first of all, Grand Junction is AWESOME!!!! (i'll send pictures) it is the opposite of Highlands Ranch that's for sure! its beautiful here and the people are so nice! just about everyone we meet will talk to us. they aren't interested in meeting, but they will talk to us which is the coolest ever.
my companion is Sister Davies, and she is SO FUN. all day we are quoting nacho or shes doing some hilarious voice or accent and its so fun. i am soo lucky i get to be with her! she hit her 9 month mark this week, so she is an awesome missionary and i am going to learn a lot from her, im super excited for this transfer.
so lets see, Tuesday i had to say goodbye to sister Fetuli at like 6 in the mporning, and that was super sad, i have loved my time with her and i will miss her very much! then was the 4 hour car ride to Grand Junction! luckily my friend sister broederlow was also getting transfweredout west so i got to ride with her! The drive was beautiful through the mountains! When i got here we did or food shopping, i got settled in, and we had a lesson planned but it fell through (there was a LOT of that this week)
on Wednesday we taught one of our investigator! We'll call her P. she was so sweet and LOVES the book of mormon, she is having a hard time quitting smoking but she has a desire and thats all you need! the Lord will help her. she is awesome. On wednesday we had two lessons in the evening scheduled, and we went to the 6:00 one and she wasnt there, then oiur 7 canceled! hahaha so we were a little bummed. but its all good!
Thursday was an great day!! i tracted in a trailer park and it was the BEST I LOVE TRAILER PARKS PEOPLE ARE SO NICE. we found a new investigator there too so it was awesome. We went and stopped by the the investigator who wasnt there on Tuesday and she wasnt home again, so we talked to her neighbor who had their garage open and we went and talked to them and they were so nice!! turns out the husband is an inactive member! They talked to us for awhile about our familes, and they showed us pictures of their grandkids, it was super fun. then they gave us each a bottle of water, a pepsi, and ginger ale! soooooo basically my kinda people. oh and three appointments canceled :-)
Wanna know a fun fact about grand junction? a member owns the Sonic so missionaries get free sonic!!! so i get to pay $0.00 for my sonic blast. i knew i'd like it here
On saturday it was SO COLD. in Denver apparently it was snowing like crazy, but here it was just warm enought to be freezing and raining and windy and it was lovely. oh, and the heater wasnt working in our house hahahahaha LIFE IS GOOD THOUGH, we had an appointment cancel, BUT we got to visit an older, less active couple and sing for them (side not, sister davies is SUCH a good singer and can do the best harmonies ever its so fun) and the husband played his harmonica for us! and our dinner that night was homemade chinese food and homemade bubble tea! and lemme tell you, that meal made the blustery day all better
SUNDAY was soooo funny. so Friday night a member of the bishopric texted and asked if i could introdice myself in sacrament meeting and bare my testimony and "share some thoughts as the spirit directs" sure thang! so i found a quote about the atonement and planned to share Alma 7:11-12, and an into and my testimony! well, we got to church and looked at the program and it said "speaker: sister Richards" I DIED. i didnt prepare enough to be considered a talk!! it was sooooo funny. so sister davies and i sat up on the stand and i gave my "talk" hahahaha it was awesome. i mean, the talk wasnt awesome, just how funny and unexpected the situation was! i thought id just go up before the speakers and say my name and my testimony but NOPE. it was all good though, the spirit is real and helped A LOT.
GOOD NEWS we figured out how to work the heater so now we have heat!!
it was a long week with some dissapoitment (sister Davies and i counted, we had 10 canceled lessons) but it was still amazing!! i love grand junction and i love sister Davies!!
I hope you all have a fantastic week!!! i love you!!!!
Sister Richards
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