Lima Law

Wow so this week was exciting! To start off I was transfered! I found out on Monday that I was going to be transferred to Santa Isabel - which is on the other side of the mission again - actually really close to where I was serving in Torreblanca. Only that I am here as a zone leader now. My new companion is Elder Mendez - he´s from Guayaquil Ecuador . my third companion from Ecuador. And wow there´s a lot of stuff to do!

Getting into my new area I found that it is a lot smaller. Literally there is one street we can stand on and see three of the four limits of our area. I thought that that was going to make things a little harder but what happened is that there are a ton of people willing to listen here. It also helps that my companion (who is also ending his mission in February) is a contacting machine. He has a lot of faith in people and I´ve been learning a few pointers from him.

Ok so yesterday we were going to go to a baptismal interview for one of the district leaders (who is Elder Plummer from my group) we were hopping in a mototaxi, which is the normal things. Except the mototaxi we hopped in was a little beat up and sketchy (this taxi was a motorcycle converted into a three-wheeler). Elder Mendez got in all normal but as I went to hop in two things happened: the first was that my pants got caught on a piece of metal that was sticking out and ripped, the second was that the door of the mototaxi literally just fell off. So my companion is in the mototaxi and I´m just standing there in the street with ripped pants (it wasn´t a big rip) and the door of this mototaxi. It was the funniest thing we couldn´t stop laughing the whole way to the other chapel.

One of my favourite experiences this week was a contact we did. My companion was contacting someone in the street and while he was contacting I went to contact a Dad walking with his two little kids. What it turned out to be was an old investigator who was listening to the sister missionaries in another ward and attended church for about two months! Now that he lives here we gave him a tour of the chapel and he told us that he wants to come back this Sunday. He is living with his partner right now so they need to get married. But we met his partner the next day and they both came to church for all three hours on Sunday.

As well we had an interesting experience of an old investigator we visited who lives really high up in the hilly part of our area (my area has hills again) she had come to church about two weeks ago but then when we went to visit her she started to critizise somethings she had seen at church. We expressed to her that people are not perfect and if we go to church with a Spirit of humility and prayer the Spirit will teach us. SHe said she would try to come this Sunday. So we decided to give her a call on Sunday morning to remind her to come and she told us that she was busy and wouldn´t be able to come. Then to my surprise I was walking out of sacrament meeting (it had been the primary presentation this sunday) and I saw her leaving her son in primary! I went to ask her how was church and she said that she had arrived and had seen the whole presentation. We went to her house at night and had a really good lesson with her and her partner who has recently moved back in. I don´t know exactly what happened but I know it was not me. It was the Spirit.

So there are a lot of things to do here! New missionaries to get to know and help out and a lot of things to do here in our area! I´m looking forward to it and also the new light the world campaign! The new videos are super awesome you should share them with everybody!

Love you guys a lot,

Elder Thompson

Last photo with Elder Fernandez

What a lovely dog