Hey Everybody!
Hope everyone is doing good. this past week has been pretty good, slow sometimes but good. Just yesterday we had interviews with the mission President and then a meeting with all the spanish missionaries. It was a really good meeting, He talked about contacting people in the street and focusing more on the Book of Mormon, it was pretty funny because in the meeting he asked this one elder to come up and do a normal street contact. I woulda been pretty nervous haha in front of everybody. and so he started and then President stopped him 5 seconds in, so just after he introduced himself. I was like wow i am glad thats not me haha but then he showed how it was done. he nailed it. sometimes i wonder why the beloved are we here and not the older people, they know more then us and they are alot better. but i know why we are because we need to get to the point where we don't rely on ourselves but to rely on the Lord and He will bless us. that isn't to say that we dont need to do anything but yeah we still need to study and do our part. But anyways, so President acted out a contact and he was the missionary and he asked the person (missionary) if he had any famous ancestors? i mean what kind of question is this? haha. but the point was he did it to lead to the fact that the people of the Book of Mormon were the ancestors of the people in mexico and south america and that the Book of Mormon is specifically written for them and it is a story of their family two thousand years ago. and so after that he had all the spanish speakers stand up and go to the front and i was like oh shoot what about hagoth? and so he called up all the pacific islanders too. so yeah, dad and cait we are special. sorry mom that excludes you... haha, just kidding your important too mom. it was written for you too. okay? don't feel bad. jk
Ok, oh i dont know if i told you about my companion but he is like a library! He knows everything. and so a lot of our visits with members and investigators are spent like talking about doctine and answering questions they have. and me, i dont know any of this stuff, heck i hardly even read. all i was familiar with before the mission was surfboard+ the ocean= Fun. that's basically it. and so i have been learning a ton of stuff. this past Pday we went to DI and he bought all this doctrine books because he likes to read them so i have been reading them too. I have been doing the most reading in my life. So it's pretty interesting stuff. it's fun to learn and it just makes sense.
Oh, so funny story about doctine discusions, one morning we went to go study at the library for companion study and so while we were studying their these two ladies came up to us and asked a question about something. then we started talking about the Plan of Salvation. and they didnt understand how we could have lived with God before this life. and thats reasonable because for a lot of people that can be new. But they started arguing too about how God did not have a Plan before Adam and Eve, well he did have a plan but after they partook of the fruit, God Changed his plan. and me and my companion just looked at each other. we were like what. how can a Loving God who is just and all Knowing from the beginning and through eternity not know that was going to happen. And so just after that i was just thinking to myself how true the church is and in reality we have all of the Truth. not saying we are better than anybody and not trying to diminish the importance of other religions because other religions have helped the world so much and have helped spread the knowldege of God and Jesus Christ. But it's amazing and i am thankful to Heavenly Father and our Savior because in the scriptures it says all things will be restored. and all these things will be restored in Christ. and Because they love us so much they have brought everything back, which was lost. it's pretty sweet, pretty amazing work.
So yeah there are some things that happened this week. other than that it's pretty good.
Hope everyone is doing good. this past week has been pretty good, slow sometimes but good. Just yesterday we had interviews with the mission President and then a meeting with all the spanish missionaries. It was a really good meeting, He talked about contacting people in the street and focusing more on the Book of Mormon, it was pretty funny because in the meeting he asked this one elder to come up and do a normal street contact. I woulda been pretty nervous haha in front of everybody. and so he started and then President stopped him 5 seconds in, so just after he introduced himself. I was like wow i am glad thats not me haha but then he showed how it was done. he nailed it. sometimes i wonder why the beloved are we here and not the older people, they know more then us and they are alot better. but i know why we are because we need to get to the point where we don't rely on ourselves but to rely on the Lord and He will bless us. that isn't to say that we dont need to do anything but yeah we still need to study and do our part. But anyways, so President acted out a contact and he was the missionary and he asked the person (missionary) if he had any famous ancestors? i mean what kind of question is this? haha. but the point was he did it to lead to the fact that the people of the Book of Mormon were the ancestors of the people in mexico and south america and that the Book of Mormon is specifically written for them and it is a story of their family two thousand years ago. and so after that he had all the spanish speakers stand up and go to the front and i was like oh shoot what about hagoth? and so he called up all the pacific islanders too. so yeah, dad and cait we are special. sorry mom that excludes you... haha, just kidding your important too mom. it was written for you too. okay? don't feel bad. jk
So that is how he wants us to share the book of mormon and contact. so we tried that yesterday. We actually went up to this one house that my companion supposedly had revelation about and we knocked on the door. and it's an english speaking person. and so that just threw me off. and i was like stuttering oh man it was embarassing. not good at all. but then for some reason i wanted to try again after the complete failure. So we saw this family and i was excited because our message blesses families tons - like ours. and so we asked him and he said sorry i really don't have time right now. sorry. so again another bust. but after that we saw this guy working on his car and we asked him the question and we started to talk about the Book of Mormon and how it was a record of his family two thousand years ago. and so he was interested and he had alot of questions, it was pretty sweet. and so we are going to go visit him later this week. oh the sweet thing is that his wife is a member too but less active. so we are going to try and teach them and help them too.
Ok, oh i dont know if i told you about my companion but he is like a library! He knows everything. and so a lot of our visits with members and investigators are spent like talking about doctine and answering questions they have. and me, i dont know any of this stuff, heck i hardly even read. all i was familiar with before the mission was surfboard+ the ocean= Fun. that's basically it. and so i have been learning a ton of stuff. this past Pday we went to DI and he bought all this doctrine books because he likes to read them so i have been reading them too. I have been doing the most reading in my life. So it's pretty interesting stuff. it's fun to learn and it just makes sense.
Oh, so funny story about doctine discusions, one morning we went to go study at the library for companion study and so while we were studying their these two ladies came up to us and asked a question about something. then we started talking about the Plan of Salvation. and they didnt understand how we could have lived with God before this life. and thats reasonable because for a lot of people that can be new. But they started arguing too about how God did not have a Plan before Adam and Eve, well he did have a plan but after they partook of the fruit, God Changed his plan. and me and my companion just looked at each other. we were like what. how can a Loving God who is just and all Knowing from the beginning and through eternity not know that was going to happen. And so just after that i was just thinking to myself how true the church is and in reality we have all of the Truth. not saying we are better than anybody and not trying to diminish the importance of other religions because other religions have helped the world so much and have helped spread the knowldege of God and Jesus Christ. But it's amazing and i am thankful to Heavenly Father and our Savior because in the scriptures it says all things will be restored. and all these things will be restored in Christ. and Because they love us so much they have brought everything back, which was lost. it's pretty sweet, pretty amazing work.
So yeah there are some things that happened this week. other than that it's pretty good.
Oh we are actually moving houses too agosto 1 into this nice house (well nice in the ghetto) but really it's pretty sweet and its a lot nicer then the attic we have now haha. Oh Carly the other day we got this hot chocolate bar they call Abuelita. Best hot chocolate! it's pretty good. that was kind of random but yeah only becuase the other day Margarita gave us a ton of food. and i dont know why too, she doesnt have alot of food to begin with, i wasn't complaining though, haha. it was nice of her and i needed it. because this month, like half way i saw i had a lot of money on my account and so i started to take it easy and buy mcdonalds and food for other people and then this past Pday i tried paying for some stuff and it didn't go through and so i checked my card and there is only $1.23 left, hahah. ay i tell you i am so dumb. but it's alright i can make it i still have alot of food. Shoot, i probably shouldn't have said that. but i thought it was pretty funny. anyways DONT SEND ME MONEY.
Love you,
Elder Thomas
Elder Thomas
This blog is good for Sean to remember his mission.
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