Good ol Kenny
¡Buenos días a todos!
Again I forgot to send my email last week so it's another
double. Lucky you :)
Week 49
We started this week by taking a new missionary out to work
on his first day! We went to the mission home and picked up Elder Plumb, he's
pretty cool! I'm sure he will be an awesome Elder. We took him to two lessons,
one with Mario and one with Grace, Tom, and Valentina. Mario is a man we found
this last week. He was super impressed with our Spanish and thought our parents
were Mexican jaja. We ended up having like 4 Lessons with him this week so that
was cool.
Wednesday was transfer day so as usual we presented
something for the group of new missionaries and then spend a bunch of time at
the office fixing and updating various things. We found out that we are getting
a new car, it's a 2019 hybrid Rav4 straight from the lot. Since we drive so
much they want us to have a hybrid car to save gas money. Wednesday we also had
our weekly coorelation meeting and Hna. Valdivia came in clutch with some bean
dip and hummus for the entire group. All but one missionary in our branch
stayed so it should be a super fun transfer!
Thursday and Friday was mostly more office stuff, not too
interesting. Saturday was a super cool day! We started out by going to a
baptism in Hermiston for 2 people that E. Jones taught. The crazy thing was,
they wanted to get baptized in the river and it got approved by Pres.
Rasmussen. It was the first river baptism that the mission has had in at least
3 years! It went super well and I got to witness for both of them. It was kinda
weird to be back in my old area. We went to the Church for food after and the
entire family of the people that got baptized was there. They had a grill with
an open flame and set it up inside the Church and all the missionaries started
freaking out since it's church policy to not have open flames inside the
building. They just picked up the grill while it was still on and moved it
outside haha it was just super funny to see 16 missionaries slowly realize what
was going on.
Later Saturday we were out working, pretty discouraged cuz
it was super dark and our lesson canceled on us. We felt pretty bad too because
Gina and her kids have been super flakey recently so we hadn't had good
contact. We felt like we should stop by a members house so we went and sat down
to talk with her about some stuff and literally like 30 seconds later, Gina and
Lel walked in! It was super crazy haha nothing was planned and we ended up
having a super good mini lesson with them. Every time we talk with Gina you can
tell she's fighting with the spirit since she knows it's true, so I hope some
day she will listen to the spirit and get baptized.
Oh this week we designed the new mission t-shirt as well.
Hopefully this week we will start taking orders from the Elders and Sisters.
I'll send a pic :)
Week 50
Lots of this week was spent working on the TShirts since the
Rasmussens want us to get them ordered asap. I think we are past 300 orders
already jaja its crazy. Honestly this week flew by I'm having trouble remebding
what happened :) On the 4th I hit my 'year until I'm home' mark which is súper
loco. I think that's also called my hump day, but I'm not sure. Kinda a cool
thing is that a bunch of the Elders Im serving around hit their year marks
around the time I got to the mission, and now there are here when I am hitting
mine!
General Conference was sweet, we were going to watch it with
2 of our family's but only one of them happened. Tom and Grace probably watched
it at home considering he has been watching Pres. Nelson BYU devotionals in his
spare time. We watched the second session on Sunday with Hna. Valdivia and Lel
and Gina. It was super good and we are going to try really hard to work with
Lel more. Hna valdivia made us tortas de bistec (Steak Tortas) and they were
heavenly.
We convinced Elder and Sister Perry, our mission office
recorder and secretary, to take us out to dinner at Red Lobster for their
unlimited shrimp meal and it was super fun. E. Jones told his conversion story
to them. Oh we also got our new car and its probably my favorite car that I've
ever driven. It's super zippy and we get like 500 miles per tank.
On Sunday we found out about a super cool opportunity we
will have to teach the son of a member that lives in Colombia! They have tried
to have the missionaries go over so many times but they never have more than
once. So, we are going to teach him via Skype and then Hno. Abally will baptize
him when they visit Colombia in a month.
From General Conference I really loved Elder Gongs talk and
Elder Christoffersons talk, but all of them were honestly super good. I'm going
to try and re read them all within the next few months, but I'm just super
greatful we have this opportunity to hear from living prophets and apostles! We
always try and get the people we are teaching excited about someone just like
Moses that is here to help us follow God!
¡Les agradezco sus oraciones! Se que la iglesia es verdadera
y que dios nos ama. Nos da tanto milagros cada día!
E. Thompson
Fotos:
1. The biggest Apple ever (and also Elder Harmon in the
background.)
2. River Baptism: E. Jones, Jovita, y Hector
3. Don't ask
4. E. Jones and E. Perry
5. Unlimited Shrimp 1
6. Unlimited Shrimp 2
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