Matthew
6:21
¡Buuuuenos
Dias! ¡Que semana tan padre!
This week
started out with a call from our Mission Driving Coordinator that we should
drive all the way to Kennewick on Tuesday to pick up a new car! We had one of
the oldest cars in the whole mission and it honestly didn't suit our area. That
poor little Corolla got so beat up because someone *cough cough* E. Barlow didn't clean the nice Nissan Rogue
that was in Basin City before I got here; so they took it away. But anyways, we
went into town and 5 hours later after some confusion and paperwork we drove a
schnazzy 2019 Chevy Equinox home. It had like 80 miles on it when we got it!
It'll probs be a while before I drive another car as new as this one. I'm the
designated driver even though E. Harmon is the Sr. Comp. his vision is too bad
to drive. We're still trying to figure out all the features and functions it
has but we love it so far!
We had 3 lessons
with the main person we are teaching, Edgar. We're very hopeful he will get
baptized this month, he just needs to recognize the miracles that have happened
in his life and take that leap of faith! Please pray for him!
We also spent
some time this week knocking some random doors which doesn't happen too often
in this area. There so few houses and people here, there are very few people
that I haven't met. But we did manage to talk to 6 people I'd never met before
this week so that was good.
I'm sure some
of you saw the new thing about the safety videos that we have to watch.
Honestly they're super entertaining. We're allowed to watch videos on Gospel
Library and LDS.org during dinner and stuff. Basically The Safety Zone is a
gold mine, we watched it all this week. I kinda wish all the episodes were
available to everyone, but at the same time I see why they didn't do that. They
talk about some pretty serious situations.
Funny story
this week (hopefully...I thought it was hilarious but it might not make sense)
We went by a
Less Active's house and for some reason there were just Chickens, Goats and
Pigs everywhere. Now, those things aren't uncommon in Basin City...but they
were just wandering around and in trees and stuff. I have some pics. Anyway we
didn't know if this was normal or not so we texted the owner just to let him
know. We sent a very detailed text just letting him know about what was going
on, to let us know if he needs help, etc. After about 3 hours we got a response
from him that just said, "Asi se ponen en la tarde." Now, roughly
that translates to "That's how they get in the afternoon" We happened
to be telling this story to the other Spanish Missionaries around and it was
just super funny. It was probably a combination of how useless of an answer it
was from our original text and as well that it just sounds funny in spanish. I
dunno if that makes any sense or not but "Asi se ponen en la tarde"
is the new phrase is North Pasco now :)
We got to
visit with a bunch of active members this week. One of them in particular
shared his conversion story of how he was so depressed for 3 years that he
didn't talk to anyone. This was serious enough to the point that people thought
he was autistic because he didn't talk to people. He didn't have direction or
meaning to life. Then he found the missionaries and felt like he should talk to
them! Fast forward 30 years and he's a happy business owner with a wonderful,
eternal family. This story really touched me because it made me realize that
when we truly understand the message of the Restoration of the Gospel of Jesus
Christ, it does give us a sense of direction. It leads us to true
happiness.
If you want to
learn more about this, or need to remind yourself of why this is important,
head to ComeUntoChrist.org :) Or email me, I'd love to talk about it!
Les amo
muchisimo!
- Elder
Thompson
Fotos(I know
they're bad):
- Like 40 chickens in a tree
- Cerdo
- Elder Thompson and Elder Harmon (some local members texted this to E. Thompson's mom)
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