March 24

Dear Family and Friends,

Well it is another great week in Bacon. Transfer announcements came and Sister Iqbal and I will stay together for another transfer.  I know that we were going stay together last week because President told me that he had never seen Sister Iqbal progress as much as she did this transfer.

Well weather here is starting to get really hot.  In fact the this is last week of school for everyone.  All the kids are getting ready for summer break.  The school year is different here.  Summer Break is from now until June.  So all the kids are getting excited and all the college students have finals with week.  I am excited because then it means that next week everyone will be home during the day.  Also everyone is getting ready for holy week, apparently that is a really big deal here.


We had a really great week.  We were super busy, but it was great.  The best thing was that Brother Corrido finally came to church-with his whole family.  He had been promising and promising, but finally he came to church! He said it was great.  We taught the Corrido family on Wednesday night and it was a really great lesson it was really interesting.  In Preach my gospel it says that no one can not the true gospel or truth without prayer.  It was funny because I was studying that earlier that day and then we went to teach them that night.  We were going to teach him the Word of Wisdom, but the first question he had was "If I am going to change religions, I want to make sure that I have no doubts in my heart."  We testified about the power of prayer-that is how you know about the truth and there is no other way to know the truth of the gospel.  I think that sometimes we just take prayer for granted, but it is really the only way to know.  It was a really powerful lesson, with the Branch President there.  We went back on Saturday night and he said he is still waiting for an answer, but says he felt that he needed to come to church too in order to know.  So that is great! I love that family so much.

On Wednesday we had exchanges with the other sisters in Bacon Branch.  I was with Sister Roroa from Kirabati.  It brought make a lot of memories of training when Sister Oberia was my companion.  It was great and I learned lots.  It was a really great experience, because we had finished in our far area that we were at by 6:15 pm and we had a appointment with the Corrido family at 7:00.  We had to quickly run to our apartment to pick up something and I was kind of tired and hungry and thought to myself lets just take a little snack break before our appointment.  But I said no, we will go tracting.  So we did and the second house we went to let us right in and we were able to teach a husband and wife and we have a return appointment with this week. The times when I don't feel like tracting is always the best time.

It is so great to see the miracles that the Lord puts in our path. So I am exciting to see how everything plays out this week. I can see our area book filling up with names and it is just wonderful to see all these little miracles everyday.

-Sister Richins