June 3, 2013
Sounds like lots happening to the family right now! Again, I don't
have a lot of time to write this week, but I love you and I'm so
incredibly grateful for all of your prayers. I'm working on getting
myself "lost in the work" and everyday I realize how much more I'm
forgetting about home and how much the work encompasses my every
thought.
Hermana Healey and I are having a great time in Kentucky! I don't
think I wrote too much about her last week, but she is also a 2011
graduate. She is from Taylorsville, Utah. She has grown up LDS most of
her life... she was baptized at 11 when her and her mom joined the
church and her dad was reactivated as a member. We are both 20 and so
excited to be serving missions at this time! It is such a crazy thought
that there might not have been Spanish missionaries in Hopkinsville, KY
had it not been for President Monson's announcement and us responding to
the call. I KNOW that Hopkinsville needs us though and I'm so
incredibly humbled to be apart of this work that is greater than us.
Hermana Healey is a hard worker and I'm so incredibly grateful for her
here! I know that she is much needed in this area before she gets her
visa to Argentina. I think I should have mentioned this last week, but
she is going to the SAME MISSION as my MTC companion, Hermana Sasser.
ARGENTINA RESISTENCIA. That means 2 of my 4 companions are going to the
same mission, but a different mission than the mission I was called to! I
guess we know which mission I would have gone to had not I been called
the the greatest mission ever, the Tennessee, Nashville Mission.
Love you all! Hermana Healey and I went to our first Spanish branch
yesterday in Clarksville, TN and the spirit was so strong! I have loved
serving under English wards since I've been out on my mission because I
have felt like there were members whose lives were supposed to touch
mine and I in return.
Our baptismal date decided to drop us. That was a hard day for me
and Hermana Healey, but we are continuing to work hard and are finding
new investigators left and right. Since I now more Spanish I really have
to take the lead, but I'm learning how to charm the Spanish population
of Hopkinsville, KY! We are working with people from all over- Mexico
(that's a given), Guatemala, El Salvador, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Panama...
did I get them all? Pretty cool, but lots of new accents to learn! Lots
of ways we are being stretched by the master's hands.
Hasta lunes!
Con Amor,
Hermana Rich
Classic church marquees worth mentioning this week...
"Pray your hardest when it is hardest to pray"
"No matter who is president, Jesus is King"
"Friends don't let friends die without Jesus"
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