Hey Mom and Dad,
How's it going back home. Sounds like a party in the house this week. Remember that you still have the motorhome!
How bad are all the fires? Are they getting them undercontrol? How close to the house are they. You said the point of the mountain, any closer than that?
Well, this week was kinda slow. We haven't had a whole lot of success here. One thing I have learned in my mission is that God isn't going to give us investigators if we aren't prepared to teach them... and it shows. My companion and I aren't unified in anything. He tells me how willing he is to learn, but any suggestion I give him and it's my "foolish pride" or that he learned how to do these things in the CCM (peruvian MTC). Haha, I think that God has a sense of humor. A few times he has used phrases that I used with Elder Palacios. It's a little different but not terribly. I am going to write Elder Palacios an apology letter today and thank him for his patience with me. Another Elder told me its carma. Probably true. But no, we aren't working well together. He only wants numbers. He doesn't really care about the specific needs of our investigators. It's kinda funny. We have arguments and he gives me his opinion and tells me this is the best way. I give him mine as a suggestion and when he gets mad, I then show him the scriptures, the text from Preach my Gospel, Missionary manual and whatever else to show him that there is a better way. Then he gets mad and won't talk for the rest of the day. It feels like a fight between a couple of children, but thats OK. He is going to have a tough mission until he learns to accept another opinion. Thanks for keeping me on the Prayer Roll. I really feel the difference here. I do appreciate it. Include the sprinkler system on the next prayer roll. It sounds like it needs a miracle too!
Here in Jayanca, we are doing good. We officially became a branch on Sunday. Now we have to run around this week and set up things to begin working more with the members. We are starting an official branch directory. The next couple of weeks will probably be stressful. Also, we will be running over to another town called Illium this week to start reactivating members over there ao we can start missionary work. In a couple of weeks, PTE Risso wants to put missionaries in there. So that will be interesting. We have been running around this week looking for members who have friends over there or who know other members in that area. So the work is progressing here a great deal.
Hey, one other thing, my companion wants me to ask you if you could find a Bible, the Book of Mormon, the D y C and the Pearl of Great Price in one book. I forgot the word in english. A cuadruple in Spanish, but one smaller than the standard size. He wants one about the width of the hand. with the 4 scriptures if you can find one. He said he would give me the money for it and you can pull the money out of my account to pay for it.
Well, I need to go in just a minute, but I wanted to say I love you. Give my love to the family. Tell Jay the phrase ´´Glittering Prizes´´ is the key to learning Warcraft. Have fun with all the family in the house. Here in Peru, it's normal to have 4 or 5 families in the same house. Take care and I love you all. Enjoy your week and I'll let you know how things are going Monday.
Elder Thomson
Elder Thomson
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