just so many things back to back and we've been so dang busy!! But
that can be a good thing. It's good to have a schedule like that every
so often. ...this letter will probably be super long FYI.
After p day last week our night had a bunch of random things and tasks
we had to do. And we see this young couple trying to change a spare
tire so we go over in our pros clothes and helped them out. After like
30 minutes they got their spare on and they offered us 20$ for our gas
but we refused it.
Tuesday, after district meeting we had an exchange with the McLean
zone leaders. All 3 of us went to their area so we were in the English
program for a day. We had a big ol' service of weed pulling in the sun
for a few hours. Then we had a dinner with a member and split up and I
went with Elder Hastings. We spent the night with their WML Brother
Williams whose from England. He's the coolest guy I've met here
honestly...we had a lesson with akid named Rubis and later we taught
this guy named James and we taught him the Restoration. It was the
MOST spiritual lesson of my mission. He accepted a baptismal invite
and we taught him to his needs and having a member there is usually
always best.
We stayed the night at the zone leaders place and then went straight
to zone conference Wednesday morning from there. We had our zone
conference for 6 hours and it was spiritually uplifting as always.
That night, we taught an investigator I had taught last year named
Pedro Meruvia about the Family. We used the proclamation to the world
and they really liked it and they had missed having the missionaries
over.
So we had ANOTHER exchange this week but this time with the Spanish
Zone leaders in Woodbridge. We drove way down there and spent the day
with them. I was with Elder Lucero and we had 2 lessons one was with
this SUPER solid guy named Jorge...typical Hispanic name I know. We
read the First 12 verses of the BOM with him and he says to us..."So
if it says there was One who descended down from heaven...was it the
Angel Moroni?" And this was his second meeting with the missionaries.
Haha he had kept his commitment of reading the introduction!!! So he
had read a bit about Moroni earlier. That made us smile. Our other
lesson was with a couple and I learned so much about teaching to
people's needs from Elder Lucero. He's awesome. He has a thing where
he asks to take pictures of as many people as he contacts and teaches
in the streets and in homes so we got a pic with them haha
So then we go spent the night at their place in Woodbridge and then
headed back home early morning and got stuck in some good I-95
traffic. It was awful. We went straight to a move. We helped Hermano
Torres move from his home to a new apartment in Falls Church. We got
there at around 10 and didn't finish until 3. We were starving by the
time we were done and exhausted. Thankfully Hermano Torres took us to
Taco Bamba after. We came back and tried to finish some weekly
planning but I just crashed and basically passed out. We were pretty
drained. That night, we had the chance to meet the father of the
Fajardo family because he's visiting from El Salvador! We had a last
minute Noche de Hogar with him and it was so great to meet him!
*Shoutout to Elder Fajardo serving in San Jose, California!* I love
that family.
The next day guess what happened? We had ANOTHER move! This time we
helped a member in the Falls Church Ward put all their stuff in a
moving truck. This time we said we were only gonna help for a couple
hours and no more. It was pretty successful. AND Saturday was another
one of those car fast days so we couldn't use our car.
Nothing happened Sunday out of the ordinary except we had comp study
at the church and our stake president was leaving his office and my
comp Elder Cardona asked if he had time to do a practice teach with us
so we did a role play with him in Spanish and he was taking the role
of our investigator haha
It was a hectic week. Anyway...I'm all written out. I think that's
basically everything that went down. I hope you all have a happy 4th
of July tomorrow! Time surely is going by, for this Wednesday the 5th
marks my dad's 52nd birthday. Love you all.
❤️ Elder Thompson
My companions right now Elders Cardona and Andrus
Yard work service
Exchange with Lucero and his investigators
Jaime Fajardo with our WML Dany (the one whose not looking lol)
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