Sunday, November 25, 2007

Hey everyone!

hows life back in the USA? wow i totally forgot about thanksgiving but then my mission president was like "happy thanksgiving" So a lot has changed for me here. On wed. i got to go to Naga for the first time since i got here but its cool. I went there for a training session for trainers because i am now a new TRAINER! AND HE IS AN AMERICAN! its kind of wierd because he is my first american companion and i had to do a little adjusting because ive adapted to filipino ways but its still fun. It can get a little quite in the house and i dont know if he is just quite or if im just not very used to talking in english because to be honest if i talk too much in english now it can hurt my head kind of bad. Well everone im doing good and hope to hear from you all soon but i better go.

elder thompson

Sunday, November 18, 2007

Hey everyonesorry ive gotten so lazy on my weekly letters. Well our new mission president is changing things up a little bit here in naga mission. Usually we have transfer announcements on wed. but we had them earlier this morning instead and im not transfered but my companion is. Me and the zone leader have to go to naga on wed. but thats also a new thing and so i dont know why we are going there but they think it is training on how to become a trainer and i hope that is true because being a trainer would be kind of fun. Im just happy i get to go to naga for a day because i really have never been to naga yet and i will get to see almost every missionary in the whole mission which is also cool. Everything is still crazy right now and i guess we dont know everything that will happen but its way exciting. also as far as my area goes im way excited to not be transfered because next transfer i will get to see some fruit from our labors and have some baptisms...........hopefully. i have one good story though that happened this transfer that i forgot to tell you guys. So i had some clothes stolen in my last area so my mom sent me new one which all got stolen in this area, sorry mom. So i was kind of mad about that and we had a suspect and one day we leave the house to go tracting and my comp is like , "hey there is our suspect" and i was like "yea and he is wearing my shorts" the idiot was wearing my favorite shorts i got made in sorsogon so we went back to the house and i changed into my combat boots to kick his but but my comp said that i probably shouldnt do that so we went to the city police and told them. they said there is nothing they can do even if he is wearing them but they agreed to go there to ask questions to hopefully scare him from robbing again but when we got there he was gone. we started asking people questions and then the guy just walks out of a house wearing my shorts and we pointed at him and he took off running. we chased him but he was fast and had a huge headstart and then he ran through a rice field and got a way but he wont be coming back to this town any time soon so now we dont have any problem with theft but if i see him again i think ill just take things into my own hands...............joke! well thats a good story and i better go now.love elder thompson