Thank you for all the birthday wishes and for all of your prayers. I am really thankful for all of the support that I have had this far on my mission. Wow I now have 2 decades and a year here in "this thing we call life". I am starting feel old... on the mission. We are officially the oldest generation here on the mission, but I am supper happy to reflect on all of our memories and for what lies in the future on my mission.
For those of you that do not know I had a change of area two weeks ago. I am now serving in Atlixco with a new missionary fresh off the bus. His name is Elder Garcia and comes from Nicaragua (if you all could pray for his country and family that would be great!). Elder Garcia has the excitement of every new missionary and is ready to work hard, which is something that we need because we are opening a new area.
We opened up our carpeta de area (book of registers of members and people getting to know the church) on our first day and it was empty. We immediately hit the streets to start filling it with a lot of contacts. The blessings and miracles that we received in this first week were amazing. God placed many people in our path that seem to be pretty prepared to receive the gospel.
There was one time where we were walking looking for a address and we passed by a joven of about 14 years. After walking about 10 feet we immediately decided to turn back and contact this joven. His name is Isaac and we learned that he is trying to build a stronger relationship with God. In our first lesson he said he started feeling happy and pressure in his chest, which is the Holy Ghost helping him to receive an answer. We have also talked to his brother and sister, who are also interested in the Gospel. If you all could pray for his parents so that they can be receptive to the Gospel as well, you would help us out a lot.
We are hoping to take some of the people that we contacted this week to church so that they can begin their journey to baptism. We have a goal to baptize 5 people this change (in 5 weeks)
Other news!!!! The hermana Elizabeth (someone I had the opportunity to baptize) from Tehuacan is going to the temple to get sealed to her family. She has invited me to accompany them. I am so happy that she and all of her family got baptized. It is going to be a special day with them in the temple.
I love you all and I hope that you have great weeks!!
Elder Thompson
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