Well this week was definitely one for the books haha where
do I start.....well I guess I'll start with the less funny stuff.
Yesterday E. Jones got super sick again. He still has a
massive headache 24hrs later. We stayed in and I studied a lot and watched
every video I have downloaded haha. It's looking like today might be similar so
Pray that I can keep away cabin fever.
Earlier in the week we had a few audits and stuff to do so
we drove to Connell (again) and they were actually there this time. We stopped
at the burger place there and they had this burger where it was 1/2 a burger
& 1/2 a ham sandwich. Honestly not too bad!
On Wednesday we helped a family in our branch move and it
was pretty sad to see them go. They got baptized & married in this branch
and the reason they are going back to Mexico is cuz the husband has a terminal
illness and so he wants to die in his home country :( Sad stuff but they were
pretty excited to see family and things like that.
Thursday was a craaazy day! Now we're getting into the
interesting stuff. We had MLC which was really good and we talked about a lot
of issues in the mission that I have noticed for a while. We ended on a pretty
good note that we need to step it up. Our mission has been promised by multiple
apostles that we can double our baptisms and I know it's totally
possible!
After MLC a sister named Sister Wills came up to us and told
us about some weird stuff that had been happening with a person they were
teaching. She was chatting with another companionship about her area and about
some guy named "Robert" that was super golden. The other sisters were
like "Wow that's crazy the sisters we live with are also teaching a super
golden guy named Robert". So, after MLC we called them with Sister Wills
to see what was going on since she thought he might be a troller or something.
(Sidenote: that's kinda our job is dealing with people that try to mess with
missionaries online. For example one time someone made a fake account of Sister
Rasmussen and started to add all the missionaries)
Anyways, we call them up and they compared Robert and it was
totally the same dude! Same phone number, looked the same, had the same
"story". Then, while we were doing that E. Perry our mission Recorder
overheard the convo and was like, "wait I just forwarded a referral to
Pasco of someone named Robert." Soooo long story short this guy was being
taught by 3 different Companionships of Sister Missionaries and had told them
all different stories. He told one companionship he didn't know what the BoM
was and then another he said he had a testimony of the Church. 2 of the areas
he had previously had a baptismal date. Super crazy stuff. We later found out
that some Elders had contact with him for like a day then he stopped talking to
them once he found out they were Elders. President Rasmussen had us text him
and tell him to knock it off. Anyways, all that surprise stuff made our
afternoon super busy and I totally forgot I had planned to call my Mom for her
birthday!! Happy late Birthday Mom! Love you!
On Saturday we had an exchange so I was with E. Carr for the
day. It was a rough day of knocking doors and no one answering haha. Seriously
it was a Saturday too and normally people are a little more lively but it was
like a ghost town. We did talk to this crazy lady though which was... Fun...? I
don't even know. She definitely had some mental stuff going on cuz she told us
all this weird stuff about how God was supposed to come in the flesh but
instead he put 1000 Jesus Christ's on the earth to trick us. She said that she
was one of them and her mom was the virgin Mary. And she said she found all of
that out when she was in the Mental institution. Honestly, she was super nice
though. Cada loco con su tema I guess Anyways, sorry this email is kinda all
over the place.
I don't think I have any pictures sorry, I hope ya'll are
doing well and that you have a solid Thanksgiving. I was just texting the
member that is feeding us and she is super excited to cook us a real American
spread of food :)
Los quiero, que les vayan bien
- Elder Thompson
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