week 66: baptism by zoom

 

Elder and Walch and I did a selfie solely for my mother..haha.

Hey everyone, just finished my first week in Ponderosa, and it has been a pretty interesting one. 

    So last Tuesday I went to the mission office and met up with my new comp Elder Walch and we came to our new area. Elder Walch is super cool. He was originally assigned to Chile and was there for two weeks when Covid hit. He's from Arizona. We're white washing an old sisters area so it's been interesting. There's a lady named Rosa the sisters were teaching. She is awesome and got baptized this weekend. It was super awesome. She has a cousin that is a member and wanted to get baptized in Nevada with them. We got to zoom call into the baptism so that was fantastic. 

     We have a few other people to get in contact with this next week. It's really different in this branch, it's a lot smaller than my other areas. I like it, but it'll be tougher without as many members. We had Conference this weekend. If you didn't see it you need to. It was amazing! President Nelson's talk on the gathering of Israel was so powerful. I have never thought if it that way and I can't wait to study it more. I love that Israel means "Let God Prevail". One of my goals is to start letting God prevail in my life more. 

Hope you all have a wonderful week

--Elder Thompson 

bits and pieces from family phone calls:

Our apartment is nice...extra nice because it was a sister's apartment before we got here!

Walmart has the best $4 frozen pizzas...you don't even need a pan...just put them right on the oven rack. Less dishes!

Because our branch is so small, we will be able to GO TO ACTUAL CHURCH every Sunday. It's been 7 months since I last went to a meeting at a church house, so I'm pretty happy about that. 

Also, members here are allowed to feed us, so we have meals assigned out every Saturday and Sunday..best news!

Zoom baptisms are still amazing!