Monday and Tuesday we were on exchanges and it was awesome. We also had an elder go home because he tore something in his ankle. He is home for Christmas poor guy and it is going to take a whole year to recover. He was so strong before they left and it made me not want to go home until I have finished my mission!!
Wednesday: we had a great lesson with Alex and sister Sosa. She bore powerful testimony of Joseph smith and this gospel in her life. Alex read more of the Book of Mormon and we committed him to pray for an answer. He said he would and we are so pumped for him to get one. The spirit was so strong there!!
Thursday: Christmas Eve day we were running around caroling and meeting with people. We had Christmas Eve dinner at Kim's house. I made breakfast crepes and homemade syrup and fried some coconut and strawberries with whip cream. It was soooo good -and everyone just loved it....thanks mom!! We went Caroling with some sister missionaries in their area after Kim's and it was so much fun!
Friday: we went to the hogan's for breakfast and to skype our families. It was so much fun! It was crazy that I was able to see their faces and hear their voices. They all look so happy and it just made me so so happy!!!! I was scared I would be in a funk afterwards but honestly they just energized me and sister staker and I had a good day! We went to Jan's To give some presents to the ward missionaries.
She gives the most thoughtful gifts. I love her so much!! We were running around the rest of the day and went to the langi's for dinner.
After we went to Tamara's and played some games with her and met her non-member family!
Saturday: okay okay okay this day was one for the books! We took Davey and Tina finau to the temple!!!!! Jan drove us down and man was it a tight car ride in her little Subaru. When we got down there we heard the prophets testimony and talked to Davey about why he stand out compared to the world. Then we went on a temple tour and had an opportunity to go inside the temple with them into the atrium. The spirit was so strong and both of them felt the spirit so strongly.
They felt relaxed and free. We got to talk about how the temple stand out from Satan and he cannot penetrate the walls. Many people enter the temple to get away from Satans influence in the world. We talked about their addictions and committed them come to the addiction recovery program the church has. After we went back to the visitors center and went to another activity center in the building and we talked about baptism and procrastination. They were both in tears and got the goose bumps as we put Davey on date. Them we watched a Mormon message and they both were in tears knowing that Davey was ready and God wants him to GET DUNKED!! Tina at one point was like, "what did you do to my husband!!" We were all laughing so hard.
Sunday: we sang in sacrament meeting and we are speaking in church in two weeks haha how fun!! We sat in the young mens class as they talked about missionary work and got to bear our testimonies. Sister staker told them all to pull out their phones and put our number in their phones and to call us if they needed any help! About an hour later a young man named Trevor texted us and said he needed help. We were so pumped!! We ate dinner and had a great conversation with sister church about missionary work! I love working with members!!!! Get those missionaries in your home and help them out!!
❤️ Sister Richards
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