A BAPTISM WHICH MADE FOR A GREAT SUNDAY EVENING...

Hey!

I don't have a whole lot to say this week. The big highlight of the week was last night. Last night after church was Trisha's baptism!!!! It was great. We had a lot of support and a very good program. It was awesome to see how excited she was! Hopefully we can continue to get her and her husband coming to church! The Pollock Brothers in our ward did the Baptism and Confirmation.

The 4th was awesome! The fireworks here are insane but we will get to that later. That morning we went to the big parade. It was decent. I am just not a big fan of parades. Then we walked around all of the canopies and booths that were set up and handed out pass along cards. After that we went to a BBQ at the Bett's house. We only stayed there for about an hour and then went to a big BBQ at the Pollock's! It was a blast. We played football, soccer, did some fireworks and ate a ton of food. After that we headed to the park by the High school to watch the firework show. It was pretty awesome I will try and send a couple of videos to you that I took during it.

So today was transfers!!!! Well we are both staying which is exactly what we wanted! We are pretty excited and so is our ward which was comforting. One of the other Elders in the other Laurel ward, Elder Graham, is getting transferred to Havre and we are getting Elder Allen!!!

I am sad to see Elder Graham leave but so pumped to be getting Elder Allen! He and I are really good friends so it should be a blast to serve around him again!!

Today we just went shed hunting since we left it up to Elder Graham to choose because he's getting transferred. I found another small elk shed. Nothing to big but it is something. Also saw a couple nice muley bucks! The one buck is huge!

Love you tons

-Elder Richardson

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Hey Dad,

You can read all about our week in my email to Mom. It was an awesome week filled with lots of BBQs, fireworks, teaching, and to top it off a baptism!!! It was great. Plus we are both staying here for another 6 weeks!! I am super excited!

So today we went shed hunting. I actually didn't choose that, Elder Graham did. It was pretty fun but we have picked the place over pretty well. I was able to find one small 6 point raghorn. Other than that it was kind of a bust. I did get within 100 yards of a group of muley bucks! There were two bucks in the group that were looking pretty good. The one buck is REALLY WIDE!!! I send you a video of them. The video is pretty shaky because it is me holding the binoculars and Ipad which is difficult. (we haven't figured out how to upload his videos yet - sorry)

I have been able to keep up pretty well with the world cup so far. We have a couple of members that like soccer that have been giving me the inside scoop. I hope Netherlands or Argentina wins it. Van Persie and Robben on the Netherlands are awesome but Messi on Argentina is well... MESSI!!!! Haha!

Love you tons hope to hear that we got drawn for the Dec. 36B hunt here shortly! Have a great week! (UPDATE ON DRAW: Scott nor Jake got drawn...so I guess it's extra tags for them this year...but at least he'll get out hunting with his dad when he gets back)

Oh ya I forgot to tell you! I got re-certified to drive!!!!!!!!! I had to watch a powerpoint and take a test!

Love you -Jake