TWO NEW POSTS!!

Sorry, we have been out of town and I was unable to post the past two letters until now. Here they are...

July 20, 2008

Hey everyone

Well as for me here in the philippines. Things are going good for now. My zone is on fire, finally. I've been pushing them as hard as i can and now the work here is great. We are probably the best zone right now as far as work goes. Ive also been pushing myself a lot. Ive gained a true respect for the gospel and ive been studying a lot harder. When i get home im going to start reading a lot of books about the doctrine of our church. We had an interesting week. First off we i interviewed this girl for baptism and she was way good. She has sacrificed almost everything to become a member but she had a problem when i interviewed here with a past sin so now she needs to be interviewed by the mission president but that is hard because we are so far from the mission home and mission president cant just come out here when ever he feels like it. Im doing all i can to get her interview sooner. Im going to try to just bring her to the main island on transfer day but that will cost money. Life out on the island is hard because we are so far from everything. Plus the people here are way religious and ask tons of questions. This week i encountered "whats gods name" which i just showed them the scripture in john 17:26 (that might be chapter 18im not even sure anymore cause i dont have scriptures write now) where jesus said that he told the apostles the name of god but its not actually written because its so sacred. Then I had someone ask about how do we know there is a god so i just told him to read alma 30 and moroni 7 because alma 30 is the story of korahor and moroni 7 is about the light of christ and i said that the light of christ is like our conscience(kathy black said that is the right spelling). If you got a better answer please tell me. Its fun though to kind of be tested a little. We had a baptism this last saturday and the lady we baptized has already given us tons of referals so im happy. We are going to be having tons of success here in the next couple months. Life as a missionary are good and im happy for now. Later today we are going to cook some way good food so im way excited. Well thats about it for me. I better get going.

Elder Thompson

July 27, 2008

Well things here in the philippines are going good. I didnt get transfered so ill be out on the island at least 6 more weeks but thats cool with me. Not to brag but of all the zones in the mission we are the best as far as achievements go. We've been tearing it up the last couple weeks and i got a lot of plans for the next transfer here. Im way excited to go to the zone leaders council because i have something good to report on. It sucks to go there if your work is bad. We are going to have a lot of success next transfer in my area. Nanay Fernandez ( Nanay means mother, and we use it a lot here) is the lady we baptized last week and she has been helping us out a ton. Well thats about it for my week.

Elder Thompson