Category: Iceland

6/725 Welcome to a special edition mid-week post! We had so much to share about our day on the Westman Islands that we needed a full post for all of the information and pictures. We’re excited to share with you! Let’s start with some information about the Westman Islands (Vestmannaeyjar in Icelandic) and how the…

6/7/25 Look what blew into Iceland!!! Get ready for family overload, lots of gorgeous sights, and tons of missionary work. It’s been a crazy fun week and we are exhausted and happy. Before telling you about Erika & Bridger there is something else very important from the start of the week! On Sunday Daníel Viborg…

5/31/25 Hello Friends! I’d like to start out by reassuring all of you that I am just fine. I appreciate the love, concern, and support you sent me after last week’s post when I shared my my horrible, no good, very bad day. 🙂 I love you for caring and praying for us. When Todd…

5/24/25 Hello Friends! Welcome to our week in review. Let’s get started with a few good things that happened on Sunday. During church on Sunday I had a meeting with Reddys Peña. She is the new relief society president in the Spanish branch and she and I met to do some training. The problem is,…

5/17/25 The beautiful month of May is in full swing! The weather this week has been gorgeous and our schedule has been a little less hectic. That combination makes for enjoying missionary work in the nearly endless sunshine that comes with living on the top of the planet. Today, May 17th, the sun rose at…

5/10/25 Hello from Iceland! As usual, it’s been a busy week. We’ve had lots to do. I think for this post we’ll go day by day with some highlights. Sunday: Meetings. Todd had a meeting before church. We had our regular Sunday meetings and took the sacrament during fast and testimony meeting. I had a…

5/3/25 Hello, everybody! Welcome to the first Richardson Missions post in the month of May! A new month is always exciting. I wonder what will happen?! Let’s find out together. 🙂 We started this great week on Sunday going to Selfoss for church. Every fourth Sunday we join their branch to offer support and fellowshipping…

4/26/25 Hello! Let’s start this great week with some waterfalls! After a busy Easter Sunday we enjoyed a P-day outing with several of the missionaries on Monday. We loaded up the cars to head to the south coast and find some waterfalls. We enjoyed having Elder Moyer and Elder Young ride along with us. These…

4/19/25 Hello, Friends! Happy Easter. We’ve had a holy week as we have prepared for this Easter Sunday. We hope your week has been holy too. Thanks for joining us as we serve the Lord in Iceland where, honestly, every week is holy and wonderful in its own way. But this week is especially holy…

4/12/25 We started our week with General Conference Sunday. With the six hour time difference from Utah to Iceland, we have a different schedule for watching conference. On Sunday we met at the church with many different members in the Iceland district. From 12-2 we watched the Saturday evening conference session which had shown live…

4/5/25 Hello there! Welcome to another addition of the Richardson Missions! Settle in and join us with our work this week in Iceland. It’s a pretty great place to be! Coming up on April 13th we are having a missionary Easter concert. It is going to be a very nice program with the elders singing…

3/29/25 Here we are again! Another week and another blog post. Thanks for joining us! We’ve had a great week. We had a busy Sunday, starting with attending church in the Selfoss branch. Each month we attend church in Selfoss on the fourth Sunday and they always welcome us with open arms. This week was…

3/22/25 Hello, friends! This post marks six months since we began our mission. We started in the MTC on September 16, 2024 and we came to Iceland on September 24th. The time has gone fast! We (sort of) know what we are doing and we don’t get lost driving around town too often anymore. It’s…

3/15/25 Hello, Friends! We have had some adventures this week and I’m so glad you’re here to enjoy them with us! However, they are not Iceland adventures. This week we were in Denmark! Todd and I got to take a trip to Copenhagen and spend a few days with our mission leaders, President & Sister…

3/8/25 Hello, Friends! As we thought about what to share with you this week we decided to walk you through our meeting schedule. Let’s consider this a journey through a typical week as senior missionaries, one meeting at a time! Sometimes our posts are all waterfalls and northern lights; but in between all those glorious…