Alright, so this past week was way sweet! We had three people that we are teaching come to Church for the first time which was awesome. There are alot of people who are progressing - it's pretty cool to see. Francisco, the person who called us wanting us to come over, he came to Church, but he came half-way through Sacrament meeting so we had to go out and bring him in, but he loved it! Then afterwards we went to the temple and the mormon battalion. If you see the picture he is the guy on the right, in the top corner. He's a way good guy and he has a strong desire to keep learning and coming. So good things are looking up for him. He loved the temple, it was pretty sweet kus we went at night and so they had the lights on and everything, it's a super nice temple, like a castle. Then the other two people we had, Quirino and Natalia they came with their daughter, who is less active, and so it was good to see them there.
Oh, but yesterday was a way good day too. In the morning we thought, Eh! we should bust out the bikes today and go biking around and talk to people in the streets between appointments trying to find new people. For the first 5 seconds it felt good to be out and riding bike haha but then i started get tired, jeez! i'm so out of shape. i started to die riding and we got to this hill. and i was thinking, oh bradduh you gotta be kidding me! But i did make it without walking haha, a small accomplishment. So we had to walk down some stairs coming back down from the appointment and i almost ate it because my muscles, or lack thereof, were sore, it was pretty funny. Oh that reminds me... so this past Sunday a couple of young men were talking about preparing for your missions in sacrament meeting. Ooohhh, it was hilarious just because they were talking about being able to manage your money so you have enough food for the month, knowing how to shop and cook too because your going to have to do that on your missions. So me and my companion were just cracking up becuase we have been eating saimin for the past 2 weeks kus we ran out of money and so we probably just went up and gave our testimony about the truthfullness of it haha. pretty funny stuff.
Oh and yesterday we taught the dad of a member who just got baptized with her family. We have been trying to pass by but we hadn't had luck finding him because he has been really sick. But yesterday we passed by and we got to teach him and it went super good! He said he felt the Spirit and he told us a couple of stories about how he had faith in God and he is pretty strong and knows alot about God, so we are stoked to keep teaching him.
We are trying hard to do the best we can, trying to give it our all, still got a long way to keep getting better, but it's possible even though change is kinda hard. It's kinda crazy because President Donaldson, before he left, said 90 percent of people don't change by the end of there lives, they still have the same habits and everything, only 10 percent change and its crazy to think about that, maybe i already told you that but i was reading about repentance in the Book of Mormon and how it says Jesus Christ has the power to help us change and help us to leave the things and bad habits we have in order to follow him more fully. That's what I have been trying to do, and it's so much easier just to decide to follow him no matter what happens and to always have faith because then everything will go better. He will bless us tons! Maybe it's reading the scriptures, or maybe praying, or church or loving others, or sharing the Gospel whatever it is, if we choose to do it now, it will turn out better in the future and blessings will come becuase the Lord promised and he keeps his promises. That's the only reason why i can explain all the good stuff happening right now, just tons of blessings.
Oh and guess what?!! You remember the couple that got married and the husband got baptized and then they went back to Guadalajara... well, they're coming back at the end of this month baby!!! So excited to see um again. I'll let you know how they are doing, hopefully they come this week or next week, and i will take some pictures and send you um next tuesday, we'll see what happens.
Well have a good week! love you!
Elder Thomas
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Tuesday, August 16, 2011
Pupusas!
Hey Everyone,
So yup, new transfer, but nothing is changing for us, so it's all good. I'm glad i am staying because there us a lot of stuff happening here, it's going way good.
Ok so this past Saturday, we got this random phone call from a former investigator, he was taught before i even got here, but he just called us asking if we could stop by this past Monday. Miracle! haha, and so we stopped by just yesterday and we talked about the message and the Book of Mormon, and he just ate it all up, he was super interested and it was cool to see how prepared he was to hear the message. So we are starting to teach him now.. Oh and we are teaching this part-member family, and they are from El Salvador. So this past week, we brought a member with us, who is from El Salvador too and they kicked it off together. Now they are super good friends and this past Saturday we ate dinner with them and they cooked some pupusas! super good!! Man it was some awesome food. Then the best part, the husband came to Church with his daughther this past sunday and they loved it! they stayed all three hours and afterwards he told us that he wants to keep coming.
What else is happening, lets see.. Oh you know how i said we were going to have a baptism, well that got moved back until September 10th because the dad wants to be at his son's baptism but right now he is on a trip in Mexico and so we are gonna just wait until he gets back. At least we will still be here. So yup, a ton of potential that's coming up. So be prepared haha.
Oh funny story, yesterday we passed by this one house, its an older couple, and well. each time we go to someone's house we always let the head of the house pick who they want to say the prayer. but every single time no lie, i think we are saying it wrong of something, the husband yesterday he starts freaking out. haha like no, no i can't pray, i don't know how and all this stuff, but the wife understood what we were trying to say and so she was trying to explain it to him and they just kept going back and forth arguing for a couple of minutes haha. I think next time we'll probably just pray... haha nah but it was pretty funny.
Anyways, everything is going really good and i'm doing good, having fun and working hard. Hope you guys are doing good.
Today we are going to go to the U.S.S. Midway pretty soon, so i'll take some pictures of it. But take care! Love you guys!
Elder Thomas
So yup, new transfer, but nothing is changing for us, so it's all good. I'm glad i am staying because there us a lot of stuff happening here, it's going way good.
Ok so this past Saturday, we got this random phone call from a former investigator, he was taught before i even got here, but he just called us asking if we could stop by this past Monday. Miracle! haha, and so we stopped by just yesterday and we talked about the message and the Book of Mormon, and he just ate it all up, he was super interested and it was cool to see how prepared he was to hear the message. So we are starting to teach him now.. Oh and we are teaching this part-member family, and they are from El Salvador. So this past week, we brought a member with us, who is from El Salvador too and they kicked it off together. Now they are super good friends and this past Saturday we ate dinner with them and they cooked some pupusas! super good!! Man it was some awesome food. Then the best part, the husband came to Church with his daughther this past sunday and they loved it! they stayed all three hours and afterwards he told us that he wants to keep coming.
What else is happening, lets see.. Oh you know how i said we were going to have a baptism, well that got moved back until September 10th because the dad wants to be at his son's baptism but right now he is on a trip in Mexico and so we are gonna just wait until he gets back. At least we will still be here. So yup, a ton of potential that's coming up. So be prepared haha.
Oh funny story, yesterday we passed by this one house, its an older couple, and well. each time we go to someone's house we always let the head of the house pick who they want to say the prayer. but every single time no lie, i think we are saying it wrong of something, the husband yesterday he starts freaking out. haha like no, no i can't pray, i don't know how and all this stuff, but the wife understood what we were trying to say and so she was trying to explain it to him and they just kept going back and forth arguing for a couple of minutes haha. I think next time we'll probably just pray... haha nah but it was pretty funny.
Anyways, everything is going really good and i'm doing good, having fun and working hard. Hope you guys are doing good.
Today we are going to go to the U.S.S. Midway pretty soon, so i'll take some pictures of it. But take care! Love you guys!
Elder Thomas
Tuesday, August 9, 2011
Donut blessings
Hey Family!
Hope you all are doing good. This past week was pretty good, kinda emailing late today because we went to the temple this morning at 11 and we just got back, it was super crowded but really good. It's always nice to go to the temple. So earlier today too in the morning we went to go help a brother with roofing, which was pretty fun. I hadn't done service in a while so it was a good workout... but after like an hour and a half my legs were killing me! haha, man it was tiring - still good though. We have another service project this Friday with our ward mission leader, Hno. Webb, it's funny because he owns his own little bus! haha and it's always just cruising right in the front and so i don't know what we are helping him with on the bus, we might paint it or just clean it up a little bit. I'll take some pictures so you guys can see.
Oh, this past Sunday we had a sweet lesson with this family like right before calling it a night. perfect timing too, we got there at 8:30 pm almost, and they let us in and we taught them about about God of course and about prayer and they really opened up and it went way well. Afterwards it was cool because the husband came out with us to our car and just thanked us for coming over and sharing God's word with them because he really appriciates it and wants to keep learning and having us over!!!! wooooo! That's what i am talking about. We are pretty stoked about that. This other night, on Saturday, we went to go visit this super nice lady, and we taught the restoration and she thought God was a spirit and some kind of energy but we explained it and taught her about how He has a body and that it's the Holy Spirit we feel when we get that energy or whatever she was saying, and she just sat there amazed and was wow! ok yeah yeah that makes sense. So another fist pump! We were pretty stoked again and she's reading and praying, so now we are just trying to help her get to Church.
What else is happening... Oh Ricardo and Flor are still coming to Church, still ready for their baptism, it's on the 20th, but we have transfers this next week already, which is crazy! If you guys wouldn't mind praying that time goes by slower kus man it's going by too quick! So yeah, and we the branch is getting a little bit smaller too because a family is moving out, which is a bummer. Oh well, we got a couple more families that we are teaching and still trying to find more.
Um ...oh, funny story. We were in this appointment this week and we were talking about the Apostles - Peter, James and John. But i was saying their names, and i said "si, San Pedro, San Juan and then.." then i dont know why, but i couldn't say san santiago. Instead i said san diego haha. Everyone started cracking up, it was pretty funny. So now we got another new Apostle San Diego.
So yups. everything is going really good here. The work is getting better each week, it's like this ongoing ramp. which is way good we just got to keep it going. Oh, we found out that there is a less-active member who works at a donut shop...oh yeah baby! So we went there the other morning and got some donuts! She's a super nice lady too. i guess we got to keep going and visiting her.. oh well no complaints here. Hopefully one of these days the owner of L and L will be a member. Still got the fingers crossed.
Wel,l hope everything is going good. Love you guys! Have a good week!
Elder Thomas
Hope you all are doing good. This past week was pretty good, kinda emailing late today because we went to the temple this morning at 11 and we just got back, it was super crowded but really good. It's always nice to go to the temple. So earlier today too in the morning we went to go help a brother with roofing, which was pretty fun. I hadn't done service in a while so it was a good workout... but after like an hour and a half my legs were killing me! haha, man it was tiring - still good though. We have another service project this Friday with our ward mission leader, Hno. Webb, it's funny because he owns his own little bus! haha and it's always just cruising right in the front and so i don't know what we are helping him with on the bus, we might paint it or just clean it up a little bit. I'll take some pictures so you guys can see.
Oh, this past Sunday we had a sweet lesson with this family like right before calling it a night. perfect timing too, we got there at 8:30 pm almost, and they let us in and we taught them about about God of course and about prayer and they really opened up and it went way well. Afterwards it was cool because the husband came out with us to our car and just thanked us for coming over and sharing God's word with them because he really appriciates it and wants to keep learning and having us over!!!! wooooo! That's what i am talking about. We are pretty stoked about that. This other night, on Saturday, we went to go visit this super nice lady, and we taught the restoration and she thought God was a spirit and some kind of energy but we explained it and taught her about how He has a body and that it's the Holy Spirit we feel when we get that energy or whatever she was saying, and she just sat there amazed and was wow! ok yeah yeah that makes sense. So another fist pump! We were pretty stoked again and she's reading and praying, so now we are just trying to help her get to Church.
What else is happening... Oh Ricardo and Flor are still coming to Church, still ready for their baptism, it's on the 20th, but we have transfers this next week already, which is crazy! If you guys wouldn't mind praying that time goes by slower kus man it's going by too quick! So yeah, and we the branch is getting a little bit smaller too because a family is moving out, which is a bummer. Oh well, we got a couple more families that we are teaching and still trying to find more.
Um ...oh, funny story. We were in this appointment this week and we were talking about the Apostles - Peter, James and John. But i was saying their names, and i said "si, San Pedro, San Juan and then.." then i dont know why, but i couldn't say san santiago. Instead i said san diego haha. Everyone started cracking up, it was pretty funny. So now we got another new Apostle San Diego.
So yups. everything is going really good here. The work is getting better each week, it's like this ongoing ramp. which is way good we just got to keep it going. Oh, we found out that there is a less-active member who works at a donut shop...oh yeah baby! So we went there the other morning and got some donuts! She's a super nice lady too. i guess we got to keep going and visiting her.. oh well no complaints here. Hopefully one of these days the owner of L and L will be a member. Still got the fingers crossed.
Wel,l hope everything is going good. Love you guys! Have a good week!
Elder Thomas
Tuesday, July 26, 2011
The miracle
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
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 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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