Someone He Can Count On

Hello family and friends!

I love being a missionary.

There is truly nothing better than being close to the spirit everyday.

There's a phrase from a song called Someone He Can Count On that I've

been thinking about a lot lately. "I can't think of anything more

sweet than to follow where the spirit leads and be the answer to

someone else's prayer." I love that. I love knowing that we can follow

the spirit and be the answer to someone's prayer. It is such a sweet

experience following the spirit.

This week was awesome! Our investigator Heather in the YSA is

progressing so well! I'm not sure if I told you this already, but

Heather doesn't live in our mission boundaries. She lives down in

Fremont, CA which is south of Oakland. That's why we've been teaching

her over Skype. Her brother, Jordan, lives up here and attends the YSA

here and he wanted missionaries to start teaching his sister with him

there. So we usually skype with Heather and Jordan also skypes in. But

Heather is doing so good! She always keeps her commitments and she is

praying right now about baptism! But I think this week we are going to

hand her off to the missionaries in Fremont. It's going to be an

awesome day for them! Haha getting handed an investigator that's

almost ready for baptism! We are so excited for Heather and we hope

the hand off will go well!

We also met with Zayna this week! She is a 21 year old girl that was

just baptized back in November! She is incredible! Probably the

coolest person I've ever met haha but the church actually filmed her

conversion process! They are making new missionary training videos(for

those who are serving missions, The District videos) in the Tempe,

Arizona mission and Zayna was living there for school when she got

baptized! So they filmed all her lessons, her baptism, and her

experiences in the church! She moved back to Fairfield after she was

baptized and now we are finishing her lessons! Luckily, we aren't

being filmed haha I don't think I could focus if there was a camera

filming the lesson! Anyways, we met with her this week and she is

doing so good! She's having a hard time at home, but she is relying so

much on her savior to carry her through this hard time! It's

incredible seeing her faith and her love of this gospel! She's

awesome!

We picked up two new investigators this week! It was a miracle! We got

a text randomly from a lady who use to meet with missionaries asking

if we could teach her again! Her name is Shirley she is a cute little

Philippine lady in her 50's and her 29 year old niece lives with her

so we are teaching both of them right now! They came and did service

at the food bank with us on Thursday and then they had is over for

dinner Friday night where we were able to teach them the restoration

and invite them to be baptized! They both accepted and committed to

read the Book of Mormon! Shirley is the cutest little lady ever! Most

of her extended family are members of the church so she has a big

support group for taking the lessons and joining the church! The only

hard thing is that Shirley works A TON. So it's going to be hard to

find time for us to be able to teach her, but God will provide a way!

Some other highlights of the week were going to the Jelly Belly

factory for pday last week, doing service for an older lady in our

ward(we helped her paint parts of her house), going on my first

exchange as an STL with Hermana Mendez, having amazing dinners at

members homes(I have a new found love for Indian food, Thai food, and

Greek food since being on my mission), attending Break the Fast for

the YSA Ward yesterday(man, I've missed being in a YSA Ward!), and

just having an awesome time with my companions Sister Ward and Sister

Aiton! We are all such good friends and we are always laughing and

making mission memories! I love it!

I have learned so much on my mission thus far and I am so grateful for

it. I'm changing everyday as I seek to do my Fathers will. I have come

to love studying and sharing the gospel of Jesus Christ. I love the

fact that I get to wake up every morning and put on my name tag and

put Christs name over my heart. I love that I get to share a message

of joy and peace with others and then watch as the joy floods into

their life as they partake of this gospel. There is nothing as sweet

as the fruits of this gospel! I love you all and hope you have an

amazing week! Don't forget to always follow the spirit!

Love always, Sister Thompson 🌻

Service

Fancy Greek dinner at the Biggs home

Us just having fun before bed haha

View from our apartment on a rainy day

Just cuz we wanted to take pictures haha and I did sister aitons

makeup this morning. #beautyschooldropout haha