September 2013 Carlsbad, California

Mom,

 Great week! SOOO many miracles! Our ward is coming together! Great to hear about the AWESOME missionary work going on! I hope kyren gets baptized that is soo awesome! You guys are on FIRE! That is great! we will pray! SOOO Awesome i hope they go to the cookoff! That is just sooo GREAT job to Zach and everyone awesome!! Haha, the crew. That is so great you guys have such great lessons with the spirit in seminary!! woohoo! Just send me some gummies and new about kyren. That is just soo great really, awesome. Oh and some granola. Sounds like the Branch is on FIre! Great job!

   So Had a great transfer meeting! My new companion is 18ys old. Elder Bowman from Mesa, AZ! Awesome companion! They also doubled the missionaries in the ward so the work is going! The other Elders in the Ward are Elder Peterson and Elder Mickelsen from Lehi, Utah and Nebraska. I went to Elementary school with Elder Peterson and Elder Mickelsen and Elder Bowman were comps in the MTC. The ward is awesome though, our Bishop is really good at getting everyone together to do missionary work. Last wednesday they held a mutual night on missionary work and got the youth thinking more missionary minded. Then on sunday they used the 5th Sunday for missionary work. The ward is awesome! Great members! Lots of cool people coming out of no where! Ltos of awesome miracles we have been seeing everyday everywhere. Especially when we bring a member out to teach with us as we did the other night. A member has come out with us almost every night since we split. We are teaching a few people and there are a lot of people the members know and alot of people on the streets! Things are going REALLY good! What more can i say? :) Anyways i hope everyone is having a good time and reading some awesome scriptures and casually talking to some friends about the Gospel it can change there life! There were alot of nonmembers at sacrament meeting yesterday for the primary presentation, even the mayor showed up. It just takes a casual invite just try it:) It is all HEavenly Father :)ANyways have a good week!

-Elder Thompson

September 2013 Carlsbad, California

HAHAHA there were a few that were a little weird but that was funny!


remember this? :) Send this to Jordan and Zachary to ha-ha

 It has been another GREAT week in Carlsbad! Lots of great things happening in our ward. They are awesome  such a great ward with a wonderful uplifting atmosphere. The ward is doing great Lots of miracles. On Sunday we had a family, that moved from Las Vegas a while ago and has not been to church in a while show up for church. And the ward fellow shipped like crazy it was great they looked like the belonged! One of the sons, Trevor, was able to go to a mutual activity last Wednesday rock climbing with the young men and a family went over who has kids the same age as them and met them and now Trevor is friends with them and Trevor now has friends and looks so happy! The ward is on fire! They are great at fellow shipping and our Ward Mission Leader is really good also. Also saw alot of other great miracles, also next week is the Primary Program and there have been a lot of nonmembers invited! The work is going great here. Lots of members are willing to fellowship investigators. They have dinners and are really good about inviting investigators. Our bishop is awesome! He is one of the ones that helped organize it. Having ward members invite each other over on specific dates and now as missionaries( this was unplanned) we are able to ask the members if we can invite our investigators or Less Actives to there house also for dinner and a meeting. Hopefully that will start to pick up because it REALLY helped one of our investigators totally feel comfortable with he ward and she started to progress after that alot. Because she felt comfortable and felt the love and fellowship of the members in the ward. Lots of good things happening! And the ward is putting together an awesome focus 15 and we also had a Less Active show up for church named John to do some Family history work and lots of other things unmentioned. Oh! Last week this member youth girl invited her friend over for a discussion! Spirit was there! Also last Sunday night a different family was walking by there neighbors house and just felt a prompting that they should invite there friend from china over to there house for dinner to meet with the missionaries. And they did and the spirit was there! She had questions like where she came form why she is here what she has to so to get where she is going! It was amazing to see heavenly Fathers hand in everyone life. And the family for following the prompting. She said she will think about it all but Seed was planted spirit was there. Also, they are splitting the ward missionary wise again so there will be 2 sets of missionaries in the ward. Its all Heavenly Father. I will be going to the slower side but i am excited!!

-Elder Thompson sorry this is so long.

So that was an intense letter. things are going good hopefully get them going good even more again. But Also, our Elders Quorum pres is just like dad and he teaches just like dad. Just letting you know he is awesome. ner caring and loving person. and thinks like dad to ha-ha. We went on splits. i thought i was with dad ha ha jk. 

7 Month out and in Carlsbad

Mother!

That was such a GREAT letter! Glad to hear all of your book of mormon stories!! That is soo awesome! Spirit! And I am glad to hear about bearing your testimony. And all the miracles in seminary and everything else! That is great to hear about Erica! SOoO awesome the Branch is awesome and that is sooo cool dad took the missionaries to Biscoe and Brinkley. He is a boss missionary. Is Elder Cassler from Texas? That is great to hear about Hailee Crouch!

Tell Brother Schulte hi haha I think his son is on a mission to Brazil right? Nauvoo was the BEST! I tell people about it all the time, they get me started and I cant stop haha. You are the awesomest mother! That is great things are going good with seminary and the youth! Youth are awesome! Lonoke Branch is on fire. 

Thanks for sending these pictures to! The family is looking nice still. I got my haircut today so it looks kind of like Jordan's now! And I like Brianna's glasses! And Zachary's funny self.

Thursday? hmm...nothing to crazy? We were able to go on some exchanges till 12pm on Thursday. Hmm I am just glad for an awesome family.

I will try to send you a picture today! I hope everything is going great still and you had an awesome labor day. We did! There were ALOT of people home on labor day all having a good time! We were able to see some people and it was amazing to see Heavenly Fathers hand in it all. We were able to teach alot people, spirit was strong. One lady we taught on her doorstep! It was cool because she didn't have time to here a message, but somehow she let us. She was a contact from a few weeks ago, and then again on Saturday night and she said come back. And there she was. We also contactd this couple a month or so ago that lived in another city and they said the missionaries there could come by. Anyways somehow in the referall process either we forgot to send it in or they weren't able to go by. And we forgot about it. And what are the chances that as we are contating, the same couple, near the same area, gets out of there car and said we had talked to them before. So we were able to send it in again. Heavenly Father does all this work, it is pretty cool.

There is a family that just moved into our apartment complex from another ward and they just got baptized in February and March and they are awesome! But we are still seeing lots of miracles!

Yesterday, we needed a ride some where. And we had walked a little bit and when we got to this persons house to ask for a ride, they were not there but as we were walking away the guy yelled "Elder Thompson!" and they were just getting home and gave us a ride. But really, lots of spiritual experiences also.

Lots of people here in Carlsbad. Mom, our Elders Qourum president it alot like Dad. Anyways have a good week!

Love, Elder Thompson

Hahaha Thanks mom!

The work is great! the members are awesome! People are awesome lots of people say we can come back and Heavenly Father is pouring out blessings like crazy!

I love you mom,

Elder Thompson