1385 W. Washington Blvd. #61
Crescent City, CA 95531
What's up everyone?! I'm sure you're super stoked to get another weekly email from yours truly. We had a pretty great week up here in Crescent City.
Things are going well trying to get the branch started. There's a great member down in Klamath who is helping us get everything together. We are going to meet in the laundromat he owns, in an adjacent room where we can have chairs set up. We're now just asking everyone who would attend if we had a little group set up down there. Yesterday we went around to all of the Yurok Tribe members we are teaching because our member's wife is actually Yurok so we have an in there. In the native culture, once you get to know people and they know you're friendly, you are instantly family and can basically just walk into their houses. So we met some great new friends yesterday! We are going to go back to teach many of them this week. We're going to create a little study group or get together before we can get the branch going just to see what kind of turn out we'd get. We walked into a store and the clerk said, "hey, you're Brad's boys!" and was so nice.
We had a cool experience the other day: we decided to go knock a street called Murphy Avenue (s/o to my dog, Murphy). We decided to knock on the right side of the street first. As we knocked one door, we were standing on the porch and a car came into the driveway and then another car. A husband and wife got out of their respective cars, just getting home from work. They invited us in and I totally thought we had tracted into members. Turns out, the wife is from SLC and loves going to the temple lights in the winter. The husband is from Cali but was super down to have us come teach him and his family of 4 kids! We are so hyped about them! They have Sundays off and have been looking for a church lately. Right time, right place... God makes it happen!
It was a week of a lot of knocking and weeding out the promising people from the less interested people. Time is of the essence!!!!
The Song of the Week is Hymn #266: The Time is Far Spent - my Mission President told me to read the lyrics as I finish my mission soon. There is still so much to do in the coming weeks, there is no slowing down now!
Love you all, have a great week!
Elder Thompson
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