Spirit Works Wonders!

Hey everyone!

So to start out, I'll tell you what's happening with transfers

tomorrow! So I'm staying in Fairfield! But Sister Aiton is leaving...

:( saddest day ever. She is going to Napa. I'm so sad! Sister Aiton

has become my best friend! My daughter is leaving me! :( haha but my

new companion is Sister Stromberg! She has been out about ten months

and I've met her a couple times and she seems cool, so I'm excited! We

are both going to be STLs because they combined our zone and the

Vacaville zone into one big zone! We are still over the Cordelia 1st

Ward and the YSA Ward which I'm so happy about! I love both of the

wards so much! But I'm so sad Sister Aiton is leaving! :(

This week was hilarious and awesome! I don't have a lot of time to

email today because we have packing and a lot of cleaning to do today,

so my email will be short, sweet, and to the point! :)

We had really good lessons with Lora this week! She is incredible! We

love Lora! We also met with the Murakamis a few times! They are doing

a lot better! I gave Ally my CTR ring to help her remember to always

choose the right! Sister Murakamis non member friend, Elonda, was

there for one of the lessons this week. She has been there for a

couple lessons and she came to Ally's baptism and after the lesson

this week she said she was going to come to church next week! She

lives in Vacaville, but it would be awesome if she came to church!

This could be a great missionary opportunity for the Murakamis!

We also met with a lot of less actives this week! The Pacheco's are

older less actives in the Ward and they haven't been to church in 17

years! They are hilarious and we had a super powerful lesson with them

this week! Spirit was so strong! Also, yesterday after church, we went

out finding with the RS president in the Cordelia Ward and tried

visiting a ton of less active ladies in the Ward! It was great! We

actually had a lot of success from it!

The funniest thing happened at dinner on Tuesday night! We were at the

Hatch's eating dinner(they are some of our favorite members!) and

Sister Aiton was talking about door bell ditching goodies on people's

front doors, but she accidentally switched the first letters of bell

and ditch in her sentence....and we all died laughing! Sister Aiton

felt so bad afterwards but she was laughing pretty hard at it too! So

hard that the ice cream she was eating during the conversation came

out her nose!! We all died laughing even more! I was in tears from

laughing so hard! Hahaha Sister Aiton and I are always laughing

together! I'm going to miss that girl!

Church yesterday was INCREDIBLE. The Spirit truly works wonders on

people! Lora came to church yesterday for the first time in years, the

Murakamis came to church, and get this...THE PACHECOS CAME TO CHURCH!

They haven't been to church in 17 years!! The bishop had to do a

double take when he saw them walk in! So we had our little crowd

sitting with us during sacrament meeting! It was awesome! We owe it

all to the spirit! It softened all of their hearts and allowed them to

make the decision to come to church and stay for all three hours! It

was awesome! And in the YSA, Jason(the less active we just started

teaching) came to church! Woo! It's crazy how much joy you feel when

even one person decides to come to church! Haha I love how as a

missionary, that's the thing that brings me the most joy!

I'm excited for this new transfer! I'm excited to continue to learn

and grow! Time is moving faster and faster so I want to continue to

work as hard as I can! But I'm definitely enjoying to the end more

than I am enduring to the end! Haha I love this work and I love this

gospel! I hope you all have an amazing week! Love you!

Love always, Sister Thompson 🌻

Hermana Carey and I with our matching dresses. This is what best friends look like haha

Crazy hats with our YSA Ward mission leader Harley! Haha pretty much sums us up!

I saw this sign while we were out Tracting and it made me laugh haha

With Hailey and Harley! Two members from the YSA Ward who we LOvE!

Harley went to Thailand on his mission, that is why he is wearing

those pants haha