Week 4- Lindsay

Hello family and friends!

 Another amazing week here in Lindsay California with so many funny good memories! The work in our area is really picking up right now. We found 11 more investigators this week which is just crazy! We don't have enough hours in the day to visit everyone that we want to. We have a member in the Spanish part of our ward named Beto who just cracks me up. He goes out with us a few times every week and he has no fear to spread the gospel. We'll be driving down the road and he'll see a group of teenagers at a park or something and he'll swerve over and roll down his window and just scream something along the lines of this. " Children! We are the missionaries for the true church! Let us give you pictures of Jesus Christ and teach you about him. Then we will baptize y'all so you to can be as happy as I am.'' That man has no fear ha... Through Beto we did end up finding a man named Raymond who is really progressing and interested in the church. He lives in this little tiny camping trailer and is very poor. Keep him in your prayers this week. 

We went back to El Patio this week and did some more service for an hour or two. Cookie ( The Inactive member who owns the restaurant ) Always has us do something pretty crazy when we show up, but he always feeds us well. He might be shutting down pretty soon though because this is the time when all the field workers, which make up 70% of the town head north to where the fruit is ripe and ready to be picked. people are clearing out like crazy right now. They'll all be back in August when the fields are ready to harvest again here. 

Weeks are flying by now that I'm back in the swing of things again. I have loved getting to know the members and people that live here! I'm also amazed how much easier it already is to teach and testify of Christ after just 4 short weeks here. We were asked to speak in church yesterday about anything from the Book of Mormon. I chose to focus on the commandments and the promise it makes in the Book of Mormon that says if we are obedient to commandments we will prosper in the land. I know that to be true. So many people think of the commandments as restrictions to life, or things that hinder their fun. The commandments are like the string on a kite, The world thinks that if we were to cut that string, they would have so much more freedom and just soar right on up living a happy perfect life. We all know what would happen if we cut that string. The Kite would come crashing down and be destroyed. We need that string ( the commandments) to keep us moving and afloat in this crazy world we live in. True happiness only come by living worthy and being obedient to the commandments. They truly are loving instructions of happiness that we have been given by a loving Heavenly Father. They funny part about my talk yesterday was that right when I was wrapping up and sharing my testimony... All of a sudden people in the crowd started yelling and running around. It was just absolute chaos out there. I had no idea what was going on so i just closed really fast and sat down. As it turns out, there was this giant cockroach ( so big people thought it was a mouse ) crawling all over people, who would then freak out and flick it on to someone else who would then freak out and flick it on to someone else etc... It took probably 5 minutes to get everyone seated again and ready to listen to Elder Facer. It was definitely a talk to remember.

Life's good. I'm happy! I looooooooooveeee being a missionary again and bringing Christ into peoples homes. I'm working my hardest and loving the work. Be safe, happy, and healthy this week! I love and miss you all! Make good choices this week!


Love Elder Richardson