1. I ate bear meat! It was sooooo good! (I still haven't seen a bear though... I wonder why? Oh, because they all know its winter time and are doing the sensible thing and sleeping through it!) In fact I learned yesterday that I've actually been eating bear meat for about two months now, and I didn't even know it! We were over at the B's house for dinner last night, and don't know how it came up, but just as we were about to leave with Brother B to go teach R, when Sister B let it slip that they never use actual hamburger meat, it’s always bear meat. Needless to say Elder M and my jaws dropped. And then we cheered. It was great, it also explains why everything we eat over there tastes so good.
2. M (of M and
J) got baptized in PR! First A and now M! It’s so wonderful to see that we are
actually getting something done out here, even though it seems like we're just
running in place sometimes. I just hope that S and J come 'round soon.
3. A cop thought were looked super sketch walking
around people's houses in the dark so he drove up to us and was like
"Good evening gentlemen" turns out he had already figured
out that we weren't dangerous (just weird) even before he had
started talking to us, but it was still kinda scary (for us at least). He said
he had talked to some missionaries before, we asked if we could come share a
message with him sometime. He said we were always welcome at his
house. He gave us his address. We've been too scared to go by. But we’ll
work up the courage eventually. :)
4. We got a media referral! A
church media referral is when someone sees an ad or a card or
goes on http://mormon.org/ and some way
or another says they want to talk to missionaries or would like some material
(i.e. Book of Mormon, Bible, DVD, etc.) We got one this morning! I
was beginning to think I would never see one, but I got one!
Yaaaaaaay!
5. Elder M
turned twenty. We made cupcakes. We lit some candles, he blew them out. It was
kinda fun so we lit them again and he blew them out again. We ate some cupcakes.
We got fatter. Sister Tilleman called; she wished Elder M a Happy Birthday.
It was kinda sweet... but mostly anticlimactic and just a tiny bit sad. For my
birthday I want some pictures of Elder Bear having a great time, okay? ;D
Probably the most amazing of all
the things that happened to us was that we were able to find six new
investigators this week, which is a first, I think, for my missionary career.
We have indeed been blessed of the Lord exceedingly.
R. We are still working with him to
help him overcome his addictions. However he didn't make it out to church, but
we went over last night with Brother B, and had a very good lesson with R. We
taught the Ten Commandments, the Law of Chastity and the importance of keeping
the Sabbath Day Holy, and stressed the importance of putting forth our best
effort and Christ’s Atonement being there to pick us back up when we can’t do
any more.
K is still facing heath challenges,
and her common law husband, K, is still not interested in meeting with us at
all, but the R Family is still doing an wonderful job of fellowshipping and
being there for K whenever she is in need. She was able to make it to church
yesterday, and hopefully she will be feeling well enough to meet with us again
this week.
K, is still on hold until after her
marriage to B (Less Active Member), we took both of them on a tour of the
church building. They seemed to enjoy themselves and K was talking about
getting a ride up to church with Sister W who lives near her. We learned
yesterday morning that Sister W's phone has been down so K couldn't get a hold
of her, which was disappointing because, we were really hoping that K would
have finally been able to come to church. Oh well, there is always
next Sunday! :D
I love you all so much and wish I
had all day to tell you about all the weird, wonderful, and exciting things
that happen to me, but I guess we'll both just have to be content with a
highlights reel.
Until next time….. My prayer is
that we will all be able to do our own best, and that we will be able to see
the hand of the Lord making the difference in our lives.
Love,
Elder Thomson
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