Happy Almost December!

Hey everyone!

Happy thanksgiving! It was so fun hearing the stories from

thanksgiving! Sounds like I have to work on my bowling skills before I

get home so I get beat dad! Thanksgiving on the mission field was

awesome! But SO MUCH FOOD. Haha we had a thanksgiving lunch with the

Terribilini family at 1pm and then we had a thanksgiving dinner at 4pm

with the Jorgenson family! Brother Jorgenson is a retired gourmet

chef, so dinner was DELICIOUS. It was so fun being around big families

and just enjoying each other's company! We did service at Sister

Flemmings farm thanksgiving morning and in between meals we did weekly

planning! So it was an awesome day!

So let me tell you what happen this week, who my cute new companion

is, and how everyone is doing! So on Tuesday morning, Sister Jordan

and the hermanas took off for Santa Rosa for the transfer meeting and

I stayed here in Petaluma and Sister Ngawharau was my companion for

the day!! I love sister Ngawharau! She is also training so we spent

the day together and then headed up to Santa Rosa Wednesday morning to

pick up our new companions! Being companions with sister Ngawharau was

definitely a tender mercy for me. I was really nervous about training

so sister Ngawharau was able to give me advice all day and help calm

my fears! Plus, since we lived together for three months, it was like

spending the day with an old friend! We had so much fun being together

again! On Wednesday morning, we left early because we went and had

breakfast with the Groesbecks in Santa Rosa! The Groesbecks are the

Rays cousins! I love the Groesbeck family! Then we went to the church

and received training from president and sister Wright and then we got

our greenies! My new companion in Sister Nelson! She is from a small

town in Wyoming called Worland! Her mom actually grew up in Preston,

ID and went to Preston High! So dad, do you know the Hatch family?

Rustin or Heidi Hatch? Well if you do, Heidi Hatch is Sister Nelsons

mom! Anyways, Sister Nelson is AWESOME! She is so willing to try

everything and to jump right into missionary work! She's a little

quiet in lessons right now, but she's warming up! Her and I get along

really well! We laugh ALL THE TIME and I love it! Couldn't have asked

for a better daughter!

On Sister Nelsons first day, we had dinner with the Schmidt family and

they made a greenie dinner for her! They put green food coloring in

all of her food! It was awesome! We also both tried oysters for the

first time there! Not too bad, but not my favorite haha. Also on her

first day, her first contact told us that we were weeds and that if we

weren't doing what we were doing that we would be flowers, but no, we

were weeds in his eyes. Haha sister Nelson got a kick out of that so

right there I knew this was going to be a great transfer! It's so fun

showing someone he ropes of missionary work! There's so many things to

teach and talk about! But sister Nelson is doing awesome and we are

having a blast! She went on her first Tracting experience on Saturday

and it was great haha she got to see what it's like to be rejected,

accepted, ignored, etc. But she really loves being a missionary, so

it's going to be a good transfer!

Our investigators are doing good! Camilo's kids are still on schedule

to get baptized on the 12th of December! And get this, Ultia called us

this morning and she told us that she wants her and her kids to be

baptized BEFORE Christmas!!! WHAT.?! That just doesn't happen! So now

we are on full throttle to get them ready for baptism!! We are seeing

miracles left and right here in Petaluma!

Everything is awesome! We are working hard and loving every second of

it! Have a great week everyone!

Love always, Sister Thompson 🌻