This week was a little tough and really strange. So far there is no coronavirus in Veracruz, and since I'm just about in the middle of nowhere, it won't show up here for a long while. The week started out normal and it was all good, we found a less active member with a girl that's old enough to be baptized. We got word Thursday night that there are no more church meetings and that was it. We only got the text message. We ended up very confused. So that made it difficult to work, because we can't invite people to church. We got permission to baptize anyone who was going to be baptized this month right now. So we started working on inviting two of our investigators, and one of them just moved away so that sucked.
We also found out that these 2 drunk guys we invited to church a couple weeks ago actually came. They found us in the street the following week and one of them came up and said ''hey I'm really mad at you guys, we came to church this week and they didn't let me come in.''(but in Spanish). We asked him ''Did you go Sunday at 9?''(Still in Spanish). Then he said ''Yeah, I went and I was really drunk''(You've all probably guessed by now this all happened in Spanish). Apparently they showed up very drunk to church before we had arrived. Someone (we have no idea who) turned them away because they were so intoxicated. We never imagined they'd even remember the invitation since they were drunk then too!
Something cool that happened this week was that my dad and my mom had their birthdays and I got to call home for both of their birthdays. Something my dad told me when I told him I was struggling with feeling like the work was slowing...He talked to me about the Lord and how he always has a plan. He brought up the star appearing at Christ's birth and how God put it together years and years before the night of Christ's birth so the light would start to travel and arrive when Christ was born. It was something that helped me realize Heavenly Father always has a plan and that he's always known this coronavirus would come and it's all part of his plan.
I hope none of you have coronavirus...
--Elder Thompson
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