Hey everyone,
I have thoroughly enjoyed this past week. In my email today, I will be addressing the following topics: first i will be talking to you about my experience in this week, second i will be chastising you and leaving you with a commitment to become better people....haha, just kidding, that was my short attempt at trying to write like this is an english paper mom, haha, since you told me to do so, haha. but yeah ,so it's my last week! finalmente! i think that's a spanish word possibly. but yeah, it's been good and we got our travel plans this past tuesday! so sick i was way stoked and still am, we leave next week tuesday at like 8 in the morning from salt lake and we get to california around 10 or something like that, who cares as long as i am there. so i can't wait and then when i get there i am supposed to am supposed to find out where my first area is which will be pretty sweet too. i keep dreaming that i'm going to go to the airport and talk to everyone i see especially the brown ones so i can speak spanish, haha. oh and yeah we got our seats too and then there is like 5 seats all in a row and there is one seat ahead by itself and so when i saw that i was like i call that seat! so then i can just talk to other people, i got two hours on the plane so the way i look at it, i got 15 minutes to contact and stuff then give them the first two lessons hahaha. just kidding but yeah, that would be pretty cool.
this week has been good though because alot of things have been happening and its more realistic towards our time in the field. because now we only have one hour of teachers a day and the rest of the time is free so all we do is go around the MTC and go and contact the other spanish missionaries and teach them lessons and stuff so that is way cool. but any ways quick story for you. so we were sitting around and studying for our next investigator and then there were these two hermanas sitting across the room and my companion pointed them out (its not what you think, haha), and said that one was crying and i felt way bad for her, because it sucks to not feel good. so i turned and i was looking in my scriptures trying to find a scripture we could share and i found one and i told my companion we should go and teach them a quick lesson, it was about losing our life for the Lord and then after that, that is when we actually find it. i thought that was good so we went and we started to teach , i was teaching and then when i was about to turn to the scripture and then i thought when i got it, nah, that's not good, and then i came across Mosiah 24:14 and the background on this scripture is about people of alma and how they were in bondage and how they prayed to the Lord for help. just simply for some help in their hard times, and then she read this scripture and she started to cry. she couldn't read it, because it just hit her hard and it's what she needed at that time. After she read it she said that she was reading this chapter in her personal study and that she didn't get to that part yet and she was like thank you that is what i needed. I have thought a lot about that it wasn't a coincidence that it had happened like uncle Dayle said. but that we were guided by the spirit and that Heavenly Father put us in her path because he knew her personally and knew what she needed and he heard her in hard times, and we were there to help him. It's crazy because my companion had prayed for something like this to happen so he could experience it. I just know without any doubt that Heavenly Father loves each and every one of us and he will listen and he will bless us even when we may not feel like we deserve it. He does all this because He has great love for us. Another thing is i have had the chance to give blessings and it is amazing. Just last night i was giving a blessing and i started to tear up kus i realized something when i was giving it and i knew it wasn't me talking but it was the holy spirit and he was talking through me and i was learning as i was talking. the craziest thing, but it was nice really nice.
Love Elder Thomas
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