Hello all!

Last week was awesome!

While we didn't get any new investigators this past week we were able to contact and meet many wonderful people this past week and we will be seeing many of them again this upcoming week.

Among them were our two most promising prospects for baptism this month: C and M. Both have been attending church regularly for some time now, and have very few (if any) things that would need to change in their life's (as far as the commandments go) in order for them to be baptized. 

M is the mother of or recent convert. Her reservations seem to be mainly centered around her not feeling like she knows enough. We just need to keep meeting with her to help her solidify her testimony of the first principles and ordinances of the gospel, and then help her to understand that that testimony is enough to start with, and that we don't need to know everything from the get go. 

C has been attending our churches all over the place for, as far as we understand, basically four years. He has a super solid true friend who he wants to baptize him. He is a really smart guy with a deep love of God and the scriptures. He is clean cut, and very giving, respectful, and helpful. In short he would make an excellent member of the church. 

In a nutshell that was our week. We had a Zone Conference on Saturday with some incredible training by President Tilleman, and then in the evening there was a HUGE YSA fireside, to which we were invited, and President Tilleman spoke there as well. I wish I could tell you all of the things that were said but suffice it to say that the church is true, miracles have not ceased, and there is no other way nor name given except that of Christ. 

In other news! I went to see our distant relatives P and T. (They are like my... great, great grand-cousins, three or four times removed, on my uncle’s pet gecko’s side... I think.) They are awesome. They are super friendly and many of the things we talked about were about miracles that they have seen in their lives, they have a belief in God. Like I said they are awesome. We had food, which was awesome. We told stories, those were awesome. We looked at pictures, awesome. P showed us his woodwork, which was awesome. T gave us cinnamon rolls, THOSE WERE AWESOME. We are so going back, and it’s going to be awesome. 

With love,

Elder Thomson