Que tal! Casi no me acuerdo esta semana porque pasó tan
rápido.
New Years Eve was this week! I was kinda nervous that we
wouldn't be able to find anyone to talk to but the Lord provided! We got in
with our man Efren and his Family. It was actually pretty funny, we got into
his house cuz his wife let us in. It seemed like every 2 minutes we talked, a
new person came into the house until there was this huge group of family! They
were about to have a new year's get together with all of Efren & Almas kids
and they invited us to stay and have some tamales with them! It was super good
we have a pretty solid relationship now with them. They gave us tamales,
pozole, and atole. This was my first time having atole and it was super good it's
like a super thick hot cider and it goes amazingly with tamales. We ended up
talking a little about the life of a missionary and then we started talking
about temples! It was super cool.
We spent the rest of the evening with the Elders in our
apartment since we had to be in by 6 then we went to bed "early" at
10:30 :) Happy New Year! (Not gonna lie it messed Elder Peirce and I up when we
realized that 2020 is the year we both go home... )
We had something good happen in Mabton, we met like 3 of the
people "Being taught" in our area. Turns out they were probably not
actually being taught since none of them were interested or wanted us to come
back. It was a good thing though, a lot of times when you are in a new area,
you can waste a lot of time with people that aren't actually interested so it
was good to find out earlier rather than later that we wouldn't need to spend a
lot of time on them.
Saturday was a super rough day. At the beginning it looked
like it was gonna be awesome, we had a day packed with lessons and if
everything had gone according to plan, we would have invited a bunch of people
to church and found a few new people to teach. Well what happened was every
single lesson fell through, leaving E. McBride and I walking in the cold &
wind for 8 hours. We even took an early dinner to make it to one of these
appointments so we were literally just standing outside in the 25 degree + wind
weather. We just knocked and knocked and knocked and no one answered. I think
we only talked to like 3 people that day. Anyways it was kinda disheartening
because we didn't know how we were going to achieve our weekly goals but we
realized that maybe God was testing us to see if we would continue working
hard.
Then yesterday we had church then we had this one soft
appointment in mabton with a family. We weren't sure if they would remember
since we didn't have their phone numbers and couldn't confirm with them, but we
went anyways and they were there! They were super chill, humble, and ready to
learn. We started to teach them and we were able to achieve our weekly goal for
finding! It was an awesome little miracle :)
Also on Sunday we had dinner with the Winders, a super nice
English member here. They had 2 recent converts and 6 missionaries at this
dinner and it was super cool. They had everyone bear their testimony in 1
minute as we were eating. Apparently after we left the recent converts invited
the Winders to go to the temple with them to do baptisms for one of their
father's who had passed away! They are a great example of good member
missionaries who just love the people around them.
Anyway, that was my week! Elder McBride's Spanish is coming
along, we are still role-playing a ton and helping him get the hang of
missionary life.
Los quiero!
- Elder Thompson
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