But for starters, I got to see Brian on Wednesday...
Yeah I bawled like a little girl... But it is actually a really funny
story as to how I found him! So I went to dinner and found Luke and he
had already seen him and Brian already left for class or whatever so I
was rather sad. So I was eating with my district and everyone left to go to
class but I wasn't done yet so we were just sitting there talking and
one of the Elders from my district, Elder Stradling, came back and was
like Sister Richards, look who I found. And I turned around and saw
Brian and I just lost it. And I accidentally gave him a hug... but it
was most definitely on purpose. I just sat there hugging him and
crying on his nice new suit while everyone in the cafeteria freaked out.
But I really didn't care. Every time since that I have seen him though I
just give him a handshake like a good little missionary. But the best
part of the story is how Elder Stradling found Brian. He was in the
bathroom and saw this new missionary and asked where he was going. And
the missionary said Long Beach so Stradling was like, do you know an
Elder Richards? and he was like yeah that's my companion. So he found
Brian and gave him a hug for me and then showed him to me. Seriously so
amazing. Such a blessing. That was just what I needed and how wonderful
is it that Elder Stradling remembered where my little brother was going?
Let me just tell you that God is real. Anyway that seriously made my
life. And funny enough I saw him as I was walking to come email you so
we took a picture. And the Elder that is next to Brian is Elder
Stradling, not his companion. His companion is this tall Asian. But I
don't really have time to figure out how to load them up so I will have
to send those later. Also I will have to send you pictures from our
temple walk on Sunday. I saw Luke there and we got a picture. It was cute.
But
anyway, this week was a struggle. I just had a hard time with being
able to teach with the Spirit and honestly, I don't know why. It was
really frustrating with lot of tears of course. But I had the greatest
realization one day and everything changed. I just realized how much God
is in everything and how everything points to Jesus. I don't know why I
have never really realized it but it seriously has changed my life
since then. I don't really have time to talk about all my experiences
this week but the most wonderful experience happened last night. We were
doing this workshop with one of our teachers and he really just
stressed how we need to have confidence in the Lord. I think that is
something that I had been seriously lacking. So when we went to teach an
investigator I just let the Lord and the spirit do the work and it was
the most wonderful experience I have ever had. We, as a companionship,
were able to teach with unity and to be able to help Carolina, our
investigator, feel the Spirit and God's love for her. I could see in her
eyes that she felt something and when she finally decided to pray for
us, it was beautiful. And the only thing I kept thinking was, God is
real. And the song A Child's Prayer popped into my head. And I just
thought how wonderful it was that God finally got to hear from one of
his children. It was so amazing. And my teacher told us after to go read
Jacob 5:71-77 and that just blew my mind too. I have read that allegory
so many times and never really got that much out of it till last night.
We have been trying so hard to be able to teach and when we finally let
God help us, miracles were brought to pass. The theme scripture for
this whole week for me has been 1 Nephi 1:20, where it says that God
shows tender mercies to those who serve with all their might or
something like that. Love it.
Well, that is basically all that
needs to be said for this week. Plus I'm outta time. I'm going to try
and figure out how to send the pictures.
I love you and I pray for you every night. Thanks for the love and support!
Love, Sister Richards
P.S.
People should know that I don't have any emails or address so if they
want to hear from me, they have to write to me first!
PPS Thank Beth and Kevin for the letters. They were a big help.
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