Bueno aqui estoy, tu misionero favorito ;) Esta semana fue
locisimo!
Well, as I mentioned last week, I'm in a new area. Elder
Ward and I are pretty much opening this area for Spanish work so that's fun.
Richland is (in general) a pretty high income area so it's a little bit harder
to find the Hispanics. Downtown Pasco is legitimately 97-100% Hispanic so this
is quite the shift. It's good though, we had a solid week.
We weren't able to go out in our area much until Friday
since we were moving and helping with transfers. One thing we have noticed
pretty quick is that in general, the places in Richland where there are
Hispanics, there are twice as many crazy white people haha. We have had a few
interesting encounters with people. One family talked to us f o r e v e r about
all their knowledge of the church, most of which was hilariously
incorrect. They told us about 'their' religion which is that they believe in
everything. Now, I've heard before the whole 'oh its the same God, it doesn't
matter what church you go to' but this was different. These people believe in
everything haha. Conspiracies to religion to mythology. It was a crazy convo
about a lot of crazy stuff. They were nice though and gave us some reusable
water bottles.
We had a few encounters of people that were moving so that
was good to have some service. All the people we helped turned out to be
members actually but they didn't tell us at first so that was awkward. (Just
say, 'Hey Elders!' then we don't have to ask if you have ever talked to
missionaries before. it saves the awkwardness :) )
Oh I forgot we also met all the new missionaries this
transfer. It was a huge group of almost all sisters. There was one Elder
sitting in the back haha. They were quite the rowdy group but I think our
presentation went well. Someone I went to elementary/middle school with was in
this group (Sister George for all the Layton folk) . It was kinda weird haha
but funny too I guess.
We had a sweet miracle this week! We were walking around
this apartment complex and started talking to this kid in a car. soon enough,
his mom came out and we started talking to her in Spanish (mini miracle 1
that's she was Hispanic). It turns out she just moved here from Walla Walla and
she is apparently a member! She said her daughter was talking the Missionary
lessons in Walla and only got about halfway through the lessons before they
moved. She asked us to come back and teach her the rest so she can get
baptized! We will keep ya updated but we are pretty pumped about that.
Apparently this lady asked her Branch President to send the missionaries to her
house but we didn't hear anything. we just ran into her!
Today we have been pretty busy, I swear I've said my final
'Goodbye' to President White like 4-5 times now, and he called us into the
office again to help him clear off his phone and get it ready for President
Rasmussen. He should have landed by now and we are going to meet him this
afternoon! Loco
I think that's about it... I got some pictures this week
since Sister White shared all the pictures she has taken recently :)
Los amamos a ustedes! La iglesia es verdadera y Jesucristo
vive!
-Elder Thompson
Fotos:
1. Final ZC pic with President and Sister White
2. Cool street name I guess
3. 14 missionaries in one ward squad
4. I spun a pass along card into the ceiling
5. Elder "Alpha Dog" Harmon giving no cares
6. The old ship Zion
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