Author: Pamela Richardson
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Good People, Good Food, & Great Adventures
3/1/25 Hello Friends! Welcome to another episode of: What will happen in Iceland this week?! Come with us and see! As usual, we started out with a busy Sunday. We drove to Selfoss Sunday morning to spend the day with the Selfoss branch. There were 17 branch members, 1 friend, and 4 missionaries in the…
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A Few Fun Things 🙂
2/22/25 We started out our week with a very busy Sunday. We attended three sacrament meetings, I had an evening zoom meeting followed by a video chat meeting, & Todd had two evening zoom meetings! Our first sacrament meeting was in the Reykjavik 2nd branch which is a Spanish branch. Their numbers are few but…
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Ökuskóli
215/25 Hello, Friends! Yep, we’ve had a great week. As usual, there have been all sorts of things to do, places to go, and people to see. Iceland is amazing and senior missions are wonderful, exhausting, and exciting. The two put together are a beautiful combination! For the last several weeks Todd and I have…
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Red Alert
2/8/25 And welcome to another addition of, “What Crazy Things Will Happen in Iceland This Week?!” I’ll say this about Iceland: it is an exciting place to live! Our week started out like all of our weeks start out; on Sunday we went to church and on Monday we had institute and YSA night at…
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So Long, January-
2/1/25 I could pretend I’m sad that January is over. But I am not! January is known for being a long, cold, dark, hard month. It lived up to its reputation for us this year and we’re now ready to move on to February! There were blessings in the hard things this month, but they…
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Back On Our Feet!
1/25/25 Hello Friends! I am happy to report that Todd and I are both healthy and back on our feet! This month has given us a run for our money with illness, and we appreciate your prayers and support so very much. As this week has gone by the lingering symptoms have come to an…
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Slow Recovery
1/18/25 We had a very busy Sunday to start off our week. I was still sick, but recovering enough to plan on fulfilling our responsibilities throughout the day. Before we left for church Todd gave me another blessing. My entire request for this blessing was that I wouldn’t have a coughing fit during church! He…
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Everything is beautiful in His time.
1/11/25 This week began with a lot of cooking, baking, and eating. Food was the order of the day for both Sunday and Monday. Let’s begin with Sunday. Each fast Sunday the senior couples take turns having a meal for the ten elders who are in the south part of Iceland. January was my turn…
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In With the New
1/4/25 Happy New Year! Who would have ever thought we would be living in Iceland in 2025?! We still can’t believe it and we are looking forward to our adventures continuing throughout 2025. Apparently, 2025 will be our blackout year. We will spend the entire year in Iceland. Four days down, 361 to go! Do…
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Gleðileg jól!
12/28/24 Merry Christmas! Or, as I’m trying to learn to say in Icelandic, Gleðileg jól! We hope you had a wonderful Christmas celebration this past week. In Iceland, Christmas isn’t officially over until January 6th, so we will continue to celebrate the gift of our Savior Jesus Christ for another week. Hopefully, we will keep…
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Here We Come A Caroling
12/21/24 Hello, Friends! Are you ready to jump into a busy week?? Here we go! We started with a full Sunday. Todd & I both spoke in the Reykjavik 1st branch. Todd spoke about making sure Jesus Christ is our focus at Christmas time and always. I spoke about keeping the Holy Ghost in our…
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On Top of the World
12/14/24 We began our week in Akureyri, Iceland. It is a charming little town with about 20,000 residents. Akureyri is built right along the edge of Eyjafjörður fjord and the setting is breathtakingly beautiful. On Sunday we attended the Akureyri branch of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The branch is small and…
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Winter is Here
12/7/24 December began with some real winter weather here in Iceland. On Monday we had a yellow warning across west and south Iceland. A yellow warning signals snow, strong winds, and sleet. It was an adventure! We’ve been in cold, icy weather for a couple of weeks and this storm brought in a lot of…
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Happy Thanksgiving!
11/30/24 It’s hard to believe that Thanksgiving is over and December is here. The time is going by fast and we are so grateful for the chance to be here on our mission. To be completely honest, I’m missing my kids and grandkids this week. They’ve been grown and on their own for some time,…
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Eldgos!
11/23/24 This week started out with a busy, wonderful Sunday. Do you remember when I told you about our friend Doris and her son Perfect who were learning from the missionaries? Well, on Sunday morning before church, Doris and Perfect were baptized by Elder Pollock and Elder Nielsen. It was so wonderful to be a…