Hey so this was a craaazy week. Elder Jones got sick again
last Saturday, we think it was something new though.
The rest of the week we were working on various projects and
we taught a few lessons which was nice. Since it gets dark so early people
aren't super into the idea of strangers knocking on the doors at 'night'
especially in Finley where it is super rural. Our mission t-shirts finally came
in and they looks so good! I'm happy with how they turned out. We spent some
time seperating all of them into zones so people can get them and that was fun
haha. I'm really good at folding shorts now. Next week I'll send a picture of
the shirts and some other stuff I designed for the mission.
It was the last week of the transfer and we have 3 hermanas
going home from our district and 6 missionaries total from our zone. Super sad,
but exciting. We had fun at our last branch coorelation meeting with the and
some members fed us as well for a 'goodbye' party. Leading up to the transfer
we had heard some rumors that our assignment might be getting move to a Senior
couple but we were doubtful. (considering that a lot of what we do is help the
senior couples we currently have to do everything on their computers). We had a
meeting with President and he told that that we actually are getting replaced
at the end of this next transfer so E. Jones and I will be training them to do
our job. We are going to be optimistic about this haha. We haven't met them yet
so soon we will know how the next little while will be.
We had a lesson with Grace and Tom as usual and there were
some interesting developments. We talked a lot about authority and how to get
to the Celestial Kingdom. In that process we felt strongly that we should be
very bold and straightforward with them so we were. Tom and Grace really opened
up, Tom told us that if he believed strongly that this was the right path for
him that he would be baptized. Grace told us that in her life she has been
active and been baptized into 7 different churches! One of them is ours haha.
That was 30 years ago so she doesn't really remember a ton but she says that a
lot of the things we say sound familiar. Anyway, we were pretty surprised with
that and we are just gonna keep working with them :)
OH Halloween happened too. Nothing crazy happened, we just
had the Perry's from the office visit us with their grandkids. We made a video
for the mission as well (its a tradition for the tech missionaries to do one at
Halloween) it was a good day. Oh also we found out we can listen to most Christmas
music even if the songs aren't in the hymn book, which is our normal mission
music policy.
I kinda mentioned it before but transfer results are:
Elder Jones and I are staying for our 3rd transfer together in Kennewick and we
are Training 2 senior missionaries haha. I'm just now realizing that I will be
one of few elders that gets the chance to do that. It'll be fun I'm sure.
Anyway, one cool thing I've been thinking about is who God
is and why it's so cool that we get to pray to him and talk to him directly! He
has worlds without number, but he still knows us personally and listens to our
prayers.
Love you all!
E. Thompson
Fotos:
1. Zone picture
2. District Pic w/ pizza
3.District Pic
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