HAPPY AUGUST!

Hello from Northern California!

So this week just flew by! We had an awesome week here in the

beautiful but oh so hot  Fairfield, California! Here are the

highlights from my week!

On Monday, Nathan took us and the zone leaders to an in door go

carting place....and it was SO fun! He's friends with the manager and

we got the track to ourselves and they turned up the speed on the go

carts! SO COOL. Haha Nathan is seriously the coolest. Tuesday I was in

the Cordelia 2nd area on exchanges with Sister Thurgood! Love her! We

had such a fun time working together! At one point we were at the

horse ranch that the zone goes to every Tuesday afternoon for service

and we were spreading mulch in 105 degree weather....it was so hot. We

were all dying haha. Later in the evening, all of our plans fell

through so I trained Sister Thurgood on how to use FaceBook

effectively! Facebook is such an awesome tool we have to use to help

hasten the work! It's so great for keeping in contact with

investigators, less actives, and members! And it's so cool being able

to post something that you know will help a certain investigator! I

love it!

Pic with Amie Wright

With Elder Rasmussen...he went home :(

Wednesday morning we exchanged back and then we went to a lesson with

Jason! It was a super cool lesson. We talked a lot about receiving

personal revelation and the topic of patriarchal blessings came up and

Jason told us that he had meet with the bishop just the day before and

has the okay to get his patriarchal blessing!! So Jason will be

getting his blessing soon! That is so exciting! He is doing so well!

Then we went out to lunch with a member in the YSA Ward! Later on that

day, we had a lesson with Nathan at the Thomas's home! We watched the

Restoration movie with him and he loved it! Thursday, at the moment,

is a blur. Haha all I can remember doing on Thursday is having another

awesome lesson with Nathan and Bro. Canning's home, our Ward mission

leader! We went over his baptismal program and talked more about

baptism with him! Friday, we had MLC is Santa Rosa all day! I love

MLC. I always feel so spiritual  uplifted and filled afterwards! But

also extremely tired haha but it's worth it. Friday night Nathan had

his baptismal interview and passed with flying colors!

Saturday morning we filled up the font, set up the room, and had a

BAPTISM!! It was sooooooo good! And a ton of members came which was

awesome! Elder Branson, Elder Matthews, Sister Stromberg, and I

preformed a special musical number at it and it turned out super well!

The spirit in the room was so strong! I love baptisms! Later that day

we went to help a new family move in to our Ward and guess who was

already there helping when we arrived? Nathan! Haha he is seriously

perfect! Yesterday at church Nathan was confirmed and also ordained to

the office of a priest! He is also working on getting his temple

recommend this week....he is literally the definition of a golden

investigator haha! We all love him!

We have an exciting week ahead of us! So today, Jason and his sister

Shelia are taking us on a hike in Marin! We are hiking Mt. Tamalpais

and when you get to the top, you can see the whole Bay Area! We are so

excited! Tomorrow, I will be going down to Vallejo and teaching in

their zone meeting! We have a couple mini exchanges we are going on

this week. And get this, this is my favorite part, we may or may not

be going to the temple this Saturday with Nathan to do baptisms with

him! We talked to President Wright yesterday about it and he is going

to get back to us today whether or not we are allowed to do that, but

still! Just being able to go to the temple with Nathan this week would

be amazing! I seriously love the Oakland Temple so much! I yearn to be

there all the time! Also, this week we find our transfer

information...and I think my time in Fairfield might be coming to an

end. President Wright told me at the beginning of the transfer that

unless Heavenly Father thinks differently, this would be my last

transfer in Fairfield....so I'm most likely leaving this area next

week. I only have two transfers left on the mission so I'll probably

be leaving to my last area. But who knows! Heavenly Father kept me in

Petaluma for 7 1/2 months so maybe He will keep me here for 7 1/2!

I love being a missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day

Saints. I love being called Sister. I love putting on a skirt or dress

everyday. I love talking about the gospel to everyone. I love trying

to become more like my Savior. I love having weaknesses. I love the

hard days. I love the good days. I love the fact that I can have so

much love for someone right after meeting them. I love my Savior and

all the He does for me. I just love life :) Look for the things you

love throughout the week! It makes life so much more lovely! Haha love

you all!

Love always, Sister Thompson🍍

Pics from our hike today!