Elder Max Richards 2023-2025

Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2024 Que tal yall!  So our P-day was switched to today because we got to go to the temple this morning! Such an amazing blessing! The temple is so powerful and peaceful and it was just such a blessing to be able to go. As a missionary, you don't get to go as often as you do when you are at home. So when you do get to go, it is extra special. I Love being inside The house of the lord! Being able to feel of the Lord's presence and receive so many answers Was just so powerful! I love the temple!!  We had zone conference this last week which is always fire. Elder Collins and I gave a training for our zone and I would say it was pretty fire. The lord helped us out big time and It was awesome. We also got some great trainings on how we can be better missionaries, have more success, the importance of exact obedience, and much more. Presidente and Hermana Lopera dropped bars and we had a great time with subway for the intermission snack and a fire burger after. Ove...

Monday, Oct. 21, 2024 Que tal yall! We had a wild and eventful week here in Sacaba. The weeks are flying so fast it felt like last p day was yesterday... A lot of our friends are progressing really well and getting really close to baptism. Including a family with 4 kids that will be getting baptized after church on Sunday! Their moms are members who are returning to activity. They are super awesome and  we had a lesson yesterday and they had a 3 liter Fanta there and kept filling me and Elder Collins cups up over and over until we drank the whole thing haha. Such a sweet family. The talks in church yesterday were centered around keeping the sabath day holy. And when we got to the lesson, they told us that instead of playing video games on the phone today, they read scriptures as a family. So powerful!  The family of 3 that were supposed to get baptized this last week unfortunately did not get baptized. They passed their interview but after their was some unfortunate events tha...

Monday, Oct. 14, 2024  Que tal yall! This week was pretty fire. Here's a quick rundown -Had two exchanges this week with two really awesome missionaries, Elder Gonzalez and Elder Christensen.  -Put our friend Leticia on date to be baptized on November 2!  -got a cracked referral from the Hermanas for a family whose kids aren't baptized they will be getting baptized in a couple weeks!  -had 7 friends come to church on Sunday! Lots of big miracles there!  -had a ton of cracked lessons this week. We are teaching a lot of families right now which is so awesome!  -there is a fire Mexican food place in the area of the elders of La Vina. We went there twice this week because of exchanges and got it to go. Let's just say it's nowhere near on the level of the Soccoro ward cooking but for here, it was pretty buss. A big tender mercy because I love Mexican food so much and it's been a while since I've had it.  -had interviews with Presidente Lopera which are alwa...

Monday, Oct. 7, 2024 Que tal yall! We had a fire week here in Sacaba!  I got to go on an exchange this week with Elder Talbert! He's a great missionary and I learned a lot from him. It was cool to have another exchange in Huayllani! My first was back in my first transfer with Elder Bacon and we ended up having a noche de hogar with the same homies as my first exchange. They bought us chow pizza which was absolutely fire!  We also had zone council and Elder Collins and I gave a training about hope. It was very powerful! Hope is something so incredibly awesome and crucial and I would encourage you all to go and study it and apply it into your life!  A big dub this week is so basically we are now making breakfast in our houses because there was some issues with the quality and quantity of breakfast in lots of areas in the mission. (Not Esmeralda they make the best breakfast in Bolivia) and so now we get more of a budget to make breakfast. Well we've always had a rule that we...