Dear All,
This letter will probably be short, although I always say that and
then it's not so haha. We had another awesome solid week. Last week
we had lots of lessons and one of them was basically begging a less
active youth to come back to young men's it was good though. We got a
new investigator and we don't know her first name still so we still
just call her Hermana Chavez even though she's not a member haha. We
set up our expectations and we will be teaching her The Restoration
next time this week. We had another lesson with Julio, he's about 16
and he's so ready for baptism he just doesn't realize that! We also
teach this kid named Charlie who's also about 16 and he's so
interested in finding the right church, I find it so interesting that
he has that interest at that age. And then we taught Elkin. He's
also like 15 or 16 and he is going to get baptized for sure!!! He does
everything we invite him to do and he just understands the gospel!
Elkin and Julio are on date for baptism.
We had interviews with President Huntsman this week and those were
alright. Everything my mission president says to me is exactly what I
need to hear every time, it's so amazing. Well yesterday we went to
church and we got Charlie to church! It was great. After church, we
had dinner with Obispo Uriarte and his wife and I found out she use to
teach special education at Spanish Oaks Elementary and she knew my
mom!! Crazy! Anyway, we had a great time with them and we got a bunch
of names of people we need to visit. That's basically what happened
this week. Today we went shopping, got lunch at Cafe Rio and we are
playing basketball again at the chapel. This week on the 9th I'll hit
my 6 month mark! Woo! I don't have any pictures this week other than
my little diagram thing again...and because I got this haircut and
this lady destroyed my hair so I don't like my look right now hahaha
anyway. I love you all and have a good Labor Day and a good week!!
❤️ Elder Thompson
Week 24
Dear all,
This week has been crazy crazy. Transfers were this Thursday, and I
had my first area change!! I moved on from McLean and am now in Little
River living in west Springfield. I lost my stuff in my area book
because I switched so I have to remember what I did...I had my last
district meeting on Tuesday and we took pics and with our zone too! I
miss serving with them. I was able to go to the Pupusaria for the
last time!, 😍 Those pupusas are so good. Well, transfer doctrine
came via email Tuesday night, and that's when I found out I was
leaving. I spent the next day packing and stuff. I said bye to some
members but I didn't get to say goodbye to all of them 🙄🙄 ...didn't
have time. I went to transfers the next day on Thursday and now I'm
here with Elder Gosain!! He is so awesome. He is from Mexico but
speaks fluent English along with Spanish so it's a huge help!!! He
lived in and out from Mexico to Utah all his childhood and he even
went to the high school that was converted to what is now the CCM!!!
Super cool. His family lives in West Jordan now. He has 6 months
left in his mission. Yeah, now I'm in a completely different area and
I don't know where anything is again haha 😳 The first few days have
been sooooo busy. We're so much more busy with all these things to
do. I've gone from having a couple lessons a week to 3-4 per day! Our
area is the most progressing area right now! One of my first nights
here we had a 3 hour long bible bash lesson but it ended well and the
lady said she would read the BOM. We left her house at 10:20 😩😩 but
oh well. We have 4 investigators with a baptismal date! The change
was big but I'll get used to it.
So at transfers I finally got to say hi to my friend Ellyse Winward!
She is in my mission!!! We went to DC together Senior year on a tour
and we're both back! Anyway, we actually were assigned to switch cars
with her and her companion and we did, but they forgot to take their
church key off of the keys and we forgot to switch the parking decal
sticker haha so we planned to meet at the Centerville stake center
Friday. So that day, we go out of our apartment for the first time
and....our cars not there. WE GOT TOWED!!!! Ugh...and this was Elder
Gosain's first time being towed in the mission haha...and! We get a
ride to the towing company and my home debit card was declining!! None
of us had enough money so it was just awkward and we had to leave
haha. We somehow got a ride from Elder Browne who's in charge of the
cars and he payed for it with his card so it will deduct out of our
grocery funds next month 😢 dang.
Well there's not a whole lot to write. I had my first sacrament
meeting and this ward is super awesome! It's really involved, a lot
more than my last ward. Well I have a ton of pictures this week
because it was transfer week. I can't think of anything else right
now. I love you all and hope you have another good week! I have so
much to do.
❤️ Elder Thompson
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