Amazing week

Mom, its all good! Those are alot of letters thank you! I read three of them but havent read the Dear. Elder one, but i will read that one after i write this letter. I hope you get better! And no, i do not know about where I will be. But hopefully here in Carlsbad, because we are having some AMAZING experiences, ad such a great hilarious fun time. I will send you some pics later hopefully. We have a Zone activity that starts in half an hour so we dont have too much time. But seriously god times. I hope you get better! Thanksgiving should be fun! Best time to find people at home. So if someone knocks on your door during thanksgiving..open it and let them in. Haha just kidding. But really, also, dont forget to eat some pomegranets. Holy cow, amazing week. Really. IT was amazing. Soo many BIG miracles. First of all, last night we stopped by a member referral and it was a family of five we had met earlier but had not taught. They were very nice and how we had met them was a member invited them over to a soup and donuts outside dinner on halloween nigtht. So last night our appt fell through so we were in the area and we knock on there door and they let us in. It was an AMAZING experience. They were super receptive.They have had some amazing experiences that have helped them turn to god. we asked them if they had ever wondered why they were here and they said YES. And also there 15 year old son had sincerley recently been searching on the internet to find out what happens after this life. Then of course we shared the restoration and there daughter who is extremely smart said she knew docterine was changed after christs death. The spirit was there from the moment we asked if we could share a ten minute message with them. We ended up staying almost an hour. They are a great family. When Elder Bowman shared the first vision the spirit was SOO stong. like very very strong and they all felt it and said they felt it and they all said they would read and pray from the Book of Mormon and ask if it is true. It was an amazing experience. We both walked out of the house just mesmorized. Hopefully something will come of it, if not, later down the road something will come of it to the kids at the very least. We are going back on Wednesday and Friday to teach them again. And they gave us a ton of food on our way out they were very nice.If I were to say I or my companion had absolutely anything to do with that HUGE miracle that would be a lie. Literally we walked out and that was one of the first things that came to my mind. When people are truly prepared, Heavenly Father is the one that does this work. and he does all of it. We also had a lesson with our neighbor in our apartment complex. Holy cow the spirit was very strong there. There was a Columbian missionary there with us and he bore his testimony after the first vision and we couldnt harldy understand what he was saying but the spirit just came into the room and was soo strong and our nieghbor was glued. She said the closing prayer copying the words of the other missionary that was with us and as she did she started crying and was asked "am i supposed to feel like this?" "I get all emotional that is why i dont go to churchs and things" "what is this?" The spirit was very very strong and so recognizabvle and undeniable. It was there and we all felt it. She is reading and praying from the book of Mormon also. We also recieved a training from Elder PAcker of the seventy to pilot a new family history program for the Church called "My Family." As soon as Elder PAcker entered the room the spirit just swooped in and I felt it and felt that he was someone called by God. His trainings were very powerful also. Great week too many experiences to write. Gots to go have a good week! Share the gospel its the best! -Elder Thompson Just share the second story thanks mom and thanks for all the emails! Hope you get better! happy turkewy day! Love, Elder Thompson

Best day of mission so far! Carlsbad, California

Mom,
GREAT Wonderful week! Haha we had some good time. But seriously, this last Thursday was probably one of the BEST days of my mission. It was pretty awesome, i didnt even know what to do! 1st that day at 1oclock we stopped by one of our potentials and BAM we were able to teach her the restoration and she accepted baptism. 2nds just 2 hours later we went to stop by one of our investigators Gus just as a pop in because we werent sure if we were going to be able to teach him or not. But he wasnt there//but his 13yr old brother was so we taught him for the first time and same things. Very very powerful 10 minute lesson afterwich we ivited him to be baptized on the 21st and he accepted. AMAZING! and now we have a family inviting them over this week. 3rd. Right after Gus (seconds later literally) we were pondering wether we should say a quick prayer and thank Heavenly Father or wether we should contact this guy walking towards us. Well we contacted him and he rejected us haha good stuff. Then he turned around two seconds later and said "sorry guys, i'll hear your message" So Bam. On the sidewalk. While teaching him he said he just felt something tell him to listen to us. 4th Our investigator Cole came to mutual and we have an awesome family in the ward that was ON TOP of getting him there and getting everything worked out and he loved the activity. 5th. We were walking out of an active member lesson that the stake is having us give and we contact this family from tawaiin. Two kids specifically, they say we can come back. But we ended up getting some chairs and teaching them right there as directed by the spirit. They understood slightly what we were saying until the 1st vision which they didnt understand however they felt the spirit when my companion shared it and so we invited them as directed to be baptized and BAM. the rest is history.. Also, a month and half ago a member ordered a chinese Book of Mormon. that came in only two days before we met these chinese kids. and they have a chinese member that lives just around the corner. CRAZY miracles All in the same general area!!! The Zone is on fire right now! We arent sure what is going on! It is crazy! Heavenly Father is pouring out blessings we dont even know what to do! just work work work. This isnt me boasting, just sharing the blessings from Heavenly Father, he is the one who does all this WORK. Also, Allan Packer is coming on Wednesday for a meeting! and we got into Ward Council! Great week!
Please dont share that with anyone. If you could just say that we had a wonderful week, our ward council is great and heavenly Father poured out lots of blessings thanks mom! Love your son, Elder Thompson

Powerful Zone Meeting in Carlsbad, California

To Mom:

 Wow! Cool! Its ok sounds like you have been busy! That is awesome we have people moving to Arkansas haha and great about your awesome missionary work.

It has been a great week here in Carlsbad! Too many miracles to count again. I wouldnt know where to start. We are teaching a family of four and we have an awesome return missionary named ryan that drives us everywhere we need to go. We have an amazing zone. We had a very powerful Zone Training Meeting yesterday on finding, teaching, and baptizing! It was also on inviting people to be baptized right after the 1st vision is shared. When they are "pricked in there hearts" as were the people peter taught. We also, at that meeting watched a powerful video for mission presidents from Elder Eyring and Elder Holland on the atonement and missionary work. It was great. This is a great time to be a missionary! So last night we implemented the training by asking a Less Active to come to church right after the 1st vision. It worked. We also ate dinner at President Kendricks house last night that was fun, very ordinary people yet still he shared a message that was very powerful. I have a great companion he is really starting to take the lead. Last Sunday we went to our investigators house however he was not there. His mom is Less Active and the husband has not been a member although he went to BYU and use to go to institute. He has been clear with others that he is a different religion however he has seemed very opened to us and very nice. So we challenged him to read the Book of Mormon because we told his wife while he was in the room how powerful it is. Obviously Heavenly Father had that message prepared just for them. So he is downloading the Gospel library and listening to it on the way to work now hopefully cool stuff. Many a miracle is coming from Heavenly Father. They just keep happening..and happening ...and happening! 

I hope everyone is having a great week and focusing on reaching out to the "one" between now and Christmas! (Elder Ballards talk)

Have a wonderfulday mother and tell jules hi also.

Oh and sorry for money. I may have to by another pair of shoes or something but hopefully not.

Elder Thompson

Great week in Carlsbad

So i just thought i would write this real quick. Its been another great week here in Carlsbad! I have a funny story that I forgot to tell you in Temecula, but we ate dinner with a family in Temecula last night and they reminded me of it haha. When we were in Temecula we were invited into a Deacons Qourom class to share a little about preparing for a mission and then a hilarious thing happened haha. In the Deacons Qoroum there was a Less Active kid that thhe Qoroum had been trying to reach out to. And so in the middle of the class and while we were discussing missionary work i said: So how are we doing on fellowshipping that Less Active kid Hunter? (Something like that) Anyways haha he was in the room. sitting right next to us. HAHA awckward. Good times as a missionary. Now we looked back last night busting up laughing haha good times.

 

 But on a more spiritual note we were able to see some sweet miracles this week. I will share two. But we got a referral from a member in the ward two weeks ago. Her name was Maxine and she watches General Conference and may read the Book of Mormon, however she is still not a member and has not visited with missionaries for probably over a few months. She is an Elderly lady. So we knock...and then we come back and knock...and then we knock again a few days later and we finally catch her but she was sick with the Flu and some sickness that she had had for two weeks straight. She said that not one minute before we knocked on the door she had been in her living room praying asking god to get better or something and then we knocked on the door. Cool. Story but she sadi come back later in the week so we thought alright we will try it out. Well we go back last Friday and she opens the door and she said something like there are my two angels haha. But anyways she said as soon as she opened the door too us a few days earlier she started to feel better and has been feeling better progressivley ever since. So hopefully we will go teach her soon. Heavenly Father knows what he is doing that is pretty cool.

Also Elder Ballard asked that all missionaries and member offer a kneeling prayer together to pray for missionary experiences. So we did that yesterday because our stake has asked us to. Spirit was there. So reach out to the one between now and Christmas.

Have a good week

Wow! Sounds like a great time! By the way, next week is veterans day. So Pday will be on Tuesday. But thanks for the package! Wow! However i probably wont be able to open one everyday. Is that ok? Also, yes I am staying in Carlsbad. well i hope you have a great time with Jules! thanks for the update. tell heer I am going to call her Jolly Rancher Julie. holy cow! Zach is bringing everyone to church! wow!that is great! Great missionary!! glad to hear it went so good also.  Haha plus its no big deal. We walk anyways. Sorry i have had to put money off of the card recently to buy some things. Sorry I will have to buy a new suitcase. Mine did not live. haha BUt things are GREAT!! Keep being awesome missionaries!

Lovest thou,

Elder Thompson