Week 7!

Hello family!!

So normally transfers would be happening tomorrow, but this transfer

is a 7 week transfer! So we will be finding out this weekend who is

staying and who is going! I'm really grateful it's been a 7 week

transfer because I love where I am right now! I love my companions and

I love this area! So here are some highlights from this week!

On Tuesday, during district meeting I taught about prayer and the

importance of prayer and teaching our investigators to pray. I did a

cute little activity as my commitment(I have way to much fun teaching

haha) but I had everyone in the district put a penny in their shoes. I

called it a prayer penny. So every time they felt the penny, they had

to offer a silent prayer. I also put a penny in my shoe, and let me

tell you, my day went so much better! I felt the penny a lot

throughout the day, but I found that there was so much more I was

grateful for and it just made me realize that everything I have or do

is because of Heavenly Father. It was great being able to stay in good

contact with Him throughout my day! Everyone in the district loved it

also. I think I might put a penny in every pair of shoes I own! After

district meeting, I went on exchanges with Sister Aiton! She is

seriously the cutest and I just love her! She definitely came

pre-trained! She is the most ungreen greenie I've ever met! We sent

the majority of the day in Suisun City!

On Wednesday we had an awesome skype lesson with our YSA investigator

Lyndon! We taught him about the gospel of Jesus Christ and the spirit

was so strong during the lesson! He is literally the definition of a

golden investigator! We ask him questions and he will give us the

preach my gospel answer. He is so great! We set a baptismal date with

him! For April 30th! We think it might be pushed up earlier, because

Lyndon is just so ready, but we will see!

Thursday we went to Rio Vista for the day! Missionaries haven't lived

in Rio Vista for about six months now, so they are closing down the

apartment, so our zone went out there and helped clear out and clean

the apartment! Rio Vista is about a 45 minute drive away from where we

live and the drive out there is GORGEOUS! Northern California is

seriously SO pretty! I love it here!

On Friday I went to Santa Rosa for the day for MLC! It was such an

awesome meeting! I rode up with Sister Bear, she's from Sugar City,

ID! I love sister bear! So we left my apartment around 6:15am because

it takes about an hour with no traffic to get to Santa Rosa, and last

MLC we left at 6:30am and showed up at the Bagder Building at 8:58am

and MLC starts at 9. So we left a little bit earlier this time just in

case, but we ended up getting to Santa Rosa at 7:30am haha so we were

an hour and a half early this time! Haha we went out to breakfast and

then went and stayed with the Santa Rosa sisters for the rest of the

time! Haha we got a good laugh out of that! But MLC was SOOO good! I

love hearing from President and Sister Wright and the assistants!

The generals women's conference was so good! I was definitely in tears

from the choir! I loved that! Unfortunately, we didn't have any

investigators there, they were all with family this Easter weekend.

But the Fairfield 1st elders had an investigator there so we sat with

her! Her name is Daphne and she just moved to the USA from Haiti! She

speaks French and she is currently learning English so it's fun

talking with her! I was able to say hi and introduce myself in French

when I met her a couple weeks ago for the first time and she got so

excited and started speaking French to me, but I couldn't keep up.

Haha she is so cute and we all love her!

Easter was so good! Once again, we didn't have any investigators

there. Which was sad, but they were all with their families so I guess

that's ok haha. I loved all the talks and musicals numbers in both

wards! I love the spirit of Easter! We have two dinner appointments

which is always a great thing! And we spent the rest of the day

visiting less actives who didn't have any family with them! Overall,

it was a great Easter!

I hope you all have an awesome week! Spring is here! Take time to not

only smell the roses, but also the spiritual roses in your life! I

love you all!

Love always, Sister Thompson 🌻

Sister Aiton and I in Suisun City!

Suisun City!

Dinner at Seymore's and their little girls wanted to wear our name tags.

Drive out to Rio Vista!

Service at rio Vista!

Rio Vista!

Sister Bear and I showing up early!

Service at a less actives house!

This cute girls name is Scarlet. She is the granddaughter of a less

active! She is adorable!

Members took these pictures of us! Love this Ward!

Pictures from our hike today at Rockville Park!

Hallelujah!

Hey family!

Oh man, what a great week! I love being a missionary! I could do

missionary work for the rest of my life. Which I plan on doing!

#EveryMemberAMissionary

To start off, district meeting this week was awesome! I taught about

teaching repentance and baptizing converts! I love how simple our

purpose is as missionaries! We are to teach repentance and baptize

converts! We also did a companionship trust activity during district

meeting haha Sister Aiton was blind folded and I had to guide her

through a "laser field"(a hallway with yarn taped across it)! I am so

bad at those kinds of activities! Haha if it was real lasers, sister

Aiton definitely would be missing a few limbs haha! We also had

interviews with President Wright after district meeting! I absolutely

adore President Wright! I could literally sit there and talk to him

for hours! My interview with him was great and I ended up talking to

sister wright afterwards for a while! I love President and Sister

Wright SO much! After interviews, I went on exchanges with Hermana

Reidhead in her area! It's crazy, so Hermana Reidhead was my first STL

on the mission and now I will probably be her last STL! I look up to

Hermana Reidhead so much so it was crazy for me to be the one offering

training to her! We had a great time on exchanges and we were both

edifices and uplifted by the end! I have loved being a Sister Training

Leader! It's such a humbling experience being able to help and serve

the sisters here. It's hard knowing everything that someone is

struggling with, but I have learned how to truly rely on the spirit

when it comes to helping someone through their trials. Often times, I

can't sympathize with people because my struggles are a lot different

than theirs, but Heavenly Father knows exactly what they need and He

sends His spirit to work through me to help them. It's amazing being

that instrument for Him. I want to live my life in such a way that I

am always a worthy instrument for Heavenly Father. I want to always

live worthy of the spirit.

We had another two amazing lessons with Ally this week! We have come

up with so many cute little games and activities to help her learn!

And they are working! She is progressing so much and we have set a

baptismal date for her for April 16th! Ally and her mom came to church

yesterday and loved it! Pray that she will continue to progress and

make it to her baptismal date in April!

We handed Heather off this week to the Fremont sisters :( it was a sad

day, but we have such a good feeling about Heather! She is definitely

going to be baptized soon! Hopefully we can keep in contact with her

and skype into her baptism!

On Friday night the stake put on an adult dinner dance and we got to

go because our investigators Shirley and Jessica came! It was a 50s

themed dance and it was so cute! We helped serve the food to everyone

too so we had aprons on and diner hats and we served everyone their

food! Never thought I'd be doing that on my mission! Haha after

everyone ate, they turned on 50s music and everyone started dancing!

We weren't allowed to dance, but we had a fun time watching! Shirley

and Jessica had a good time! Then on Saturday night, they put on a

youth stake dance with the same theme, and guess what? We got to go!

Haha this time it was because the person who had signed up to feed us

that night forgot that she said she would help serve food at the

dance, so we went and helped her and also ate there! Now speaking of

things I never thought I would do on my mission, at the youth dance,

they had it set up like a diner so we took their orders and then when

it was ready, we would run the food from the kitchen to the gym and

yell out the name on the order. Haha so picture three sister

missionaries running to and from the kitchen and the gym, yelling out

names like 5 or 6 times until the kid finally heard us. We were

laughing so hard and the kids were laughing too! It was hilarious! We

only stayed at that dance until we had finished dinner and then we

left, but it was a great time!

So at church yesterday, in the Cordelia 1st Ward, we performed a

special musical number! Sister Aiton played piano, I sang, and sister

Ward turned pages haha it turned out really well! Then in the YSA Ward

our investigator Lyndon came! Yesterday was my first time actually

meeting Lyndon because he works a lot and he had been pretty sick the

last couple of weeks, but he is awesome! He's 22 and currently going

to school at Sac State and in ROTC. He had a really good friend in

high school that was Mormon and that's what sparked his interest in

the church! After sacrament meeting we pulled him and a member aside

and taught him a lesson! We taught the plan of salvation and it was an

incredible lesson! Lyndon has such a strong desire to learn and he has

such an amazing spirit about him! He wants to be baptized so he is

currently praying about a date to be baptized on! He is so golden!

Easter is coming up this week! What a perfect time to study, reflect

upon, and remember our Savior! I am so so SOOO grateful for the

Atonement of Jesus Christ. Wow. What an incredible thing He did for

us! I want to share with you the lyrics from the song I sang in

sacrament meeting yesterday. The song is called "Still Believe".

I haven't seen His face, But I have seen His miracles

I haven't heard His voice, But His spirit speaks to my heart

I haven't felt His hands, But I have felt His peace

And blessed are those who haven't seen

And still believe that He lives

And still believe that He walked upon the earth

And though my faith is just a seed, I still believe

I didn't walk with Him, But each day He's here by my side

I didn't watched as He healed, But His love has changed my life

I didn't see the cross, But I know it was for me

And blessed are those who haven't seen

And still believe that He lives

And still believe that He walked upon the earth

And though my faith is just a seed, I still believe

I haven't seen His eyes, But someday He'll look into mine

And if He bids me come, I will worship at His feet

For blessed are those, who haven't seen

And still believe

I know the Jesus Christ lives and loves each of us! May His love and

spirit touch us all this week as we reflect upon His life and His

ministry! I invite you to check out the church's Easter video

Hallelujah on Mormon.org! Then share it with someone! #Hallelujah I

love you all and hope you have an amazing week!

Love always, Sister Thompson 🌻

District Meeting Activities

Marsh lands in Suisun City

St. Patrick's day dinner at the Thomas's! Corn beef and cabbage of

course! We are in the backyard and took pictures before! Aaron is

their 14 year old son with downs and he's hilarious. I'm also holding

their dog Kevin. Haha

Pictures from the 50s dance! Shirley and Jessica

Lyndon and us after church yesterday!

Thanks to a loving mother, we got Carl's Jr. for lunch this week!

We got to go on the Travis Air Force Base this week!

cute photo shoot we had!