It sounds like you all had a great week, and that things went well with
the Baby Blessing and everything. I was actually wondering about when
that would happen, so that was nice to hear. Sounds like it was a lot
of fun to have everyone all gathered together. But with all them
Thompsons and Gibbs, that is probably a lot of people, but a lot of fun
too. Nice to hear that everything worked out well.
It was great to see everyone and talk to you at Christmas.
Christmas here was really good. I told you about our Christmas
Eve, with a couple in the ward, and their non-member friend. (We got to
teach her a lesson so that was good!) We then played 'Spiel des
Wissens' (Game of Knowledge) which is sort of like Trivial Pursuit.
Just in case you were wondering. I won. Haha!
On the 25th, we were with the Ds. They are a great
family. It was a lot of fun. We watched a movie with them. It was a
weird German movie for little kids (I understood EVERYTHING! which is a
big accomplishment I think), and I think I have been on a mission too
long. I just kept thinking of important lessons that we could learn
from the way that the old man treated his cat, and how the neighbours
could be nice to each other and that is the real spirit of Christmas etc.
I think it has also just been a long time since I watched a movie (18
months at least) so it seemed like the greatest movie too. I am such a
nerd...
On the 26th, we were with the M family, which was a lot of
fun. We had a big lunch with traditional German food, then played some
games with the kids. Then had supper, which I am not joking, was just
big plates full of cookies and chocolates. Then we had a desert before
we left and had Crepes. (I LOVE CREPES!) We also played Wii bowling
with them. I am proud to say that I am about as good at Wii bowling as I
am at real bowling. Meaning that I lost everytime, and a 7 year old
little boy beat me handily. Making the family proud! Haha!
We also had an appointment with a family on the 27th where we
played a couple games, but that was in the evening. The whole day we
were back into the normal swing of things. Which was a little tougher
because everyone still has vacation, and it was really stormy and wet
and ugly. But it was okay.
On Friday, we had District Meeting which was good. We took some
nice pictures, and
then had a good day of finding. We found some really cool people, but
of course, not in Ludwisgburg....
On Saturday though, we had the coolest thing happen. We had another fun
day of tracting ahead of us, and then we got a phone call from a member in the ward. She
phoned and told us that she had a friend who was really interested in
the church but because he lived in an Asylheim (Refugee home) he should
probably be taught by the Stuttgart International Missionaries (There is
an English Ward in Stuttgart because of the American Military bases),
but then she said that he wanted to come to church with her, so maybe we
should just do it. So we asked if we could go visit him that afternoon
and she said that sounded good and asked to come along. So that was
really cool. We met N and he is awesome. He is a really sharp guy, who really knows his Bible, who is
really prepared and agreed with everything that we taught in the first
lesson. It
was also strange to teach in English, since I haven't done that for a
while everything came out weird and I was forgetting words and nothing
really eloquent was coming out of my mouth, but luckily, the Spirit is
there to make everything better. The best part though was that the sister invited him to church and promised to pick him up.
So on Sunday, they came to church. As did
about everyone and their dog. We had so many visitors because the
weather is really nice so people can drive to visit anyone they need to,
and because nobody has to work or go to school. It was insane! But
really good. I really like the ward here though because it is big
enough that we have enough members to do a lot of things, but small
enough that we can still get to know all of the members and help them
with things, and make good friendships. I really love the ward here so
much. We have a MEAL CALENDER! And we already have 8 eating
appointments for January lined up, so that is awesome!
I am really loving it here. I love my mission a lot (I don't think
I say that enough to you guys). I love you all so much. Thanks for
the emails! I got tons today! Sorry if I don't write everyone back
individually. We are going to have a fun P-Day, so I don't have tons of
time. But I love you a lot! Stay safe!!!
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Sincerely,
Elder Thompson
Sincerely,
Elder Thompson
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