"Rats!"

The title of this email has nothing to do with rodents in our apartment, thank goodness we don't have that problem here in Beograd. But I said "Rats!" sometime this week and Sister Konietz laughed way way hard at me and was so confused and I forget sometimes how weird English phrases we have. I said "spilled the beans" too and it was just, same. We have a good time. BUT:

Transfer email came! I am going to be again serving with Sister Durfee, who I trained!! That will be a great time. Usually that never never happens. I know it was inspired. I will be in Beograd with her. Tomorrow we travel literally all day, hopefully I can get all your mail you've been asking about in Zagreb. My passport is filled with all kinds of stamps and stickers and visas.

We were contacting this week and talking to this man who was selling shoelaces at a stand (those are all over, not sure why) and this thing dropped in front of us and we thought someone had thrown something at us or out the building above us. We looked closer, a bird had flown over and laid an egg while flying I guess? There were tons of birds. It was really weird. Not sure why I told you that, but the three of us laughed pretty hard.

Please keep the investigators we have in your prayers. We have a mom and her daughter, a family of three, and one older women who have potential. Yesterday we had a mission wide fast for all of those who could potentially be baptized in the next few months.

Just lots of tender mercies this week. I talked to the coolest, way stylish lady in her huge furry Russian looking hat and she actually like opened the Book of Mormon and read it with us and told us her schedule so we could come over another day. I AM JUST SO EXCITED. There is no more rewarding work. Even just talking to one cool person who will actually listen out of 100 people you tried to stop that day, it makes the whole mission worth it.

I got a weird cold again this week. Throat and nose. I did some good old home remedies and am better now. Don't you love those? An Elder in my district is great with doctory stuff too so he helped out. This has been a great district of Elders and Sisters. I am going to miss them. 

We were really bold this week in a few lessons. Another investigator told us during the lesson (in English) that he felt "something all warm and tingly in his fingers and like a white angel was in the room with us. " I explained the Holy Ghost and we talked about how we can recognize His presence. He has been trying to quit smoking. We are going to stop eating sugar with him and so we can support him! IT WILL BE A BATTLE FOR BOTH OF US. Haha, but really. Serbian chocolate is just. Heaven.

I gave a talk for 15 minutes. Beograd branch is the biggest in the mission- about 70 people per week average. I wrote out a lot but ended up just rambling on in Serbian for a while- the branch president slipped me a paper that said "2 minutes left." Sometimes I feel completely incompetent in the language and other days I am like hey I'm fluent! It just comes and goes. I compared ice cream to missionary work and when we taste something so so good we want to tell everyone and post it on our instagram and we know of its goodness like Lehi knew in his dream.

Thank you for your responses to my questions! It just snowed here a little. I am traveling all over tomorrow. It's gonna be a great next two months!

I LOVE YOU

GOD LOVES YOU

HE HEARS OUR PRAYERS

-Sestra Richardson

pictures: on the roof of the church with the best district, the IPHONE is finally in Serbia!, me just trying to finalize so many things and make it to a lesson and hold a laptop I got to borrow