Getting Settled in Winsted Hill

hey que onda?
its elder richardson writing and just to clarify a bunch of things first, i am not in clarksville anymore...it sucks rocks. it was hecka odd leaving there for a while cus i kept thinking (when i was here) that i was going to be going back...
iam still here...
franklin is cool though, its defintly alot differnt than clakrsville beacuse there are a TON more hispanics here, thats a cool part.
but just to let you know iam not a goodwill missionary(well...kinda)..
but i need nothing in particular...no new suits,ties,belts, shirts, socks... iam good to go. so dont you worry you lil self... the only think ve about destroied is my shoes...thoes sketchers are right dun' gawn fixed. but dont worry about that either cus i (without going to the bank account) have the money to get some new ones. we have made a great discovery of a store with nice shoes but low prices and i got sent some money for x mas from aunt and uncle brurrud that i can get them with.
also. my new address is:
541 n. petway street #301
franklin TN
37064
anyways, just so you know the group leader for clarksville returned from mexico so he is up there now and the new elder (elder wagstaff) will be his first councler to help him out with the whatnots and so on.
also i really dong know what to tell you about franklin...my comp's name is elder burnett and he is a stud he is (unfortunally) another U fan...but i do feel like god has a reason for putting me with so many U fans...so i figure ill just be one myself and join the big red!
NOT!!! hahahaha
(if you believed that for a sec....your not to smart)
anyways , if you also didnt figure, my comp is from Utah...sandy ut to be specific and he is actually best friends with one of the guys who was in knaras and my district in the MTC (elder cavanas, servinging in the tri cities mission WA) so that is cool.
the last week has been a blur and i have meet about 400 new ppl and iam just trying to sort out everything. anyways...even thought franklin is hecka rich(and it is)...we dont go there... so ... iam going to have to recrute a p day crew to go and find faith hill some monday for you guys.
anyways, something cool is that in this area there are also a TON of brazilanos and iam going to see if i can find one from the belo horizante area...even though its 2 differnt languages if they speak slow and not so funny sounding we can understand each uther.haha.
but yea...also a member here was makin a lil fun of my acent in spanish and he said that i sound like his friend that is from uruguay...haha i thought that was funny.
dad, i know how you feel. its weird, but
"whom the lord calls he qualifys"
also, knaras had his birthday on the 17th and the ZL's told me i could call him and wake him up at 6:30 in the morning, that man is a stud and like a brother too.
tell tylan iam praying for that man super tons, along with jordan...they are seriously my heros. there soo dang good that satan is trying to really take them out with tons and tons of problems. i love thoes guys, i know god will protect tylan.
and jordan is always in my prayers, i know that if there is a man that is supposed to fufil prophcy it is to be the one man who wouldent let it or the world go to his head and jordan is that man, the missionary who is so so very focused on god that he dosent even see what amazing things HE is doing, but only the glorious work of the lord, and that that is why they are happeneing. He is a super-man.
i really want to testify to you about that, the pure fact that the more you give away the more free you are. dad, you say you want to do this triathalon, ill tellyou what i think i think you have the absloute willpower to do it...but your physical body wont hold up you say. i say nothing more than what the prophets have said, follow with super super super exactness the word of wisdom, give up and destroy fromyour body any thing that could be a addiction and i know that if you do that and watch it super super close as you train you will do it, and you will do good, beacuse you will have the blessing of your all powerfull father and i can testify that he wants to give it to you. he wants you to set goals and kick ther butt and iam sure he'll be cheering for you espically if you super check your WoW promiss with him.
study the pormisses of the scriptures and follow them if you want to have them...and if you dont want pure health in a triathlon...well crap go drink too many cafeen sodas in a day...it'll do it.
mom, if you want peace in your life. i can testify to you that NOTHING will help more than knowing your savior better, study the atonement. you WILL be blessed with peace...
i dont promiss, the lord of the heavens and earth does.
what i can promiss you though is that i love you guys. your stallions. and iam going to work EVEN more than i did en clarksville. there are some super sweet ppl here
and just so you guys know, your prayers still help, siliva and gorge were given a baptizimal date tuesday(the day i left) by the stallion elder knaras.
-elder j richardson

TRANSFER!!!! (ouch!) W

hey
I am alive...things are good. transfers are coming up and president told me that I am moving... this last week has been really weird because of that. it seems like I've been here so long and that ive done sooo little, but ni modo, president told me its my time... i just really wasn't ready for it whey he told me because it was right in the middle of zone conference a week before transfers and he decided to announce it to everyone. I really love Clarksville and I am pretty dang thankful for the blessing of being able to serve here, i got to know some stinkin AWESOME people.
other than that really the week went by in a blur, i just have been packin and cleaning, and workin like usual. right now we have 7 good ppl 3 families who are very very ready and every cita we have is like a hu8ge spiritual experience... its actually kinda hecka tiering.
anywaays, pablo aguero(member) told me that he is oging to teach us his super super secret recipe to his barbacoa(mexican bbq) its a recipe that he has nopt taught anyone ever and everyone asks for it, so iam pretty stoked to learn how to do this! the man is a stud and told me also that he is going to start his mission papers! it would have been really cool to do thoues with him but now that iam leaving i wont be able to...
anyways i really dont know what more to say, my next area is called winsted hill and it is in franklin tennessee. its a brand new area to the mission and my comp will be a stud named elder burnnett. beacuse the area is brand new and we dont even have a offical spanish group were going to be going to the english ward and translating for the hispanics. just so you know mom this is the same ward that the shedasiy girsl go to and the same one that david trueman from diamond rio and jason deere all go to. and this is also the area where missionarys have gotten pics with jessica simpson and where vince young(titians) and faith hill live...
yes mom, if i see them ill say hi for you, and send you pics...

i was actually talkin with veronica and fransisco and they said that they know a houndoranian lady that lives down there...sooo iam not even there but i have a referal! haha. but were going to go and use our ganas and the ganas of the lord and get some business taken care of down there.
it really kinda stinks to leave here but i really felt the peace of the lord last night when i was thinkin about everything. a puerto rician lady named tania arce actually told us she had a bad dream that told her i was going to be leaving...that was crazy. i really am going to miss the group up here. if you do come over here to pick me up, we are going to clarksville.
i love you guys...sorry that the letter is short.
probally better not send anything to clarksville.
party on garth!
-Elder richardson

PS. tell jordan that i wont not let a day go by without prayin for that stud and the workin his area!

Avad's Baptism! (Written 12-28-08)

every thing went AWSOME!
the baptizim of avad was sweet. and he was confirmed on saturday!
the man is a stud and i only found a few days ago that he is a cousin of veronica!!! holy crap!
when she found out about his baptizm she flipped a bucket!(not litterly)
and almost cryed beacuse she was so happy(literaly). she knew we were teaching him and whatnot but when she realized that it was actually going to go through she was super super happy. and he looked like a stallion on sunday the man is a stud.
anyways, other than that i really dont know what to tell you guys...i just talked to you all. i was happy i got that chance and to be honest the next few days flew by and i didnt really realize that i had really really talked to you. it went by so fast that it was like a dream that you arnt sure was real or not.
ill tell you what though, bubba your tha MAN!
ive only told everyone i know about your missionary doings over there and everyone thinks that your the coolist lil kid and that i need to learn how to be a better missionary from studying arround you...wanna come to tennessee? haha
oh dad...nope, no dvd player. unless its a member/investagators house.
anywz...we are not giving up on divina and hugo...(divina has thretened to give up on hugo though...haha) jk
there sweet and we just need to teach them more and more. its sweet.
we have another family were teaching that we need you all to pray for named pizza and emme...(his real name is goodalfreado..but everyone calls him pizza) there really sweet and friends of divina and hugo and they have a lil girl names karen, she is hecka cute and talks a ton(except for the fact that she is 1 1/2 and dosent say real words).
there a really good family who are askin a bunch of good questions and it was kinda funny that she (emme) actually said the very exact same thing that veronica had said when we started teaching her lo cual es "i was born catholic but i really dont think that it is the right church and so i have been lookin but how do you know what the right church is?"
haha when i heard that i remebered veronica saying the exact same words... so we had a good lesson.
anyways we are teaching a ton but please keep emme pizza divina y hugo in your prayers.
i love you all! and ive got to go!
also we might be watching a disney movie on new years day(our p day) which iam stoked about!
hay nos vidrios
-elder jR