January 26

Dear Family,

I have seen God's hand a lot this week. :)

1) We got to serve Jimmy's family with Neca and Jimmy and our ward mission leader and his wife and it was so good. We scraped moose hyde and stacked wood and Sister Han chopped a couple of pieces too. :)

2) Because we served them together, hearts softened and we were able to teach a bunch of them!

3) Daniel is Jimmy's nephew. He's 21. I don't really know why, but our ward mission leader really wants us to teach him. So we taught him and his grandma (Jimmy's mom) and shared some really powerful Bible videos with them. Dan cried! And so did Darlene. I just feel really good about Daniel. If we can help him quit smoking, I think he will be the next in the family to accept this.

4) We taught a member family last night and this little 6 year old boy just wanted to read the scriptures! He sat right next to me and read out loud and was so excited for his dad to hear him (because his dad works in the bush all week). This was just a miracle because of the way I felt. All of these little kids were fighting about who got to sit by us and they just loved us! Suffer the little children, right? :)

5) Jimmy fell on the ice and hurt his back even more, so the ward members were willing to sacrifice 2 and a half ours of their day to go give them the sacrament! (They live really far away) Neca was so touched. She said she couldn't even believe the love.

6) President Burt is coming for a two hour training tomorrow and the way things have worked out, it will just be Sister Han, me, and two other elders. It's kind of intense, but the revelation will be so specific for us. :)

I love you all. :)

Sister Thomson

PS. Favorite quotes this week. "Every night before Satan goes to sleep, he checks under his bed for Jeffery R. Holland."

"I'm like an old milk cow in tall grass. I'm udderly tickled to be here."

"I'm more excited than a fat kid locked in a Tim Horton's to be here."

"The Holy Ghost is like a deer. If you're quiet and do what you're supposed to, it will stay, but if you're loud and not doing good things, it will leave."