First off I thank you for sending me the awesome package with Claudia. It helped me out a ton and the snacks were super good. I also had a cool experince using the package in a lesson. After we had left Claudia and her family we went to a cita with the Familia Trifundio (those two girls that we baptised named Esmeralda and Alondra). We decided to recover tithing to help them understand better what they could do with money that they earn. We recieved inspiration to use the goldfish from the package as a representation of money to better explain what tithing is. We gave everyone in the family different numbers of Gold fishes and we then asked them to sort out 10 percent of their goldfish. They really liked how simple everything was and how tasty the Gold fish were. Pretty soon the whole family were open and laughing during the entire lesson, which made it one of my favorite lessons that I have had with them. It was a cool little experince that taught me that God will always give us a gift so that we can bless those around us.
We also had our zone conference this week and it was super great to catch up a little bit with Elder Cruz again (my companion from Huejotzingo). My favorite part of the Conference was talking about the 3 pioneers from the Sweetwater Rescue. It is the story of 3 men that go to rescue a pioneer company trapped in bitter winter conditions. These three men find the company have frozen to death and travel with them until they get to a frozen river. The exhuasted band could hardly stand and much less cross a freezing river on foot. These three men then decided to carry each person one by one over this frozen river sacrificing their energy and warmth to help others. Eventually all three died of hypothermia but they had saved the company. I hope that I can follow their examples of sacrifice. This is a true example of Christlike love.
I hope that you all have a great great week sorry that the email is so short.
Elder Thompson
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