To Mom:
Holy Cow! That is REALLY cool! with all the kids also? Thats awesome! Sounds like you guys had a bunch of fun at the homecoming and hopefully at your chilli cook-off. They are having a Ward Halloween Party/Dinner here on Wednesday night and we are inviting EVERYONE! Our investigator named Gus, who is really coming along should be there. He is 15 and already knows alot of the members in the ward so we will see how that goes! He is really awesome. We also have a returned missionary that is helping us out a ton! Driving us around everywhere so that is a big help. He is awesome, he also knows gus. Gus offered a kneeling prayer on his driveway floor for the first time praying in his life on our very first lesson. He is a great kid. Umm...Our stake president was prompted to have a stake fast for missionary work this November 3rd fast Sunday! Its going to be great, it was after watching Elder Ballards talk about missionary work. So he met with President Kendrick (the mission president) and is now having us go by every active member and share a specific message he designed from Elder Ballards talk. It is going to be intense. Then the ward missionaries follow up with the families. The work here is going so good. Most amazing spiritual experiences are with investigators and boy have we had a few this last week. People just coming out of no where. An entire family even. But this experience happened last night at a dinner appointment. Preach My Gospel gives the finding idea of teaching members the message of the Restoration. So last night a family had 6 elders over for dinner and we shared the 1st vision. The elder who shared it did so very slowly like instructed and the spirit was sooo thick. We just sat there in it in silence for a long time then the father of the family bore his testimony of the truthfulness of the Church on the Earth and started crying a little. It was sooo thick. Then we asked them for someone they knew that could here that message. The 1st vision is powerful. Ask the missionaries where you live to share it with you in a slow way. Its powerful because it is true. That is why we love to share it with investigators, and they feel the spirit. But anyways i would invite everyone to think of the "one" from Elder Ballards talk who you could bring closer to the Gospel and Pray for who that person is.
Good times.
Ok in the email do not say anything about all the investigators or the whole family. please. thank you. We never even know if the progress until they do. Thanks.
Elder Thompson
