Monday, September 24, 2012

Hey!

Hey everyone! Can you believe that it is Monday already? Where does the time go?  I remember Jesse talking about the MTC saying that the days go really slow sometimes, but the weeks go flying by.  It's the same out here still.  Except, quite a bit of the time, the days go really fast as well.  Strange...
  On Monday, we just kind of bummed around with the Elders in Singen, played Mini-golf and had fun.  We will be seeing them a lot in the next two weeks as we will be out of our area for 7 days in the next two weeks.  Yikes!  Which just means we need to work twice as hard for the times that we are here.  But it will be good.  They are having an Open House for their new church building on the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd of October so we will be in Singen that whole time.  Then for Conference, the 6th and 7th since Conference isn't broadcasted here we will have to go to Villingen-Schwenningen, and since it will be so late on the 7th then we will probably not come home until the 8th.  And then transfers are on the 11th.  And we will see what happens there. 
On Tuesday, we had District Meeting, and then we went contacting the rest of the day since we don't really have any investigators.  We met this really nice older Russian lady and were able to give her a Book of Mormon.  We made out an appointment to come back so we could give her one in Russian since that would be easier for her.  (There are a lot of German-Russian people here. I think during the war, or after the war.  I'm not too sure, but at some point, a lot of Germans were taken to Russia, and for the past ten years or so a lot of them have been coming back since Germany is a little nicer than Russia to live.  So they are Russian people who are sort of German)  She was really nice and said that she believed on something, but it was hard for her because she grew up hearing that there was no God, and after being told that so many times it's really tough, but she wants to believe, and that 'desire to believe' is all that we need here. 
We went back to her on Wednesday and introduced a little more, and then gave her the Russian one, as well as a Family: Proclamation, and Testimony of the Prophet Joseph Smith.
On Thursday, we had another cool experience.  We were in Rheinfelden contacting and I didn't know where we should go.   So I was talking to people as they came by, and then there was this nice lady who stopped.    I told her about the Book of Mormon and then she said that her mom would be really interested in something like that as well.  We asked if we could come by and give her and her mom copies of it, and she was like ''Why don't you just come right now?''.  So we came and taught them both about it as well.  They are both Italian, and really nice and friendly. 
Nothing too special happened on Friday. 
On Saturday, we had a Branch Brunch.  Which was really good.
On Sunday we had a good day at church, and then because there was so much food left over from the brunch we ate again after church.  Woohoo!!  I hate cooking.  Haha!  And I love eating.  Which is a bad habit to have while single.  But when married.... Haha! 
Thanks for your prayers and support.  I love you guys a lot!

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Sincerely,

Elder Thompson

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