Security was holding him down but
from what I understand he was just being a wild guy and they ended up letting
him leave I think. Or they knocked him out. It just got all quiet from him
after a while, Another crazy thing that happened is an Asian lady brought her
boyfriend in around 2 and he was asleep when they wheeled him in. But when he
woke up he thought he had superpowers and was trying to fight the doctors, so
they gave him a ton of sedatives, and a cat scan on his head. We got Roommates
at 1 in the morning, it was an Asian guy and his girlfriend from Russia, The
Asian dude got some medication and was out so I chatted with the Russian lady
for a good while. Turns out she's from DC and she moved to the USA when she was
13. We ended talking about the church's service and humanitarian work for a
good while which was nice, anyways we got discharged and got home <a href="file:///x-apple-data-detectors/::embedded-result:2746"><span style="color: #dca10d;">at 6:30</span></a> right when our roommates were waking
up, so I made breakfast then I went to bed. I woke up <a href="file:///x-apple-data-detectors/::embedded-result:2845"><span style="color: #dca10d;">at 2 pm</span></a> and Elder Burton was still out. And that's
pretty much the rest of Saturday.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">
<span style="color: #353535; font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Sunday we went
to church and it was really good. We had 4 investigators come which was rad. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">
<span style="color: #353535; font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Monday was
pretty quiet, we did look ups and the sort, Elder Burton didn't feel like doing
too much. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">
<span style="color: #353535; font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Then yesterday
we went and took a train up to Scarsdale because Elder Burton wanted to meet
with president. So we went, I had a nice little relaxing session at the chapel
while I waited.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Today we are going to
the met, and then we are going to the temple afterwords. I hope everybody has </span></div>
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<span style="color: #353535; font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">a
great week! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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RRichardshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08578421959217607160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8682096433599932482.post-25100375266582147482016-04-27T15:55:00.000-07:002016-04-27T15:55:07.311-07:00April 27, 2016 Teaching about receiving answers to our pryers!<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">
<span style="color: #353535; font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">Week Update, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #353535; font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Thursday elder
Burton had a doctors appointment that we went to, in the evening we did less
active look ups in the Harlem area, it was a pretty decent night. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #353535; font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Friday was
similar to Thursday, we were able to meet with Oscar, which was pretty good. Friday
was also Paul Cabals from Inwood birthday so we went up and gave him a short
visit. Which was pretty nice. All in all a good day. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #353535; font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Saturday was a
very spiritual and a very sacred day, I certainly grew a lot and had my
testimony, especially my testimony of eternal families strengthened. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #353535; font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Sunday was
pretty good as well. Church was good and we had two investigators come which
was a good thing. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #353535; font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Monday was a
pretty busy day, we had district meeting and we went to chic-fil-a for lunch,
which is always a treat. Anyways afterword’s we were cruising down around
Brooklyn bridge area. And we ran into some very kind members, which was nice.
Then we taught a lesson to a guy the zone leaders found and referred to us. It
went pretty well, we taught about receiving answers to our prayers. Which is
always a good thing. He said he is going to come to church on Sunday, which
would be really cool. Then we went and tried to find some less active people
but it was to no avail. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #353535; font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Yesterday was
another good day, we went to Roosevelt island to try to investigate a possible
service opportunity, but they wanted us to give urine samples and provide
references and have a physical just to push wheel chairs so we are going to
keep looking. Then we went to a grilled cheese place for lunch, it was pretty
good. Then we taught a lesson to Oscar, and I feel like it's the best one yet.
We taught the restoration, but we went pretty basic on everything and he seemed
to comprehend it better this time, so I am eager to see his retention. We had a
lesson with Anthony scheduled but he didn't show up so that's all right. We
then we're at the chapel and we met a member from Taiwan and she introduced us
one if her friends who's supposedly pretty big at the UN so we had a pretty good
lesson with her at the chapel and on Thursday she wants us to go see her office
at the UN so that will be cool. All in all I had a lot of growth this week. I
hope you all have a great week.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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RRichardshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08578421959217607160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8682096433599932482.post-68714957831782314052016-04-20T09:30:00.000-07:002016-04-20T09:30:06.018-07:00April 20, 2016 Transfers last Saturday!<div class="p1">
<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Week Update</span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="apple-tab-span"><span style="font-family: ".SFUIText-Regular","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></span><span class="s1"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">This week has been a pretty good one. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"> On Thursday we were able to meet
with both Anthony and Oscar, so that was pretty good. Our lesson with Anthony
was pretty interesting, he had a baptismal date way back in the day, but he got
in a disagreement with one. Of the missionaries who were teaching him over how
friendly he was being with the members of the ward and he quit investigating,
He said he does want to be baptized though. During our lesson he stopped us and
said he had something important he wanted to talk to us about, but after the
lesson. So we thought it was going to be something big but it turns out he just
wanted to tell us he had a girlfriend. He is an interesting guy. Our lesson
with Oscar was similar, he is a interesting guy as well. He really wants to
make friends and I'm not too sure how interested he is in the gospel aspects of
the church, but rather he is more into the social scene. But he is willing to
keep commitments so hopefully it will soon dawn on him the importance of the
gospel aspects of the church.</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: ".SFUIText-Regular","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></span><span class="s1"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">It was really glad to be able to meet
with them both though.</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: ".SFUIText-Regular","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="apple-tab-span"><span style="font-family: ".SFUIText-Regular","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></span><span class="s1"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Friday and Saturday were both
relatively slow. Saturday we got Transfer calls, Elder DeGraw got transferred
to Darien Connecticut. And I got Elder Burton from New Paltz New York. So that
was a twist.</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: ".SFUIText-Regular","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="apple-tab-span"><span style="font-family: ".SFUIText-Regular","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></span><span class="s1"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Sunday was pretty good, Oscar came to
church and pulled me aside, and asked me if he could get a girlfriend at
church, I didn't understand if he thought the church would assign him a
girlfriend or if he was asking if he could date the members, So I told him if
he met somebody and they were interested he could date them, He then wanted me
to introduce him to all the sisters in the ward, so I told him I would love to,
but I didn't really know any of them. But I did introduce him to the elder’s
quorum president, so hopefully he could keep him on the right track. The rest
of church was pretty good. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"> Following that Monday was pretty
quiet Elder DeGraw had to pack and then Tuesday was transfers, So I spent the
morning and afternoon waiting for Elder Burton to arrive in the city, it was
nice though because I got to hang out with Elder White one of my homies in the
mission he is serving in a Spanish Ward in the Bronx right now. Anyways we came
home, and Elder Burton unpacked and then we spent the evening looking up less
actives. Elder Burton is from Holliday Utah. I don't really know too much else
about him yet, he definitely has some quirks, today we are playing a game
called gatorball then we are going to go to the MET, which is one of new York’s
Art museum. All in all it should be a good time. I hope you all have a great
week!</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: ".SFUIText-Regular","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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RRichardshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08578421959217607160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8682096433599932482.post-18873979956781861062016-04-14T11:47:00.003-07:002016-04-14T11:47:34.803-07:00April 13, 2016 Finding is the work!<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">Week update,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Hey guys
it's been a pretty good week, </span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">I'm
working on really applying the lessons taught from general conference and
working to keep growing. I really want to make the best of these last couple of
months. I hope you guys are all doing well. <span class="s1">Wednesday night was
pretty good, we went and visited a less active in Inwood who is in the age
range of the branch, and invited him to come, he said he would but he didn't
end up showing up which stunk! <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="s1">Thursday was pretty quiet, we had our interviews with
President which went well. Then we had a lesson with a guy named Anthony, but
he canceled again, so that stunk. The rest of the day was pretty quiet, nothing
much too really report on! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="s1">Friday was another pretty quiet day. We weekly
planned, tried to find some people to teach, and called some less actives! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="s1">Saturday was pretty good, we taught a referral from
the sisters, it's this guy named Oscar. He seems nice enough, we taught him the
restoration. I'm not sure how much he understood. From the questions he asked
we will need to be pretty basic with him. He is currently living with his
parents. And he says he is taking care of his dad, but he is really lonely and
he wants to make some new friends through church. So that's pretty good, later
that afternoon, we were out trying to find some people to teach, and we
stumbled across a random bagpipe parade, so I will attach some pictures it was
a pretty cool thing to see! It was a pretty rainy and windy day which would
have really stunk to have been playing in! I was happy to be a spectator. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="s1">Sunday was pretty good, it was a pretty quiet fast
Sunday but testimony meeting was on fire, there were some great testimonies.
Oscar came, but he had to leave in the middle of the sacrament. He waved over
to me on the stand, blessing the sacrament. And wished a good day and said he
would see me later. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="s1">Monday was pretty good as well, we had rescheduled
with Anthony again for Monday but he didn't show up which sort of stunk, Later
that day we went to a really rad place for lunch, It's called “Burger Joint”,
but the way you get to it is you go into this really fancy hotel, and there is
a weird little dark alley behind</span><span class="apple-converted-space">
</span><span class="s1">the check in desk with a neon burger at the end so when
you get to the end you turn a corner and you step into this super grunge burger
restaurant it's super rad, and they have really good burgers. Anyways the rest
of the day was pretty quiet, but we stayed busy by finding some people. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="s1">Tuesday was pretty alright, we had a lesson set with
Oscar but he got lost, and couldn't find the chapel. So we rescheduled for Thursday.
We had a dinner with the Elders quorum president which was pretty good!</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="s1">We went to a
vegetarian place. I had a burrito with some weird fake meat. Today I saw a
homeless guy who had a sign with a link to his pay pal account! It was pretty
crazy!</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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