Border lights

So this week was pretty sweet!! There was a lot of stuff that happened down here first off super cool story. So there is this one lady that we talked to. she works at this house where we are trying to teach the husband there. She doesn't live there... she lives in Tijuana and just crosses every day to work and take care of his kids. The thing is though, we would try pass by and he is never home. he is always working. so we started talking to her and we talk about the message and she is just eating it up. she is a pretty open and is a nice lady. So anyways, right before we left we invited her to say the last prayer and she did. I mean it was unreal, during the prayer you could just feel the spirit. it was way strong... and she just started balling while she said the prayer and she told us how she just feels different when we are there and when we talk and share the message... so that was a pretty cool experience right there. Oh and she lives way close to the border too in some apartments and when we ride to her house you can see the border fence. it's pretty intense, super nice looking fence too.. haha and then there are a bunch of lights like the kind in a football stadium shining at this open field right on our side of the border. i t was unreal. There is just one complete change from here and Tijuana. it's so weird. i gotta take a picture and show it to you guys.

We had this other cool story too this week with this one family. There are a ton of people in the family. but only the mom and her daughter are members and they just got baptized like a month ago. They are a way cool family because they Love the color purple... haha they have some pretty sweet shoes and stuff. so got that connection there...haha anyways, so we stopped by this one day and her other daughter was there and we started talking and everything. come to find out, she's having a really hard time and we shared with her how we know that our message can change her life and make it better with Jesus Christ. I don't know, but when i said it this time, i guaranty knew it was true and it wasn't just me saying something but rather i had like that testimony that it could happen because i guess i've seen it with me, just in my mission. as the time flys by (way too quick) i have changed. it's pretty cool.

Like right now, man i love the scriptures. I'll be reading and reading and then i start getting into it, haha and it's more intense then surfing... just learning more about sutff. I don't know, it's hard to explain it, but i know it's cool and i love it haha. One thing i was thinking about - we were at this one guy's house and he is living with his girlfriend and just doesn't want to get married till they are 30! but they are only 20... so they want to wait 10 years... and we were talking and talking and trying to help them see why it's important and how it's a commandment. but it was just not working and it was weird because i was thinking and then a thought came to my mind about the Book of Mormon and so i asked if he was reading it and he said no he hasn't read it in a while. so we started talking about that and it just made me realize... before we understand anything... we need to read God's plan for us. we need to read what he tells us to do and so when we start off with that, everything else makes sense. at least for me each time i read more and more i'm like dang.. Gods plan is perfect.

Oh and this past sunday we had a mission fireside down here in San Ysidro. it went pretty well. a lot of people showed up and so it was a good turn out and the recent converts who shared their testimonies were bomb too. all of them are way strong... and plus we all sang in a choir too. So do you know if there are mission firesides there in the stake. because if there are... you should check um out! they are always way good. i love um. oh man, i better send this now because we gotta leave. but i love you guys!

Talk to you guys next week!

Elder Thomas

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