Week 7 ~ Una Semana de cosas

this is the outskirts of my area of Arquitectura! I can't take very much inside the area for security reasons..

Things are still going great here in Guadalajara! I started this last week being sick again, but I've been becoming better every day. It's actually been pretty funny, the miembros offer to feed us everyday and they all heard that I've been a little sick. So to try and help me they've been making soups full of vegetables, and sometimes vegetables without soup.. So I've basically been a vegetarian these past 2 weeks ^^' I appreciate them looking out for me, and the food tastes great, but I look forward to the meals with meat, thats what my body is accustomed too. ^^' 

The work has been great, I'm still learning a lot every day, for that I'm grateful to my companion Elder Pacheco! He's really patient with me and allows time for me to figure things out and work them out in my head, plus many times he lets me take lead in lessons. My spanish has grown enormously from it!

I'm having the same experience as my brother Elder Thompson III with reading the scriptures. This is the first time I've ever felt the tremendous power in those words. I wish I could stay and read it all day, but like Elder Thompson III dijo. That would be only a little contradictory. So its all good because I love sharing what I learn with my investigators and menos activos.

With one of the Hermanas in my ward Hermana Cata, we visited her my first day here and so she saw how bad my spanish was. We've visited her three times since and always she says to those around that "Elder Thompson can't understand very much and can speak very little" Its kinda been a joke between me andmy companion because I can understand everything she says to me now. I can understand much more then people originally think ^^' Most the time Ijust didnt hear the first time.

I've been feeling the spirit a lot this week, its been a great experience. The Lord has been leading us to more people who are ready to recieve the gospel. With many, we made first contact and our impression was the complete opposite, the the spirit whispers to go back, and we've gone and talked with the same people and they were excited to hear from us. With that family we have an appointment tonight. Im not sure what happened but I'm glad the lord is softening their hearts. 

My prayers and scripture studies have been truly great this past week, I've realized sometimes during my prayers its like it says in the scriptures, wresting with God. But our work and the amount the spirit guides us has tremendously increased. And right now Im feeling like im on the same path as the Sons of  Mosiah. Not as grand, but I hope to feel those same feelings that Ammon has at the end of his journeyings. That with great rejoicing I can boast of my God and how I was blessed enough to be an instrument in his hands.

The lord is great my friends!

Love you all!

Elder Thompson IV