Monday, August 22, 2016

The One With Duluth <:/

August 15, 2016



Okay so this week I don't even know what happened. It wasn't that great of a week. Nothing happened that was necessarily bad this week but just not too exciting.

Highlights: We went on our last exchange this week. It was with the Crystal Lake sisters. I stayed in our area with sister miller and Sister Clegg (like egg) went with sister Corbridge to Crystal Lake. Pretty uneventful although I did get to teach Nette again with the Apple Valley sisters. It's funny I was transferred but have taught her the Restoration, Plan of Salvation, Gospel of Jesus Christ, Word of Wisdom and Law of Chastity. Basically all the main lessons. She may have to have her baptism pushed back a week do to a technicality but it's gonna happen! So excited for her. She is one of the most chill investigators and has some of the most faith I've ever seen in a person.

Also we got to see Sammie this week! Man that lady is SO COOL! Remember that she has no religious background and now within 2 weeks of us teaching she is praying for her enemies and asking us for bible and book of Mormon verses to help her with her chaotic life and just has so much faith and willingness to test out our message and take a leap of faith. We are hoping to set a baptismal date with her before next week! She was going to be at church on Sunday but her two year old got sick the night before :/ sad.

So then the other crazy thing that happened so a little back story to this. Last Monday we had a zone specialty training and I wanted an interview with president to ask him for some clarifications on a couple of rules. At the end he was like of by the way one of the sisters in Duluth is going home a week before transfers so we'll need to transfer a sister probably in your zone and it'll probably be either you, sister Clegg, or sister miller. So we got a call from president this morning that sister Clegg is being Emergency Transferred to Duluth and she leaves tomorrow (Tuesday) afternoon. Sooooo yeah. That's crazy. She's going rogue and will be traveling by bus by herself for three hours. I'm gonna be in a tripanionship with the Crystal Lake sisters until next week during actual transfers. So yeah. Guess we'll see who my next companion is next Monday so stay tuned!

Fun Fact:
Our toilet was broken and I jimmy rigged with dental floss and now it works just fine. #GhettoStatusAchieved

Spiritual Thought of the Week:
"In other words, true and perfect worship consists in following in the steps of the Son of God; it consists in keeping the commandments and obeying the will of Father to that degree that we advance from grace to grace until we are glorified in Christ as he is in his Father. It is far more than prayer and sermon and song. It is living and doing and obeying. It is emulating the life of the great Exemplar." - How to Worship, Bruce R. McConkie, October 1971, General Conference.

Super great talk and quote by Elder McConkie. I love how he exhorts us to continue to worship in the correct way (which he goes over in his talk on how to do that) until it becomes more meaningful and apart of us than just a prayer, sermon, or song. When we are truly worshiping we will be living like Christ would. Following his perfect example :)

Love you All!!!!!!!


Love, Sister Richardson

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