Week 32

Dear Family,

I have had so much trouble writing this email! I don't know why. But I really love this work. Best scripture ever: "Naked came I out of my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return thither: the Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord." It's so true! Everything else is a gift! Actually even the fact that we're here is a gift. 

We have been working with a girl who is a recent convert. She was baptized about 8 months ago and moved out here from Calgary a few months ago after she got married. She is getting a divorce now though, and was not coming to church. So we met with her with our Relief Society President and talked and now she is coming out to lessons with us and shared a really powerful testimony of the Book of Mormon. She really felt like she shouldn't read it at first, so she wouldn't. But one day she found herself picking it up and reading it. She said the second she did, she couldn't put it down! She took it with her everywhere--to work, on the bus. She read it every spare moment and quit all of the things she was doing including smoking and drinking. Her parents were really against it, but she knew what she felt was true and even though they threw anti at her, she just knew the Book of Mormon was true. I love her. 

Last night when we got home, the Spirit came into the car so powerfully.... Sister Kunz told me she didn't like my workout book because even though she's barely looked at it, she just said it was really affecting her. And she was lovingly trying to ask me how it must be affecting me. I don't know. I might throw it away. Ha. We'll see. But it was almost an out of body experience. I just really felt His love for us so strong. I really think He is so much more happy with us than we are with ourselves. 

I can't quote President's email, but he told us (as a mission) how amazing we are and the best part is we don't know it. And then he said, if any of you think you're an amazing missionary (because of you and not God), go to the Christlike attribute activity at the end of Chapter 6 and mark 0s for everything on humility, and study it every day.

We are working with a girl named Kelly who can feel the Spirit every time we see her! She hasn't read the Book of Mormon on her own yet, and she didn't come to church yet, but I know she will. She's still a newer investigator.

I really love this work. I know God has really been blessing us so much. I don't even know why. When I've been getting up, I am starting to sense how each day has really been a gift from God. I'm getting a greater appreciation for this life in general and feel like God is so merciful and so full of love just for letting me be on this earth to grow! I really am sincere about this. I wish everyone could serve a mission. I just want everyone to have what I've been given, and I feel like the mission is the only place to learn so many things.


Sister Thomson

PS. We saw a miracle! I was feeling really dizzy during finding time, so we went to the car to pray that it would go away. I wasn't sure if it had after we prayed, but then I realized I needed to have faith and get out of the car. When we did, we knocked on a door where a man's heart was so softened that at the beginning he was leaning on a wall saying he barely believed in God and at the end was crouched down looking in our eyes and hanging on every word and saying he wanted to read the Book of Mormon because he could literally feel our enthusiasm about it. His name is Dean and we're teaching him in two weeks.