May 20, 2013
Dear Mom and Dad
Glad I got this opportunity to have a few minutes to email tonight!
I really enjoyed the call as well! I can't believe it's my last one!
Glad everyone else enjoyed it too! Next time we talk it will be in
person :) Wow Jordan Lee is home time flies, feels like just yesterday
we both got our calls on the same day! Cool experience he had with the
kid, I wonder if the kid realizes the significance of that.
Being assistant to the president is a very very different thing. A
lot of the mission rules don't really apply to us.. bed time, internet,
driving, calling, area, schedule.. it's all different. we have a lot
of privileges that help up to be able to do our work more effectively.
We basically help make all the decisions in the mission, transfers, and
policies and stuff. We are constantly driving to the airport to pick
people up and drop others off. We give trainings, go on exchanges with
missionaries all over the mission, and who knows what else, the
responsibilities are endless but so fun! I get to know every missionary
pretty well and work with all sorts of people. Last week we went on a
tour of the orange district which included areas called: Mudgee, Dubbo,
Orange, Cowra, and Bathurst and other areas in between. Look some of
those up on google maps, they are bush as! Cowra was my favorite place
though.. I think I might request
to finish my mission there :) This week, starting tomorrow morning to
Friday night we are going on a tour of the south coast of NSW! We'll be
going to areas like: Wollongong, Nowra, Ulladulla, Narooma, Merimbula
and also Canberra. checking out the chapels and going on exchanges with
the missionaries there.
Today we got to go to a big zone P-day back at Dee Why beach in my
old area Manly :) we played on the beach and stuff, it was really fun!
After that we went to the family home evening in the City YSA branch, it
was really fun. We had missionaries act out the plan of salvation and
we also learned about the life of Sister Monson in wake of her passing
away. After, we played charades and had pancakes and ice cream! I got to
meet this girl named Gyin from Taiwan, she is getting baptized on 8
June and she doesn't think she is ready. Some missionaries were talking
to her and encouraging her and I was there as well. I got the chance to
talk to her one on one for like 20 minutes and went over some of the
baptism interview questions with her and also taught her about the
covenant of baptism very very simply because her english is not very
great. I think her teaching process had somewhat lacked simplicity so
she may seem overwhelmed. I invited her to
make a few commitments that will help her reach baptism and afterward
she thanked me with a big smile saying that she had been helped a lot by
that conversation. I really felt the spirit as I talked with her and
knew that it had brought comfort and peace to her heart and
understanding to her mind. She said she is going to go ponder about it
all. I know that as she ponders, her seed of faith is going to grow :)
it's amazing how far a good ponder session can take you. I'm grateful
for the spirit guiding me, helping me know what to say and do in order
to help her tonight. I love teaching, it's my favorite thing about my
mission. teaching, teaching, teaching! I love it!
Hey, now that I think of it.. why don't you just include that
little experience that I just shared as my part in the newsletter! :)
That'll work quite nicely! And make my picture one of the ones with the
waterfall!
Anyway! If there's anything I missed, let me know! I gotta go for now. Love you guys!!!
Love, Elder Thompson
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