Yeah... This week has been great... Haha! In all honesty, it was better than last week. It took a little bit to get there, but it's better. And next week will be better too. I will just go through the week. In all honesty, not a whole lot happened because I was sick on Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and am still a little sick today, but it's just a nice man-cold. Yeah... The problem is that on a mission you don't have enough time to sit around and then get better, so then it gets worse so then you just have to sit around and get better. We've been taking it a little slower, so hopefully I will be good soon. I feel like I am on the up-swing too so that makes things nice.
Tuesday night we went to Singen because we were going to go to Zurich on Wednesday Morning (We had to be there at 8:30 which means we need to get into Zurich before 8:00, which means we had to take a fairly early train), and so we went a little early and helped them to move some things at the church. The branch here just got a brand new church building (they were meeting in a rented building beforehand) and so yesterday was their first Sunday there. They are having a big open house in a couple of weeks so we will be coming and helping quite a bit with that. It will be fun.
Anyways, on Wednesday, we ended up taking the 6:51 train to Zurich. Which means we have to get up earlier than 6:30 to say the least. When you consider that we also had 8 elders and one shower and bathroom and we had to make two trips to drive everyone to the train station, it means we started people at 4:15. Awesome... But it wasn't too bad actually (although one of the Elders there was sick, and I think I caught it from him. That and a mix of no sleep/stress). So we ride the train and get there. And then had a meeting with Elder Nelson and Sister Nelson. What an amazing experience. I don't know how anyone could talk to him and not think he's an apostle. He knew so much and we had a sort of class with him for 2 hours where we could ask questions and he used the scriptures and knew so much. His wife was also way funny. She spoke to us for about 20 minutes too. She was hilarious. Another reason, I want to marry a Canadian. Hahah!! It was such a neat experience. Especially because President and Sister Miles were able to talk to us about Elder Nelson as a person, and Sister Miles told us some stories of growing up and the funny things he would do and memories they had. It was really neat to see that. They talked about how they knew that he was called as an apostle because they saw the change in him that happened after he was called.
Brother T was also called as our GML, so that was really good. We are going to start work on Thursday with our first meeting. He phoned us today and asked if he could bring an investigator. We said yes. We can talk business after they leave, or some other time. We really aren't working with too many people, so we are no position to say no to investigators.
The past week was little tough with being sick. I believe it reached its low last night when in an attempt to make some comfort food I tried to make apple pie. Only to realize I have no idea how, and I am way to lazy, and you can't buy shortening here. So instead I just chopped up all the apples I had (like 9) because I remember that was always nice to eat. But I was too lazy to peel them (that is a mistake), so then I just cut them up and put some cinnamon and sugar on them since we didn't have lemon juice. That's a new low... But it helped. Sometimes you have to have a moment like that and realize how pathetic you are before you can get better. Hopefully it will work.
I love you guys a lot! Thanks for the e-mails! I am doing better though so things are good. This week will be awesome! I know it!
And if not I can just cut up some more apples (peeled of course)
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Sincerely,
Elder Thompson
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