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
Monday, November 26, 2007
Monday, November 19, 2007
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
Monday, October 29, 2007
Sunday, October 28, 2007
Hey,
Well everyone i hope you guys are doing as good as i am because im having a blast out here in the Philippines. Well this last week it rained and then it rained some more and then it rained some more. It rained so much that the bridge we take into tabaco actually ....... i forgot the English word......fell down i guess. well ya it made going to tabaco kind of fun and actually a bus fell in with it. we had an amazing week and saw some real progression with our investigators. we gave a man a baptism date for Nov 17 and help one family fix a lot of problems and hope to see them enter the waters of baptism soon. earlier we had a fun costume party type thing and watched a movie. thats right, we are aloud to watch cartoons if approved by our president. so ya that was my week.
love elder Thompson
Well everyone i hope you guys are doing as good as i am because im having a blast out here in the Philippines. Well this last week it rained and then it rained some more and then it rained some more. It rained so much that the bridge we take into tabaco actually ....... i forgot the English word......fell down i guess. well ya it made going to tabaco kind of fun and actually a bus fell in with it. we had an amazing week and saw some real progression with our investigators. we gave a man a baptism date for Nov 17 and help one family fix a lot of problems and hope to see them enter the waters of baptism soon. earlier we had a fun costume party type thing and watched a movie. thats right, we are aloud to watch cartoons if approved by our president. so ya that was my week.
love elder Thompson
Monday, October 22, 2007
Sunday, October 21, 2007
Hey everyone
Well things are going good here in the philippines. Im actually having a way good time here in tabaco zone because all the missionaries here are way happy. earlier we went to a water fall and did some cool activities. I saw my blog (thanks shiloh). I also read the comment of Becky hamblin and becky im in a different mission then elder ray but when we get home we will for sure hang out. well everyone to be honest i got a lot to do today so i need to be kind of fast so sorry.
Love
elder thompson
Well things are going good here in the philippines. Im actually having a way good time here in tabaco zone because all the missionaries here are way happy. earlier we went to a water fall and did some cool activities. I saw my blog (thanks shiloh). I also read the comment of Becky hamblin and becky im in a different mission then elder ray but when we get home we will for sure hang out. well everyone to be honest i got a lot to do today so i need to be kind of fast so sorry.
Love
elder thompson
Monday, October 15, 2007
Sunday, October 14, 2007
Hey everyone,
Well i was transfered this week. I am now down in tabaco zone in a little area called tiwi. I am so happy. My area is amazing and EVERY night we have a dinner appointment so maybe ill gain those 22 pounds i lost back. Also my new companion is SO AWESOME. He is nice, humble, patient, and a good cook. Im also the new district leader here in tabaco which is crazy. As the district leader im in charge of doing the interviews for all the people being baptized in our zone and we have a lot of baptisms coming up so i will be very buisy this next week going to everyone elses areas to give people interviews which should be kind of interesting. Here are some pics of me and my new companion also some others. well life is better then ever here in the mission field.
Love elder thompson
Well i was transfered this week. I am now down in tabaco zone in a little area called tiwi. I am so happy. My area is amazing and EVERY night we have a dinner appointment so maybe ill gain those 22 pounds i lost back. Also my new companion is SO AWESOME. He is nice, humble, patient, and a good cook. Im also the new district leader here in tabaco which is crazy. As the district leader im in charge of doing the interviews for all the people being baptized in our zone and we have a lot of baptisms coming up so i will be very buisy this next week going to everyone elses areas to give people interviews which should be kind of interesting. Here are some pics of me and my new companion also some others. well life is better then ever here in the mission field.
Love elder thompson
Monday, October 8, 2007
Sunday, October 7, 2007
Family and friend
Well its been a wierd week. So transfers are getting close so everyone is getting a little antsey and people are getting a little tired with each other. This last week though these people in my area named their baby after me. The way cool thing was i got to bless it in church the day after it was born. I think that was the strongest spiritual experience in my whole life. I think i want to have a kid now so i could bless it but i guess i better wait 2 years. besides that not too much. ill tell you next week how transfers goes.
elder thompson
Well its been a wierd week. So transfers are getting close so everyone is getting a little antsey and people are getting a little tired with each other. This last week though these people in my area named their baby after me. The way cool thing was i got to bless it in church the day after it was born. I think that was the strongest spiritual experience in my whole life. I think i want to have a kid now so i could bless it but i guess i better wait 2 years. besides that not too much. ill tell you next week how transfers goes.
elder thompson
Monday, October 1, 2007
Sunday, September 30, 2007
Hey friends and family
Well things here are going good as usual. Transfers are getting close again and i think i might spend at least one more transfer(6 weeks) out here in tula-tula. Its not the happiest area but we are starting to see results from all our work so thats cool. Im actually feeling kind of dead right now. Ive worked WAY hard the last two days and today we went to the volcano and hung out for our p-day. Some crazy lady there wouldnt let us pass on this one road but i talked to her for a little bit and then we couldnt get rid of her. She was like ,"you can not enter because you are not believers." she was Very, very crazy but sometimes crazy people can be kind of fun. well thats about it for me.
Love elder thompson
Well things here are going good as usual. Transfers are getting close again and i think i might spend at least one more transfer(6 weeks) out here in tula-tula. Its not the happiest area but we are starting to see results from all our work so thats cool. Im actually feeling kind of dead right now. Ive worked WAY hard the last two days and today we went to the volcano and hung out for our p-day. Some crazy lady there wouldnt let us pass on this one road but i talked to her for a little bit and then we couldnt get rid of her. She was like ,"you can not enter because you are not believers." she was Very, very crazy but sometimes crazy people can be kind of fun. well thats about it for me.
Love elder thompson
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