Doing the 180

Whats up Family!

So this week was way good. it started off pretty tough but we had some cool stuff happen this week. First story. you might want to brace yourself for this one haha. Ok, so the bishop in the english ward gave us this referal to go visit. it was an older couple and we stoped by once but didn't get a chance to go in and teach.. but we decided to stop by again this past saturday and she answered the door and she told us that she wasn't interested and kept going to say that she is studying with the catholic and her husband doesn't want us to come over and just all this stuff how she doesn't want to listen.. and you'd think that we would take a hint and leave. but i don't know. i felt like we should stay and just share with her more and talk about the book of mormon and how Jesus Christ came to America and just our special message. and not joking or trying to be corny or anything. but the spirit was so strong in there, even she felt it and completely changed her. she told us that she has never heard that before and how it was just blowing her mind. so she said she is going to read the Book of Mormon and pray about it. She started asking us about church and when it starts and where it is without even talking to her about that. it was pretty cool, and then afterwards she couldn't stop saying thank you. I thought that was a pretty crazy story. pretty sweet how the spirit can turn it around 180. it was pretty much a miracle. at the beginning she was happy with where she was at and didn't want to know anything else. but at the end she was committed to read the Book of Mormon. And afterwards we were talking about how sweet that was. and man if we didn't listen to the spirit and keep talking she would have never known and would have just kept on going like nothing happened, and we could have missed out on a cool experience.

Oh then just yesterday we were riding bike to an appointment when we passed by this one guy on the street. my companion was in front and i was following and we got to the intersection when i felt like i should turn back and talk to the guy. so i did but my companion couldn't hear me and so he kept going. so i pretty much had to talk to the guy by myself. but he was a super nice guy. not really religious but he was open to us coming over and talking more about our message of Jesus Christ and so i was stoked. pretty cool contact. Oh man funny story... so this past sunday we had two dinner apointments back to back. The first one we had was super good food. so i ate choke and i was super full. not too good of an idea though because in an hour we ate again and they loaded our plates. me and my companion were jsut looking at each other wondering how we were going to do it. he was smart haha kus he put it in the container when they weren't looking so he got away with it and just went to go sit on the couch, but then i couldn't do the same thing. i musta been there for an hour i think trying to down that food. i made a good attempt. close but no cigar, but oh man i could not even move after that. but the good thing was we taught them a lesson so i could recover. haha

Anyways, we have been talking to alot of people walking on the street and its been pretty good. we are finding a ton of more people to teach so we are getting more and more work. its funny too because sometimes you run into people and come to find out they are actually members but they either just moved here and don't know where the church is or they are less active. pretty small world. we ran into a guy the other day and he started calling us hermanos! he told us he was a member and gave us his address so we could visit him. any ways lets see what else happened this week.

oh we had a halloween party here at church this past week and all the missionaries in the ward decorated a room. it was the bomb and we carved pumpkins which turned out pretty sweet too. oh but what was funny was. afterwards we went to go get a california burrito at this taco shop and my companion started talking to this cashier.. his spanish is good but he's still learning and so he asked her if she had any plans that night for halloween, but it sounded like he was asking her out in spanish it was hilarious. i just started laughing and she just tried avoiding us after that. pretty funny stuff.

Ok well family love you alot i gotta go but have a good week!

Love

Elder Thomas