This week was awesome!!

This week was awesome!! Except I missed everything fun. We had back to back exchanges and both times I got picked to go to the other areas, so I wasn’t in my area for a combined total of about 48 hours. Of course in that time Elder H and first Elder B and then Elder F; contacted a referral, set up about a million appointments (exaggerating), taught three lessons, and found three new investigators. Meanwhile back in the Ward: when I'm not tracting, I’m getting stood up on appointments and force fed ice-cream and cherries by overly generous British people. ; P

But life is good! : D There are a lot of good things happening in our area that I was actually able to be around for.

Like I said there really isn't a whole lot I can report on this week as it seems like anything interesting that happened in the area this past week happened while I was gone on exchanges. We had back to back exchanges Tuesday into Wednesday and Wednesday into Thursday. We did find three new investigators this week, but I have yet to meet any of them, but our return appointments with them are coming up so I look forward to meeting with and getting to know them soon.

One thing that's kind of cool that we have been working on this week is we set up to have weekly splits with the Elders and High Priests every Thursday night. Our first priority will be to have hopefully 2 lessons with investigators scheduled during that time, but after that we will be visiting Less Active Members (preferably with their Home Teachers) and helping to uplift and encourage them.

The Ward Mission leader is really on board and the Quorum and Group as a whole seemed fairly in favor of the idea so the first of these "rescue nights" will be this upcoming Thursday. I'm excited to see how it goes.

I love the area. I love the people here. I love my companion. I love the work. I tolerate the weather. Life is good. God is good. The church is true.

Love ya lots!

Elder Thomson

P.S. To answer your questions:

I’m serving in a weird place, cool people. As per the usual in Canada none of the streets make sense. The weather is as far as I can tell consistently too warm, but we just mooched a fan off of the First Ward Elders so we should survive...maybe.

My Companion: Weird guy... that pretty much all there is. He is a nerd, a dweeb, and a dork, and I love him for all of those reasons! His favorite past times are juggling and Rubik’s cube. I know... right? But he has impressive skills in both and more women (i.e. girlfriends) than any other Missionary I have served with, and for that he is a stud... but I don’t understand how...  ; P

The apartment: Small, but clean. I have seen bigger shoe boxes, but compared to my last apartment it’s a gold inlaid shoe box. We live under a super cool family. And the members in the Ward are awesome.