Dear All,
I want to start by telling you about an awesome spiritual experience I
had this week. This week, I had a completely inspired idea to
translate my own patriarchal blessing into Spanish. Doing this was
such spiritual experience because I was deciphering each and every
word in my blessing as I was translating. It was so neat! If you
haven't read your patriarchal blessing in a while, please do so now! I
was so lost in the translation, I lost track of time and went over 30
minutes of study time haha.
This week was not the best week regarding finding and teaching
lessons. We only had one new investigator found and it was while I
was on an exchange with Elder Hild. It's actually the son of our
recent convert, Hermana Guzman! This exchange took place on Tuesday;
I went to the area of the other elders. It was my first time really
being with Elder Hild. He is from Seattle, WA and has been out for 20
months but he was an English Elder for 16 months...I think I already
mentioned that. We just did potential hunting for most of the night
and then we had a good lesson with a menos activo family. We actually
taught them how to have a Noche de Hogar on their own and they said
they would prepare a lesson for next week and we said we would bring
the treat haha.
We met back up on Wednesday for lunch at La Jarochita!!! It's the BEST
Hispanic restaurant in the mission. I think we may be going there
today too!
We actually had our normal weekly lesson with the Guzmans on Thursday
this week. We taught Hermana Guzman tithing and fasting and invited
them to fast. They are so sweet I love hermano Guzman. He actually
bore his testimony yesterday and his voice is so funny to listen to
and he is so spiritual! He's from the Dominican Republic and he's un
blanquito! Haha we love the Guzmans you will always end up laughing
while visiting with them just because of how animated Hermano Guzman
is even when we can't understand him we just can't help but laugh.
That night we went to run an errand for the Hermana missionaries. We
went back to Georgetown South to visit their recent convert Elmer
who's on the brink of going less active. We met him and shared a
message with him.
So get this. Saturday was a very very interesting day. So recently
Elder Browne, our senior mission vehicle coordinator, implemented a
new thing called...The Car Fast! From now on all mission cars will be
grounded every first Saturday of the month for the whole day to save
miles. So with that said, we walked alllll day Saturday! It was kinda
fun actually. I'm so so grateful for our car. I'm such a spoiled
missionary. Here's a miracle. So we headed off at like 2 after doing
some inside work and we showed up to a less actives house at 3 for a
lesson that we couldn't confirm because we didn't have their number.
We walk a few miles there and they were home and we taught them!! It
was super cool and worth the walk. They are the Delgadillo family.
Their son Andres is less active and so we got to know him and we found
out he hadn't read in the BOM in a year so I asked him what his
favorite BOM story was and we read 1 Nephi 3 it was great. So then it
was like 4 when we finally left so we did go up into the land of
Manassas and we did wait at the McDonalds for the other Elders to get
there with a dinner from a member they were carrying in a bag. We ate
there and then we headed out to Coverstone which is about a 30 minute
walk from our apartment and then we knocked into the complex security
guys door and he said we can't be there after 8 so we had to leave
haha. So we walked home. It was an interesting day. My legs were fine
until the very last walk home. I took a pic of us walking down this
super long road.
Yesterday we went out in the morning for our weekly before-church
roundup to try and get people to church. We FINALLY saw our
investigator Alex in GTS and we talked to him and he said he's just
been working out-of-state! We knocked on Armandos door and we
apologized for knocking too hard the other night. We straight up
asked him if he's still interested and he said no. We dropped 2
investigators this week and they both had baptismal dates planned 😥
Church was normal, one thing I notice that's different from Spanish
wards and English wards is that....in English wards most fast Sundays
there will almost always be moments of silence between people getting
up to share their testimony. However, in Spanish wards there are
almost NEVER any pauses between testimonies! Everybody just gets up
there and shares!! Sometimes I think I want to share my testimony but
I can't because we run out of time. Anyway our classes were good.
Like I said, our teacher Hermano Dorsey is amazing! He's a CES
missionary so he has his own plaque and he's fluent in Spanish and
French!! And I've personally declared he is the BEST teacher I have
ever had in my life! We all look forward to his lessons. Sunday night
we had a bunch of people to try and visit but none of them were home.
Today we are planning on going to the Air and Space museum by Dulles
Airport. I've been there before about 2 years ago but I can't wait to
go again. We are going to visit a less active that we found tonight.
It's always awesome when you find a less active that's not in the ward
directory.
This Thursday I will hit my year mark of being out on the mission! I
can't believe that. We are planning to go to Smash Burger for my first
time cuz I've heard it's super good.
That's about all. Don't forget to read your patriarchal blessing, and
take the time to read it word for word! You will gain a deeper
appreciation for it because that's what I received. Love you all have
a good week!
❤️ Elder Thompson
Finally got new scriptures and tags!!
Me and Elder Brunsdale on the car fast
I want to start by telling you about an awesome spiritual experience I
had this week. This week, I had a completely inspired idea to
translate my own patriarchal blessing into Spanish. Doing this was
such spiritual experience because I was deciphering each and every
word in my blessing as I was translating. It was so neat! If you
haven't read your patriarchal blessing in a while, please do so now! I
was so lost in the translation, I lost track of time and went over 30
minutes of study time haha.
This week was not the best week regarding finding and teaching
lessons. We only had one new investigator found and it was while I
was on an exchange with Elder Hild. It's actually the son of our
recent convert, Hermana Guzman! This exchange took place on Tuesday;
I went to the area of the other elders. It was my first time really
being with Elder Hild. He is from Seattle, WA and has been out for 20
months but he was an English Elder for 16 months...I think I already
mentioned that. We just did potential hunting for most of the night
and then we had a good lesson with a menos activo family. We actually
taught them how to have a Noche de Hogar on their own and they said
they would prepare a lesson for next week and we said we would bring
the treat haha.
We met back up on Wednesday for lunch at La Jarochita!!! It's the BEST
Hispanic restaurant in the mission. I think we may be going there
today too!
We actually had our normal weekly lesson with the Guzmans on Thursday
this week. We taught Hermana Guzman tithing and fasting and invited
them to fast. They are so sweet I love hermano Guzman. He actually
bore his testimony yesterday and his voice is so funny to listen to
and he is so spiritual! He's from the Dominican Republic and he's un
blanquito! Haha we love the Guzmans you will always end up laughing
while visiting with them just because of how animated Hermano Guzman
is even when we can't understand him we just can't help but laugh.
That night we went to run an errand for the Hermana missionaries. We
went back to Georgetown South to visit their recent convert Elmer
who's on the brink of going less active. We met him and shared a
message with him.
So get this. Saturday was a very very interesting day. So recently
Elder Browne, our senior mission vehicle coordinator, implemented a
new thing called...The Car Fast! From now on all mission cars will be
grounded every first Saturday of the month for the whole day to save
miles. So with that said, we walked alllll day Saturday! It was kinda
fun actually. I'm so so grateful for our car. I'm such a spoiled
missionary. Here's a miracle. So we headed off at like 2 after doing
some inside work and we showed up to a less actives house at 3 for a
lesson that we couldn't confirm because we didn't have their number.
We walk a few miles there and they were home and we taught them!! It
was super cool and worth the walk. They are the Delgadillo family.
Their son Andres is less active and so we got to know him and we found
out he hadn't read in the BOM in a year so I asked him what his
favorite BOM story was and we read 1 Nephi 3 it was great. So then it
was like 4 when we finally left so we did go up into the land of
Manassas and we did wait at the McDonalds for the other Elders to get
there with a dinner from a member they were carrying in a bag. We ate
there and then we headed out to Coverstone which is about a 30 minute
walk from our apartment and then we knocked into the complex security
guys door and he said we can't be there after 8 so we had to leave
haha. So we walked home. It was an interesting day. My legs were fine
until the very last walk home. I took a pic of us walking down this
super long road.
Yesterday we went out in the morning for our weekly before-church
roundup to try and get people to church. We FINALLY saw our
investigator Alex in GTS and we talked to him and he said he's just
been working out-of-state! We knocked on Armandos door and we
apologized for knocking too hard the other night. We straight up
asked him if he's still interested and he said no. We dropped 2
investigators this week and they both had baptismal dates planned 😥
Church was normal, one thing I notice that's different from Spanish
wards and English wards is that....in English wards most fast Sundays
there will almost always be moments of silence between people getting
up to share their testimony. However, in Spanish wards there are
almost NEVER any pauses between testimonies! Everybody just gets up
there and shares!! Sometimes I think I want to share my testimony but
I can't because we run out of time. Anyway our classes were good.
Like I said, our teacher Hermano Dorsey is amazing! He's a CES
missionary so he has his own plaque and he's fluent in Spanish and
French!! And I've personally declared he is the BEST teacher I have
ever had in my life! We all look forward to his lessons. Sunday night
we had a bunch of people to try and visit but none of them were home.
Today we are planning on going to the Air and Space museum by Dulles
Airport. I've been there before about 2 years ago but I can't wait to
go again. We are going to visit a less active that we found tonight.
It's always awesome when you find a less active that's not in the ward
directory.
This Thursday I will hit my year mark of being out on the mission! I
can't believe that. We are planning to go to Smash Burger for my first
time cuz I've heard it's super good.
That's about all. Don't forget to read your patriarchal blessing, and
take the time to read it word for word! You will gain a deeper
appreciation for it because that's what I received. Love you all have
a good week!
❤️ Elder Thompson
Finally got new scriptures and tags!!
Me and Elder Brunsdale on the car fast
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