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...

Monday, June 30, 2025 Que tal yall!  This week was incredibly busy with traimates, zone conferences and exchanges. But we had a really good week! We didn't have too much time to work in our area but we saw a ton of miracles!  On Saturday, Elder Terry and I did a fast for our friends Brandon and Micaela. And on Sunday Brandon got baptized! He said that he felt like a new person. It was such a special experience.  Then after church, Micaela told us that church was the answer to a lot of her questions and doubts. She told us she's ready for her baptism this Saturday and so we are super pumped for her!. I'm out of time love you guys! 

Monday, June 23, 2025 Que tal yall!  Hey yall the voice message isn't attaching but basically it was a really good week! Micaela and Brandon are getting baptized this week and this past Sunday I gave a talk with a day's notice and an Area 70 was there. It was a cool experience. It was my first time giving a talk in my mission hahaha and probably my last.  Sorry for the worst email of my mission but love yall! 

Wednesday, June 18, 2025  Que tal yall! This was an absolutely fire week! We had some crazy huge miracles. It's been 9 days since my last email, and this has been some of the most fire 9 days of this year. We have had some amazing miracles and really seen God's hand very clearly. I'll talk about a few of our friends and the miracles we had this week with them.  Before I start i also got to talk with an Area 70 for an hour yesterday about the mission! It was super cool! He just goes around to help missions and I was privileged to have an interview with him so he could learn about the mission. His name is Elder Winters and he's a dawg.  Carlos So Carlos has been investigating the church for about two years. Due to not receiving support from him family, a work accident and some other problems, he was never able to get baptized.  At the start of this transfer Elder Terry and I started to just really push to help him.  A couple of weeks ago we invited him to a baptis...

Monday, June 9, 2025 Que tal yall!  Today was a busy p day so I'm gonna make this quick!  We had a fire week and had some incredible miracles!  We were able to put 3 baptismal dates and are planning on putting 2 more this week! We had mlc which is always fire.  And today I got to play tennis for the first time in 21 months! And I got to play on clay for the first time in my life!  It was super fun! I'm super rusty but towards the end I had some good plays at the net! It was very special to play tennis in Bolivia. I am very grateful for the opportunity.  I love this area and ward and my companion so much! I really hope I finish my mission here but we will see what the Lord has in store!  I am so grateful for Jesus Christ and how He's changed me. It's crazy to think about how my priorities have changed. Tennis used to be my everything. It was definitely the focus of my life during high school. Now, Jesus Christ is the focus of my life. And because of thi...