This week was súper chido!!
Earlier in the week we had transfers. As i mentioned in the
last email, we shuffled the areas around a little bit. Our area is huuuuuge now
haha. We got two more Elders in our branch so that makes 8 of us in our little
ramita. Elder Springer got released as a ZL so he could train a new missionary.
His trainee's name is Elder Romay and he is originally from Venezuela but has
lived in South Jordan and riverton for the last 3 or 4 years! They are both
super awesome and are already tearing it up in their area.
Tuesday we went to say goodbye to Gerardo since he won't be
in our area anymore. He wasn't home when we went the first time but he called
us later and invited us over because he was making Pho! It was super good haha
honestly I never expected to get so much good asian food from a random hispanic
guy in Mabton WA. The mission is great haha. I'm sure Gerardo will get baptized
one day, he's just one of those that will take some time to get there.
Wednesday was the actual day of the transfer so as usually I
had to drive to kennewick to give the Phone presentation to all the new
missionaries. That will probably be the last time I do it, which is kinda sad
cuz it's pretty cool to meet all the new missionaries every transfer, but at
the same time it's been like 9 months at this point haha. I've seen that
presentation 8 times now lol. Afterwards we went and picked up the ZLs to give
them a ride back. Elder Newton is the new ZL in grandview, he's pretty cool. I
served around him in Pasco for 2 transfers.
Thursday and friday we met some of the new people we are
teaching in our new area. Hugo is super cool, he's in Alma in the book of
mormon and really enjoys coming to church. He's got some obstacles that will
prevent him from getting baptized suuuuper soon but we're working on it.
On Friday we had an interested run in with some missionaries
from another church that are trying to swoop in on some people we are teaching.
We show up for the lesson and there were some Evangeligcals there in the middle
of a lesson on the Trinity. We let them finish then at the end they asked us
what we felt about the Trinity and got ready to bash with us. I knew that
wouldn't result in anything very productive so instead we just shared the BoM!
We did pull out a bunch of stuff from the Bible that teaches about how God will
give us more scripture and the prophecies in Ezekial and Isaiah about the BoM.
They weren't able to disprove the case we laid out for the Book of Mormon,
everyone in the room (except for one of the two missionaries) were pretty fixed
onto our message and the spirit was pretty strong. I know bashing isn't super
great and I did my best to stay away from it, but it was really cool to be able
to defend the BoM against these 2 people that were trying so hard to attack it.
(Bless E. McBride's heart it was a pretty fast paced lesson with lots of
obscure bible verses so he didn't catch much of what was happening. Spanish is
a doozie sometimes) Anyways, we are going to check back in on the people we are
teaching this week to see if they are actually going to progress or if they
just like hearing the word of God.
Now to finish off this super long email with an asombroso
milagro!!! Yadira & Cesar came to church again!! It went super well they
loved it. Cesar got a little restless during sacrament so I made him an Origami
dragon and he loved it alot haha. We set a lesson later that evening to teach
the Gospel of Jesus Christ and we invited Yadira to be baptized Feb 22 and she
said she would work towards that date!!! The lord is providing some elect
people here in the WKM.
De todos modos se que este correo está muy largo pero quiero
testificar de la veracidad del Libro de Mormon y Jesucristo. Sé que Jesucristo
vive y que él es la cabeza de esta iglesia. Sé que su expiacion tiene poder
para sanar cualquier pesar que llevamos. Sé que El Libro de Mormon y la Biblia
testifiquen que Jesus es el Cristo y mi Salvador. Sé que Dios hablará a
cualquiera que tenga ganas para encontrar la verda.
Los quiero mucho, hasta luego!
- Elder Thompson
Foto:
1. This is the Pho gerardo made for us. Sorry I'll try and
take better Pictures next week haha.
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