Elder Max Richards 2023-2025

Monday, May 26, 2025 Que tal yall!  It's crazy, I've hit 20 months on my mission and I've got 3 left. The time is flying so fast! I wish I could slow it down haha!  This week was good.  -We had ward conference which was really fire.  -the other Elderes in the ward had a couple of baptisms this week and the services were super powerful.  - some really awesome missionaries finished their missions this week! It was awesome to have them in the house one last time before they went home! 

Monday, May 19, 2025 Que tal yall!  This week flew by super fast.  Not much happened this week.  On Sunday we had Peatón with is basically where driving is illegal for a day. It's fun for everyone but the missionaries because it means no one comes to church. 😭 but we Had a good service with basically the Branch size assistance we had and we also got to have a really good lunch with the stake president and his family and some other members from the ward. Some really good Steak We had a noche de hogar this week with a family who are practically Utahns. They go there like 10 times a year and always bring back goodies. I had Swiss miss for the first time in a year and I forgot how amazing that stuff is. It was incredible. I also had some US pretzels and the dad loves Hokas and has like 10 pairs. First time seeing Hokas here in Bolivia too! They are a super cool family.  Today we had P day con los lideres de la misión. It was super fire. We went up into the mountains for...

Monday, May 12, 2025 Que tal yall!    First of all shout out to my mom for Mothers day! Happy Mothers day!!! I love you so much and thank you for everything you do for me! My mom is the most Christlike and loving and kind person ever. She has taught me so much and continues to teach me so much. Literally the best mom in the world! Love you!  And also shootout to all of the other moms that have also been very important in my life. My grandmas, aunts, the moms of my best friends and the "mission moms" as well. Yall are the best!  OK so the big highlight this week was the Mothers day miracle as the title says.  It starts this last Tuesday.  The story starts this last Thursday. So we have a friend who has a baptismal Date. And he loves the book of mormón. But we needed his Dad's permission for him to get baptized because he is under 18 years old. We went to talk to his dad and long story short his dad doesn't want him to get baptize. I could talk about it for 1...

Monday, May 5, 2025 Que tal yall!  This weel was pretty fire.  We had zone conference this week. It was awesome to see all the missionaries in the mission this week. I was able to learn so much from Presidente and Hermana Lopera. We have some amazing things to apply to our area and im so excited to see the miracles. We have a big emphasis in the mission right now of inviting everyone to Sacrament meeting from the first contact and applying our missionary culture every day of Fe, Bautismos, Milagros (Faith, Baptisms, Miracles). Elder Monterroza and I are working so hard to reach our goal of helping two children of God this month enter into a covenant with God. We have faith and we are praying so much and working so hard. Your prayers would be very appreciated in this aspect! If yall could pray especially for Jonas and Carmen, that would be fire.  Here's their story: We found them in a late contact about 2 weeks ago. They didn't have a ton of time so we set up for a return ...

Monday, April 28, 2025  Que tal yall!  Sorry this is gonna be another quick one. We P day with the líderes of the mission today and we were up in the mountains all day which was awesome.  First off- shout out to my cousin Emily who had her farewell yesterday! She's gonna be the best missionary and im so pumped to hear about all the miracles you will have in your mission and the lives you are going to change! VAMOS!!! A big miracle we had this week was that we were able to find an older couple to teach! They let us in and we talked about baptism and they are down to prepare for baptism! Such a huge miracle! To wrap off the email I'd like to share something small i loved from conference: "Charity is Love in action"  -Elder Strong As I've thought about this and applied it I've found a lot of joy and happiness! I promise that as you all have charity by putting love in action, you will have more joy.  Love,  Elder Richards

Monday, April 21, 2025 Que tal yall! I'll keep this one quick. We had transfers and me and Elder Monterozza are staying here in Colon. I'm super hyped about it. The offices all stayed the same with the excepción of Elder Kikuchi. It was a really fun transfer serving around him he is hilarious and such a kind and loving person. Elder Leite, one of my sons, took his place so now 2 of my old comps are in the apartment which is super awesome. We had MLC on Friday which was super fire. It was an all day MLC and Presidente and Hermana Lopera dropped bars the whole time. I'm so excited to see the changes that will occur in the mission. Elder Monterozza and I had a crazy miracle this week. On Thursday we knocked a door and someone answered through the voice box. They didn't have time so we set up to come back on Saturday, with little hopes because generally those lessons fall through. But we came back on Saturday and two siblings answered the door. The sister was the one who an...

Monday, April 14, 2025 Que tal yall!  A quick week here in Cochabamba.  We were able to get a lot of work done in the offices and also have some awesome miracles in our area. Something sad is that our friend Luis was supposed to get baptized but his parents said he couldn't till he turned 18 in 2 years. This was a big L because Luis is a dawg and wants to get baptized so bad. We are planning on going to talk to his parents this week and praying that the spirit will soften their hearts.  We had 3 friends come to church on Sunday! Marco Antonio came with his wife Silvia who's a member that hasn't come to church in 20 years. It was so cool to see them there. They are both reading the Book of Mormon and he is praying to know that it's true. I want to help this family so bad come unto Christ and be apart of His Church and make covenants with God. Please pray for Marco Antonio and Sylvia and their family!  We had district P day today. Got some tucumanas for breakfast and c...