Hi from the Kalispell Zone...

Ok so my companion is not in any of those pictures.(The pictures he is referring to are pictures that were e-mailed to us from the Mission Presidents wife and are in the last post) Those are the APs and just some elders that serve in the Billings area. My companion is Elder McKee. He is a dairy farmer from Vernal Utah!! You would get a kick out of him Dad. He is awesome. We get a long really well! He has never trained before but it doesn't show he is awesome. He likes country music, hunting, and fishing.


 Anyway, we are staying in a Log cabin!! (Not such a great view of Jake's cabin...but the best I could do on Google Earth) But we only get the basement and it looks like something out of the 70's haha but its great. We have deer in our yard or in the little field next to us at least once a day. No bucks yet though and they are all Whitetails!?! I found out we are NOT allowed to fish. :( not really sure why but it sucks because there are rivers and creeks everywhere. 

What else... It's snowed 6-8" the last couple of days and has been mainly under 20 degrees so the roads are prettly slick. We drive a red Chevy colorado which is a lot better than the stupid malibus!

So a little about Columbia Falls. It has like 5000 people. At least half of them are drunk or smoking something but nice, and the other half (Sober) are some of the nicest people I have met. The members out here will do anything for the missionaries. Even the non-members have been really nice to us just not interested in the church. :(

 There was a Christmas Parade on Friday so we went contacting during that and handed out some Joy To The World dvds. We have a couple of investigators who are progressing. One is Abby. She is really interested in the church but doesnt know what here parents will think and doesn't know if she is ready. But she is praying about being baptized on like January 5th I believe! I've already met some crazy people while tracting. One lady Samantha was telling us how she used to be in witchcraft and stuff, and how when she killed one of her chickens last week for dinner, evil spirits came out of it and attacked her. lol. 

We went and talked to this 80 year old german lady who loves the missionaries but isn't interested in the church. But anyway, when you walk into her house the first thing you see in the living room is a massive big horn sheep! The thing scores 183 3/8!! Its Huge. She shot it a few years back and is thinking about selling the mount to the Cabelas they are planning on building in Kalispell. That's basically it so far other than it's beautiful up here!

I did get your package and the heated blanket is so nice! Thanks! Also for your Christmas package can you just send me a new belt haha. One broke already and the other one is about to! And some chocolate oranges of course! And maybe Taylor swifts new CD "RED" haha.

So our P-Day is today and we have zone conference in Missoula this Thursday so the Elders from Thompson Falls came down last night to stay with us until Thursday. One of them is Elder Hemenway who is from Orem Utah and guides deer and elk hunts around Strawberry and Beaver!! And he bow hunts and fly fishes!!! Needless to say we have already planned a hunting trip whether its for deer/elk or just to shoot some coyotes together. 

That's all for now. Tell Kasey that's super exciting that she got her call (Kasey is a gal Jake's age and we were in the same ward with her family for about 12 years and they went to high school together - she got her call to Russia and opened it this weekend) but tell her to have fun in the MTC for 3 months! lol. Also tell Jessica good luck on her finals and that I'm praying for her! Also make sure dad doesn't go try to shoot a deer this year if he is hitting the fence at 10 yards! HAHAHA

Love you guys!

Elder Richardson

p.s. I'll try to upload some pictures next week!