Missionary Week #13 -
December 10 – December 16, 2018
Monday December 10,
2018 – We got a little snow today and it is getting colder. We worked a 10 hr day again… We really like
getting off early on Friday!
Tuesday December 11,
2018 – We worked until lunch and headed to the little Pizza Place right by
our work. It was great pan pizza. This time
we actually got a seat! Last time we
tried it there were no seats left in the little shop so we took it back to our
cafeteria! Tonight we went to the
grocery store and we spent about an hour – finding all things on our list…again
– finding the right isle and then the right item that you need is a real
challenge. We marked off the last item
and headed for the check outs. The guy
said, “well we’re having trouble, we don’t have internet.” So some cards are working 50-50 chance your
card will work – but if it’s international – it probably won’t work. So John tried all 3 cards he had – and none
of them worked. So we said “what do we
do now?” and he said – “You can pay cash” (we’ve never needed cash – so we didn’t have
any!) So we told him we didn’t have any
and he said Well I’m sorry for the inconvenience you can just leave the basket and
we’ll put it all back for you.” So I
forgot to tell you about most of the stores here – you have to bring your own
bags and you bag your own groceries. We
couldn’t leave our bags that were already packed- so we unpacked them, and you
also have to put a little plastic “key” in the grocery carts to get a cart….then
when you put the cart back in the parking lot you lock your cart into a cart
that is already there – and it pushes out your plastic key. Hard to describe. But I’ll show you a picture.
Anyway, we needed to get our
keys back too. We went home with nothing!
We got a Marco Polo from Janell and Jennifer that Janell
made it to Phoenix and they were headed home to St. Johns for all the
happenings this week in our family!
Wednesday December 12,
2018 We went to work and went back
to our pizza place – since we didn’t have bread to take our own lunch
again! We then walked to a bank to get
cash! We worked until 6 pm and came home and headed out to the grocery store
again. We were prepared, and we had
already had a dry run, so this shopping trip was done in record time! And the card worked and we got to go home
with food for the week! YAY!
About 4pm our time, JT (our grandson) was on the radio
station in Show Low, his middle school choir was singing on the radio! So because of the internet – we were able to go
to their sight and listen live! The Host
of the morning show had each child introduce themselves and what they wanted
for Christmas! The kids ranged from 4-8th
grade. It was J.T.’s turn and he said “I’m
J.T. Richardson and I want a Golden Retriever”
The Host said – “do you think you’ll get it?” and without hesitation he said “Nope!” Everyone laughed. They sang 3 songs and they sounded GREAT!
Thursday, December 13,
2018 We went to work and after lunch
we sent a Marco Polo to Lily (our granddaughter) and we sang Happy Birthday to
her! She turned 8yrs old today. Then we sent a Good Luck Marco Polo to our
son Jaylen, who was going through all the final tests and physical tests this week. Big week for him and the Academy has finally come to an
end and He Passed!
Friday, December 14,
2018 - We went to work and worked until 10:30. Then we headed to the place
where we register for a “Person Number”.
This is kind of like our Social Security number – it identifies you and
you are legal to be in the country – it’s only needed if you’re going to live
here over one year. We waited for an
hour but it went pretty fast – we had to have all of our documents in hand and
completed a questionnaire on their computers and that was then printed and the
lady that helped us said that we would hear in 3-4 weeks if we passed! Hopefully!
We then rode the train to Kista – and found a movie
theatre! It was the Premier of Aquaman
and we got popcorn and soda. No ice – they
don’t believe in Ice here! I can’t
figure it out. But the popcorn was great
and it was a good movie. Oh! Bonus it was in English with Swedish captioning It
was in a huge mall and after the movie we ate at their food court.
We got home and waited for 11:30pm – to watch the Graduation
of Jaylen and his classmates on Facebook Live!
It was fantastic! They had
several speakers and a video of all the training that they gone through – book work-articles-statutes,
physical, driving, pepper spray, tazers, everything that they did as a
team. Then they called them all up, one
by one in alphabetical order. He was
presented his Certificate & Badge by his Chief of Police Lance Spivey and Jaylen’s
wife Blaire was able to pin his badge on him.
Jaylen with Family -  |
Jonathan, Janell, Officer Richardson, Jennifer! Oh and Titus!
With all of the Lei's that were made for him! Candy, drinks
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We were so thankful we could watch it and feel like we were
apart of the ceremony. We are sure proud
of him and the hard work he’s put into all the training, for Blaire helping him
to have the time to get his assignments done, dress shirts and pants ironed and
shoes shined EV E R Y N I G H T for the last 18-19 weeks!!!! They are quite
the Team. This was a neat ending to our
eventful day.
Saturday, December
15, 2018 – All of our kids got together
for the Family Christmas Party in St. Johns and for Lily’s Baptism! We got a lot of Marco Polo’s of before and
after the Baptism – Lily talked to us and told us about her day, it was
great! Then later that night we got
Marco Polos from the “Fire Wagon” Caroling trailer – Dinner and the Kids
opening presents from Cousins and then the Adult’s have a White Elephant Gift
exchange…..Glad we got some pictures because I don’t think we would have
believed or understood some of the presents!
Pretty funny!!! We are happy that
Traditions were kept and that brings us JOY!
During our Saturday, we got on our train and rode it to the
end of the line and back home! We got
off and walked around in Brommaplan and it was cold! Later in the afternoon we went to our Church’s
Ward Christmas Party. It was nicely decorated,
and we had ham, cheese, bread and a rice pudding and treats! Candy, marshmallows, Pepperkaka (gingerbread
cookies), little cream puffs and Jul Must – a soda they only sell at Christmas
and Easter. Then we played “Name that
Song” you had to name the song first and
your table had to help sing a few phrases!
It was fun and everybody then helped clean up. It was a great evening.
This brings us to the end of our week. It has been snowing most of the day. It’s beautiful. We were able to use the car
to go to church today and we had safe travels.
We hope that your week has been a great one too and that you
will have safe travels always! We wish
you a very Merry Christmas and hope that you feel our Savior’s Love for you on
a daily basis!
Elder & Sister Richardson
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