¡Buenos días! Como andan?
Well here we are again. Transfer week! It came super fast
since this transfer is a short one so president can do one last transfer
planning here. President Rasmussen and his wife are in the MTC right now and we
got to text him this week. He seems super awesome we are all excited!
Elder Ward and I are staying in Pasco.... kinda. Our area is
changing within the zone so we will cover the city of Richland in Spanish work
but our congregation is still in Pasco. It's kinda confusing since we are
"in" one zone and covering another one but it's OK. We are getting a
m a j o r upgrade in apartment. We live in some pretty nasty ones right now and
we are moving to the newest and nicest in the mission!
This upcoming week we are getting a new group of
missionaries so we will do a presentation on their first day. It will probably
be a little awkward since President White will be there to greet them and then
he leaves 4 days later haha.
This week had some ups and downs for sure. Miguel was going
to get baptized on Wednesday. We had the Baptism all set up, we invited a bunch
of people from the Ward, had talks, prayers.... the whole thing. Miguel ended
up getting held late at work so he got back about 10 minutes before the Baptism
and we told him to come ASAP. He and his friend just kept sending super vague
texts that sounded like he was coming.... then we didn't know..... then he
Isn't coming.... then he Is. Super frustrating haha. Long story short he didn't
end up coming for a few (not great) reasons. It was super sad.
The story isn't over yet though. We were at his house
teaching his friend Veronica when his roommate comes out of the house and says
something like "I saw Miguel's car parked on the side of the highway on my
way home from work. I'll go check it out and make sure he's OK." We continued
with our lesson and then Veronica gets a call. It turned out that Miguel got
pulled over and since he doesn't have lisence or papers he went to jail! This
was like 2 days after his baptism.
He ended up getting bailed out the next day and then he came
to church which was good. His friend Veronica keeps roasting him and saying
things like "If you had gone to your baptism you wouldn't have gotten
punished by God" and stuff like that. On Sunday he definitely looked like
he felt a little rebuked by the spirit so hopefully the new Hermanas in our
area can help him make it to baptism again.
Other stuff this week, we had a fun ward activity with carne
and fútbol that was successful. A recent convert, Gregorio, in our area came
and he brought his son Artemio. Artemio is 26 and has down syndrome, he's
pretty much the funniest person ever. Love his guts haha. I played goalie and
didn't do too great. We play soccer every morning and I usually do alright but
I guess playing with a bunch of Hispanics messed me up.
Pretty busy day today so I'll have to cut it here, love you
all and thanks for your support and prayers!
- Elder Thompson
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