Hey! First of all. Just in case you were wondering what the weather is
like here. It is WAY hot. I think it's 38 degrees today. And for
whatever reason it has been really humid, and since it is terrible for
the environment, we do not have air conditioning anywhere in Europe.
And in case you had forgotten, Europe is not known for it's sense of
personal hygiene, nor it's sense of modesty - there are a lot of gross
smelly, half naked people everywhere.
This week was an okay week here. Unfortunately, not a whole lot new in the way of investigators, but a good week nonetheless.
On
Monday, we didn't do a whole lot special. Just cleaned a bit. It's
weird... I really am not a huge cleaning person, but I really want
everything in our apartment to be clean, we didn't finish everything, so
we will hopefully get everything today, and it will be perfectly clean
just in time for me to get transferred. Haha! Irony stinks...
I actually don't know what will happen for transfers. I am pretty sure
that we will no be working together again, but what that entails is a
mystery to me. I guess we will just wait and see what happens on
Friday.
On Tuesday, we had exchanges and I was able to work in Singen with Elder
D. We taught a lady from Sierra Leon who was baptized on
Saturday. It was a very funny appointment. I had taught her another
time on exchanges about a month ago, and so it was neat to see the
progress that she made. She still has a way to go, but she is willing
to change and come closer to Christ, which is great.
The rest of the week was just spent finding, and although we met some
cool people who were really nice, and seemed open and positive not a
whole lot happened. For example, we met this older lady (probably in
her late 60's), who came up to us and was like 'You are Mormon
missionaries right?' when we said that we were she was like 'I saw you
yesterday while you were on the other side of the street. And I wanted
to talk to you, but I was busy and I couldn't do it. So I decided if I
ever saw you I would talk to you. My aunt moved to Utah and joined the
Mormons and wrote me a letter and said that at 94 she finally found the
right
religion, namely the Mormon church. I want to see what you guys are
about.'' We tried talking to her, but she didn't have time, and then we
couldn't set up an appointment or anything because she just left. We
gave her a card though and she said that she would come to church, but
after hearing that thousands of times, my faith is a little low in
people. But we will see. Lots of things like that happened, so maybe
someone will phone us or something cool will happen. Who knows? We
just need to pray hard and keep on working hard.
On Saturday, we had lunch with an American family because her and Elder
N were singing something in church. It was really good. It's
nice to get a little piece of home everyone once in a while.
On Sunday we also had a crazy day because the Branch Presidency changed,
and so that meant a lot of visitors in our tiny church, and everyone
was really excited. The changes will be good, and I think it will help
people get a little more excited about missionary work. Hopefully.
Haha!
Things are good here. A lot of crazy things, and crazy people, but all
in all really good. I am doing good, and although it's really
frustrating, am still happy to be here. I love you guys a lot!
--
Sincerely,
Elder Thompson
P.S. Did I mention that
Elder Nelson is coming to visit the mission? It will be in the 2nd week
of September, so that is really exciting. It will be cool. Hopefully I
will get to see it, since I missed when Elder Bednar came, and when
Elder Christofferson was here too.
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