Picture Time!

I was working in a text email, but I just lost it (like the 116 pages :P) so rather than re-write it I’m justgoing to pick up from where I left off... Monday wasn't that interesting anyway. ;P

Monday:
Pday. Did Pday stuff. Did some finding. Not a lot happened.

Tuesday:
We volunteered for service at the animal shelter, did some finding, and taught one lesson to R, C, and J.

Wednesday:
WAS AWESOME. We taught 4 lessons on Wednesday one to a new investigator named A. We read him a chapter of the Book of Mormon. We also taught T, (I don't know if I’ve told you about him or not ...but I don't really have time right now. :/ ) And J, who is awesome. We met with R and C again, and scored two jars of pickles! ... We are also having dinner with them again tonight (homemade pizzas!!)

Thursday:
Not a lot happened, we spent the morning packing and the afternoon driving down to T. We had to fly down to Vancouver at 3:00 so that we could get a ride to R and stay the night with the Chinese Elders there. Sooo... I realized this week that the blankets I've been using aren't even the missionary’s blankets. I think I told you guys before that we are living in a furnished apartment, but that we are moving out at the end of the month. So while we were in T we seized the opportunity to go to Wal-Mart, everything is so much cheaper there, and especially in Wal-Mart, and I was able to buy a GIANT FUZZY blanket that is mine to keep and take with me when I have to travel, (because not a lot of the apartments have extra blankets and most of the missionaries are using their own blankets anyways.) I also bought a kitchen knife because all we have in the apartment are butcher knives and steak knives and neither of those work... at all. So now I have a knife that I can actually cut stuff with and that's coming with me as well.

Friday:
We were in R, and Elder Haleck of the Seventy (http://www.lds.org/church/leader/o-vincent-haleck?lang=eng)
spoke to us about how we can more fully use the ward council to help us in our work as missionaries, he had some interesting things to say, I tried to take lots of notes but I was wondering if you had any commentary to offer on the subject? :D

I also got the Thanksgiving package while I was at the Mission office, thanks again so much for all the goodies, I decorated with the leaves and little pumpkins this morning, I'll have to take a picture and send it to you some time.

We flew back to T Friday night and stayed the night in the T Elders apartment (even though they weren’t there because they were diving up in a truck with a box spring for one of our mattresses... so we ate all of their food.).

Saturday:

We drove back from T and almost ran out of gas because we forgot to fill up before we left in the morning, but we made it back safely... against all odds. Too bad though, Elder A and I were kinda wondering what would have happened if we had run out of gas. Once we were back we finished up our weekly planning and taught three lessons! Woohoo!!

Sunday:
I gave my talk, (that I brainstormed on the plane, and frantically finished writing that morning.) it was awful, but some people laughed, so I guess it make somebody feel good. We taught two more lessons in the afternoon, to A and T.

Picture Time!

 

Well, this is a different computer so I’m going to see if I can get some pictures out just a few at a time.

 

I don't remember if I told you about the hike that Elder A and our investigator G went on, but these are some pictures of the super cool bunker thing that we found when we hike up on top of a mountain. G invited us to go on a hike with him, and we taught him a lesson about Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon while we walked.

 

 

Me standing in our apartment kitchen (Elder A was telling me I was bad at taking pictures so he was showing me how "easy" it was. It’s hard to take a picture in a low light situation, so this is one of the pictures from as we were figuring how to set the camera right.) That super gross stuff in the blender is probably Elder A’s protein shake. *gag* ;)

 

Mashed potato sandwich! It was actually quite tasty.

 

 

And those are all the mattresses we will be sleeping on after we move out of our furnished apartment. But for now they are just chillin' in the dining room.

 

I made myself some Spaghetti, it looked super good, and tasted pretty good to, if I do say so myself. ;)

 

 

Living in Canada is a weird experience, because so many things are the same, but just the little details are different. Like all the traffic signs look like they were purchased second hand from other countries, we went into the mall to buy a USB pen for elder Anderson, but instead of Radio Shack it was called The Source, and they don't have Smarties, they have Rockets. There are no Red Vines they only sell Twizzlers, and if you want to buy mayonnaise you'll find it in with the salad dressing.

Elder A dressed like a Celtic Ninja. Next he'll be trying to walk on the walls!

That's all I have time for again today, gotta run eat pizza at the G’s, but I love you all dearly and look forward to hearing back for you all again. Write me! :D

Elder Thomson

P.S. Please send CDs and gum. Gum really helps with District Meeting and Weekly planning. :D Also, the caramel apple pops were a hit. And I miss Legos, weird I know, but I was in Wal-Mart and I was like "I haven't gotten to play with Legos in forever!" but don’t send me Legos. If you want to get me something for Christmas get me a small, REALLY waterproof backpack. Like... military grade. Like... what the Navy Seals would use. That’s what I need.