"Hello family! This was another great week here in the greatest mission
in the history of life!
Tuesday... Today I was with the DC 3rd elders all day. We had our
White House tour and it was amazing! We were allowed to take pictures
when we were inside and the pictures turned out great! It was super
beautiful and Mom you would have loved the smell! all of the garland
and trees and everything was real so it smelled just incredible! I
will be sending the pictures soon when I am able to get a computer
that will allow me to send them. I made banana nut bread for Sister
Claude at her request. She loved it! But the day started out super
bad! When we met with the other elders we found out that we had to
cancel the oval office tour for the evening so that was bad but then
when we were going through security they would not let me through!
They said that my date of birth was wrong on the infor submitted which
I gave once to Sister Claude who has used it three times so far! So I
stood there for just shy of an hour waiting for them to do another
background check. Then their system crashed... but I got in and the
rest does not matter. Afterwards we went to a grill 2 blocks away from the
white house so it was super nice!
Then transfer calls and big shock! I
am staying!
Wednesday... Transfers were nuts! They white washed a lot of areas and
they are changing almost all of the leadership! My dad (elder
Thornton) is now a ZL! I found out that I am senior comp over
sorensen! aha! unrighteous dominion! just teasing. Three of my
favorites are leaving as well. One is gone and the other two are
leaving in a week. so sad. One of them is Elder Tavana who is my
grandpa. He is going to go play at the U of U. sad but he is super
good. I was also able to knock over a lamp and shatter the glass on
it. good I know. Then i was able to send the Christmas package and I
saved $10 by cramming it into another box! Hurray! We were able to
teach Jose who is a recent convert. He is great! The best member
missionary ever! He asked for a case of copies of the BOM! Great
lesson with him and on getting him to the temple to do baptisms. He is
doing super well. I thought of Alexa a lot that night. Because she is
awesome and we had shepherds pie for dinner! So good!
Thursday... Today was bitter sweet. I felt super sick and that was
really annoying but we still were able to be missionaries. It is so
cool because after you exercise when you are sick you feel a million
times better! We had weekly planning and it was super productive we
redid our boards which had not been updated for about a year sooooo
ya. This was also the day that Elder Parker, a roommate, and I
matched! We had the same tie so we matched everything else just
because. Finally got the incredible advent calendar from my amazing
mother today! Our ZL's are good and all but when it comes to mail...
we are lucky if we get it in two weeks of it arriving. we had dinner
at a Greek place that was ok but good because it was free. The best
part of the day though was our lesson at the VC with Manny. He is an
investigator who was baptized already so he sees no reason as to why
he needs to do that again. But we had an amazing lesson and the spirit
was so super strong! We were talking to him and I asked him what he
would do if he recieved a witness of the HG that we had the restored
preisthood authority. He thought for a second and looked down. Then he
looked up and started sobbing telling us how he was so confused. He
feels the spirit sometimes at the Catholic church where he was
baptized and at his uncles baptist church with his uncle as the
minister. He is trying SO hard and cant find it (he thinks he has
found it in case anyone was wondering) So I asked him how he felt
right then and he told us a lot more about himself and he knows what
is true. He is going to progress so far! Love Him!
Friday... Today was a slow day. we were out a lot checking on a list
of people that Bishop gave us and only one person answered the door
and he did not let us in. So ya. But we had fun listening to music as
we drove. When we came home from our dinner appointment Elder Sorensen
found his name tag frozen in water. He was mad but in the fun way. So
we did a little something to the other elders.
We only left threatening notes around and later dumped ice water on
them in the shower. But it was good.
Saturday... We had a morning of intense basketball. And by that I mean
a lot of people who are not good playing each other like it is life or
death. But it was fun. We found out today that no one was allowed to
go into the city today because of the protests that might become
riots. So we had to change our plans and we were able to still find a
way to the ward Christmas party. It was a great time! The food was
super good and the games were fun. There was a sparkling cider bar
with egg nog for people who thought that was a little too strong. It
was a great time.
Sunday... We had a great meeting at church and after were able to go
to the temple VC with the ward mission. We helped out for a while and
then went to the Jenny Oaks Baker concert. Look her up on YouTube. she
is great! She is Elder Oaks daughter and she is super talented! Her
kids are almost as good as she is! Overall it was great!
Sorry for going not into detail this time. We are short on time today.
We have a VC shift today at 3 so lots needs to get done. Have a great
week! I love youall!"
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