Hello!!! Happy Mother's Day!! I hope that all you Mother's had an amazing day!! I know mine was great!! Mostly because I got to talk to my beautiful mom, who is, despite others opinion, THE GREATEST MOM EVER!!!! I love you so much, and know that you have the best interest for me all the time!!
So this week has been a very funny, crazy, stressful week. I got some mission-changing news, and some interesting door knocks.........
So this week my health problems have really been coming back, and it's been really hard! On Friday, we saw President and he asked me how I was feeling and I was bad and lied telling him I was fine, even though I was in so much pain I was struggling standing there. So Saturday was interviews....and as soon as I walked in he said "Now how are you feeling? And don't lie to me." So I told him...and the whole interview was about how I had to think about myself, and how I needed to think about how if it got worse, or didn't improve, that I needed to have in the back of my head that going home might be what is best. He talked about Abraham and how his mission was to go and sacrifice his son Isaac, but before he was finished with the mission God said to STOP, so he did, and that was what God wanted. He said he didn't want me to go home, and I needed to give it time, but he said to have it in the back of my mind.
Lets just say that no missionary wants to hear that.....but I realized after many tears and prayers that he was right, I need to think more about my health, but I need to fix it so I can stay out! A lady in my ward dealt with the same things and she gave me all this stuff to help, and I know that I can stay my whole mission, because with God, anything is possible, but I have to put in the effort!! God doesn't just give you things, he blesses you AFTER all that you can do!
Anyway, less depressing news.....
The other day we knocked on this door and it was a metal door that just has little holes in it, which you can't see through. So we knock and this guy says. "What?" I say, "Hi we're the missionaries from the church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, we're sharing a message about Jesus Christ" Then he said, "Cool, you wanna have sex?" and I said "NOPE!" and he said, "Well then go away".........................
We also got this New Investigator named Bill, his story is pretty funny! We were knocking doors and we knocked on one door: A fat, shirtless, hairy man answers, says he has his own church and closes the door. Next door: A fat, shirtless, hairy man answers, says he has his own church and closes the door....Next door: A shirtless man walks from the backyard with tan pants, that looks like he had nothing on, but luckily he had pants, and then we talked to him, and he is super interested, and it's super exciting!!
Our motto for that day was: Third Shirtless Guy Is A Charm! haha it's been really hot here, so sadly there are a lot of shirtless men, and women too we hear, but we haven't seen any of those so hallelujah!
We also got someone on date this week! His name is Will, he's in his 20's and in the Army. We knocked into him, and he told us he had read the Book of Mormon and that during basic training he attended the Mormon services. So he was excited!! We're taking him on a church tour tomorrow so we are praying he shows up!!
Speaking of Church Tours, we had an Insta-church tour the other day where we met a girl across the street and asked if she wanted to hear about our church and check it out and she said yes, so we took her over and showed her around and she loved it, she was only 17 though and said she'd have to talk to her parents and we haven't heard back from her yet, so hopefully we will!
Anyway!! This week have been a very good but stressful week! I hope you are all well!! I love you all and appreciate your love and support, and love your prayers, the more the merrier!! haha!! I love you!!! Have a great week!
Sister Thomas
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