Glad he keeps a neat desk!!

The bathroom, the bucket and ladle are his shower.

View of the apartment.

 Dear wonderful mother of mine,

   This week has been awesome the area that I have transferred to has been known as one of the hardest areas in the whole mission, its really hard, but this week was awesome cause my comp is really good at the area cause he has been in this same area since he first entered the field so ibig sabihin he has been his original area and has been his area for about 6 months which would probably drive me just a little insane. So you want to know a great story since you brought up Hudson being very thin I got a good story for you I have actually lost 30 pounds out here in the Philippines cause all you do is sweat, but I actually bought some facial stuff for me in case I might break out, cause alot of missionaries have never broken out until they came here so I got a head start on that so that I don't do that. I don't want to be known as Elder Pizza Face seriously. Tell NG congrats its such a great day to be able to be ordained a deacon believe it or not I actually remember the day that I was set apart as a deacon and it was great day. I love the priesthood and the opportunities to be able to use it almost every day. I love being able to bless people lives by using this power and all that it does to families. It really is a gift given from God. Sounds like that you had fun with his party brings back some of the good days. I remember playing football with my friends like Christiaan, Preston, and Tanner and now we are all out doing the Lord work in places across the world.

 So about my new companion, Elder Webster is a great comp that has only been out no less than 1 transfer than me. Hes about 6'5 and is really pretty good at his Tagalog. He was actually like I said in my last email he was in my district in the MTC he was in the oldest district when I first entered into the MTC. Hes way cool, and my house is pretty fun, but at the same time probably the most serious house at the same time. Everyone in my house since there is 4 of us we all have been out no less than 6 months. I'm actually kabahay with one of the elders from my batch, Elder Oettli. The new house so far has been awesome we have actually had an opportunity to kill 2 mice in one week plus about a million cockroaches. I'm just glad that I don't have rats in our house cause they are huge. I have seen rats i houses and they are not small they are usually about the size of a small dog like dachshund size. The hose is actually nice but just like most of the other houses, we have to use a bucket to wash ourselves, cause our shower heads are broken. What we do is we fill our bucket with clean water then just grab a scoop and dump the water all over ourselves. Its actually nice cause most of the houses have only cold water. The only house with warm water is the mission home and The AP's and Office Elder's house. So yea its a nice place to do my studies and my area is very cool and the ward is very supportive, and actually just yesterday, I was already able to speak in church. Its was good and actually got a alot of compliments on my Tagalog which totally made my day, cause I know I'm really still not that good. There is not much other than with senior comps we are not able to just blame our senior comp cause we are a junior comp. I love it cause I love my new comp he is really good and I'm really looking forward to our transfer together. I love you mother and miss you alot of bunches.


Mahal kita,
  Elder Thompson