Prosser - Mission Week 61

Que tal?! Ya estoy aquí in Prosser y santa vaca dios esta dándonos un montón de milagros! 

Well it seems like a month has passed since my last weekly email haha. Sooo much has happened this will probably be a super fat email. It'll be worth a read, I promise :) There's some funny stuff and lots of miracles! 

So Last Monday and Tuesday was packing. E. Escandon was headed home so we took him around a little bit to say goodbye to some missionaries and then we dropped him off at the Mission home, said our final goodbyes and left. I included pics of this is the last email I think. Anyways, we headed home and continued packing. The next day it was Me, E. Jones, and E. Carr in the tripan until transfers so we did some cleaning and headed to the office to do some last minute work. When we got to the office E. Thaler our vehicle coordinator said, "Hey Elders did you hear about E. Escandon?" We said, "Uhh like how he's going home? Like, he's done with his mission." Then E. Thaler said, "No, how he is in the hospital. He jumped off a railing and has a compound fracture in his ankle" 

We started freaking out because he was supposed to fly home at 11 that day and we were worried to see what happened and how bad it was so we made some calls to find out where he was. We found out he was 'resting' at the AP's apartment so we drove there to see what was happening. When we get there, E. Escandon is playing mini golf in the living room and when he sees us we all just start laughing so hard. Apparently what happened is that morning, he got ready for the day, and kinda swung himself around the railing of the stairs and landed on his foot wrong and it dislocated his toe super bad and like broke the skin. He was fine though, he could walk on it with a little boot thing. He got caught at the insta care for just a little too long and so he missed his flight home and ended up having to stay in the mission an extra day. The whole situation was super funny. (And don't worry we went  back and corrected E. Thaler's lack of information) We got to say goodbye to E. Escandon one more time before he actually went home :) 

We visited some members, Hno. Ramos and Hno Aballay to say goodbye and that was good. They're the best! 

Wednesday was Transfer day so we got up early, pack all my stuff to the transfer site and got picked up in an RV to go to the new missionary meeting to meet my trainee! I kinda had a sneaking suspicion that this would happen, but I ended up getting Elder McBride who is from my home ward in South Jordan! It's super crazy that we are in the same mission, let alone companions, let alone Trainer & Trainee. Suuuuper weird but super awesome haha. We've been having a blast in Prosser so far. We finished up that meeting then shopped and drove to our new area! 

Prosser is an awesome area it's gonna be sweet! We share a car with the English Elders here so 1/2 of the time we are a walking area. I've enjoyed it more that I thought I would, it's kinda fun to just walk around and talk. We are talking only in Spanish while we walk which is good practice for E. McBride. In our area we have some super prepared people. La familia Peña is a family we are teaching. The daughter got baptized about 4 months ago and now pretty much the rest of the family wants to get baptized too! We just have to get them married and teach them the rest but they are super excited about joining the church! 

Gerardo is a man that I actually used to teach in my first area in Basin City and He now is staying in Prosser so we are teaching him here now! He knows the church is true, he just feels like he can't get baptized because he has made too many mistakes in his life....we're working on that haha. 

God also blessed us with 4 new people to teach this week and 3 of the people we are teaching came to church! Our branch alone had 14 investigators at church! It's been super fun to be District Leader too, I really enjoy getting to know everyone in the district and helping them achieve their goals as missionaries. 

We did the special Christmas meeting yesterday and it was really successful. We had a lot of sweet, spiritual musical numbers and we also had a linger longer to help people build friendships in the Branch. 

Anyways, there was a lot of stuff in this email but it's been a jam packed week haha. I'm exceedingly (I know I say 'super' too much haha) excited for this Transfer, for my district, and for my companion! I've had the opportunity to testify to many people this week that God has restored his church on the earth and I feel that testimony deepening and strengthening every day! Los quiero, me encanta ser Misionero aquí en el WKM y me encanta predicar en español! Oren que sigamos viendo milagros! 

- Elder Thompson