Week 2 - Lindsay

Hello family and friends! This week was great! I absolutely love it here! I have met so many amazing ward members and missionaries this past week. I've really come to know that this is where I am needed! Fresno and I get along pretty great! As you know Elder Facer and I are both very new in this area and the Elders here before us weren't having very much success, so we have put a huge emphasis on finding new people to teach this week. This week we found 12 new Investigators!! We have found new people to teach everywhere we turn! Its so amazing to see the people that are prepared for the Gospel in their lives. Tuesday we had interviews with President Clark. I love President. He such an amazing man who goes above and beyond for his missionaries. He makes sure to email every missionary every week and we have interviews with him every transfer which i think is amazing. Ive found out that white people scare me a little. They are just so mean compared to the Latinos here. 9 times out of 10 its a white person that slams a door in our face. Latinos almost always let us in the door and are so happy to talk to us. I wish everyone was as nice and accepting of the Gospel as them. On Thursday we met a women named Maria that let us in and we taught her all of The Plan of Salvation. She loved it and was so excited for us to come back to see her. We have an appointment with her tonight, so ill let you know how it goes. We have a lot of hope for her! One of the many things that I love about my area is how beautiful it is. Everywhere you look there's rolling hills of Orchards. Also we found out today that we can go and hike the L on the mountain just like we do back home with the Y, so we want to do that next preparation day :) A lot of fun things going on here in Lindsay. This has to be one of the happiest times of my entire life! I love representing Christs church again and bringing people unto him. This week I worked really hard to be exactly obedient to every little tiny rule that we have here in Fresno. Even the ones I don't 100% understand like the 5 Minute showers. I can testify that obedience truly is the way to Miracles here in our lives and  have seen them during my week this week more than every before! NEVER let someone else keep you from following the lords commandments. Even the little tiny ones you dont quite understand yet. I love you all so much and I was so happy to talk to you all yesterday. Be happy and make good choices this week. When in doubt, choose Christ. Until next week!

Love Elder Richardson