Hello from Fairfield!

Hey family!

So a lot of things have happened in the last 10 days! Like a lot haha

I don't even know where to begin! So last week on Tuesday, I went to

Santa Rosa for the day to pick up my new companion Sister Aiton! She

is most recently from Kentucky(I say most recently because her dad is

in the military and they move around a lot) but she has lived all over

the world! She even lived in Guam for a little bit! Her family lived

on the Military Base there! But she is awesome! She is hilarious and

we get along really well! But I feel bad, because this past week has

been the weirdest and craziest week ever and it was her first week on

the mission! So after we became companions we had dinner at the

mission home in Santa Rosa and then we left for Fairfield! Fairfield

is about an hour and a half drive from Santa Rosa so we got home

around 9 o'clock Tuesday night. We live with two other sisters that

are over the YSA Ward! They use to be covering the Cordelia 1st Ward

and the Ysa, but they split it up into two separate areas so now we

cover the family Ward and the other sisters(sister Ward and sister

Eyden) cover the YSA! So last week we did a lot of getting to know the

members, finding, and getting to know our area! I am proud to say that

we have not gotten lost yet haha! But Fairfield is soooo different

than Petaluma. Petaluma was a small cow town and Fairfield is a huge

sketchy city. Haha so it's different. But I love it!

So we had some crazy things happen this past weekend. So Elder Hemula

of the seventy came to our mission this weekend and spoke to us! It

was an amazing experience being able to meet him and have him speak to

us, but he threw down on us. We all felt rebuked after he spoke to us,

but in a good way haha. He spoke to us about what it means to be

"sober" and went on to tell us that it's something that our mission

needs to work on. It was an awesome conference and I have a strong

desire to improve and become better! That conference with him was on

Monday so that why pday was moved to today! But yesterday, I had the

opportunity to go to Santa Rosa for the day and attend MLC(mission

leadership council) and hear from elder Hemula again! Since I'm an STL

now I attend MLC once a month and we had the privilege of having elder

Hemula and this one! We discussed what we learned and got from the

conference with him and now what we as leaders are going to do now to

help our zones improve and become sober missionaries. Elder Hemula

talked a lot about finding desire too. So now as an STL I am preparing

to teach at zone meeting on Friday a long with the zone leaders about

what we can do with everything elder Hemula discussed with us! I am

really excited and I have preparing a lot for it! Lots of prayer and

study! Two of my favorites things now!

But the craziest thing that happened this week was that Sister Eyden

went home yesterday. So now we are in a trio with Sister Ward and we

are covering both the Cordelia 1st Ward and the YSA again! Sister Ward

is awesome so I am so excited to be in a trio with her and sister

Aiton! Sister Ward has been out on the mission for about seven months

now! I remember when she came out on the mission! Crazy how fast time

flies on the mission!

So I'll tell you about some of the people we are working with in this

area! We are still trying to meet everyone and get to know everyone

but I will tell you who I know so far! So we have an investigator

named Ally! She is 16 years old and we were able to set a baptismal

date for her last week for the 19th of March! She really likes the

church so hopefully we will be able to continue to help her strengthen

her testimony and help prepare her for baptism! We also pick up a new

investigator a couple of night ago named Shirley! Shes a lady in her

50s with a 15 year old daughter named Nelly! She was a referral we

received from Mormon.org and she is golden! We were able to teach her

the entire restoration on Monday night and she loved it! She wants us

to continue to teach her and she hoping for us to be able to teach her

daughter as well! We are also trying to start teaching the Besir

family! They were a referral from a family in the Ward and the Besirs

are also golden! We haven't been able to teach them yet because we

just went by on Sunday and they asked us to come back later this week,

but they want to learn and they are so prepared! I can't wait to be

able to teach them about the gospel! Also, we have investigators in

the YSA now! We had a Skype lesson with our investigator Heather this

morning actually! She is 30 and her bother joined the church a few

years ago and now she's interested in learning more! We had a really

good lesson with her! We are also teach a 21 year old boy named

Lindon! Right now he is praying about what date he wants to get

baptized on! There's a lot of good things happening over here in

Fairfield! The field is white all ready to harvest!

I love this gospel so much! I know that this church is true and that

we are truly happier as we live this gospel faithfully! I love you all

and hope you have a great week!

Here's my new address!

450 Pittman Rd. #231

Fairfield, CA 94534

Love always, Sister Thompson 🌻

Me and Steve

Cynthia!

Amelia!

And the "back corner crew" (because we all sat in the back corner of

the chapel each Sunday!)

Saying goodbye to the Gomes family

Sister Oler

Wasdens

Schmidts

Horners

Nana

Terribilinis

Pitzaks

Dixons

Joanne

Last pday at the beach

Emily harmon(left on her mission last week to chile)

In Santa Rosa at transfers. With the fantastic four. Hermana reidhead,

elder beeston, elder frodsham

The famous giant hand in downtown Santa Rosa!

Sister Aiton and I!

Our district!