What a Great Week!!

Hello family! :)

This week seemed super long, but it was an awesome week! I'll tell

about our investigators right now and then I will tell you some of the

stuff we were able to do this week!

So the Fifita family! We had great lessons with them this week and the

kids are really opening up to us! But their dad is getting in the

way...the whole family was ready and excited to come to church

yesterday, but the dad showed up right before they left and started

yelling at Ulita and the kids. One of the boys, Fa, the fourteen year

old stood up for himself and told his dad that he liked the mormon

church and he wanted to go, but the dad just got more mad and didn't

allow anyone to go to church. When Ulita told us this story, it broke

our hearts! We had asked the dad a couple of weeks ago if it was ok

that we were teaching his kids and that they were getting baptized and

he said it was ok with him. But he definitely not ok with it. So now

we aren't sure what to do. The family wants to come to church and be

baptized but the father won't allow it. Ulita has been trying to file

for divorce but it will take time. So for right now we will continue

to teach them and pray for them!

Anna and Antonio! Camilo's kids! They are doing so good! They are

GETTING BAPTIZED THIS SATURDAY at 11am! They were interviewed for

baptism on Saturday and they passed! They are both so excited for

their baptisms this weekend and so are we! Also, the coolest part is

that Camilo will be baptizing them! It has been such an amazing

experience being able to teach the Gomes family! And soon they will

all be members of the church! Pray that everything will go well this

weekend at their baptism!

So this past week was incredible! We had a world wide missionary

broadcast on Wednesday morning where different general authorities

spoke! It was so cool to think that all missionaries all over the

world were watching the broadcast at the exact same time! Such a cool

experience! Also, Sister Nelson and I sang in sacrament meeting

yesterday! We sang because it was a girls farewell in our ward! We

sang "What Heaven Sees in You" and it turned out really well! So well

that the stake president asked us to sing at stake conference in a

couple of weeks! Haha it should be fun!

Other than that, this week was super awesome! Sister Nelson and I

ALWAYS laugh so hard everyday and we always pray that it will be the

best day ever! And it always it! Know that I am doing great no having

the time of my life serving the Lord here in Petaluma!

Love always, Sister Thompson 🌻