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,

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

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!

Its a small small world!!

Check this out! A ward member where Alex is serving sent me this picture! Said they love Alex and even gave him some Easter Candy. I loved loved loved getting this.

My late Birthday Surprise!

2nd Pday in Temecula

Mom: Thanks for the email and you too! Ohhh mom, what a NICE email!!!! Things are good here in California! Our ward has about 200-300-400 members..not really sure! The weather is nice!! There are a lot of Avocados here from what I have heard but here in Temecula I have only seen one fruit tree....crazy! I am going to start eating a lot healthier and stuff so i can feel better! So I will be eating fruit in memory of my mother! And mom GREAT missionary moment!!! That is sooo cool! Also how is James? We bike ALOT Fri and Sat. WE get the car Mon-Thur and then trade it with other companionship. I am trying to think what else to tell you....Missionary work is pretty cool. It gets pretty dry here though so I had to learn to hydrate more the hard way. But I get to eat better now! All things shall work together for your good! I had a remembrance of the promise in Malachi 3:10 where the lord promises to pour out a blessing upon those who pay tithing. Jordan had told me about Katie. Good Stuff. I'm glad you liked the pictures. Ok so nice talking! Love ya! Oh ya and all of the stuff you sent me with was smart because I have used a lot of it(medicine) OH YA AND I EXPERIENCED MY 1ST EARTHQUAKE YESTERDAY!!! IT WAS SOOOO COOL! it was TINY but we still felt it ha ha it was awesome. California.Awesome So my letters will probably be pretty brief. .I hope that is OK..... :) Starting immediately we will have an adjusted email policy as follows: Missionaries are to write to their families each week and are also authorized to communicate by email with friends, priesthood leaders, and new converts. Chantelle: Thats good a quilt will be cool! I am glad Ethan has a new friend I am sure he will Love that. Have fun at the Thompsons house! And I hope Ethan has a good time at the daycare! Emily: Hi! The ward is probably around 200-300 people! And i couldn't eat all of the cupcakes but I gave one to an Elder that was having his b day in the MTC! Daily Schedule: 6:25 wake up, 6:30 Run 8:00 Personal Study 9:00 Comp Study 10:00 12 weeks program Usually between 11 and 12 we eat lunch and then from 12-5ish we do missionary work and then again from 6-9 pm. Fried chicken! nice! Girl passing out? Crazy! . Perm..NICE and I need a haircut! So, my healthy sister. I have found that when I eat healthier and exercise and stay hydrated I feel better!! Good stuff. And I hope you saw some pictures! EMILY NO MORE PLASMA!!!! And she needs to drink more Gatorade! Oh Emily.. OK gotta go! And snuggles needs some more gummy bears
Jordan Nice! Zach.
Nice! Brianna is pretty awesome! Bye! 

Temecula, California Pictures March 4, 2013

I love him so much.

Provo, Utah February 23, 2013

Temecula, California February 29, 2013

Obviously this is his companion studying in his first apartment :)

Provo Pictures from February 18, 2013

Mission Pictures February 17, 2013

Provo, Utah Temple

 The beautiful Utah mountains.

 Just another picture of the many Alex takes of his camera that don't make sense to me but he was obviously fascinated with the grass?? LOL

Provo Utah Pictures 2-16-13

This is the MTC, or part of it anyway. 

 I stuck this on here because he sent several things like this... Total Alex style.. Always something to see through his eyes with his camera, or at least what he finds interesting.

Provo, Utah Pictures February 13, 2013

These are photos Alex just sent me on an SD card. I am so very very excited to see them!! I don't have a letter or explanation to go with them but they are pretty self explanatory. I am not going to post every single one he sent, but I will post most of them here and a few on our family site as well.

This is our son in law who drove down with Emily (his wife and our daughter) and Chantelle (also our daughter) :) from Idaho to pick up Alex in Utah and take him the rest of the way to the MTC.

 And this is Ethan!! My precious grandson who also traveled along on that trip.

 Chantelle. The Driver.

 I am thinking pretty positively that this was Alex's companion in the MTC :)