Nathan has his MISSION CALL

How is it going everybody?!! I am doing great

Lunes:

We had our activity de zona today. We did a whole bunch of different minute to win it games. Like eating pan without hands, grabbing random objects from around the church, coing spinning and stopping, and many more... I got to play a game where you have to kick your shoes onto the table and answer questions while a balloon is being filled with air above my head until it explodes. It was pretty fun. We also had another lesson with Oscar one of our investigators that has some trouble progressing.

 

Martes:

We had our entrevistas with presidente today! We went into the Sumo Consejo cuarto in our church to have the interview and before I could say anything Pte Stellmon said, "I have something for you" I was not sure what to expect... Maybe I had done something wrong... or cambios de emergencia. After letting me sit and sweat for a bit he whipped out his cellphone to shoe me an email from my mom. It was super cool to hear that Nathan is going to Guatemala. I sitting grinning from ear to ear the whole interview and for the rest of the day. We also had the opportunity to talk about where I can progress and improve, which was super cool. We visited a menos activo named Omar when it started pouring here with rain and hail. Luckilyit stopped when we headed out to teach another person. We had another lesson with Francisco trying to get him prepared for baptism.

Miercoles:

We had intercambios with the Leaders de Zona, los Gonzalez (They are both named Elder Gonzalez jaja) today after the junta de distrito. I had a super good day in our area with Elder Gonzalez. We found some new people to teach. Especialmente la hija de Maria named jeovana. She is not to young like her sister samantha nor to old like her mom to understand our message. She could learn our message rapidly and be an example for her family. We also had an entrevista with Oscar, who didnt pass his interview for questions with his testimony. We are hoping to fortalize his testimony a little more so that he can be baptised soon. We also got to talk to our deep doctrine investigator named Ricardo. While Elder Gonzalez and Oscar were doing the interview Ricardo showed me his huge timeline of the Geneologia de Adan hasta quien sabe. It was super cool. We are hoping to focus in a little bit more in our studies because he likes to talk alot about his ideas like dinosaurs the lost tribes and all of those shenanigans.

Jueves:

Today was our last lesson with Emerica. When we arrived to teach Humberto and Emerica Humberto just looked at us and said that they are having family problems and Emerica would not be able to see us anymore. So for our last lesson we testified of the Libro de Mormon and how it will help her in her life if she reads it. We also shared the promise in the back of the book to help her realize its importance. It was super sad, but God has a plan for everyone. Hopefully she can find her way back to the gospel. We still plan to work with Humberto to help keep him happy and active. The rest of the day was a little hard because all of our citas fell.

Viernes:

We taught our golden investigators today named Elizabeth and Francisco. The first time Elizabeth went to the church she felt it was true. Also throughout our lessons she is constantly asking inspired questions that lead to the next point in the lesson. At the end of todays lesson we tried to set a date with them for the 6 Abril and they were a little bit confused at first why it was so soon. So we invited them to pray about it and testified that they could be ready for this Fecha. Elizabeth asked, "Why are you so sure? You look like you know something we dont". We then explained how we can recieve revelation when we are planning for our investigators, but they still have the opportunity to excersise their agency and ask God. Super cool experience!!

Sabado:

We had another lesson with a new that Elder Gonzalez and I found named Angel. His sister was also able to join us for the lesson named Angela. It was a pretty good lesson and they have a lot of potential como investigadores. If you could all pray for them in this next week I know it will help them alot. We also had the opportunity to go to a few citas with Hmo Andreas, who is such an example to me because we just showed up on his doorstep and asked him to come with us on the fly and he just said let me change my shirt and lets go. We had a cool lesson with him with a less active member named Almachio and his esposa. They havent gone to church for years because of some ofensive act a member did. There are so many menos activos like this. It is a testimony to me that we need to be more cautious as members in what we do and also not hold grudges for small things in the eternal perspective. Hmo Andreas shared a quote from Howard w. Hunter that helped alot I think he said, "Brothers and Sisters please forgive us and please come back... please come back into the church"

Domingo:

We had lunch with Oscar Brito today, whcih was super fun. Oscar Brito just barely married his wife 3 months ago, was an actor and a model, and now has a dancing academy. It was fun talking to him and his wife about there life experience and eating super good food. We also had another day when our citas fell through once again.

I had a super great week and I just want to say Felicidades Elder Thompson se que vas a ser un poderoso misionero en Guatemala. Tu eres mi mejor amigo.

Have a fantistic Week

Elder Thompson

(Pictures- Zona actividad, hamburgesas that tasted like home and almost made me cry, soccer in the dark and burning a camisa with our vecino Omar exmisionero)