So this will be shorty short I know for sure. I just don't feel like
writing, especially when it comes down to the time to do it haha well
this week we only had 7 lessons which is less than normal. I had an
exchange with Elder Castillo on Wednesday. He's 21 and from Honduras,
his family still lives there! We had 2 lessons with members on that
exchange. This week was stake conference so we were uplifted with the
talks of our stake presidency, temple president and my mission
president. It was so awesome! Elder Gosain tried to translate for
the first time haha. I wanted to put something down I learned during
it but I cannot remember anything right now. And that's my week.
❤️ Elder Thompson
Dear All,
Had another awesome week here in Springfield. We had a bunch of
different things go on this week. This Tuesday instead of district
meeting we had zone training. It was pretty good, we raised a bunch
of goals that kind of made Elder Gosain overwhelmed but it's healthy.
We had to leave early from that to go to a lesson that ended up
canceling 😳 oops. Not a whole lot happened on Tuesday.
Wednesday, we had a lesson with Charlie and helped him out more. He
struggles to find time to read the BOM but we read with him when he
doesn't and it's so awesome to see how intrigued he is by the church
😃 Also Wednesday, we had a Noche de Hogar that was pretty...well the
message was awesome but we only had the investigators there at their
house and one member showed up 😥 it was kinda frustrating a bit
because we called SOO many people but none of them came even the
people who said they would be there 😳 oh well, we taught the law of
tithing and it turned out not too bad.
Friday morning me and my companion had a daunting experience. Elder
Gosain went to take a nap for the rest of lunch hour and I did too.
He went to his bed but I slept on the couch. I didn't really sleep
but whatever. The thing is, we both got up at the same time and he
told me something weird and kinda creepy. My companion told me he had
been trying to get out of bed for the past 10 minutes but, he was
stuck. He was being held still by some force, he couldn't move. He
said he felt a general pressure pushing him further into his bed,
keeping him from getting up. The creepy thing was, I had an "attack"
during the same time. The reason I got up off the couch is because I
had a massive anxiety attack, a LOT bigger and more intense than any
other one in my life I think. My thoughts about home, family and the
amount of time remaining in the mission came to me all at once and as
I was just laying there on the couch my heart started pounding so hard
and fast.....it was weird. We shared our experiences and then said a
prayer and asked The Lord to depart any unholy spirits or presences
around us. I hope that doesn't happen again.
We also had Spanish forum!! That's when all the Spanish missionaries
in the mission meet together in a meeting. It was good, we had
President Huntsman speak to us and his counselor President Burton. We
were taught the basic principle "New, in the pew, with a friend with a
date, in the water." We went over the importance of working with
members because most of the Spanish baptisms this year have been
through member referrals.
We had another lesson with Charlie Saturday, and we put him on date!
He accepted to prepare for baptism on the 25th of this month! We're
really excited for him. And, he came to church!
Yesterday (Sunday) was really good. I learned new things in church
and it was awesome to see Charlie there. After church, we had 2
dinners! We had one with this super nice lady I don't know her name
yet. She fed all 4 of us Elders in my district. I ate like 5 pupusas
and then after that we went to Hermana Rodriguez and she fed us a
huuuuge chile relleno. I ate soooo much this week. We had members
give us food 3 other times this past week!!! I ate so much. Then at
8, we had a lesson with Marcos and his wife Iris who's a returning
less active. We taught la palabra de sabiduría and haha Elder Gosain
felt prompted to ask em to remove any distractions in regards to the
commandment. And, they have s wall in their dining room with tons and
tons of collected wine bottles that haven't been used, and they
seriously took them all and dumped them down the sink!!! Hahahaha
😱😱😃 It was so great to see, an amazing act of faith! It was a great
lesson.
Well I'm caught up to today. We drove up to the mall in Tysons Corner
and looked around at things. We didn't buy anything haha. We've been
relaxing. Elder Gosain has got me into Bob Marley hahaha we've been
listening to some of his songs a lot. Well, I'm learning so much from
him. He's teaching me how to be a leader and how to look at things a
whole lot differently. He's a help. Gotta go, I love you all! Have a
great week!
❤️ Elder Thompson
I was teaching the gospel to the Gladers hahaha it looks like a Maze
Runner scene / Spanish Forum!! / The simplicity of our message found
on the wall haha
