Elder Henry H. Thompson: March Madness

Hey everyone! Shoutout to California for the beautiful weather this week... 70 and sunny every day!

I'll give you some highlights because it's easier to put my thoughts together in that format:

I hit 18 months as a missionary. It's crazy how fast it's gone by and how much I've loved every second. Here's to the next 6!
I got to drive the mission Chevy Silverado and I felt really good driving it!
We are trying to be more like Ammon and serve people whenever he saw a need. We did service for my Mission President and he really appreciated it. Unrelated note: President Meservy told me he was going to watch Murder Mountain, the documentary. I served in the place it was filmed. It was pretty wild, actually.
Remember Elder Pickett's cousin in Coffey Park who we helped move? Well, we started teaching them the gospel yesterday!! It was super surprising when she said yes to our asking if we could share the gospel with them!
The Guizar family came to YM/YW and also to Pi night on 3/14! They liked all of it! I'm happy about that. We found out some of their concerns this week, one of them being why do we need the BoM? I was able to testify of my favorite thing to teach about: the Book of Mormon! They must've liked what I said because they agreed to read for 20 minutes each day as a family.
Freda came to church again and loved it. She loves what we teach her and but just doesn't want to give up the title of being Lutheran. We will help her to know that taking on the name of Christ is where it's at!
I gave a talk in church this week about the importance of knowing the doctrine of the gospel of Jesus Christ. Everyone liked it! My friend Ali helped me write it. She has a pastoral degree (I think that's what it is called) and has read the Bible like 21 times cover to cover so she knows her doctrine as well. She also made the best pies at pi night on 3/14.
We sang a song at a baptism! It wasn't the greatest because we didn't practice but it went okay.
We found 14 people to teach this week, a personal record for me! Two of those people we found were Luther and Paige. They have 3 kids together and are so awesome. We found them when we were knocking an apartment complex and we talked to them over their back fence and then helped them make a small playground for their kids while we were teaching them. They are super interested! Luther is from Liberia and has seen some things for sure. He showed me yesterday his gunshot entrance and exit wounds as well as where he got stabbed in the stomach. This man was wild! He is super cool though and wants his kids to grow up with God. We are going over again next week!

That's about all I can remember! Molly has a birthday this week so say happy birthday to her! Also shoutout to my guy Blake Kelso for getting married last week!

The Song of the Week is a throw back to a couple of years ago, "Slip" by Elliot Moss. That one is really good.

I'm loving my mission and loving Northern California. I think it's the most beautiful place ever. We are headed to Bodega Bay today.

The Church is true, and so is the Book of Mormon... I love reading that book. If you haven't read it in a while or you haven't read it at all, do it. It's the best!

Much love to all of you!

Elder Thompson