Ghetto reunion

Hey, hows it going everyone?

It's going pretty good out here. Good past week. Oh, but i gotta tell you this story we heard this past Sunday at Church. Alright so basically what happened was the past few weeks we have been trying to meet with this less active sister, and the only time we got to meet her was this one time where we gave her a blessing because she was feeling sick. So this past Sunday was the first time we saw her at church since we have been here which was sweet! We were pretty stoked that she came. So when we were in Sunday school she shared a story about how you know she stopped coming to Church and everything and she said that we, the missionaries, would stop by and she would think to herself "ah no" so she would just hide.. and she just didn't want to talk to us haha. and the funny thing was we were sitting next to her when she was telling it, haha and i was like oh wow.. but then she told us how that one day we stopped by and some of her nieces were there and they opened the door haha and she said she scolded them for opening the door. But it was the day when we gave her a blessing and she said that she just felt the spirit really strong and that she felt better after that. And now, as a result of that experience she came back to Church. So that was way sweet. It's always cool to see little stuff like that. But yeah its so lame! everyone just hides! Oh well, I think that's why we find families too, becuase the kids don't know anything so they just open the door, haha.

Oh yeah, on Sunday too there was this way good Spanish fireside in San Diego that we had to go to because my companion, Elder Plant, can play the piano way good and he had to help out with this musical number. So anyways, we get to this stake center in San Diego and i recognized a bunch of people from my old area in Barrio Logan, the ghetto... it was so wierd seeing people i knew because it felt like forever ago! and oh I heard from my first convert, i actually got to call her today, and she told me that she is getting married in the temple!! You remember Margarita. Well heck yeah, she is going to the temple, and i baptized her, it's crazy! So sweet... so i am going to try to see if i could go and see her sealing. That would be awesome! I think i could die after that moment. Alright, i am done, haha, it's just that it feels really good. Man, i bet that's how Elder Cheney and Elder Sorenson felt. So yeah, everything is going pretty good here.

Oh, so in our branch, the dinner calender for missionaries got destroyed haha because it's just something our Mission President asks us to do here. Just because it's more effective for us to be out working, I guess because dinner should be a way to do missionary work, like we can be invited to dinner to teach someone, or we can eat with less actives or just pretty much anything like that. Well, i brought that up because one day this past week, all i ate was rice for breakfast, lunch and dinner, hahaha. It was good rice though, when i come home I'll show you how good it is. So it was funny, i think i might turn Asian before i get home too, eating so much rice, haha.

Let's see what else... so we are teaching this husband and wife who are from Guadalajara, Mexico, who are visiting some family up here who are members. The wife is less active and the husband isn't a member. We have been teaching them and they are awesome, he is the best. He's really progressing and everything. He is reading the Book of Mormon and coming to Church and he really likes it, but we got the lame side of the stick, because he is leaving to go back to Guadalajara this week. But I'm for sure that he'll keep it up back there which will be good. They are just an awesome couple. They told me about a surf spot there, so hey Dad looks like we might need to take a trip over there and we can visit them. I'll send you guys a picture of them with us this next week. Their names are Alfredo and Leticia. But they are pretty elect man! i am gonna miss stopping by and teaching them but for sure we'll find someone else like them. We are getting to know more and more people.

This guy yesterday pulled up in this van when we were walking yesterday, he was Arabian so he didn't speak Spanish, but spoke good English, i can't remember his name, so we'll just call him Aladin. He just had some questions for us and so we were talking with him for a while yesterday, which was kind of wierd too because Aladin had some crazy questions. Don't worry Carly for some reason, all the wierdos come up to us too... haha. Oh shoot, well the computer is going to turn off kus my time is done.

I Love you guys! Have a good week! I'll talk to you next tuesday!

Elder Thomas