Another Bike Wreck?!! New Companion Coming! Arrested? and BAPTISM!

Sorry for the belated update! There is a great deal to try to catch up on ... if we don't do justice to it all. So our intrepid tri-lingual elder continues to work with the wonderful people of Lebanon ... and we have reason to believe that there are also some who are not so wonderful ... but he generally forgets to mention them in his letters. Due to the length of time I missed updating things, not everything in this is or will be chronological.

BIKE WRECK!!!!
Those who know Josh well will not be surprised to hear that there was yet another incident wherein body unintentionally met ground. Josh initially broke it to us by stating:

this week i todally tanked it on my bike, i cant remeber what happened but it was a hardcore one and it was kinda cool cus i got to pull some rocks(big ones) and glass out of my arm and hands. it was also kinda cool and maby only dad should read this part but when i pulled the rocks out of my arm i saw my bone haha.
but iam good to go. my comp made me go home and take a bath and a bunch of junk that wasted time. but its ok cus i just figured i had to work harder afterwards.

Later he informed us that when he got home :

i actually tried stiching it up myself with needle and thread...but that didnt work so i just packed it full of tripple anti bio stuff and took off.
i also have a cool bruise on my butt that is a two part thing beacuse the contact cards i had blocked the most of it(tender mercies)

Josh's time with Elder Larson is coming to an end. They've been together for about 3 months and Elder Larson will be transferred ... in fact by the time this is posted, he'll be gone and Josh will have a new companion ... or at least that is the expectation. Josh has really loved Elder Larson and has learned a great deal from him. Their time together didn't end unfruitfully. There is one english speaker that committed to be baptized before transfer day and then there is Renoldi!

anways there is this studly dude here named renoldi and he and his mom and sister are from indonesia and his mom married the son of the family i told you about who speak chinease. so anways this family is awsome in all ways. they found out that the members are slacking on feeding us and so they fead us this HUGE HUGE indosenian bbq with like huge huge! piles of meat of all differnt assortments! it was sooooooooooo soooooooo good! (and they also cooked potatos beacuse they thought that is what americans liked....but they just cooked them plain cus they didnt know what to do with them haha)
anyways renoldi's step-grandparents(ones of his step dad) are members of the church. but the rest of his family arnt and so missionarys have been teaching him and they taught his older brother for like a lil over a year.... well renoldi has been going to church for a long time and still didnt get baptized and didnt and didnt and just recently renoldi said yes that he would be baptized! he is the coolist dude and just a way cool guy. and this week on thursday night he is going to be baptized with his little sister who just turned 8. and this morning we went out and played soccer with a bunch of other missionarys and we brought renoldi with us and he told me this morning that he wants me to baptize him...
i feel like i could have the crappiest day in my life today and i still wouldent care, renoldi is an awsome dude and i havent ever felt so humbeled

How great is that!

One week Josh shocked us by saying:

also we were almost arrested, that was cool.

No other information was forthcoming on that ... until the next week, when he gave the rest of the story! He said it came
from the fact that i didnt want to bible bash with a preacher but insted i wanted to bash him with my bible! haha jk
its cus wal mart dosent like us and called the cops on us while we were talking with a guy and it was pretty funny cus they were telling us off and to leave and whatnot when all of a sudden the mex guy said (in probally all the english he knew)"you can be a little nice!"(to the wal mart employees) it was halirious. but that is the super short version. the long one is visiual haha.

Well, that's all for now.

this gosple is so crazy true.
-elder richardson