Sunday, April 7, 2013

Alex's Birthday Surprise!

Words can not even describe my joy in this post!  What a wonderful blessing to have a family love Alex so much!


Hi Sister Thompson,

My name is Wendy Bradshaw, mom of Paul who sent you the picture of your son on Monday.  I just wanted to tell you how much we love your son!  He is such a delightful addition to our ward.  He is so wonderful with my boys and such a GOOD example.  We are so blessed to have him serving in our ward. 

It was so neat for us to find out that your son was 18.  My oldest, Paul, will be 18 in September.  Your sweet son has been so encouraging to Paul- telling him how important is to graduate, calling him to come and teach them, reminding him read his scriptures.  It is WONDERFUL!  Your son is reaching Paul in ways we can’t.  Thank you for sending him to us and letting him bless our lives!

I have a tiny favor to ask.  Could you tell me some of your son’s favorite foods/treats?  I want to make him a dinner he really likes when he and his companion come for dinner.  Your son is so polite and he won’t tell me what his favorite dinner is.  I know what Elder Clark likes, but your son always says anything is fine.  He is so kind!

You have a wonderful son!  We love him so much!

Love,
Wendy


Janae’ and Gwen,

We thoroughly enjoyed having your sons in our home today to celebrate Elder Thompson’s birthday!  Elder Thompson and Elder Clark are such great missionaries and we love having them in our ward and in our home!  I have attached some pictures we took today of them in our home as well as a video link of us singing Happy Birthday to Elder Thompson.

We wanted to let you know that your sons are doing very well and we are so impressed with both of them!  They love the Lord and are such good, dedicated missionaries and great examples to us and our children.  We are preparing our oldest son to leave on his mission later this year which we are very excited about.

Have a great evening!

Regards,


Wednesday, April 3, 2013

Hello from Temecula!!!


   This has been an AWESOME week here. Definitely a week of miracles in the gospel and in missionary work!

We met some people who wanted there Baby blessed on Sunday. They are awesome! We accidently ran into them a few weeks. The baby is 5 months old and we got to take part in that! HE is awesome and the family is cool too. The mother of the baby is getting baptized on May 4th! The day i was baptized! and she was born on April 6th also! Been having some cool discussions! Although, if it goes well that means that we are not converting but the spirit is. So not us.

Such a great week though! We met some great people! We also had a baptism last Saturday! She is a 14 year old girl whose parents were pretty less active for about 15 years or so. And long story short they started meeting with the missionaries after a member kind of hooked them up and here she is. I might send a pic if it will hook up. Anyways great stuff such a spiritual baptismal service! She got confirmed on Easter Sunday!

WE also helped a recent convert move out this week headed to Plano, Texas. He is funny, his name is Steve.

There are some GREAT members here! We had dinner last night with the Hribars, the WML and his wife who had invited a family over with us! They didn't make it but it still ended up great because they got other people to come also!

The work here is great! The members are beginning to grow and are already missionary Pro-active!!! So great! It has just been a great week!

We are also teaching a man named Billy Evans who is awesome! He is just kind of starting over.

President Cook is awesome also!

Our Easter service was sooo spiritual. There were sooo many people that showed up and a lot of LA's because of the baby blessing. It was just sooo amazing. Great talks and great musical numbers. The spirit was very strong.

We also have an appt with a less active later this week who is going to feed us some lunch.
Great things are happening here in Temecula, California! The Lord has opened doors!

Have a good week thanks for everything!

-Elder Thompson

Monday, April 1, 2013

3rd P Day in Temecula

Awesome!

No I Didn't give the blog post to anyone from Murrieta but that is where alot of the members of our ward live. The boundaries are funny, because Murrietta is out of the mission. 

Glad you liked it it  was a funny moment. We were just talking about things in Arkansas and I mentioned Toad suck and then they were like.... toad suck.? Aha it went from there! The Bradshaw's are awesome.

 I hope things are good. I got the package THANK YOU SOOO MUCH!! I needed granola!! SO thank you it was sooo good to have again! And i was about to buy astringent today cause the other stuff wasn't working! But you sent it!! Ha ha seriously, amazing! And the candy sticks and the note Thank you soooo much! And the muffins are AMAZING!!!!! I had 3 this morning ha ha or 2.5 not sure. But they were so good. Did you put some kind of a buttery drizzle on top? It just tasted amazing. 

Our district is pretty good The members are awesome here and I think we are going some where for Easter to the Evans families house where they will give some candy! I love it here!! The Ward is great like I said. 

Also did you get all the Candy? Ha ha I sent some just not sure if it made it. Also, I am pretty much out of EMPower. Did you ask DeAnna about that? :/ 

Oh I hope everything is going good! Is Chantelle still there? I assume she is I hope you are having a BLAST ( good time :) ) with her and Ethan  Eat some pizza for me :) 

WE ate alot of pizza this week from Papa Murphy's because members own it and all. We had breakfast for Dinner last night. Ohhh the people in California are pretty cool. Did I tell you we are basically in one of the hottest parts of the Mission? Its the 2nd hottest I think. 

Anyways I hope you all have a good one and enjoy family time and by the way ...the Taylor's  Awesome. Oh ya, TEDDY? ha ha have a good one.

Love
Elder Thompson

Oh ya, I figured out coke does miracles. Cause  got sick and drank 3 liters of coke and anyways ..Better now! ha ha 

Tell Jordan hi! and keep it up! ha ha glad you got the Candy. 

Our District here is awesome too k cya!