Sunday, August 28, 2011

August 22, 2011

Hola Everyone!
How's everything going? How's school going now that thats started? Thats good Jared's adjusting good and i think thats funny one of the families he taught named there baby Jared. So i guess chase didn't want to do football this year? Well tell Parker Happy Birthday for me, its crazy to think its already August i guess time is starting to go by fast again now that i've been out here for about a month. Well dad as far as maids go, unfortunatley we dont have any of those here. And as far as exercising goes we get an hour in the morning to workout/get ready and we live right in front of a park so we can do pretty much whatever we want to exercise. Well as far as last week went, we met up with our ward mission leader and he told us about a family that hasn't gone to church for a long time so we went and visited them, and although the mom wasn't very interested we had a good lesson with Vanessa and her dad. And so last week we got Vanessa to go back to church and the members were way good to her so she had a good time and she even went to a family night lesson we had latter that night, so she seems like she's going to start coming back strong. She even has a friend we've been teaching with her who's not a member which is awesome. Then we also had Nadia go to church and the the family night lesson too and she said she's not sure if she wants to be baptized because she doesn't know the church is true yet, but then she admitted she hadn't been praying... so of course we explained to her again you have to pray to find out if its true so she's agreed to start saying her prayers. And thats whats been going on lately. In the pictures one of them is of a millanesa sandwich which is probably the best sandwich i've had, its a breaded piece of steak with and egg and lettuce and its way good. Then the other is at Victoria's baptism and of course she's the one in white and Nadia is the one right next to me and the Brother in white is Daniel who is an awesome member and his brother married Victoria's sister so he's been a good influence on that family, and the last is of me and my comp and as you can see he's pretty tall i think hes like 6'5 but hes and awesome guy. Well thanks for all the love and support
Love,
Elder Thompson



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Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Trevor's Letter 8-15-11

Hola!
How's everyone doing? It sounds like a lots been hapenning lately. How's Jared holding up now that he's back at home? Well so far everythings been going pretty good here. Although the weather is changing everyday from cold to hot. I also got to play some soccer today with some of the members of the ward which was way fun then afterwards we played basketball, which is actually pretty popular here. Well to answer you questions, yes there are empanadas here that was actually the first meal i had, in the mission presidents home however ever since then i haven't had one which i guess is really rare, however, i did have tacos yesterday because we have a sister in our ward who likes to make all the missionaries american food , even though tacos are mexican food, and waffles.Last week we also had one of the asistants to the presidents stay in our place, who is an awesome guy and i guess he served here before. As far as the church goes its pretty much the exact same as ours, the building is actually really nice. And yes theres plenty of priesthood holders in our ward, acutally one of the fairly recent converts just got interviewed for the priesthood last week which was pretty cool. Well as far as the language goes its gotten alot better since i've gotten here since i'm pretty much hearing it 24-7. Right now i can understand most of what is going on in conversations i just dont know what all of the words mean and my talking is slow but i think its gotten better too. Well other than that, right now we are working with Victoria's sister, Nadia and she's acutally going to church everyweek and doing everything she should be but shes just nervous to actually be baptized, so hopefully we can help her feel more confident when the day comes. We have also been teaching a new family that we met last week and they have the coolest little kid. He's 5yrs old and everytime we go over there he always gives us chocolate milk and all kinds of foods while were teaching and when he's not doing that he's yelling out answers to all of the questions we have its the funniest thing. Well i hope all is good especially now that Jareds back at home. Thanks for everything.
Love,
Elder Thompson

Monday, August 1, 2011

Elder Trevor Thompson - Aug. 1, 2011

 From: Trevor Thompson <thompsont@myldsmail.net>
Date: Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 11:53 AM
Subject: Re:
To: Brad Thompson <bcthomp8@gmail.com>

Hola! From Argentina,
     How's everyone doing? Well i finally made it to Argentina everything went good with traveling until we got to Buenos Aires, the plan was after we landed to just go and get on a plane to Salta, but i guess there was to much ash from the volcanoes in Chile that they couldn't fly us so we ended up waiting in the airport all day until they decided we weren't going to fly that day so they got us a hotel to stay in for the night until we could fly out the next day. So the next day we flew to Salta, met our Mission President and had our first ligit meal in Argentina, then stayed the night. The next morning we all met our trainers and found out where we were going and left. My trainer's name is Elder Williams who's from Idaho. He's an awesome trainer hes also the district leader. But right now were in a town called Alto Comedero which is in the providence Jujuy and there are dogs everywhere here its crazy! The culture here is so funny because were teaching people that live in the poorest conditions and yet almost everyone here has a flat screen tv and dvd player its so weird. also the people here love orange fanta i've had it nearly every day, which isn't bad. The food here is actually really good i haven't anything that i didn't really like yet.  Well I started working the night i got here, and i didn't really understand to much but i went along with it. But since then i've been helping teach the lessons a little more each day. Sunday was awesome i got to introduce myself in church and the members are all way cool. And the best part is last night when we were knocking doors, actually instead of knocking you clap outside there house, but anyways and we met a family and i got to invite them to be baptized, and they said that they wanted to! Other than that we have a baptism coming up this saturday with a girl named Victoria which is going to be awesome. Oh and mom as far as pouch mail goes yes we do have it, all the elders in my apartment said to just address your letters to the mission home and it will work. I'll try and send pictures to you next week but the computer i'm using right now doesn't take memory cards so i'll try to find one next week that does. Thats cool Geoffery is going to the same mission as his brother, i've never heard of spanish speaking mission there though that will be cool. Well thanks for everything
Love,
Elder Thompson

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