I love to see the Temple!

I love to see the Temple! 

I went inside today!

It was really super awesome! 

I don't know what else to say!

:D

Today was our Temple P-day which means.... you guessed it! We got to go to the Temple! It also means that we have about 2 hours less to get everything done that we need to accomplish, so forgive me if this letter is slightly more rushed or shorter than usual.

In other news:

I've had a Birthday shout 'hooray'...

I'm really, Really, REALLY old today.

One year older and wider (yes. I am.) too!

Happy Birthday to... me. :P

 

I am 20. I don't like it. It's a terrible age to be. Now I feel old, I'm starting to fall apart. I'm getting fat. I'm going grey. Woe is me.

But thank you all for all the wonderful Birthday wishes and love and presents and object lesson ideas and food to make me fat with. I really do appreciate it.

This past week has been really good. We worked really hard and have been focused a lot on going through all of the Potential Investigators, Former Investigators, and Less Active (or in most cases Inactive) Members, in search of everyone and anyone that will sit down and talk with us. We are having the hardest time finding anyone to teach, but working with all of the Potential Investigators seems like it might start to yield some fruit. We had a pretty good lesson yesterday (Monday) morning when we stopped by a potential investigator we had left to us by some earlier Missionaries. His name is S. We stopped by and it went fairly well, he became a new investigator (or so we thought) until we talked to the YSA Elders later that afternoon and we found out that he was actually one of their former investigators. Which makes sense because he seemed to be fairly familiar with the church, but we thought it was just because he had friends that were members. So it looks like we will be turning him back over to those Elders, but we were able to set up an appointment for them. So that's good.

Working with Less Active members and former investigators hasn't yielded any fruit (or even a bud) yet, but we are trying to make contact with everyone and see if there is anyone we can help. We'll keep working at it and hope (and pray) that we will start seeing some of the results of our efforts in this coming week.

This morning since it was all the Missionaries at the Temple the Temple President bore his testimony to us all of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, of the Restoration of the gospel through the Prophet Joseph Smith and of the Restoration of the Priesthood and Temple ordinances. It was a really powerful experience and it makes me want to shout (in a good way), so that everybody can hear what I know is true. God and Heaven are very, very real, and in the Temple they are very, very close. Jesus Christ is Gods only Begotten Son, our Eldest Brother and our Savior and Redeemer. The Holy Ghost is the Witness and Spirit of Truth and it is by His power that we can know the truthfulness of this message of the Restoration of the Gospel and the truth of all things. If we ask, we will receive. If we seek, we shall find. If we knock, the Heavens will open, and powers of darkness and the hosts of this world will flee away, for with God on our side, who can stand against us?  

This is my testimony and love for you.

Love, 

Elder Thomson