Happy Easter ~ April 8, 2012

I dont know exactly how I got confused but Im pretty sure it was announced that Easter was next Sunday...so I didnt know that it already happened...so I'm thinking maybe I'll  celebrate this weekend anyways.  But I'm so glad you got to go to roosevelt and enjoy family and friends. Sounds like everyone made it home safe..and hopefully getting over sicknesses and sun burns and cactus stings.

This week was really good. Met some great people, and had fun doing it. The weather is getting much better...today is actually pretty warm. Get rain or snow randomly but its been alot better.  I feel like I need to apologize to dad for making fun of him eating those nasty things out of shells at the payson chinese reastaraunt...I eat them now...whether I love it or not , well thats unimportant...but I eat them. Weird to see how far I've come hehe.

We got to watch general conference this weekend...we had a bunch of missionarys and we all brought snacks and watched it on a big screen tv at church..it was a dream. We went streetboarding after conference yesterday...and had a very interesting event if you will haha....this lady walked by and we talked to her...couldn't tell if she was drunk or not but...something was different...anyway long ( though very interesting) story short...she felt sick and wanted the elders to carry her home...but they couldnt...so i gave her a piggyback haha....we got to the building and I swear she said 3rd floor but when we got there...she said keep going haha. I mean she was skinny...but...it was a good workout hehe. she was fun, shes 26, and I think she needs a lot of help....but I felt like we were really supposed to meet her. We left and started streetboarding again but she came back! She was hungry and bored...and pretty much I think just needs friends....we spent a while with her ...it was uncomfortable but cool in a lot of ways. I was glad i had just listened to a talk on not judging others haha.I really got to see what she can be in the future and not the state she is in now. we took her back to the church to try and watch a movie or something and get out of cold but just ended up talking. her leg is hurt....i think its actually out of the socket ( hence why she cant climb stairs) so we asked how she hurt it and all she would say is i met a bad person. yikes. when we first saw her hair looked like she didn't wash it in awhile and make-up was packed on and smeared, she washed her face in the bathroom and I braided her hair out of her face...she looked like a completely different person, she looked so beautiful. We had to help her back to the place we took her before. We are gonna try to see her on tuesday again. When we were talking at the church she said she had seen me before, it just kinda reaffirmed that we were supposed to meet. I'm not sure how we are going to be able to help her, but I could feel Gods love for her, and I know he wants to help her too. Hopefully next week I'll have a good update on her.

Our district is going on a picnic today! hooray for good weather!!!! I hope you have great week and enjoy april while it lasts hehe....they seeem to be flying by!

LOVE YOU! Sister Richardson

March 25, 2012 and April 1, 2012

March 25, 2012

Hello!

Well this week went by pretty fast! My companion is on an airplane headed to America right now! :( I'm pretty sad she was so fun. But she was really excited to go.   Here are the four of us before they left

Right now I'm back with Sister Kang because Sister Ha also left. So we are together at least until transfers this Wednesday but we will know tonight if we are staying together or not. I think we probably will. I think they are going to join the 2 wards again, so it should be fun, it will be a really busy transfer if that's what happens.  This Wednesday starts my 7th transfers....so weird! 

 This picture was taken at my last Zone Conference.............>>>>

hmmm...Some fun highlights.....maybe I forgot to tell my greenie, who hasn't been to the MTC yet, that you can't be alone. But after I figured out she jumped into a taxi and took off....I thought maybe we should go over a few of the rules! haha   Yikes! We were having lunch with a less active member and she gets a phone call and starts freaking out so she gets up and starts walking out of the restaurant but all of her stuff was still at the table, she just had the phone, so I thought she was going to call or something...no...she left. haha. but she met up with Sister Ha and Sister Kang so she wasn't alone for long and I was with  a member so it turned out ok...but yikes...I don't know what they were thinking putting me as a trainer...good thing she will get retrained haha.

Well we had a good week of visiting members. We don't have very many investigators and all the ones we do have cancelled  this week. But we had a lot of meals with members and less actives it was really good. We visited the Relief Society President and her husband. They were so fun. They were telling me about all this weird food they eat...and said we might have to go eat some together! :S   She said when she was little they ate frogs all the time...it was cute how she explained how they cooked them haha... he plays soccer with us every Saturday so he always says I'm so good and I need to go every week haha.

I almost ate dog this week but my comp really didn't want to so we didn't go. One lady who started coming to English class said she will take me though :)

Most woman here won't eat it just cause it's dog, But men do and I've heard it's soooo delicious.

[I asked her  "Do they keep them for pets - or like chickens- to eat?" ~ Her reply was "no the ones for pets are different...I think they raise the ones you eat probably like on a farm of some sort...but I don't really know, I just know they are big, and they aren't pets!]

April 1st
Hello!
Well we had a great week this week. Transfers were this week but Sister Kang and I are still together and serving in both areas.  It is a little hectic and a lot of time is spent on the bus but we were still able to
see a lot of people, and pick up new investigators! While street boarding one day with the Elders this older lady marches up to them and says she wants her daughter to study English with them...of course we were the ones who got to go :) She literally pulled us off the street and took us home. She was such a funny old lady and i just thought wow this is going to be interesting. So we walk into the house and she peaks her head in the first room and says "I found English Teachers they are here..and we hear  "HUUUH??" I was like uh oh we are gonna get kicked out but we walked in and the cute little granddaughter (9years old and the exact Korean version of Evanna!!) comes out and says Hi and then her mom (the one who i thought would say no way) saw us and said "missionary's?" we were so shocked cause we don't hear that word in English...and surprised she knew it we asked how she knew, i guess her Dad or someone else in her family used to study with us too! We ended up having a good time with all three of them! So cool!  They want to meet like every day! We went back the next night for dinner as well...super cool.  Some elders in our zone sent us a text with
information on a former investigator of theirs that lived in our area now and they said she doesn't sound like she has much interest but I guess you can try. So i wasn't expecting much when we called, but she wanted to
meet! and we had a really great time with her and will hopefully see her again this week!

    One of the craziest stories of the week...we went and ate dog with Irene! It wasn't too bad actually...the only gross part was the stomach...and it was just the thought of it that was gross it didn't actually taste too bad.  Luckily we followed it up with ice cream though :) She is so nice...she knew I loved this snack
you can get on the street and she bought me the mix to make it at home and the special spatula thing to make it with!

We were able to pick her up as an investigator too...she said she is curious and wants to
know more about our church...and if she has time would come to church...she didn't come this week...but maybe next, next week!  I'm kinda sad that the area is 2 wards because we will only get to go to
each of them 2 times this transfer. So it will be hard to get to know the members...they are both such good wards...but lots of members in them so I don't know if we can visit them all either.

The weather is getting a little warmer...mornings are nice but afternoon and nights are still cold...and of course wind...i think this month the yellow dust from china will come...not too sure how bad it is...some people have said you have to wear masks and glasses and such, but then some people say you'll hardly notice. So who knows?

We met a guy from Cali/Utah  he is in Boondang ward now...he moved out here for work, but family couldn't come yet so he's all alone out here. Retired from Navy and is doing something else now...not sure what, but
it was cool to meet him.

The elders in Boondang ward with us are Elder Rowe and Morris ? I think thats his name haha hes a greenie ,
but cool thing is it's Elder Rowes best friends little brother...and he got to train him. Pretty neat. They are fun. Well I'm  gonna try to see if I can send some pictures. So i'll get going now. I guess you will be at roosi this weekend without me :(    have fun.... if you have too.
hehe.. stay warm, I love you!

March 18, 2012

Quick updates on the week.  It was really good.  Had some interesting things to do...Sister Lee had to go to the US Embassy Friday for a visa interview , I wasn't allowed inside so I just sat out in the cold and talked to some "Junk Mail givers"  haha it was sweet!  But Wednesday night through Friday morning we went on Splits (Different companions trade) So I was with Sister Paul,(remember I knew her in the MTC and she was at our house last transfer) so it was super fun to have her back :)  We had a great time.  We went and played on the playground in the morning which was a good break for me.  I've been on the balcony running in place or doing pushups since my companion doesn't want to go outside for exercise.  We went door to door...I don't know what it's called in English, I guess there isn't a word but in Korean it sounds like kaka hoho, anyway I knocked on one door and then told Sister Paul to "Work her Magic", meaning K your talking this time....but instead she starts dancing to Cotton Eye Joe!  hahaha (Don't worry doors not open yet) but when the door did open it opened fast.....and it closed even faster....but all I saw was the lady's face...and it was so shocked haha..then the door opens again and she's just yelling and slams door again then opens again!  Sister Paul said "Can you say that again? cause we didn't understand her (not only was it in Korean but with food in the mouth it makes it that much harder!)  anyway after she opened again and said "Leave Fast!"  so we left.  I couldn't stop laughing because of her shocked expression and that Sister Paul actually asked her to repeat it!.. Oh it was good.  Unfortunately, the apartment guy came and kicked us out..but the  best part is we talked to a sweet little boy and his  Grandma and got his phone number, so hopefully we can meet them again!

Thought you might like to see some more pictures!

So much delicious food.One of the Ward members was moving so she invited everyone to her house for a feast before she left.

 

This baby's name is Baby!  She loved calling her that anyway but the moms name is Pack-jeoung-woun maybe i don't know how to spell but something like that...so much hair on the baby huh....so cute! The Mom is reading the Book of Mormon to Baby.  She was one of our investigators in my last area.

Han-ee-eem is the lady with me at dinner we were racing to see who could eat more one by one haha (peas and corn.)  I WON! 

  

Keep Smiling!  

March 12, 2012

HI! 
This week was good, We had a super great English class, because they took us out to eat!  Fanciest place I've been!  It was so nice and so much food, ah...delicious!  A new lady came this week and she was super nice, she knows someone who is a member so she was asking lots of questions about the church, so hopefully we can pick her up as an investigator soon.  There is another older lady who used to meet with missionaries, I called her to see if she wanted to meet again, she came to English Class with her granddaughter and then a couple weeks ago took us out for lunch.  I invited her to a musical fireside this week (it didn't turn out to be a musical fireside) but she came with her granddaughter.  One guy taught how to sing with a different part of your throat! Another man talked about Adam and Eve and another guy talked about BYU!

So far my poor companion hasn't had a lot of teaching experiences...we are still in the process of finding people, so we get to proselyte a lot.  But it's COLD ...and semi hard especially since she hasn't been to the MTC yet!  So I tried to make it fun for her this week.  I made a bingo card and it had different things like Converse shoes or Catholic, so as we talked to certain people she would cross it off and if we got bingo we'd get Ice Cream!...we didn't get Bingo but it was super fun!  One of the items was "13 year old", so whenever we saw students she just walked up and asked "how old are you?" haha... and one lady we were talking to said she was Buddhist, which we needed that one..so we got super excited - I think the lady  was a little confused as to why we were so happy! oops...

I got to play soccer with the ward Saturday morning. I scored the sweetest goal ever :)  I shot it with my heel as I faced the other goal and it totally went in :)  Granted it was indoor soccer, but still :)
 
I'm pretty settled in - we're in the same house that I was in when I was here before, but we had to move desks around.  Sister Lee's Visa came in so she leaves April 10th!  She is so excited to go.  (Sister Ha also got her Visa and will be leaving)  Once Sister Lee leaves, I will probably be back with Sister Kang.
Love, Love

March 5, 2012

My week was good too.This area is kinda slow right now. one investigator...and only one place to streetboard...but we've made message cards and plan to visit the ward...and we've done a lot of less active visiting. usually its not successful...we went to check addresses and all 3 people had moved...the people now living there were pretty shocked to see us haha. we got a referral from other elders in a different area...they said she seems pretty interested. so we've been calling ever since then but shes always been busy. Finally I called again sat night and said how about tomorrow. so we met her yesterday...she picked us up and on the way she says like oh do you know sister romney? she used to serve here so i said oh I've heard of her, how did you meet? shes like  "oh i met with her and did that baptism thing"  WHAT??? haha that was a shocker. As we talked we found out, she doesn't even believe in God but she really liked that missionary so got baptized she hasn't been to church since and had moved so our ward doesn't even have her record. Glad we found her and can hopefully get her out to church and gain a testimony!

to be continued...

OH and i got your boxes!!! thanks :)!!! perfect timing...the chocolate is good to me. 

February 26, 2012

CRAZY DAY!  A "temporary" Sister came....so President called us Saturday and said you'll split again! He said I would be with Sister Ha in Boondang, and then Sister Kang would train the "greenie" - well we just got here this morning and he introduced the greenie to Sister Kang...and then he said.... actually Sister Richardson’s your trainer. WHAT?!?  Ya super sudden...warning would have been great....oh mylanta! So we are at the office trying to get a new phone and all that jazz. So now I’m  back to just suji ward.

[When I asked what a "temporary" Sister was - this is her reply]

 

"She got called to Idaho but her visa hasn’t come...same story as Sister Ha. So they cant even go to MTC. Her dad just dropped her off at the office. Sister Ha is going to Temple Square but still waiting for her Visa!"   Sister Lee is new Companion in Suji Ward.

 Last week was great. Came to love boondang just in time to leave it. boo. haha

Your packages have arrived but I do not have them yet. my zone leaders picked up for me but haven’t seen them yet. gotta go. love you!!!!

February 19, 2012

For Valentines I got a new companion :) Sister Ha ...and I got to keep my old companion sister Kang :) best V-day ever.

We had a super busy week. We have to run back and forth to the different areas. Our house is kinda in middle . it would be nice if like one day was spent in one area and then next day the other...but thats not realistic haha...so we have to just work with our investigators time so lots of travel. But thats good cause that means we have lots of appointments.  

 

We met with 3 new investigators and had a baptism! kim ju myung :) it was the cutest thing ever. She's the only member in her family now, in her testimony she said I know it will be hard, please help me, to the ward. ah. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

She is so amazing, only 13 but so mature and stinkin cute! Her little toes came out of the water first time but 2nd time was the charm :), I think I'll always be able to see her smiling as she came out of the font! :)

 

 

 

 

 I'm trying to get some pictures on but computer is being weird so maybe next week.

The kids wrote this week...i got to hear about a zoo trip! sounds like they loved it.

I'm gonna try to send pics so I'm sorry it's short. all is well...I'm learning how to cook u\yummy food, sister ha is an amazing cook! so i hope youll like it :)

LOVE YOU have a fantastic week!