Elder Henry H. Thompson: Livin On A Prayer

Hey all, what's going on?

Happy Birthday to my dad this week, you can offer him some cake but he might "pass on that deal". Give him a big hug for me when you see him! Love you dad!!

This was a pretty good week again. I know I say that every week probably but they are actually really good weeks when you look back. We had some cool stuff happen so I'll just jump right into it.

I'm staying in Rohnert Park for another transfer with Elder Pearson, so I guess I'll get to learn a lot more about cows?? cool. Actually, we get along well and we work well together. I like the ward here a lot even though one of the members blamed me for giving her strep throat last week - but I didn't even have strep throat so joke's on her. I guess she was sick the same day I was and we had eaten dinner at her house the night before, so that's how she correlated it, but I'm calling bull.

We went out to the middle of nowhere again this week to a town called Bloomfield, population probably 50? maybe? It was really cool because we tracted out the ENTIRE town (didn't take much time) and as we were doing that, we said a prayer so that we could be guided where to go. We felt like we should go straight down a street and then turn right. We did that and then we knocked into Joe, who just moved to Bloomfield like 2 months ago. He was actually an attorney for missionaries in Greece who would get thrown in jail for no reason back in the day. So we started teaching him and we are going back on Thursday! Elder Pearson likes it there because it's a lot like his home. You should see this guy's face light up whenever he sees a cow. I now know more about cows than I ever have/wanted to in my life, and it's defintely more of a curse than a blessing.

Bloomfield

We were in a place in our area called 'M Section' (the areas of the town are designated into letters of the alphabet and all of the street names in that area correspond to a specific letter. i.e. all of the street names in M section start with the letter M) and we had a few minutes so we decided to go see a person who we haven't seen in a long while. He lives in M section but whomever is home at his house NEVER answers the door so the only time we can catch them is if they are outside. So we said that if they weren't outside, we were just going to drive by. We went there, and sadly they weren't outside.... but we felt prompted to knock even though I KNEW that nobody was going to answer the door. So we knocked and I was right, nobody answered the door. BUT, as we were walking away from the porch, Yoki (guy we were looking for) pulled into his driveway! We talked to him for a little bit and he was having a hard time because someone in his family had just passed away. We set up an appointment for the next day and we went over and talked to him (again outside because nobody answered the door) about the Plan of Salvation. He really enjoyed it and we are going to go over again this week.

Kenya is having some surgery this week which makes it a great time for her to quit smoking... keep the prayers coming for her please.

In other news I also found out that my baby boy, (Elder whom I trained) Elder Jones, is skipping the District Leader stage and hopping right up to the Zone Leader position. I'm super proud of him! He also trained last transfer so my posterity will grow exponentially over this next year.

Speaking of that, I'm pretty excited because this Thursday marks one year since I left on my mission. That will be pretty amazing. I'll try to not start the Santa Rosa Fires Part 2 this year while burning a shirt because I'm honestly so sick of fires now. And thus, here it is, the

Song of the Week - I bet some of you could have guessed this but it's going to be

Livin on a Prayer by Bon Jovi. A classic.

Keep doing all the good stuff everyone,

Love, Elder Thompson