Hey everyone!
How is life going back in america? This week has been a kind of eventfull week. We had a baptism this last saturday which was nice. Also we found out the transfers and no i will not be transfered. I'll stay out on this island at least untill Dec 4 which will be my last transfer day before i go home. My companion, elder yambao will be transfered which really sucks because I like that kid a lot. I know that every missionary is a good missionary but usually my companions are the worst "good missionaries". I think they give me the kind of disobedient missionaries as a joke to see how long they can stretch my patience. Besides my trainie, elder wright, elder yambao is the only normal junior I've had my whole mission so i will miss him. We have been having a lot of success here in our area so im hoping that this next transfer we can have a lot of baptisms. As far as my zone goes......... well nobody has killed anyone yet. They put to of the craziest missionaries out here with me and niether of them are transfered so it means that by december 4th we will have spent 4 and a half months together. Im praying the god will help me develope more patience. I love you all and i hope your all doing good. Happy Birthday kadence! How was your first soccer game? Did kadence get my email to her a couple weeks ago? Well thats about it for me. Later!
elder thompson
Sunday, October 26, 2008
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Sunday, October 12, 2008
Hey everyone
How is life back in America? Things here are going good. It's been a rough week. The work is going OK but there were a lot of problems with the other missionaries here. I got a elder and sister here in my zone who fell in love so that's been one big thing to take care of. I guess that it could be worse at least they admit that they are in love and i found a good way to keep them apart until transfers which happen to be next week. It seems like the transfers are going by so fast now. After this transfer i only got two left. I think Kathy will be happy to know that i got less weeks left in my mission than Cory does months hahaha. I'm excited for transfers because I think getting my zone mixed up alittle will help a lot but i think I'm going to stay out on the island. I'm almost sure that this is my last area which means i will have stayed out here for about 8 months. That's a long time. I don't have to much more to say. O wait i think i saw Bradley Pew in the choir at the priesthood session of conference, he looks a lot older if that was him. Also the guy who gave the closing prayer at the priesthood session of conference is the general authority in charge of the Philippines missions and i got about a week to hang out with him back when i was in Daet, he is way smart and taught me a lot but he chastised me a couple times. It got to the point where if he was around me i just wouldn't speak English because he riped into me acouple times hahaha. Thats about it though.
elder thompson
How is life back in America? Things here are going good. It's been a rough week. The work is going OK but there were a lot of problems with the other missionaries here. I got a elder and sister here in my zone who fell in love so that's been one big thing to take care of. I guess that it could be worse at least they admit that they are in love and i found a good way to keep them apart until transfers which happen to be next week. It seems like the transfers are going by so fast now. After this transfer i only got two left. I think Kathy will be happy to know that i got less weeks left in my mission than Cory does months hahaha. I'm excited for transfers because I think getting my zone mixed up alittle will help a lot but i think I'm going to stay out on the island. I'm almost sure that this is my last area which means i will have stayed out here for about 8 months. That's a long time. I don't have to much more to say. O wait i think i saw Bradley Pew in the choir at the priesthood session of conference, he looks a lot older if that was him. Also the guy who gave the closing prayer at the priesthood session of conference is the general authority in charge of the Philippines missions and i got about a week to hang out with him back when i was in Daet, he is way smart and taught me a lot but he chastised me a couple times. It got to the point where if he was around me i just wouldn't speak English because he riped into me acouple times hahaha. Thats about it though.
elder thompson
Monday, October 6, 2008
Sunday, October 5, 2008
Hey everyone
Well everyone according to my mom i have less than 100 days left and ill be home. This week has been a kind of boring week. I'll be honest with you all this going home stuff is weird. I'm not so much nervous to go home but i don't know where i want to end my mission. I don't know if i want to be transfered or stay on the island and i don't know if i want to be a zone leader or if i want to go back to being a district leader and train again before i go home. I guess god is the boss of that kind of stuff anyways. We have a lot of success going on here in masbate which is kind of the reason why I'm thinking a lot about going home. We have are schedule so full that i don't have to think about the work as much because its all lined out. I'm excited for general conference. It will be nice to hear all the talks. I remember i used to like general conference because i could watch it on TV but i cant really do that here but next general conference I'll be able to. We fixed our plans for this week and we found a lot of less active members that have tons of kids who haven't been baptized yet so that will be our focus for the next few weeks to try to see if we can reactivate them and baptize the kids which would be awesome and that is what we call double effort in our mission because there is reactivation work and baptisms. Next week we are going to have a baptism again. They are thinking that we might do it in the ocean if the weather is good which would be cool because i haven't experience a baptism in the ocean yet even though I'm out on an island. To be honest my mind if off in other places and i cant think of anything to say so maybe ill just leave it at that for now.
elder Thompson
Well everyone according to my mom i have less than 100 days left and ill be home. This week has been a kind of boring week. I'll be honest with you all this going home stuff is weird. I'm not so much nervous to go home but i don't know where i want to end my mission. I don't know if i want to be transfered or stay on the island and i don't know if i want to be a zone leader or if i want to go back to being a district leader and train again before i go home. I guess god is the boss of that kind of stuff anyways. We have a lot of success going on here in masbate which is kind of the reason why I'm thinking a lot about going home. We have are schedule so full that i don't have to think about the work as much because its all lined out. I'm excited for general conference. It will be nice to hear all the talks. I remember i used to like general conference because i could watch it on TV but i cant really do that here but next general conference I'll be able to. We fixed our plans for this week and we found a lot of less active members that have tons of kids who haven't been baptized yet so that will be our focus for the next few weeks to try to see if we can reactivate them and baptize the kids which would be awesome and that is what we call double effort in our mission because there is reactivation work and baptisms. Next week we are going to have a baptism again. They are thinking that we might do it in the ocean if the weather is good which would be cool because i haven't experience a baptism in the ocean yet even though I'm out on an island. To be honest my mind if off in other places and i cant think of anything to say so maybe ill just leave it at that for now.
elder Thompson
Sunday, September 28, 2008
hey everyone
Ya im still hangin out here in masbate. To be honest part of me really wants to finish my mission here. I've built such a good investigator base here. We have baptisms planned until the month i go home. I would hate to have to go somewhere else. What if my new area doesnt have anything going on in it. The word on the street is that im going to Naga which is one of the hardest areas in my mission but it would be a nice challenge and it is close to the mission home so i wouldnt have to travel too much to get home. I actually had a kind of wierd experience this week. Ever since i got here in masbate there has been this group of members that hate me. The reason is because one of them served a short term mission here in our mission and the person who became her companion just happens to be the gossip queen of our mission. So ya she heard some dumb rumors that I tried to date a 40 year old lady with kids my age. Not to sound dumb but if i was going to get a girl friend on my mission i think i could do a little better. And then right before that sister went home she started another rumor that i had told a lot of people that she had a crush on me. Untill now she calls the mission home and the assistants telling them she wants to slap me for starting that rumor, which i didnt start. So i called in the two members who really had a problem with me and was just like i think that we need to talk about a few things and basically they were just kind of scared at first but then we talked about everthing that needed to be talked about and then the RM who started the whole problem texted me and we were able to straighten it all out. That RM is rediculous and i had to use all my patience to not just explode and tell her what i really think about her. When i brought up the fact that she had basically started a really big rumor about me and the 40 year old lady she was just like, "well thats not to concern right now". I guess my patience and being humble paid off because now things are better and the members that believed in her stories now think she is just a tsismosa (gossip queen). That was one of the biggest things that happened this week. Also we had 6 People come up to us this week and ask if they could be baptized. That doesn't happen every day. They weren't even together, they all asked at different times and some even came to our apartment to find us. The work here on masbate is going great. I love my zone and the missionaries here. I dont know whats going to happen next transfer but im happy i got the chance to be here in masbate. Basically everything is going good. I wont lie, im feeling the whole being close to home thing. Sometimes it just pops into my head when im in my bed at night. I have less weeks than i did months. Its crazy close, especially since time is going way fast now.
love elder thompson
Ya im still hangin out here in masbate. To be honest part of me really wants to finish my mission here. I've built such a good investigator base here. We have baptisms planned until the month i go home. I would hate to have to go somewhere else. What if my new area doesnt have anything going on in it. The word on the street is that im going to Naga which is one of the hardest areas in my mission but it would be a nice challenge and it is close to the mission home so i wouldnt have to travel too much to get home. I actually had a kind of wierd experience this week. Ever since i got here in masbate there has been this group of members that hate me. The reason is because one of them served a short term mission here in our mission and the person who became her companion just happens to be the gossip queen of our mission. So ya she heard some dumb rumors that I tried to date a 40 year old lady with kids my age. Not to sound dumb but if i was going to get a girl friend on my mission i think i could do a little better. And then right before that sister went home she started another rumor that i had told a lot of people that she had a crush on me. Untill now she calls the mission home and the assistants telling them she wants to slap me for starting that rumor, which i didnt start. So i called in the two members who really had a problem with me and was just like i think that we need to talk about a few things and basically they were just kind of scared at first but then we talked about everthing that needed to be talked about and then the RM who started the whole problem texted me and we were able to straighten it all out. That RM is rediculous and i had to use all my patience to not just explode and tell her what i really think about her. When i brought up the fact that she had basically started a really big rumor about me and the 40 year old lady she was just like, "well thats not to concern right now". I guess my patience and being humble paid off because now things are better and the members that believed in her stories now think she is just a tsismosa (gossip queen). That was one of the biggest things that happened this week. Also we had 6 People come up to us this week and ask if they could be baptized. That doesn't happen every day. They weren't even together, they all asked at different times and some even came to our apartment to find us. The work here on masbate is going great. I love my zone and the missionaries here. I dont know whats going to happen next transfer but im happy i got the chance to be here in masbate. Basically everything is going good. I wont lie, im feeling the whole being close to home thing. Sometimes it just pops into my head when im in my bed at night. I have less weeks than i did months. Its crazy close, especially since time is going way fast now.
love elder thompson
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