Elder Henry H. Thompson: Keystones Til Kingdom Come

What's happening friends and family?

First off shout out to my parents for their 27th wedding anniversary this week. They are a pretty good pair, I would say.

I'll do this in dash-form just to make it better and because I like when other people do it too.

-Started the week off right with exchanges with Elder Nelson, my greatest friend since Day One of the mission and also my current AP. We had a baller time and did some good work. His biggest goal in life is to trick out a van so that he can live in it for a few years and just go on adventures. That sounds pretty sick to me so catch me in a Ford Sportmobile in a few years!

-We had a wonderful lesson with Barbara where we gave her what she asked for, which was the differences between her beliefs now and the beliefs of the Church of Jesus Christ. Turns out, she is basically already a member. She believes God, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Ghost to be 3 separate beings as well as that God should have modern day Prophets. We taught her a little more about baptism and I'm really hoping that her heart will soften up a little more to accept the message.

-Getting out of the car while trying to go see someone and getting the feeling that we should talk to the guy across the street at the park throwing a ball to his dogs. The guy we went to see wasn't home so we walked across the street to the park and talked to the guy. He wasn't interested but as we were walking away saw some other people on the sidewalk we could talk to. We ended up meeting Diane there, who talked to us for like 40 minutes. We introduced the Restoration and she was asking us where church was and what time. She showed up on Sunday as well and loved it! I've made it my goal this transfer to recognize and follow the small promptings but I realize it's hard to recognize the small promptings because they just feel like regular thoughts. But as you follow the ones that lead you to do good, you can come to know where each thought comes from and recognize which ones are from God.

-Interviews with President Meservy, always a great experience.

-Gaining a greater testimony of the power of fasting.

-Having a wonderful lesson with Branden (Anissa was sick) and really got deep with him and found out his true needs. We talked about the power of prayer and how to become a "pray-er" when you really aren't one. I think it was a really effective lesson. Talking about baptism, he said "I'm down if Anissa is down." haha he is a great guy. I really hope to see their family join the church.

-Doing the Missionary Moment during a baptism in Petaluma and talking about the power of the Book of Mormon using a life sized version of what is in preach my gospel. The Keystone is the part of the arch that holds everything else together, without it, everything falls. The Book of Mormon is the keystone of our religion. Every truth that we testify of eventually goes back to whether or not the Book of Mormon is true. If it isn't, then the whole church falls along with our claim to prophets, revelation, and the priesthood. But if it is, which I know it is, then this is God's church once again brought back to the earth and we are lead by a true, living prophet who receives inspiration from God as to what we need. I think that's a pretty cool thing.