SANTA Rosa Christmas

12.25.17


Merry Christmas from California!!
 I hope that everyone enjoys it and that all of those missionary families enjoyed talking to their missionaries!! 

This week was pretty crazy. So as you know from last week, I'm now training a new missionary named Elder Jones from Price, Utah. He is pretty great and I'm excited to be training. I went to Santa Rosa on Tuesday and worked there for the day and then I met Elder Jones and we went out street contacting in downtown Santa Rosa! It was super pretty and really weird to see people out past 5pm because in Dixon, once the sun sets, so do the people.... 

We got back to Dixon the next day around 3 and went shopping and what not and it was great. We were out tracting pretty much all day on Saturday and we met some cool potential investigators! 

Yesterday, Christmas Eve, we also had the baptism of Carlos and Rosa, two Spanish speaking people. It was cool to see them baptized because I had taught them in the past and then handed them off to the actual Spanish missionaries. 

Today has been great so far!  We got to open up some presents and I got to talk to my family and some close friends! I loved it a lot and it was a great Christmas present. 

Remember the reason for the season! Christmas wouldn't be Christmas without Christ! The song of the week is "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" cover by the Pentatonix. Enjoy everyone! 

Love,

Elder Thompson

thank you to everyone who has made him feel so loved this first Christmas in the field! xo

Christmas Day in Dixon

New Companion, Elder Jones

MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM DIXON!

12.18.17

Hello all and merry (almost) Christmas! 

This week was a good one! 

On Tuesday, Elder Siebach was sick so sadly, we didn't do anything.... it was a rough day for everyone. But we were able to have a lesson with our new investigator, Damon, who is progressing quickly! We taught the Restoration and he soaked it all in!

We also picked up 8 year old twins as new investigators! They've been to church twice each and have already talked to the bishop about it! 

Wednesday was Zone Conference so that was great! We taught about how we can fulfill our purpose and how to contact people better with the gift of discernment! 

On Thursday, we were able to help out with Toys For Tots by setting up a ton of coats for people young and old. Friday, we were able to help a part member family wrap like a million presents. It took way long and we were supposed to be planning but it was all worth it! 

The most exciting news came on Sunday night though, Elder Siebach and Elder Mohler are leaving for Santa Rosa and San Rafael and I am training a brand new missionary starting on Wednesday! I'll get to work with Elder Nate Koelliker all day tomorrow so that should be great!  

I hope that everyone has a great Christmas and that you all remember the true reason for Christmas.

The song of the week is the Pentatonix cover of "Mary Did You Know?" Hands down one of the best versions of that song I have ever heard. 

The Church is true! And if anyone spoils the new Star Wars for me, I'm going less active. 

Love,

Elder Thompson

Chinese food with the Assistant Ward Mission Leader, Bro. Hollowell

Sunset in Dixon

Carlos and Rosa will be baptized on Christmas Eve


Pentatonix, "Mary Did You Know?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifCWN5pJGIE

12.11.17 Basketball in Dress Shoes

12.11.17


Hello all of you Christmasy people! I hope that at least 6-7% still read these. This week was pretty great. It started off with our Light The World video getting almost 15,000 views on Facebook! If you havent seen it, go check it out! It is posted by a guy named Matthew Pederson. It's all about things we can do to Light The World this year! 

Some highlights for this week: on Tuesday night we saw some guys playing basketball at a park so we decided to play with them! Missionaries vs regular guys, and we were all in our white shirts and nice shoes and everything so we had some good blisters afterward. It was a cool way to introduce some people to what we do as missionaries. 

On thursday, we set up a booth at the christmas tree lighting in "downtown" dixon. We talked to everyone who was there and we got their attention with some facepainting that a sister in our district was doing. It was a great success and we were able to be a part of the community and meet some great people! 

We got two new investigators on Saturday, Damon and Lizzie. Damon is a guy who wants to know where God is and wants to come closer to Jesus Christ so we thought it was perfect!! He is the only person I've met on my mission who has told me that he is interested!  

Lizzie moved here from Nigeria and requested a Bible and said she used to come to church! We will be visiting both of them this upcoming week and hopefully getting them closer to Christ!! 

Funny story: we were knocking doors in a part of town and a lady answered and told us to go away because she was in the middle of breakfast. I looked at my watch because it was 3:30 in the afternoon. She realized how dumb that sounded and just quietly shut the door. That's an L for us but at least it was funny. We had Indian food at a member's house that night so shoutout to my Ashabadi family!! 

I was asked to give a talk about Light The World yesterday and I think I did a decent job!

That's about it for this week.  The song of the week is "The Guns of Brixton" by The Clash!! I remember listening to The Clash in India with Thomas and Matt last year so that's always a fun memory! 

I hope everyone has a great week! Happy holidays! 

Love, Elder Thompson 

Elder Thompson's address, at least until next Tuesday, December 19 (transfers):

1225 Linford Lane Apt. D3

Dixon, CA 95620

Speaking in the Dixon Ward

Thompson, Mohler, and Sister Rassmussen

My dear friend, Naomi who lives in Davis!! 

Stopping to say hi to Naomi's family.  Doubt they've ever had 5 Mormon Missionaries show up at their door!

YSA Sardines, Denny's, and Facebook

12.4.17

Happy December group email receivers! I hope everyone enjoyed their week and that those in SLC are doing some donuts in the snow! To start off, I got Facebook this week so you can go ahead and add me on there if you want to have some inspiring messages on your feed! (Henry Thompson) I went on 3 exchanges this week so most of my time was spent in other places. It was interesting but I really enjoy my own area and like sleeping in my own bed. The most fun thing happened during exchanges this week though. I was in Davis serving with an Elder in the YSA ward there. His name is Elder Blake Kelso and he went to Olympus. He knows the Curtis family and also the Pinnocks I think,  so that is pretty cool! YSA work is weird.... it's not actual missionary work. At night, the missionaries are supposed to go with the ward to do activities such as sports night and stuff like that. We ended up playing Sardines on the UC Davis campus and it was really fun but I sure didn't feel like a missionary. It was just me and my companion, playing sardines with a bunch of 25-year-olds on a college campus. Everyone also wonders why I don't wear a coat here and I tell them it's because I'm from Utah and this is pretty warm for me! (really, it's because his mom hadn't sent his coat until today... #momfail)

Friday was really cool! I was on exchanges with one of our Zone Leaders and we decided to celebrate it being December now and went out to eat at Denny's! While we were there, someone decided to #LightTheWorld and paid for all 5 of our meals! The next day, we went super hard on the work! We are supposed to get 12 street contacts each day but we ended up with about 40! We also got 7 potential investigators so it was a really productive day!! 

Yesterday was kind of long because it was Fast Sunday and I was more hungry than I had probably ever been. But it was interesting as well, because we taught a nun the Plan Of Salvation and she agrees with pretty much all of it! After we were done, she said the nicest prayer for us; asking God if He would bless us with 100% success on our missions. It meant a lot to me! 

The song of the week is the song that they play in all of the #LightTheWorld videos! I encourage all of you to look at the video for each day and to follow the calendar and make the world a better place! (LDS.org)  It will help the people you serve and it will also help you in this Christmas season!!

Much love to you all! Enjoy that snow for me.

Sucks bucks, (Hank-ism)

- Elder Thompson

Decking the Halls in the apartment

The Dixon Five

Light The World ~ Serve your neighbor
They helped the Bishop's wife hang Christmas lights

Surprise delivery

Trio on bikes

Exchanges in Esparto, California