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Hey friends and family!!

I hope you all had an awesome week! I know I did! Haha but I am

stressed out of my mind right now! Sister Stromberg and I have a lot

on our plates right now, so we are just a little stressed and tired.

And by a little, I mean A LOT haha. I'll give you a run down of our

past week and the week to come!

Monday: First PDay of this transfer and it was EPIC. Haha since they

joined two zones together this transfer, we all met in Vacaville for

PDay! 25 missionaries! It was SO fun! We played basketball for the

majority of the afternoon(and by we, I mean me and all the elders

haha)! The elders gave me the nickname of Sister Buckets haha hitting

3's all day! Speaking of 3's...LETS GO WARRIORS! Anyways, I also ended

up getting a gnarly bruise on one of my ankles by the end of playing

basketball because I vaguely remember an elder accidentally kicking

it. Haha we went to a lesson with the Chambers later that night and

Sister Chambers was the one who pointed out my swollen ankle to me! It

was funny. The lesson with the Chambers went well! We did a cute

gospel steps activity with the kids and gave them all CTR rings. I

love that family so much!

With the Chambers!

We are all about matching outfits haha so here our random pictures for the day!

Tuesday: District meeting in the morning! Sister Stromberg and I team

taught about talking to everyone and teaching on the spot lessons in

1-3 minutes! It was great! We did a fun activity in the gym with the

missionaries! After district meeting, we taught Lora(the lesson was SO

good! I love Lora!) and then we went on exchanges! But some crazy

stuff went down during the exchange. I won't go into detail, but we

ended up having to do an emergency exchange back later that night, and

Sister Stromberg and I came back together to discuss somethings about

the companionship. We are trying to help the companionship as much as

we can now. Crazy stuff!

Wednesday: We reported to President everything that went down the day

before and discussed possibilities to help the companionship. Later in

the afternoon we did service at the Foodbank! So Matt is a worker at

the Foodbank! He's 25 and we all love him. A couple weeks back, Sister

Aiton and I gave him a copy of the Book of Mormon and invited him to

read! And Matt told us on Wednesday that he had read!!! He said he

read two chapters the night before! We talked to him a little bit more

about it and he said he liked it! Coolest thing ever. I love being a

missionary! After Foodbank we had more STL stuff that needed to be

taken care of...haha this is where all that stress is coming from! But

I love it haha. We had an awesome dinner with the Kistlers later that

night and then we tried visiting people!

Thursday: We tried visiting people in the morning, but no body was

home :(. We had interviews with our zone leaders that morning also!

Meetings! Woo! We did more service in the afternoon and then we died.

Haha not literally, but Sister Stromberg hasn't been feeling well this

whole week, so after service she took a nap and I tried staying awake

to get some things done, but I also crashed. I'm literally so tired

all the time! My body is weak, but my spirit is strong! Haha our

dinner that night cancelled on us so we were on our own. Fun fact

about Sister Thompson: I invented something called a "Taquitodilla".

It's a quesadilla with taquitos inside! Haha I've gotten creative with

my cooking skills ;) After dinner we had a lesson with Jason, the YSA

less active! He's been coming to church every week this month! Woo!

Then we had a YSA correlation meeting with our new YSA Ward mission

leader! More meetings!

Service ready outfits

And when we died haha

Friday: MLC in Santa Rosa all day! More meetings! I LOVE MLC! We got

permission to carpool with our zone leaders to Santa Rosa so the car

rides were fun! Haha we also matched our outfits...haha president

wright got a kick out of that! Sister Stromberg and I had our H&M

fashion week ready outfits on and the zone leaders matched their suits

and ties to our clothes. Haha it was great! MLC was super good! As

always! But I received news that I would be traveling out of our zone

on Tuesday to teach in the Vallejo zone meeting instead of my own

zone! They don't have an STL in Vallejo, so I will help teach in their

zone meeting on Tuesday! So I've been on the phone a lot with the zone

leaders in Vallejo trying to figure out what we are going to teach and

how I'm going to get down to Vallejo! More stress! Haha but I'm

excited to help teach down in their zone!

Matching outfits with the ZL’s:

Saturday: We had comp. study with the zone leaders and figured out

everything for zone meeting on Tuesday! A member took us out to lunch!

We had another awesome lesson with Lora! We did our weekly planning!

We also got to help one of the high schools here set up for their Grad

Night Party. We helped decorate the gym! It was super fun! But really

hot! Haha the weather here is getting hotter and hotter everyday! We

tried seeing the Murakamis later that night but Sister Murakami is

super sick. She had some dental work done and the medication she's

been taking for it caused her to get super sick. No Bueno :(

Sunday: We woke up early, skipped Ward council haha and drove to the

Pacheco's house and woke them up for church. Haha Lora came to church

yesterday and the Pacheco's! It was a really good Sunday! Jason came

to the YSA Ward too! It was fast Sunday yesterday here, so we had

break the fast with the YSA Ward after church and then we went to our

dinner appointment! Haha we went to the Thomas's house for a Memorial

Day BBQ! They invited over like 6 other families from the Ward so it

was super fun! And the food was great too! We spent the rest of the

night at the church preparing for zone meeting! Since I'm not going to

be there for ours, the zone leaders had the bright idea of video

taping me introducing the zone vision to everyone! Haha so we made a

fun, interactive video of me last night introducing the zone vision!

It’s hilarious! Haha

Selfie Sunday:

 So that was my week in a nutshell! We have two exchanges coming up

this week, along with teaching and preparing for zone meeting

tomorrow, and trying to juggling our own area and wards! Haha a lot of

things on our plates but we are loving life! I love being a

missionary! I know that this is the Lords work! He is hastening His

work and we are just trying to keep up! Haha I love you all and hope

you have an awesome week! Happy Memorial Day! :)

Love always, Sister Thompson 🌻