Dear Family,
This
week we did a few fun things. First I think I will talk about Primary (Church children's group covering ages 18 mths to 12 years old). This week for Church we asked the Primary President if we could
teach Sharing Time. She said "of course and that is really funny that
you asked because this week is on missionary work!" It was destiny. We prepared for it and then it came time. It was really fun to sit in Primary again and to sing the songs and to do the opening exercise with
them. The kids are funny. They had it combined that week (the older and the younger group) so we had
senior primary and junior primary at the same time. Our little lesson
for Sharing Time was pretty good. We had their attention for like the
first 10 minutes but then their attention span started to wear thin,
haha. We watched a little video, Fishers of Man, described by kids, video is
on lds .org. Those videos are pretty fun you should watch them. I
also recommend the little, Mormon belief videos they have. I liked them
a lot. But yeah, back to the Sharing Time. We were supposed to have 15 min
but for some reason they gave us like 30, haha, so we were trying hard at
the end to keep them settled, used the sticker approach.
We went to a senior living home this week to sing to them. A lot of them
were Vietnamese, so they would sometimes try to sing along in Vietnamese. It was 4 sister missionaries and my companion and I. We sounded pretty good
sometimes. We sang and we sang, it was fun. The hymns can be really nice,
calming and also powerful at times. After we sang to the group, we went
by a few rooms and sang to people so it was nice. But sometimes the
forgot how to sing a song, so that was funny because we all just give
each other a look, then give up on trying to sing that hymn and moved on.
I have been thinking, some of my letters have just
been about the things that go on during the week but this time I would
like to tell you something I learned, a little more Spiritual note to
the letter. Lately, as I have had some struggles with certain things, I
have notices that something I figured I could do was pray. Now that
sounds really basic and obvious but at the same time, I feel that
sometimes we forget that we can really pull the powers of heaven to help
us when we need it. So, I was kind of frustrated about something and on
my wall there are a ton of pictures of Jesus with a ton of quotes. While I was upset and kind of down, I just looked at the wall and the
picture I looked at was of Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane. The
thought came to me to just pray, but at the same time I didn't want to
pray because I was just kind of mad. But as I continued to look at the picture, I still got the impression. I decided to do it anyway. It was a good
thing. I just kind of talked to God about things and asked for help. You
can feel a little peace as you do. So if times are rough, did you think
to pray? I think we all know it, but do we actually do it. I know that
it does help, because Jesus has suffered all those pains and afflictions
and everything else so that he could help us. But we have to let him,
we have to pray and repent and be humble and I know that it can help in
any trial. So that was something that kind of stood out to me as I
thought about this last week.
I love you guys
Thank you for everything you do, you guys help me a lot
love
Elder Richards
A picture is worth a thousand words. We tried to re-enact this picture that is in the Church.
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