Tag: Iceland

9/20/25 It is hard to believe that the first year of our mission is over. On September 16, 2024 we entered the MTC and on September 24, 2024 we came to Iceland. In some ways it has been a long year! And in so many ways it has really flown by. We have several friends…

9/13/25 Wow, it’s been a week! Get comfortable and here we go! Several months ago Todd and I began to plan a trip around the ring road. We decided to take our trip in September of this year to celebrate the half way point of our mission (woohoo!) and to explore the east side of…

9/6/25 It is hard to believe that it is September. We are having beautiful weather, we are busy working and serving as we have always done. And yet, we are in the month that our mission started one year ago. I’ll probably be reminiscing about this all month. How can we be half way through…

September 2, 2025 Iceland Zone Conference & Mission tour with President & Sister Aidukaitis. As part of our zone conference we made President & Sister Aidukaitis a small gift. Each of the elders shared a picture of themselves somewhere in Iceland along with a thought about serving as missionaries in Iceland. I made it into…

8/30/25 While this week started out as a typical missionary week for us, it quickly took a turn in a different direction! Read on to see what we’ve been up to as we finish out the month of August. Sunday and Monday were full of our regular work. On Sunday we had our church meetings,…

8/23/25 Hello, again! Greetings from Reykjavik — we’ve had a great week! For the first half of this week my mom was here continuing her visit with us. We really appreciate that she would travel so far to join us for a week. She was a real trooper to hang out with us while we…

8/16/25 Hi, everyone! Another week has flown by (and blown by)! Here’s what we’ve been up to: We started the week with another great day with Patriarch and Sister McQuivey. We drove them and their son to Selfoss with us Sunday morning where we attended the branch meetings and Patriarch McQuivey gave two patriarchal blessings…

8/9/25 Hello, everyone! We’ve had some fun this week with big things and small things. Let’s start off with an unbelievable P-day we had with our friends Bragi & Áslaug. Bragi is the branch president of the Selfoss branch and we love him and his wife Áslaug. For months we have waited for a good…

8/2/25 Hello, everybody! We’ve had a good week. I am feeling good – thank you for your concern – and, as usual, we’ve had interesting work to do. I read a talk by President Thomas S. Monson this week called “Finding Joy in the Journey”. You can read the whole talk here. In it he…

7/26/25 Hello, everybody! Welcome back and thanks for coming to read our mission blog. Let’s do a day by day recap for this post. Here we go: Sunday: We attended the Reykjavik 2nd Branch on Sunday morning, as we do each third Sunday of the month. The entire branch presidency was out of town this…

7/19/25 We’ve had such an interesting week, I’m excited to tell you all about it. Let’s get started! We began our week with church in the Reykjavik 1st branch on Sunday. Of course we needed a picture of Kathryn & Dana with the Christus statue in our foyer. It’s such a beautiful work of art…

7/12/25 Throughout this past week we have seen the tender mercies of the Lord abundantly in our lives. Each day has come and gone with another reminder from our Heavenly Father that He is aware of us, that He loves us, and that He is guiding and blessing us. In a 2005 conference talk Elder…

7/5/25 A new month is here and we have new adventures. Well, some of the same adventures, but definitely some new ones too! Read on for our report from the first week of July. Sunday was a full and busy church day for us. After church there were two baptisms in the 1st branch and…

6/21/25 Another week has gone by and we’ve had all sorts of fun and work. Would you like to see what we’ve been up to? Read on! Sunday: Our daughter Erika & her husband Bridger were with us for the first half of the day Sunday. They came with us to the 2nd branch and…

6/15/25 Hello, everyone! Welcome to the next edition of, what is happening on the Richardson’s mission?! There’s something to be said for senior missions — they are not boring. While some things stay the same throughout the weeks there is always variety and it makes it so fun. And, my companion is wonderful and he…