Crazy milestone: I have now been out on the mission longer than Kyle!
😲 That took place yesterday! I have been out for 16.5 months now. I
don't want anyone to think I'm rubbing that in because it was not the
greatest circumstances for coming home early and I wouldn't want to
have that happen to anyone else. Shoutout to Elder Bade for the months
of service he has rendered in the mission field and I hope you'll do
well back home as you recover and move on with life. Thinking about ya
and praying for ya!
A lot of good things happened this past week out here in Arlington,
Virginia. We had interviews with President Huntsman and he told me
that he's gonna break up the trio haha we found out he said that to
all 3 of us. We helped Hermano Vasquez after interviews with his
computer for the nth time haha he's this 65 year old member from El
Salvador and he struggles to use technology, he's trying to learn how
to do some basic things with a computer so we help him like once a
week. He helps us a TON though when it comes to coming out with us to
lessons and stuff. He's single and lives alone and he's retired so he
has nothing to do. That night we taught Pedro Meruvia and his gf
Veronica. It started out good and the lesson we had with them last
time was excellent! But this time Veronica opened up on how she truly
feels about the BOM and she said she doesn't trust anything outside
the Bible. We showed her the video of the testimony of the BOM talk
given by Jeffrey R. Holland and she still kept shooting rebuttals at
us after the video. 😢
Wednesday we had a scheduled time to all meet as a zone for a Zone
picture and it took WAAAY too long for just a picture but oh well. We
did it. And Thursday we had district meeting because our zone leaders
did the training for my district. The LeSuers were there too!
SO! Friday was our triple split!!! And it was a success!! ✅🤣 it was a
little bit stressful as you could imagine but we made it happen. Im
gonna put in a screenshot of our schedule of that night. We had some
good plans. I went with Roberto Martinez, he's 18 but looks like he
could be 25 haha he really needed to go out with the missionaries so
it was good for him to be on the split. My companions Elder Andrus
went with Hermano Vasquez and Cardona went with our WML Dany Montoya.
It was awesome. I can now say while I was in a trio, we did a triple
split haha me and Berto went to a couple of appointments we had set up
but nobody answered so we visited 2 members.
Saturday morning we had an interesting lesson with this guy named
Carlos. We had to tactfully approach his lesson like PMG says because
he just talks and talks. We straight up asked him what his
expectations are from us and he said he wants to teach US haha. Anyway
we found out in his rambling that we were talking to a cold blooded
murderer...crazy right? The people you meet on the mission. But that
night we had a lesson with a new investigator Gilmer, and he is
actually pretty solid! He calls us and we have good lessons with him.
We explained really well what the BOM is and he really liked the new
information. We'll see how it goes with him.
Well Saturday night we got our transfer doctrine PDF again! I will be
staying here in Bella Vista as district leader and Elder Pickett will
be coming back to Bella Vista to be with me! He was in my very first
district in the mission field and it was in this ward! We are the 2
most senior missionaries now and we're gonna be together. Should be
fun. I've liked the trio. It's been fun and interesting to learn from!
Sunday was good. Elder Andrus and I blessed the Sacrament and it was
the first time I had done it in a long time....since the MTC! I said
one of the prayers and I said the closing prayer in Sacrament for the
third time already haha and Obispo's and his counselor Hermano
Reynolds approached me and they said "we thought it was Moroni himself
offering the sacramental prayer! We need to teach the youth to say the
prayers like that! It's little things like that that matter" They and
multiple other members complimented me on how well I recited the
prayer...I mean I just read the thing like normal but Elder Cardona
said that from the congregation it sounded like my voice was
resonating just a little bit and the expression, tone and speed was
amazing. So that made me feel good!
Later that night we had the Charlafooganera way down in Woodbridge! It
was a spiritual meeting. There were 4 speakers and 2 of them were from
our ward. We got Ruben and Solange to go! Rudy drove us in our
Obispo's Lincoln (a reminder that our Obispo is the guy in between
Ford and the gov) and Rudy is a crazy driver we were busting 80
heading down there and back and we were able to talk to Rudy and
Berto. It was a great night.
That's what went down this week for us. We just got done playing
volleyball 🏐 instead of basket ball and it was pretty dang fun. Hope
you all have a wonderful Pioneer Day!!
❤️ Elder Thompson
Me and Berto!!
A screenshot of our plans for that night
Así dice la gente de Arlington -- if I had a dollar for every time I
heard this...
Check this out! Josh Doctson is a wide receiver for the Washington
Redskins in the NFL and he's getting baptized in our mission!!! (This
is our warrior report we get one every week and read it in district
meeting, normally a random missionary writes a testimony but this week
was president!)
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