The Restoration

Alright Hey everyone. ok so yes this is the Restoration of me writing emails again haha shoot i have been on a bad streak. But we always get busy on pday tryin to fit everything fun in and then kindof runs out da time. But yeah so More news i am still in linda vista with the same companion elder taylor. haha its crazy becuase he is the first companion that i actually stayed with. it was way funny too when we found out we werent getting transfered. kus we got the call and then we looked at each other from across the hall and then we started yelling haha and jumping up nd down kinda like we just won a lottery or a surf board or something. so we are pretty stoked that we can be with each other another transfer kus we like each other and we work good wit each other. we got way close to everyone in the branch and they helping us like crazy. its just that still the work is slow.. i dont know why, but we can seem to find people and the people we do talk to arent interested or they set another time for us to come back and they arent there. so its pretty tough, but we are trying to hang through and keep pushing trying to work hard. So not gonna lie too. it makes it pretty tough to write emails kus i feel like i am failing haha not i am mean i feel bad kus i dont really want to write and then it seems like i am not doing anything.. but i have realized that is pretty retarded so i am gona start writing anyways haha. oh so our weekly family home evenings in the church are going way good though! i mean its pretty legit. we have a ton of members show up and investigators. we have a lesson. then they have a ton of food too. leave it to those guys to bring all the goods for the party. and so i had to teach the lesson this past week and it was way good. not from anything i did but it was about charity and it was wierd kus plenty of people gave in their insights and it was a good discusion. and our ward mission leader shared this story that happened that exact day that really applied to him at that time. it was sweeet. 3 pointer swish by the spirit. oh what else has been happening. halloween was crazy. dang it was actually on saturday the night before, we were walking around and people were dressed up and there were tons of parties. we got so much shout outs, they werent sure if we were dressed up or not but some of the stuff they would say to us was pretty funny, except for the swear words. haha people would like, hey look the mormons, wheres your bikes, wheres your bible, and then we would get the occasional oh mormons ah i would never be one of those, but rock on. haha it was hilarious. ah man i forgot what i was talking about. oh so we were helping out this member move, his name is wilson. he is a cool guy, an RM and so he was renting to another apartment becuase the other place was a dumb right but when we got to the new house there was a miscommunication and actually he was going to be able to live there so he was homeless right then and we were freaking out because man he didnt have a place to say, doesnt have a car or nothing, or alot of money, but it all ended out good. he ended up renting at his parents house so that was a miracle right there. but that is really common with the members and investigators here. always moving because they no more money and so they live with barely anything and so we are always trying to help them see that all they need to do is put God first, and he will help you. and i mean at first i thought i dont know if i even really believe this, just giving all these members false hope and this encouragement when if someone gave it to me i wouldnt even believe it. if that makes any sense, but it really is true, and its crazy some of the stories we hear here. its ridiculous. families with no work no nothing, with a huge family to feed and somehhow they have the means of doing it. and then with members asking to have sundays off and just keep the sabbath day holy and then they miracally get it off and the boss repects them and they some how have enough money and they are happy, its pretty cool! but shoot we gotta go. but i miss you guys and hope everything is going way good!

Love

Elder Thomas