Ritchie, Max

Hey everyone and Feliz Navidad to everyone!!!!  I hope everybody is having an amazing Christmas and spending it with friends and family, or to my follow missionaries out there, I hope that you are finding the true Joy by helping others come unto Christ by the good news of this Grand Gospel of Jesus Christ. The spirit of Christmas has touched me a lot this time of year and so I would love to share some of my thoughts and feeling with you as I have been changed through grace and merits of a baby born 2 millennia ago. First of all, a little update of what has been going on around here, since I haven't written in a little bit. Well, im getting more into my fourth whitewash (which means they replaced the old 2 missionaries with 2 new ones in an area) for the 4th time in 4 areas. So the work has been a little slower recently but we're working with a LOT of faith. And so we're trying to get to know the members, the people in teaching, and basically everyone haha because our area i...

Oh hello everyone, what is going on?? I'm just gonna hop into it because I got a LOT to say! Anyways, so we had transfers and I got transferred!! I am now serving in a town called Nealtican. Now, Nealtican is a little bit of a legend in the mission, and ill tell you all why. So Nealtican is a small little town, about an hour west of the city of Puebla. Its small, just around 6000 people in this town. But there are 3 stakes!! Like Nealtican is famous for having just an insane amount of members. Like we are covering 2 Wards, but a lot of companionships have 3. On our 5 minute walk to the church we met 12 members and leaders of our Wards haha. Everyone calls it here "Little Utah" or "Little Provo" because there are so many members too and because I think someone said there is more members per capita here or something but idk so someone will have to check that for me haha. It's also located underneath the volcanoes, so let's hope we don't have another At...