Sunday, December 21, 2008

TODAY (THE DAY I POSTED THIS, THE 23RD) IS BRYCE'S BIRTHDAY!

HAPPY 21ST BIRTHDAY ELDER THOMPSON!

SEE YOU SOON!

Hey everyone!

Hope you guys like the pictures of me and my pig. He was a good pig. So its been an interesting week. We had our mission Christmas conference last week so i got to see a lot of the missionaries here for the last time. Christmas time is crazy and we are getting like no work done which is actually kinda sad because this is my last transfer in the mission. We also had our ward Christmas party and i won a little plastic food container (for got the english word for that) in a raffle and then i had to sing a solo in front of the whole ward. Then my companion got sick for like two days and also I haven't felt the greatest but I think I'll be ok. I'm going to keep this short because im going to call on christmas.

love you all.

love elder thompson

WARNING:

PICTURES ARE GRAPHIC

Sunday, December 14, 2008

Hey everyone!


How is life back home? Things here are going good. We spent the morning practicing a dance presentation for our christmas conference which should actually be really fun. This last week was kind of a lazy feeling week because this new area we are in had like no work happening in it for the last 8 months so we are basically starting from scratch and we basically just worked with the members and had them help us find all the investigators and other members. Things are actually going good though now. We had 4 investigators go to church, 2 of which we found last week so we are excited. Too bad i wont be here to see any of them be baptized. Im not sure but i think i wont have any baptisms in this area before i go home. Thats ok because at least i was part of the work here and the members really appreciate what we are doing now. Also one of my converts is going through the temple to get her endowments like RIGHT NOW. So im way excited about that. She wrote me a really good letter telling me about some of the changes in here life and stuff. I really hope I can make it back here to the philippines to come visit some of these people. Now that it's getting closer and closer to coming to a close its making me think how hard it really is going to be to have to leave it all. There is this awesome family here in our area that works with us. They have a car and everything. Its crazy because the whole family works with us and they have only been members for like 18 months and they are really active. The husband is the elders quorum president. They are also going to go get sealed this December which is way cool. We also have this other family who feeds us EVERY night if we would let them. I love the members here so much but i still miss my island. Thats about it for me.

love you all.

Elder Thompson

Sunday, December 7, 2008

Hey everyone.


How is everyone? Well its been an interesting week here. So as you all know from my last email I did NOT want to be transferred but I guess god thought other wise which is OK too because I guess I am his missionary. Its just the fact that I had a goal to achieve 36 baptisms in the year of 2008 and I had enough scheduled in Masbate to more than over achieve that goal. We even had a baptism planned for my last week of my mission and that investigator was very sad also to know that I was going to be transferred. Every single one of our investigators in that area where going to church and progressing good. It was very very sad, that's all I'm going to say about that. Then I thought I was going to go be the Zone leader in Goa zone with one of my good buddys here in the mission but it didn't happen either. So i was transferred and now I'm the Zone Leader in Naga zone. Its kind of crazy to think that i will never get to leave this city because this is where the airport is and this is where the mission home is and this is where our Christmas conference will be. Also that goal that I had is more than likely not going to be achieved. I think I'll fall 1 short and its because we are opening an area here in Naga and the last missionaries who where here didn't update the records so me and my companion had some one drop us off at the apartment because we didn't even know where it was and then we just sat for a second scratching our heads trying to think about what to do. I've never had to open up an area in my whole mission and now I get to do it the last 6 weeks of my mission. So this IS my last area and this is also my last companion. His name is Elder Penrod from California. We have only had like 2 days to really work in the area but the Ward here is amazing. It functions about a thousand times better than any of my other branches or wards. The members here are amazing which is actually really nice. I loved Masbate because of the missionaries and because of the investigators but the members where not friendly and not very supportive. We already have members scheduled to work with us and there are tons of dinner and lunch appointments so I'm happy about that. Plus I finally got to be assigned in Naga. Naga is huge, its got tons of fast food places and two malls so like basically anything I want I can get. I got tons of really cool ties as well which are way cool. I'll make sure to brings you guys some. Maybe I'll be able to find some dolls here in naga for the girls. One other thing is that the missionary I trained back in the day is in my zone so its way cool to be able to see him again because I thought that would never happen again. I guess I'm going to just work hard and try to finish off strong. Love you all and thanks for the support.

LoveElder Thompson


PS. Mom, yes i got the package(thanks) and yes i saw elder walker for like a split second but i will never see him again because he is out on the smallest island in our mission(catanduanes). Also anything anyone sends to me gets to me the day it comes because I'm in Naga.