Hey Everybody!
Ok... so everything is going pretty good, not too bad of a week! But before i forget i got to tell you this funny story. So we went to go visit our branch Mission Leader this past week and oh man it was so funny! Alright so we go over and he comes out and asks us if we would like some bread so after some hesitancy we obviously said Yes! Something better then saimin, haha. So he comes out and says "Elders.. there are two loaves in the bag. Last night there was only one loave in here and now there are two!!" and he was amazed and then he asked us if we prayed for food, haha...and his wife walked in and he told her the same thing and then she said that there was three, but he was like no no there was only one. it was so funny then he went to the shelves to see the can food and he came back with just this amazed face again and told us that there were only two cans of fish and now there are four! haha... oh man, we started cracking up so hard. So we had another bread and fish miracle right here in Poway by our Ward Mission Leader!
So anyways this past week was pretty good. We got to go to the Mormon Batallion with a member. It was super good. We watched the Restoration movie, the one about the prophet Joseph Smith and the beginnings of the Church during in that time period. It helped her a ton. She could feel like that's what she is going through and so she's excitied to keep moving on and trying to progress and follow Jesus Christ even more. So we were stoked that it went well.
We also taught this other older couple and this time we actually got to watch another short video clip, and it's good because sometimes people don't get it, and they didn't get it before, but after that video, they understood it a lot better. So as a result, we got some people who are moving along.
Then what else... oh, yesterday we found this lady who moved from El Salvador and shes been here for a couple years working to send money to her family, but she hasn't been to church and so she is less active and she is living with this other family. She is a super nice lady, so we got to talk with her and so we are working on trying to help her get Sundays off so that she can come to Church, it was just a good appointment, then as we were leaving... the family that lives with her pulled in the driveway and we started talking with them as well. Come to find out that the wife is a member too and so we're gonna start visiting them too and teaching the husband, who's pretty open to learning. That's so sweet!
Oh and then we had this other appointment with another investigator. Previously we had given him a chapter in the Book of Mormon to read and he read it!! He really has good intentions because he felt the Holy Spirit tell him that these things are important and that he needs to look into it and do it. So that was another sweet blessing right there. The work is shooting up out here though. It's been really good. The only junk thing is when you have a lot of stuff to do the time goes by too quick! but oh well... can't do anything about that.
Oh yeah... ok, so i think i told you the story about that one less active member who we gave a blessing to and now she is back at Church way strong? Well this past week she gave a talk! It was super good. She talked about prayer during Sacrament meeting. it was just pretty cool to see someone get it and understand everything and do it too. That's one thing i love out here, is to just to see the people change and then to see how good they feel when they do the things God asks us to do.
Eh... but how was the birthday this past Sunday? Hopefully you guys didn't do it on Sunday! haha, i'm just kidding.. kind of... haha. Anyway...everything is going way good here. Hope everything is good back home!
Love you guys!
Elder Thomas
Tuesday, July 26, 2011
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
Three headed eagle
Sweet alright, hope everyone's doing good!
This past week I got my new companion haha and it was crazy! We were sitting in transfer meeting and we were almost done and i still didn't know who my companion was going to be, and then i stood up and President Clayton said Elder Reagan and it was funny kus at first i didn't think of Elder Reagan from the MTC, but i just was like "wait who is Elder Reagan? and then i saw him and i yelled No Way! That was weird, i still can't believe it. It's pretty sweet, we already know each other and stuff, so that's easy. Its funny too because everyone asks how much time he has out and then we tell them that we were companions. It would be pretty funny if they leave us here until we are both done haha and then all we got to do is drive to the airport together haha. So yeah can you believe that, its pretty intense, companions again. but its pretty sweet. This past week was way fun and busy! We found a TON of people and so it's going really good.
Ok, remember the people we met last week, well we got in and taught them and they were really interested and it went well, the only thing was that we couldn't watch the DVD we wanted to because they couldn't switch it to Spanish, bummer, but oh well. So yeah, we got the hook ups with them too because his name is Tomas! He's always like eh what's happening Tomas? and then i am like, oh nothing much, what's happening with you Tomas? We got the Tomas connection over here, only lame thing is that they live in Arizona and so they are going to head back but not for a couple weeks. For some reason we always find people that don't live here haha. dang it! but its all good...
Oh, weird story for yah. Ok you know how there's all those shows or commercials about peer pressure?, well i never even had that, no one asked me for a hit or any of that dumb stuff, but it was funny because we were walking on the street and these guys were smoking in a couple of bushes, it looked some dumb haha. i started laughing and then we were like, nah we're good, we like to think, but you want to learn about Jesus Christ? and they didn't want to so we left.
So yeah, lately all these new people we have been finding are all Catholics, but they know their saints. I still don't know Spanish fairly well and sometimes they just go off in these weird crazy stories about the saints and stuff like that. This past Friday we taught Tomas and his wife and she told this intense story about this headless guy and he had this book which a three headed eagle was guarding and apparently it's Saint Tomas' book....but i'm pretty sure i didn't understand or at least i hope haha. After that story we just told um, well - we don't know about that, but we know about Jesus Christ so we think we should talk about him rather then crazy headed animal books. We just kind of left the story behind. Super weird. It seems like tons of people have stories like that and they always tell us for some weird reason. We are trying to combat the whole idol worship, you know no biggie. haha but on the good side we met this guy yesterday who said he doesn't believe in that stuff, just focuses on the Savior so we got a good one there. We just had to fist pump after that lesson since we were so stoked that he didn't beleive in that stuff.
We got some sweet plans for this week, we should be headed down to Mormon Battallion with some investigators so we are hoping it goes through becuase that will really help some of the people we are teaching to progress.
Other than that, things are going way good. Have a good week. Oh and CAIT - Happy Birthday! i have a birthday card that is currently being held hostage until you write me haha, nah just kidding.. sort of.
LOVE you guys,
Elder Thomas
This past week I got my new companion haha and it was crazy! We were sitting in transfer meeting and we were almost done and i still didn't know who my companion was going to be, and then i stood up and President Clayton said Elder Reagan and it was funny kus at first i didn't think of Elder Reagan from the MTC, but i just was like "wait who is Elder Reagan? and then i saw him and i yelled No Way! That was weird, i still can't believe it. It's pretty sweet, we already know each other and stuff, so that's easy. Its funny too because everyone asks how much time he has out and then we tell them that we were companions. It would be pretty funny if they leave us here until we are both done haha and then all we got to do is drive to the airport together haha. So yeah can you believe that, its pretty intense, companions again. but its pretty sweet. This past week was way fun and busy! We found a TON of people and so it's going really good.
Ok, remember the people we met last week, well we got in and taught them and they were really interested and it went well, the only thing was that we couldn't watch the DVD we wanted to because they couldn't switch it to Spanish, bummer, but oh well. So yeah, we got the hook ups with them too because his name is Tomas! He's always like eh what's happening Tomas? and then i am like, oh nothing much, what's happening with you Tomas? We got the Tomas connection over here, only lame thing is that they live in Arizona and so they are going to head back but not for a couple weeks. For some reason we always find people that don't live here haha. dang it! but its all good...
Oh, weird story for yah. Ok you know how there's all those shows or commercials about peer pressure?, well i never even had that, no one asked me for a hit or any of that dumb stuff, but it was funny because we were walking on the street and these guys were smoking in a couple of bushes, it looked some dumb haha. i started laughing and then we were like, nah we're good, we like to think, but you want to learn about Jesus Christ? and they didn't want to so we left.
So yeah, lately all these new people we have been finding are all Catholics, but they know their saints. I still don't know Spanish fairly well and sometimes they just go off in these weird crazy stories about the saints and stuff like that. This past Friday we taught Tomas and his wife and she told this intense story about this headless guy and he had this book which a three headed eagle was guarding and apparently it's Saint Tomas' book....but i'm pretty sure i didn't understand or at least i hope haha. After that story we just told um, well - we don't know about that, but we know about Jesus Christ so we think we should talk about him rather then crazy headed animal books. We just kind of left the story behind. Super weird. It seems like tons of people have stories like that and they always tell us for some weird reason. We are trying to combat the whole idol worship, you know no biggie. haha but on the good side we met this guy yesterday who said he doesn't believe in that stuff, just focuses on the Savior so we got a good one there. We just had to fist pump after that lesson since we were so stoked that he didn't beleive in that stuff.
We got some sweet plans for this week, we should be headed down to Mormon Battallion with some investigators so we are hoping it goes through becuase that will really help some of the people we are teaching to progress.
Other than that, things are going way good. Have a good week. Oh and CAIT - Happy Birthday! i have a birthday card that is currently being held hostage until you write me haha, nah just kidding.. sort of.
LOVE you guys,
Elder Thomas
Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Low budget marriage technique
Hey everyone!
So yeah... we just finished another transfer and we thought we would just stay the same but aparently not. My companion Elder Plant is going to leave, and i am staying. Its crazy!! We thought that we were just going to stay together and we were down for it. We have some good stuff coming up pretty soon. So i'm glad i never got transfered, but ah man, now i don't know who my companion is going to be..so stay tuned it might get pretty intense. We'll see tomorrow because we have transfers in the morning tomorrow. I am gonna miss that guy though kus me and him got along pretty good. it was always pretty fun stuff. so hopefully my new companion is sweet too.
So yup... that's the latest news for yah... but anyways, this past week was pretty sick! We had a lot of stuff going on and it seemed like the work is picking up. we finally found some people!! yeah baby, it was funny too because we were just walking to go see some members that live in our same complex and when we walked by, this one door swings open and this guy just starts talking to us... way sweet! He was really interested and so we will probably stop by after i pick up my new companion tomorrow. Then another time we were walking to a member's house again and we started talking to these people in the streets just cruising in their garage. It was crazy though because man they were super funny. i think only 4 words that came out of there mouths were serious "how are you doing" and then the rest was just pure jokes, so it was kinda hard to teach/ share the message, but we set a time to come back and talk more with um.
Oh funny story for you guys. So we stopped by our recent convert's house this week to help her get rid of her bed kus it had bed bugs in it. ohhhhh it was nasty! but we threw it away and then she asks us to help clear her vacuum tube thing kus it was clogged, haha and i didn't really know what i was doing but we got a hanger and we were trying to get all the junk out. So we were outside just like hitting it on the ground and shoving the hanger in there and it was a pretty funny sight. But anyways after a while we had to leave but there was still more junk in it so we just brought it home with us, haha ... and we were just walking around with a vacuum hose around our neck. But later that night after more trying we finally got it cleared out. So now we are experts in the vacuum cleaning department too.
But yeah... so we have had a couple new people that we taught this past week. one of um we went to last night. It went pretty well, he has talked with the missionaries for like two years already and so we kinda wanted to see where he was at and we talked about the Book of Mormon and then asked him a question if he was able to pray about it to know if it was true.. and man i don't know if my spanish is really bad and i asked it wrong, but he started going off about the virgin of guadalupe... haha, i swear he talked about her for a wopping 20 mintuers just about the virgen guadalupe. i think i could write a solid report on her know... it was so ramdom. So after he stopped talking about her, i was like alrighty then... well, um ... so then you didn't pray..maybe.. haha we had no idea what to say after that. it was pretty intense.
Then we taught this lady who is the Mom of a member here in the branch and it went very well. she already knows its true and she wants to be baptized. the only thing holding her back is her husband becuase he is hard head. She doesn't want to learn or anything, but crazy story about that. One of his sisters almost died recently and now she is all worried for everyone's salvation and she is trying to get everyone to be married in a church and go back to church and everything. So she comes to this husband of the lady we are teaching and tells him he needs to get married in a church but he was mad because he's Catholic and to be married Catholic costs a ton of money and time so it's tough to do it. So his wife tells him, hey you know you can just go to the Mormon Temple and be married for free.. its easy.. hahaha, and then he said, oh, ok... let's look into it. So hopefully that goes well. pretty funny stuff. Now we know of a new way we can find people... ask if they want a free marriage, then bam start teaching um! Shucks, i got to get going, but hope everything is going good!
Miss you guys and love you choke!
Elder Thomas
So yeah... we just finished another transfer and we thought we would just stay the same but aparently not. My companion Elder Plant is going to leave, and i am staying. Its crazy!! We thought that we were just going to stay together and we were down for it. We have some good stuff coming up pretty soon. So i'm glad i never got transfered, but ah man, now i don't know who my companion is going to be..so stay tuned it might get pretty intense. We'll see tomorrow because we have transfers in the morning tomorrow. I am gonna miss that guy though kus me and him got along pretty good. it was always pretty fun stuff. so hopefully my new companion is sweet too.
So yup... that's the latest news for yah... but anyways, this past week was pretty sick! We had a lot of stuff going on and it seemed like the work is picking up. we finally found some people!! yeah baby, it was funny too because we were just walking to go see some members that live in our same complex and when we walked by, this one door swings open and this guy just starts talking to us... way sweet! He was really interested and so we will probably stop by after i pick up my new companion tomorrow. Then another time we were walking to a member's house again and we started talking to these people in the streets just cruising in their garage. It was crazy though because man they were super funny. i think only 4 words that came out of there mouths were serious "how are you doing" and then the rest was just pure jokes, so it was kinda hard to teach/ share the message, but we set a time to come back and talk more with um.
Oh funny story for you guys. So we stopped by our recent convert's house this week to help her get rid of her bed kus it had bed bugs in it. ohhhhh it was nasty! but we threw it away and then she asks us to help clear her vacuum tube thing kus it was clogged, haha and i didn't really know what i was doing but we got a hanger and we were trying to get all the junk out. So we were outside just like hitting it on the ground and shoving the hanger in there and it was a pretty funny sight. But anyways after a while we had to leave but there was still more junk in it so we just brought it home with us, haha ... and we were just walking around with a vacuum hose around our neck. But later that night after more trying we finally got it cleared out. So now we are experts in the vacuum cleaning department too.
But yeah... so we have had a couple new people that we taught this past week. one of um we went to last night. It went pretty well, he has talked with the missionaries for like two years already and so we kinda wanted to see where he was at and we talked about the Book of Mormon and then asked him a question if he was able to pray about it to know if it was true.. and man i don't know if my spanish is really bad and i asked it wrong, but he started going off about the virgin of guadalupe... haha, i swear he talked about her for a wopping 20 mintuers just about the virgen guadalupe. i think i could write a solid report on her know... it was so ramdom. So after he stopped talking about her, i was like alrighty then... well, um ... so then you didn't pray..maybe.. haha we had no idea what to say after that. it was pretty intense.
Then we taught this lady who is the Mom of a member here in the branch and it went very well. she already knows its true and she wants to be baptized. the only thing holding her back is her husband becuase he is hard head. She doesn't want to learn or anything, but crazy story about that. One of his sisters almost died recently and now she is all worried for everyone's salvation and she is trying to get everyone to be married in a church and go back to church and everything. So she comes to this husband of the lady we are teaching and tells him he needs to get married in a church but he was mad because he's Catholic and to be married Catholic costs a ton of money and time so it's tough to do it. So his wife tells him, hey you know you can just go to the Mormon Temple and be married for free.. its easy.. hahaha, and then he said, oh, ok... let's look into it. So hopefully that goes well. pretty funny stuff. Now we know of a new way we can find people... ask if they want a free marriage, then bam start teaching um! Shucks, i got to get going, but hope everything is going good!
Miss you guys and love you choke!
Elder Thomas
Tuesday, July 5, 2011
The answer to a prayer
Hey Family!
Hope you guys had a good 4th of july! It was kinda lame here, we had to be back in the apartment. and we thought we would get lucky and see some fireworks through the windows. but nothing! haha oh well, we heard the bangs and the booms though, way loud. Oh good news, we met the new Mission President on Thursday. He is a really cool guy, funny too. But he's different from President Donaldson though garantee and he puts a new twist on things. It's not different stuff, but just a different way of teaching and explaining it in a different way, which is pretty sweet. S o i am stoked to have him here for the next 6 months. It should be way good.
Um, lets see... oh, so funny story - we went tracting this week a couple days because we really need to find people and so we did that and this past Sunday this member was teaching the class for Elder's Quorum and he made a comment about the Jehovah witnesses, how they knock and talk to people in the streets sharing their message and how he admired them but he thinks its crazy and wouldn't do it. So i was just sitting there and i looked at my companion and started laughing kus thats us haha. so funny thing right there.
Oh, good news. So you know the brothah we baptized here and then he left for Mexico? Well he called us this past week and he said he is doing really good and that he's bringing his 4 kids to Church and his wife who was less active is bringing her 4 kids to Church too and all their kids are grown up and married! So that's a ton of more people who are going to be blessed with to talk to, wooooo!!! i was so stoked when i heard that. it's some pretty cool stuff man.
Another story. So well... we are kinda having a hard time right now. Not complaining or anything. It's just tough... and so this one night i was really trying to pray to know what i might be able to do. Like how can i be better and help the work shoot up here, and so when when i was praying, i felt good and felt that i received a couple answers of stuff that i could do, so it was sweet... and then i crashed out. Then when I woke up I couldn't remember what I was thinking. But i think it was two days after that when we were in an appointment teaching this part member family, when the wife said that she couldn't understand us and said pretty much that our Spanish is bad, so i was like... ooh, ouch! felt that one lady, jeez. haha, and so i was pretty bummed out about it and then later that night when i was praying and thinking about that, i thought dang! that was an answer to my prayer in a weird way, because after that i felt like i need to study better and so i made plans to do that and try harder and keep working on that stuff and not be comfortable where i am at, and now my studies are a lot better! So lesson learned. e Be careful what you ask for ...haha, but nah, just sometimes if you don't look or think about stuff, that at first, it seems like nothing, however, it could really be an answer to a prayer or a way that God is giving you to see that you can do even better, so i thought that was pretty sweet.
But yup... we are trying to do the best we can here. Nothing really happened this past week other than that. i think, not to sure.. well, if i remember something, i'll write it next week.
Love you guys!
Elder Thomas
Hope you guys had a good 4th of july! It was kinda lame here, we had to be back in the apartment. and we thought we would get lucky and see some fireworks through the windows. but nothing! haha oh well, we heard the bangs and the booms though, way loud. Oh good news, we met the new Mission President on Thursday. He is a really cool guy, funny too. But he's different from President Donaldson though garantee and he puts a new twist on things. It's not different stuff, but just a different way of teaching and explaining it in a different way, which is pretty sweet. S o i am stoked to have him here for the next 6 months. It should be way good.
Um, lets see... oh, so funny story - we went tracting this week a couple days because we really need to find people and so we did that and this past Sunday this member was teaching the class for Elder's Quorum and he made a comment about the Jehovah witnesses, how they knock and talk to people in the streets sharing their message and how he admired them but he thinks its crazy and wouldn't do it. So i was just sitting there and i looked at my companion and started laughing kus thats us haha. so funny thing right there.
Oh, good news. So you know the brothah we baptized here and then he left for Mexico? Well he called us this past week and he said he is doing really good and that he's bringing his 4 kids to Church and his wife who was less active is bringing her 4 kids to Church too and all their kids are grown up and married! So that's a ton of more people who are going to be blessed with to talk to, wooooo!!! i was so stoked when i heard that. it's some pretty cool stuff man.
Another story. So well... we are kinda having a hard time right now. Not complaining or anything. It's just tough... and so this one night i was really trying to pray to know what i might be able to do. Like how can i be better and help the work shoot up here, and so when when i was praying, i felt good and felt that i received a couple answers of stuff that i could do, so it was sweet... and then i crashed out. Then when I woke up I couldn't remember what I was thinking. But i think it was two days after that when we were in an appointment teaching this part member family, when the wife said that she couldn't understand us and said pretty much that our Spanish is bad, so i was like... ooh, ouch! felt that one lady, jeez. haha, and so i was pretty bummed out about it and then later that night when i was praying and thinking about that, i thought dang! that was an answer to my prayer in a weird way, because after that i felt like i need to study better and so i made plans to do that and try harder and keep working on that stuff and not be comfortable where i am at, and now my studies are a lot better! So lesson learned. e Be careful what you ask for ...haha, but nah, just sometimes if you don't look or think about stuff, that at first, it seems like nothing, however, it could really be an answer to a prayer or a way that God is giving you to see that you can do even better, so i thought that was pretty sweet.
But yup... we are trying to do the best we can here. Nothing really happened this past week other than that. i think, not to sure.. well, if i remember something, i'll write it next week.
Love you guys!
Elder Thomas
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