Still in Carlsbad

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

Carlsbad, California

Mom! Glad to hear everything was A OK :) Sounds like a crazy experience, glad you got to be at the church for the blessing though :) and glad to hear again that things are going so good with Kyren and Zach.

Sorry if this letter is a little drowsy. That is AWESOME that you are the seminary teacher for all of those kids! Great news! Also i took a picture for you but I may have lost my usb. Sorry this email may be a little slow. It was an early Pday morning(3:45 am) haha. But anyways Keep up the great teaching that must be cool to do it on skype! And the cookies might make it but packaged stuff does better thats all. Just not soup.

So many sweet miracles this week. We were able to get into a part member less active family the other day and teach them and the spirit was so strong throughout the whole lesson. No matter what we said, it was pretty cool. The man we were teaching has been prepared and has felt the spirit in the past so we will see how it goes. We are on bikes riding around, we have an awesome ward. There are a lot of cool things going on. We had a zone review meeting with President Kendrick last week and he brought the spirit in. But things are going great!! The youth here are awesome, my companion is awesome. Anyways the ward is good the people are great We have a family that we were able to teach last night that is great at fellow shipping but everyone here has a desire to serve and share with others so that is great.

Elder Thompson

Carlsbad California October 2013

Mom, Great to hear things are going so good, i am sure you had a great Columbus day haha. Also, yes I did the CD! THANK YOU! I thought i sent you a letter? Thanks! It is awesome i was listening to it last week! IT is great!! Great to hear that you all enjoy your missionaries :) Sounds like the work is going! I am not sure where the CVS pharmacy is, so i will just have to see if we can find it, if not then its all good anyways we can get it next week or something. I hope you all ahve a good time with Chantelle there! That will be fun! I wish her a Happy Birthday. I am truly amazed at the wonderful place we are able to serve. The members here are very loving and supportive. And the miracles just keep coming I am just not sure what to do :) On Sunday they held a fast and testimony meeting and alot of it was about missionary work. We are excited it is a great ward to serve in! The members are great and the nonmembers also :) They are just great about helping the missionary efforts in any way. I will share a miracle of the week. Last saturday night we got done with dinner and started walking to this family on the ward list who we thought could be possibly less active. So we walk all the way there and we get there and a guy in his 20s opens the door and tells us who lives there( a completely different family then we thought however they were active members) but they were out of town and there grandson Kayden was watching the house. He was not a member so we asked if we could just share a 10 min message with him. So he let us in and we talked and shared the restoration and the spirit was there. But rigth before (a minute or two before) we were going to commit him to baptism there was a knock on the door. And we were like ohhh man. darn. But anyways he goes and gets the door and it is his girlfirend as so he comes back and sits down and his girlfirend just watches us. Adn we presume introduciong the Book of Mormon and commiting him to baptism. Teh girlfriend was watching intently so we invited her to sit down with us also.After we finished we offered a kneeling prayer and we got up to set our return appointment and she just looks at us and starts crying and says "Thank you, you guys are so sincere, thank you.... I have not felt like that in a long time" She mentioned how she was a member of another Church that also read the Book of Mormon but it was not the Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints. But she said it felt cold there. Anyways it was a pretty cool miracle the spirit was strong and we talked for a little bit longer with her and told her to read the Book of Mormon and pray and we promised her it would help. We triesd to set up a return appointment but were unable to but she felt the spirit and let us know. There are a lot of miracles going on here. Everywhere it is just happening. Heavenly Father is doing his work. Ok sorry dont share any of that. But by the way, our bikes are in Business. Watch out haha we are loving it. Those mirafcles we just shared dont happen all too often so its cool when they do. THat doesnt happen everyday just letting you know moml. :) . California is awesome the members are just greathaha Our regular day is awesome but we are doing alot of Biking so we are hjaving a blast. Our ward mission is awesome. Adn that is great the Chaunceys are awesome the ward mission is the best full of love great correlation

October 2013 Carlsbad, California

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Mom,

  Wow! Sounds like you all had a great week! That is great! You can definatley tell a difference in Kren.

  Wow! Great week! so many miracles it was pretty awesome. The Carlsbad wards are doing great! Heavenly Father is pouring out blessings! And the ward is awesome almost always there whenever anything is needed for any investigator or Less Active. The work is Hastening! General Conference was amazing! I LOVED the talks on missionary work "the time is..NOW" that was great but really it was great. Our ward is so good at applying things so we are excited. We of course especially loved the ones on missionary work and especially M. Russel Ballard's and the others. General Conference is different as a missionary. But anyways, Prophets are real. So many crazy miracles though this week they just keep happening. Our ward has really started to get excited about missionary work and that is great because they are great missionaries. My companion is way awesome and we are having lots of fun and good times. Its all Heavenly Father. So thanks for all the prayers, people are being benefited from it. Heavenly Father is awesome and the work is great and we are privileged to have this sacred opportunity at this time to "cry repentance" to everyone that we see. What a great time to be alive, to act on our faith,  and to be a full time missionary and a member of his church and to be able to follow the counsel fo President Monson to share the Gospel with everyone. I love this opportunity to pray for missionary experiences. and everything else!

Love,Elder Thompson

was anyone able to watch Jeffrey r Hollands talk...wooohoo. good stuff. just throwing that out there. :)

OK don't send that email..it is kind of creepy ha ha just say things are going really good and we are were able to teach our investigators and grateful to Heavenly Father for such a wonderful paradise to work in and that General Conference was awesome. I love Heavenly father.

Also next week we will have email on Tuesday

oh ya..our ward is great especially the bishop and his family