Friends and family,
Yes, it is that time again when I tell you what I have been doing for the past week. It has been a pretty eventful one!
First off, I would like to announce that Elder Siebach and I are pregnant! That's right, we will be having a son on Tuesday. We will be trio training a brand new missionary and Elder Siebach will also be the District Leader... so that will be interesting! Along with those two surprises, we will also be gaining two OTHER Elders here in our apartment. They will be Spanish elders, one of them is straight out of the MTC. So three greenies, a district leader/trainer, and a trainer. That should make for an interesting holiday season! So tomorrow I will be spending the day working in santa rosa and it will be different to see everything so burned up. We will stay the night in Foothill Park and then pick up our greenies the next day and go to work!
We will be passing off Carlos and Rosa, the two Spanish speaking people who have a baptismal date, to the Spanish speaking elders who will probably be pretty happy about that.
The other family that I have mentioned, the father has come to church without fail for the past two weeks so we are just awaiting the call from Bishop to be able to go over and teach. Bishop says they have had some really spiritual talks together and that things are going well. We are praying hard for them!
Funny story for the week: on Monday night they took our car to Santa Rosa and gave us bikes, so we have been cruising alllll around the place having a great time. But on Tuesday for Exchanges, the Spanish elder who was with me for the day and myself had to go wayyyyy outside of town for a lesson. This was our first day on bikes. keep that in mind. We get about halfway there and both of our rear tires popped and the other elder's chain snapped in half. So we had to walk about 2 miles to get to this lesson in the middle of nowhere. That night, all of our plans to go to the Spanish part of town went right down that fat drain since we had no way to get there and it was pretty far away. We ended up tracting around our apartment and our church. Nobody was willing to listen except for the last person that we talked to. She and her husband had recently been talking a lot about going to church but they didnt know which one. I pointed them toward our church and told them that they would be welcome to come to ours. She told us that she really appreciates what we do every day. If our bikes wouldn't have broken, we wouldn't have met this woman so that's really cool to me!
The song of the week is "Leaves" by Miguel and it really doesn't have to do with anything, I just like it and it's been stuck in my head so there's that.
In Mormon chapter 9, it talks about how God is a God of miracles to all who believe on His name, we just have to have faith and work to be more like Christ and God will give us all that we need. The miracles come after the trial of your faith.
That's about it for this week, wish me some phaat luck this week with our new additions coming in. Thank you for all of the support over these past 2 months! More to come next week! Onward and upward.
P.S. Huge shout out to Grandpa Roger who is having a birthday on the 14th! Love you Grandpa, thanks for your example!
Loves,
Elder Thompson
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