Transfers! - Mission Week 12

Welp first transfer in the field is pretty much done! 2 more days. Our zone wasn't changed much, in fact my entire district is the same which is pretty crazy, especially because we have a tri-pan (3 missionaries) of Hermanas which is pretty uncommon. Another 6 weeks in Good Ol' Basin City for me! 

This week I had exchanges in Connell again, this time with Elder Escandon from El Paso, TX. When we were there, we went to a super cool antique store with the English Elders in Connell during our dinner. They just had a ton of everything. I got a pretty cool button that has a Tri-Cities logo on it. Elder Stopa got an old military flashlight that was like $3 and he walked around with it for the rest of the day shining it in our eyes and sneaking around. He's a goon but I love hanging with him!  

At Spanish correlation they gave us some crickets to try. They had lime and chili on them so they weren't that bad, it was just hard to get past the fact that they look e x a c t l y like the stuff I fed to my pet lizards and frogs growing up. Louisa is a ward missionaries that comes to correlation and shes pretty funny. She seems to know something about everyone and get's really excited when we mention a new name! She says "Ohhh....si...Oh si pues...." pretty much the entire time. 

We had a miracle happen this week! Edgar was in town for some shopping and he decided to go visit the temple since we couldn't walk around when we were there before. Right as he got there, my boy Brother Casper and his wife just got out of the temple! They saw Edgar and ended talked to him for an hour about the temple, baptism, and Church in general! It was a really great experience for everyone. 

This week we found a new guy named Oxavier (Awks-avier). We thought it was Javier but he told us that it was pronounced the other way. He's an interesting fella. He doesn't like other Christian churches where the Pastors make a lot of money so we're hoping he sees something different about our church. He's a total Hispanic hippie though, so it's funny to talk to him. 

This week in Come, Follow Me I was thinking a lot about Christ and the Circumstances of his Birth. He was born in the lowest possible place. He was born in the place where cows and sheep ate their food. I feel like this is a symbol that Christ is 'below' all of us, in the sense that his Atonement gives everyone the chance to go higher. There is nothing too low that the Atonement of Jesus Christ cannot help. 

Ándele pues, 

-Elder Thompson