Staying put with Elder Roca

Wasuppppp mi familia,

Coma están? otra semana aqui en el campo misional. Sabe que? I am staying here in good ol’ Madereros! haha. With.... Elder Roca! I am pretty excited. We got the call on Saturday about changes and they told us. We were pretty excited. However, then on Sunday the assistants (whose ward also meets in our chapel) called me and said we were having special changes and that Elder Roca is leaving. We were so sad. However, then we went back up to the chapel for a baptism of the elders in my district and the assistants were still there. They said we weren’t going to have special changes after all. Whew. So we are excited to be together this change. It’ll be interesting though to have the same companion two changes because I’ve always had a different one. We want to work differently to have more success this change, but still trying to figure out what to work on.

A little Dairy Queen type dessert
 in honor of Whitney's job!

So today, to celebrate, we went to Santa Fe. (Singing the Santa Fe song right now.) Super fresa. It is so nice. There are six levels to this mall and they get nicer on the way up. We compare them to the 3 kingdoms of glory and the 3 levels in the celestial kingdom. Typical missionaries. We didn’t want to come back. So that was our P-day.

The cement story is a little funny. I definitely learned a lot from it. However, my head hurt the rest of the day... J

Since the last time I wrote you, this is what has happened:

General Authority, Elder Nash, visiting our mission

We had a devotional with investigators and new converts with Elder Nash on Wednesday. It was really good. It was cool to see all the converts who are still strong in the Church and really have testimonies. Elder Roca and I got a picture with Elder Nash.

We have been trying to do more Family Home Evenings with the members which has been fun. We have had some good ones with a game and then a message. The Spirit has been super strong in a few of the lessons. We are working on getting this one family reactivated and yesterday we visited them and I think they felt the Spirit. I hope they just act on it.

Yesterday a dad baptized his 8 year old son. It is super cool because they just completed a year as members and they are still super strong. 

The elders in my district baptized 2 ladies yesterday. One is the wife of a recent convert and the other once contacted me and Elder Jordan my last change when we were on interchanges. They seem like really good converts and will do well.

Diana and Oliva received the Gift of the Holy Ghost yesterday.  They are pretty odd people but I love them and their family.

In terms of the work in our area, we are struggling a bit. We had 10 people who said they would go to church and all but one said we could pass by for them in the morning to go to together. Half were still sleeping and didn’t want to go and the other half weren’t home. The one who we didn’t pass for ended up coming. haha. Of course... But that one is going to get baptized in 2 weeks. He seems like such a sharp guy. I think I told you about him. His girlfriend’s mom is the relief society president and a good family. His name is Marco. I am excited about his progress.

So this week we are going to try to talk with our investigators and see their interest levels. Sometimes it’s hard to know if they really are interested because they say yes even if they don’t mean it. We shall see this coming week!

I am also pretty excited because in the other area in my district was Bellavista 1 and in Bellavista 2 the assistants were there. The assistants have now moved so now there will be an extra companionship in the district. I hope all goes well.

So that is pretty much my week! All sounds well in Maine, Connecticut, and Colorado! Love you all!

Elder Thomas

P.S. - the sun did this weird thing in the sky. Something like there was ice in the clouds and reflected the light of the sun. Everyone thought something terrible was going to happen here.