Richardson Report

 I went to Mexico with Brynne.  We visited Queretaro - her mission for 8 months.  It is a very clean city and the Centro - a collection of old churches and plazas - is truly a wonderful place.  There were always lots of things to look at such as markets, shows, art, food stalls.  Brynne's companion Elizabeth was with us for the first day (Brynne was there longer than I was with Elizabeth). Queretaro has this amazing Roman-style Aquaduct that runs for miles and has like 84 arches or something like that. She had to point out to me that this Starbucks has valet parking! And I thought it was awesome to find an Irish pub in the middle of Mexico. This is el Pueblito - the suburb where Brynne served her mission. It's home to the piramides - the ancient pyramids One of the many churches - this one in El Pueblito. My dear friend Julia joined us for the second half of the trip.  We drove to San Miguel de Allende which is a city I have long wanted to visit.  It w...

 The day we got home from Italy...Nathan and his family arrived and we had a very fun full week with cousins!  The last weekend of their visit our German family came - Jenny Kauka with her four children.  Yeah, it was a crazy full house but it was so much fun I don't think anyone minded! -Ninja Destruction -Swimming at the Huffaker's -Hugging Uncle Josh goodbye The whole crew before they left. Avery went to girls camp with these two crazies!

  Josh was called as our new stake president.  He and I had both been feeling for awhile that he was going to be on the short list - we knew that this stake conference there was likely going to be some changes.  Three weeks ago he got up and said he needed to go to the Temple because the Lord told him to approach him.  So we scheduled a visit for the next available day and went.  He even skipped a pear-picking mutual night to do that, which told me just how important he felt this was.  I knew for sure then that he would be getting a new calling.  The seventies that came started their interviews at 8am on Saturday.  They had a long list and scheduled 6 minute interview slots that ran for almost four hours!  Isn't that crazy!  Josh's was at 9am.  Then we waited to see if we'd get a call back, and sure enough around noon the stake president asked us both to come down.  Josh already knew who the Lord wanted as his counselors and we...