This week has been one of the more crazy weeks in the mission field and it was great!
I'll start off with a few highlights (or weird or funny things):
- having an older, large, and naked lady yell at us from her window after her husband politely closed the door. She told us to never come back to that apartment complex, so you know I had to go back the next day. We actually saw her again, this time clothed, thankfully. Her attitude had not changed though.
- helping a guy break into his own car. He locked his keys in his trunk and so we went home and got a metal hanger and used it to break in. It was great fun.
- finding $20 on the ground - don't worry, I'll pay it forward.
- eating a fig for the first time.
- hitting our goal of finding 6 new people this week and getting 2 new ones to church!!!! (I'll tell a few stories about them in a second)
- capturing a tiny spider during weekly planning, giving it an equally tiny piece of the Big League Chew that I brought, and finding out that spiders love Big League Chew. RIP Steve.
- the Primary Program
- the free-for-all book table at church yesterday where I got an old red-leather copy of Jesus The Christ and The Articles of Faith by James E. Talmage and where Elder Pearson got lucky and found a complete set of the old missionary reference library complete with the discourses of Brigham Young, among other cool old books.
Now, I'll give you 2 miracle stories and then I'll let you get out of here:
Grace: we were trying to do some online work because we are pioneers in this whole technology thing and nobody really knows how to use it. Elder Pearson HATES being inside, he can't do it for more than like 20 minutes before he goes insane haha. So we decided to do our online work outside of the church and pulled a few chairs outside. While out there, a college-aged girl came up to us and introduced herself as Grace. She had investigated the church last year down in SoCal but her parents forbade her getting baptized and joining. Then she moved up here for college and while she was on her run past the church, she saw us sitting outside and felt the Spirit prompt her to come talk to us. (WHAT?!?!) So she did. While talking to her, she told us that she had actually brought her Book of Mormon WITH her to college. She said she can't help but feel drawn to it. Tender Mercies. She came to church yesterday and stayed for the whole thing, even the Linger Longer at the end!
Andi: Okay, so shoutout to Kennedy/Sister McDonald for teaching me the ways of Facebook. I was taking her advice this week online by adding anyone I could find who lives in Rohnert Park and whoever adds me back, I message. (we were actually doing this when Grace found us) but someone actually messaged me back and we had a great conversation about eternal families and the Book of Mormon. She even accepted the invitation for us to come by and give her a copy!! We are going back to teach her again this coming Friday. So Facebook can actually work you guys! I hope to find more people in this way. It was great!
Well that's about it everyone, I literally only took one picture this week so I'm sorry for being a scrub. I'll do better. But this week was awesome! We saw these and so many more miracles. On top of that, I'm almost done with the Book of Mormon. I'm in Ether right now and I've been marking it up like crazy. I started it in January so it's taken a while. That book is true and powerful.
I love you all! Go watch General Conference this weekend! I promise you will find answers to any question that you might have!
Song of the Week is "Keep Me" by Khalid. Love that one.
Love,
Elder Thompson
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