Hey everyone
How is life back in the good old usa? Everything here is going..............ok.......maybe. No, im ok but its just sometimes things can get a little overwhelming. Last week we had a baptism which was cool and we should be haveing another one this coming week. I also am going to go work in cataingan for like 2 days which should be cool. Thats the place where the people cut the soliders legs off so make sure to pray for me, hehehehe. We had a lot of distractions with our work, but thats nothing new. Last saturday was way fun though because after the baptism we were able to just go visit some of my favorite members here and then we had a dinner appointment so that was fun and my voice still hasnt come back. Its been crazy the last few days but i cant think of anything to say so next week ill have a lot to tell you guys.
love elder thompson
Sunday, August 31, 2008
Monday, August 25, 2008
Sunday, August 24, 2008
Hey everyone!
Well its been an interesting week to say the least. First off on Monday when I got done emailing I went back to the church only to find out that the sisters where having a ton of problems so I sat and tried to fix their companionship problems for about 2 hours. Then after that we were going to watch a movie but the members didn’t really want us to us the TV or should I say trust us……. So I don’t know what that’s all about. Maybe its because the last missionaries assigned here didn’t do what they should have and didn’t follow all the rules or even half of them. So I was a little hurt by the members so I didn’t use the TV and we just went home. Then on Tuesday I got a text from one of the sisters saying here companion left the house….. alone, which is way not good. So I went there and spent about half my day talking to two of the most hard headed sisters who are both unwilling to change. Then on Thursday we had a way bad experience. There is this family that I really, really love called the Mosamoc family. They have this little 7 year old girl that is handicap because she got really sick when she was like 8 months old so she has like no control over her body but her mind is still ok. I always talk with her and play with her so I really like going there. We are teaching the mom and one other daughter who is like 13. We have been going there for a while and close with them all but the father never wants to listen. Just last week they gave an awesome prayer and even said “we are grateful for the missionaries who come and teach us, especially elder Thompson and we are thankful he is so nice to our family” which of course made me feel good. But on Thursday when we went there the dad was sitting there all alone and I was like hey where is nanay (mom) and ate (sister)? And he was just like there not here, there tired from work and I was like that’s ok we’ll just come back on Saturday and he was like no! and I was like what do you mean and he was like NO! don’t come back ever again, go find another nanay(mom) to teach. Im not sure but I think he was getting jealous of us always talking with his wife but come on, she is a bit old for us. It was way sad and I still haven’t recovered from it. Then on Friday I went back to the sisters house to help them and I think I got to them just a little and they still don’t like each other but at least they can now stand each other. Then on Saturday we had an investigator fail her baptismal interview and then we had one of our really close investigators tell us she has been drinking and smoking again and is going to move so that was way sad as well. Then on Sunday one of our investigators who is supposed to be baptized didn’t come to church because she is offended and wont be baptized anymore. Then a member got really mad at me because she gave me a letter to send to another missionary but because Ive been so busy and my mind is going crazy I left it on the piano at the church and a primary kid ripped it up and the member came up to me crying telling me she will never trust me again and basically it wasn’t good. O yeah and I fell off a bridge but the good thing was it wasn’t too high. So that was my wonderful week. Although all that bad stuff happened I look back on my week and I was still amazingly blessed. I had 9 investigators go to church and I should have two baptisms on Saturday and 4 more in two weeks also I helped the sisters out a little. So even though sometimes my mission is hard I guess ive actually accomplished a lot and im happy. So that was my week.
Elder Thompson
Well its been an interesting week to say the least. First off on Monday when I got done emailing I went back to the church only to find out that the sisters where having a ton of problems so I sat and tried to fix their companionship problems for about 2 hours. Then after that we were going to watch a movie but the members didn’t really want us to us the TV or should I say trust us……. So I don’t know what that’s all about. Maybe its because the last missionaries assigned here didn’t do what they should have and didn’t follow all the rules or even half of them. So I was a little hurt by the members so I didn’t use the TV and we just went home. Then on Tuesday I got a text from one of the sisters saying here companion left the house….. alone, which is way not good. So I went there and spent about half my day talking to two of the most hard headed sisters who are both unwilling to change. Then on Thursday we had a way bad experience. There is this family that I really, really love called the Mosamoc family. They have this little 7 year old girl that is handicap because she got really sick when she was like 8 months old so she has like no control over her body but her mind is still ok. I always talk with her and play with her so I really like going there. We are teaching the mom and one other daughter who is like 13. We have been going there for a while and close with them all but the father never wants to listen. Just last week they gave an awesome prayer and even said “we are grateful for the missionaries who come and teach us, especially elder Thompson and we are thankful he is so nice to our family” which of course made me feel good. But on Thursday when we went there the dad was sitting there all alone and I was like hey where is nanay (mom) and ate (sister)? And he was just like there not here, there tired from work and I was like that’s ok we’ll just come back on Saturday and he was like no! and I was like what do you mean and he was like NO! don’t come back ever again, go find another nanay(mom) to teach. Im not sure but I think he was getting jealous of us always talking with his wife but come on, she is a bit old for us. It was way sad and I still haven’t recovered from it. Then on Friday I went back to the sisters house to help them and I think I got to them just a little and they still don’t like each other but at least they can now stand each other. Then on Saturday we had an investigator fail her baptismal interview and then we had one of our really close investigators tell us she has been drinking and smoking again and is going to move so that was way sad as well. Then on Sunday one of our investigators who is supposed to be baptized didn’t come to church because she is offended and wont be baptized anymore. Then a member got really mad at me because she gave me a letter to send to another missionary but because Ive been so busy and my mind is going crazy I left it on the piano at the church and a primary kid ripped it up and the member came up to me crying telling me she will never trust me again and basically it wasn’t good. O yeah and I fell off a bridge but the good thing was it wasn’t too high. So that was my wonderful week. Although all that bad stuff happened I look back on my week and I was still amazingly blessed. I had 9 investigators go to church and I should have two baptisms on Saturday and 4 more in two weeks also I helped the sisters out a little. So even though sometimes my mission is hard I guess ive actually accomplished a lot and im happy. So that was my week.
Elder Thompson
(Here are some pictures from my P-Day where we traveled to a small island)
Monday, August 18, 2008
Sunday, August 17, 2008
Hey everyone!
How is everyone back in the USA? All i keep hearing is that America is going down the crapper. Everyone is losing jobs, gas is expensive as well as food and gays are now aloud to get married! I will be totally honest, i miss America but im way scared to go home. By the way i got my plane tickets now, even though its far away it starting to seem a little bit closer. I fly into cali on January 15th at 2:05pm. im not sure about what time i get into Arizona. Im scared! Well i was realizing that i never tell anyone about the people im teaching so maybe ill try to give a better update. So this week started out good. On monday we had a FHE with some member and after ward they fed us some really good food. We also taught the police again at there camp. There was like 60 police officers there and it went way good. I set up a power point presentation for my district president and he did the talking while i just sat back and pushed the bottons. It was way cool and they really liked it we talked about agency and stuff. Also we had some amazing progression with our investigators. So we have some little girls that we are teaching and they are so shy, especially to my new companion and they wouldnt pray for a long time. My companion kind of talks.......... i dont know how to say it in english but when he talks its easy to be offended so the little girls dont like him that much. The good thing though is this week we joked around with them enough to where things got a little bit more comfortable. They prayed and are doing a lot better. We also are teaching this awesome family with 10 kids. One of the kids got sick so we went to visit him in the hospital and they were sitting as a family reading the book of mormon and they had the handouts we gave them displayed in their window at the hospital. So i was way excited about that. There was just a lot of good progression this week. Also one of the kids we are going to baptize on aug 30 said that he wants to be baptized so he can serve a mission and he is about to be 18 so that would be way cool. Also our zone here out in masbate is doing awesome. Im way excited to be in this zone right now. I requested to my mission president to stay out here one more transfer. Im hoping to stay out here till october then go to a new area(my last area!). Time is going by fast. I love the people we are teaching out here and there is still so much potential here, thats why i would hate to be transferred. I started exercising as well because i cant go home looking like all i did is ate a ton of food on my mission. Everything is going good and im happy to hear that my grandma is doing good. Well i love you all and hope you the best.
elder thompson
How is everyone back in the USA? All i keep hearing is that America is going down the crapper. Everyone is losing jobs, gas is expensive as well as food and gays are now aloud to get married! I will be totally honest, i miss America but im way scared to go home. By the way i got my plane tickets now, even though its far away it starting to seem a little bit closer. I fly into cali on January 15th at 2:05pm. im not sure about what time i get into Arizona. Im scared! Well i was realizing that i never tell anyone about the people im teaching so maybe ill try to give a better update. So this week started out good. On monday we had a FHE with some member and after ward they fed us some really good food. We also taught the police again at there camp. There was like 60 police officers there and it went way good. I set up a power point presentation for my district president and he did the talking while i just sat back and pushed the bottons. It was way cool and they really liked it we talked about agency and stuff. Also we had some amazing progression with our investigators. So we have some little girls that we are teaching and they are so shy, especially to my new companion and they wouldnt pray for a long time. My companion kind of talks.......... i dont know how to say it in english but when he talks its easy to be offended so the little girls dont like him that much. The good thing though is this week we joked around with them enough to where things got a little bit more comfortable. They prayed and are doing a lot better. We also are teaching this awesome family with 10 kids. One of the kids got sick so we went to visit him in the hospital and they were sitting as a family reading the book of mormon and they had the handouts we gave them displayed in their window at the hospital. So i was way excited about that. There was just a lot of good progression this week. Also one of the kids we are going to baptize on aug 30 said that he wants to be baptized so he can serve a mission and he is about to be 18 so that would be way cool. Also our zone here out in masbate is doing awesome. Im way excited to be in this zone right now. I requested to my mission president to stay out here one more transfer. Im hoping to stay out here till october then go to a new area(my last area!). Time is going by fast. I love the people we are teaching out here and there is still so much potential here, thats why i would hate to be transferred. I started exercising as well because i cant go home looking like all i did is ate a ton of food on my mission. Everything is going good and im happy to hear that my grandma is doing good. Well i love you all and hope you the best.
elder thompson
Monday, August 11, 2008
Sunday, August 11, 2008
Hey everyone
This last week was WAY hard. I feel dead right now. It started out fine. I had just got back from Naga last sunday which is far from here and involved a 4 hour boat ride. Then we had some extra elders working with us and staying in our house which mad things a little crazy. But on thursday we woke up at about 3 am to go to sorsogon for our zone interviews with the mission president. So after traveling for many hours by land and by sea we got to our interviews in sorsogon that actually went well. The president was really nice to me and he said some really cool stuff to me. Also at our interviews i was given my trunkie letter. Thats the letter they give you when your close to going home. They say its like posion and once you touch it your trunkie. I got mine a little early because they needed to get all my information sooner to get the tickets before things got too busy with christmas and all. Thats crazy. Then i got to sleep that night in my second area (abuyog) and i went to all the people i know there which was way cool. I got to bed around 12 then woke up around 4 to go visit a few other people before our zone conference. I had to do the conducting for the zone conference because the conference is for 3 zones and i have been a zone leader the longest out of us 3 so i conducted. Then after the conference we got right back on the road again to get back to our island. We got here about 6pm and then i had to go straight to this really far area we opened up to show the elders where there house was. We didnt get there till way late and there wasnt any food and i didnt get to sleep very well because i now have 5 boils under my armpit. Everytime i moved i would wake up because it hurt so bad. I couldnt even get my bag on. They said i shouldnt pop them and gave me some pills. They didnt hurt when i popped them but after a couple days of not popping them they got so huge and thats when it hurt. So after that night of almost no sleep i got up at 4 to go back to my area. When i got back to my area i had to go bunkbed shopping because right now i sleep on the floor which is ok with me but my president didnt like that idea when he found out about it. All the beds here are way too expensive so im still on the floor but lets not tell president that. Then i didnt think i could even work because i had a fever and my arm hurt real bad but we needed to get out and work because it had been several days that i hadnt gotten to work. So in order to work i went against what my mission president said and i popped the boils which was amazing. Amazingly gross, amazingly painful, and actually amazingly interesting considering how far the blood and puss shot out and how much was actually in there. So that boil it doing better now but there is still one big one that im waiting to get to a good point so i can pop it too. Needless to say we were able to work the rest of that day(saturday) but around 8pm the mission president called. First he asked how i was doing i said not to great then he asked how my sea sickness was and i said i dont get sea sick anymore and he said "good, because your going to come in again off your island tomorrow." I guess the new missionary in our zone wasnt totally prepared for his mission and in our interviews he had a late confession so the night that i thought i would get normal sleep was ruined. I got to bed late because of preperation for the trip and woke up at 2:30am to catch the first boat into pilar. I got into pilar about 6 went to church got the new elder and caught a boat around noon to get back to my area. So that was basically the busiest week ever. Well i feel trashed but i got a lot done and i made things interesting. So ya that was basically it for the week. Im hoping in the next 4 weeks i wont have any distractions so i can get back to work.
Elder thompson
This last week was WAY hard. I feel dead right now. It started out fine. I had just got back from Naga last sunday which is far from here and involved a 4 hour boat ride. Then we had some extra elders working with us and staying in our house which mad things a little crazy. But on thursday we woke up at about 3 am to go to sorsogon for our zone interviews with the mission president. So after traveling for many hours by land and by sea we got to our interviews in sorsogon that actually went well. The president was really nice to me and he said some really cool stuff to me. Also at our interviews i was given my trunkie letter. Thats the letter they give you when your close to going home. They say its like posion and once you touch it your trunkie. I got mine a little early because they needed to get all my information sooner to get the tickets before things got too busy with christmas and all. Thats crazy. Then i got to sleep that night in my second area (abuyog) and i went to all the people i know there which was way cool. I got to bed around 12 then woke up around 4 to go visit a few other people before our zone conference. I had to do the conducting for the zone conference because the conference is for 3 zones and i have been a zone leader the longest out of us 3 so i conducted. Then after the conference we got right back on the road again to get back to our island. We got here about 6pm and then i had to go straight to this really far area we opened up to show the elders where there house was. We didnt get there till way late and there wasnt any food and i didnt get to sleep very well because i now have 5 boils under my armpit. Everytime i moved i would wake up because it hurt so bad. I couldnt even get my bag on. They said i shouldnt pop them and gave me some pills. They didnt hurt when i popped them but after a couple days of not popping them they got so huge and thats when it hurt. So after that night of almost no sleep i got up at 4 to go back to my area. When i got back to my area i had to go bunkbed shopping because right now i sleep on the floor which is ok with me but my president didnt like that idea when he found out about it. All the beds here are way too expensive so im still on the floor but lets not tell president that. Then i didnt think i could even work because i had a fever and my arm hurt real bad but we needed to get out and work because it had been several days that i hadnt gotten to work. So in order to work i went against what my mission president said and i popped the boils which was amazing. Amazingly gross, amazingly painful, and actually amazingly interesting considering how far the blood and puss shot out and how much was actually in there. So that boil it doing better now but there is still one big one that im waiting to get to a good point so i can pop it too. Needless to say we were able to work the rest of that day(saturday) but around 8pm the mission president called. First he asked how i was doing i said not to great then he asked how my sea sickness was and i said i dont get sea sick anymore and he said "good, because your going to come in again off your island tomorrow." I guess the new missionary in our zone wasnt totally prepared for his mission and in our interviews he had a late confession so the night that i thought i would get normal sleep was ruined. I got to bed late because of preperation for the trip and woke up at 2:30am to catch the first boat into pilar. I got into pilar about 6 went to church got the new elder and caught a boat around noon to get back to my area. So that was basically the busiest week ever. Well i feel trashed but i got a lot done and i made things interesting. So ya that was basically it for the week. Im hoping in the next 4 weeks i wont have any distractions so i can get back to work.
Elder thompson
Tuesday, August 5, 2008
Sunday, August 3, 2008
Things are going good. The transfers couldnt have gone better for me here. They put some of the best missionaries in my zone and they are all obedient so im way excited for the transfer. We had tons of changes in my zone. For one they opened up a new area that is WAY far so they have a cellphone and they put sisters out here for the first time in about four years. Its because we did good last transfer.
elder thompson
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