Hey family! How are you all doing? First of all,
in case I don't get to write you back individually, thanks for the e-mails
everyone! That was awesome. The videos were especially nice it's
weird to see how big Aiden and Dex were, and the pictures were also sweet.
It took me a little while to realize that it was a picture of Lukas.
I couldn't figure out who it was. Hah! I have been gone fora
long time. It's weird to then try and think how big they will be in 7
more months. Crazy how fast life goes.
This week was insanely fast. Yesterday, I asked Elder
H where the week went. It took us a while to remember everything,
but I will try to tell you everything.
So Monday, he had a fun District P-Day where we just hung
out and played games at the church. (Monopoly... ugh...) But it was okay.
After that, I ended up going to Villingen-Schwenningen on an exchance with
Elder R. He is from Utah, and pretty new on his msission, but it
was a pretty good exhange nonetheless. I always forget how much fun it is
to work with other missionaries. You learn a lot of new stuff, and it's
just nice to have a break in all honesty. Haha!
On Tuesday, we had an appointment that fell out, and then
didn't really do anything else special for the rest of the day.
On Wednesday, we went back to Singen for our District
Meeting and then we exchanged back so Elder H and I went back to the Bad
Säck together. We were invited to the Young Men's activity where we played
soccer. Which is also fun. Fortunately the young women were playing
as well so I wasn't the worst player there. I felt pretty good about my
soccer abilities in comparison. Gotta love the Miamaids... We have
been working hard to help A to come to the activities so that he
will feel better about coming to church. I don't know exactly if it has
been making a huge impact, but I think it has helped a little bit.
On Thursday, we had to take our car to get fixed. I
don't know if I mentioned that we have a car or not. But we do. So that meant that we were stranded in
Rheinfelden (another city nearby) for a while, so we talked to some people
there and then got the car back and had an appointment with the T's. I
really can't tell you how much I love them. They are so awesome. If
you guys come back and pick me up, or if we come to Europe to visit people (you
will then of course have to bring me) we for sure need to visit them.
Plus they also speak really good English, so you wouldn't have to worry
about anything.
On Friday we had an appointment with B. It
was... B... Yeah. That describes it about as much as it
needs to be. Hah! One day he will be a member and be baptized, but
at the moment it just takes him so long. But the members like him and ask
us to help him, so that's what we will do. We are working hard to work
better with the members, and so when they ask us to do things, we do them.
And when they ask us not to do things, we don't do them.
Nothing too special happened on Saturday that I can
remember. Time just goes so fast, and lots of the time the days just
blend together. Haha! It's pretty bad though that I can't remember
what happened three days ago.
On Sunday we had Stake Conference in Zurich. It was
really neat because we got a new Stake Presidency so two area 70's were there.
President and Sister Miles were also there and both spoke in German.
Every time they do that, it takes away any excuse that any missionary ever
had about having difficulty with the language. They are so awesome. And
President Miles is so funny. I love President
Miles. He is such a great example of how we need to be ourselves when we
are doing missionary work, and how we can have fun, and how we need to have fun
when we do this work. That's something that I am really trying to work
on. Just being me, and doing the work the best that I can.
I gotta go though. Transfer calls are this week, and I am really excited (in
case you couldn't tell). Who knows what will happen? I have no
idea. In any case, I will let you know next week. Say hi to
everyone!
Sincerely,
Elder Thompson
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