Elder Max Richards 2023-2025

Monday, July 28, 2025 Que tal yall! Sorry about the confusion from the last few emails. I procrastinated sending them and the audio wouldn't attach.  But we had transfers!  I stayed in the offices for my last transfer. I will be the first Elder to finish his mission in the offices during the Loperas time.  I am now one of the Financial Secretaries, and I am also with Elder Ardaist!  This is my third companion, third area, and third assignment in the offices. Pretty awesome!  Also we made a fire connection this week. My friend Elder Morgan sent me an email with a picture of him and Elder Ardiast over a year ago! (He was then Santiago Ardasit) because Elder Morgan served in his ward in Argentina and took him out tracting! As I showed him Elder Morgan's google photos from that time in his mission he recognized a lot of his best friends and the members of that ward. Such a cool moment and tender mercy!  Shout out to my mom and sister for having their birthdays!...

Monday, July 21, 2025 (Transcript of voice memo) Hey, what's up, yeah, sorry to be sending a voice message two weeks in a row. Hopefully I'm gonna try to attach the last voice message. It wasn't really attached to it last week and I was trying to send it, but it was like 5:59. And I was like, shoot, I don't have any time, so I couldn't send it. But just want to give a little update of the week. It's going well, so I'm just cleaning right now, finishing off the floors, keeping this place nice and tidy. But basically we had transfers, I think I talk a lot, but just in case I don't in touch I'll just talk about it now. We had transfers. I sit in the offices. I'm gonna die or I'm gonna finish my mission here in the offices — like in the mission, we have a term, it's called like dying, like an area cause it's like your last area, right? And the mission, so it's crazy — I've had 3 areas, 3 assignments, 3 companions in the offices, a...

Monday, July 7, 2025 Que tal yall! Wow, this week was a fast one. But it was a really fun and powerful one.  To start out, last Monday night we had 8 more Elders in our apartment because they were all going home the next morning. 8 powerful missionaries. Including Elder Bacon, my first District Leader in Bolivia, Elder Skinner, my first ZL comp, and Elder Pentelute who I served around for a few transfers. It was super fun to talk to all of them and share some fun stories of our missions. It was sad saying goodbye, just as all goodbyes are. But I will see all of them at BYU this fall.  We had traimates almost every day this week, so Elder Terry and I had several early wakeup calls, including this morning. The huge highlight of the week was the baptism of Mikaela. Man this was for sure one of the most special baptisms I have had on my mission.  Her story is so cool. God prepared her and it has been a very humbling privilege to be able to teach her the restored gos...