elder jordan thompson

Maganda Umaga Po Sainyo Lahat,

Hey everybody this week was definitely a crazy week for me and my companion, Elder Basalo. I learned a lot of great new things this week that our mission will progress if we do these things. Our mission president, President DeLaMare is the greatest mission president in the world, he's super strict, but I love it that hes that way. Even though we don't have the freedom that other missions in the Philippines has, but how well our mission does compared to other missions here in the Philippines ours is the most influential. The blessings are seen right away. He has promised us many blessings if we are obedient. Strict obedience is really stressed in our mission. I have seen such an impact from it in my life. The reason I say this is because we had a zone conference with President DeLaMare as well as Temple Tour and to follow it all off is have a baptism for Romela!!!

So we had zone conference with another zone in the mission the Pasig Zone. It was such a great time we learned alot of stuff from our mission president, President DeLaMare. That man is such a spiritual giant not by the fact that he is 6'4 but also spiritually hes an amazing man I love him so much its been so amazing to be under his direction. He is definitely a man inspired of God that constantly receives revelation for this mission. Every week we add something new to our mission to continue the great work that we do here. We see the blessings from following his counsel. I always constantly strive my best to follow his counsel and apply what we learn daily to better myself as a missionary. Actually with that we were able to teach one of our progressing investigator families the Retoni family we shared with them about the Restoration and actually used the Restoration DVD to better help them understand it so, when we shared that Brother had alot of great questions and we did our best to answer all of them and what he said will always stay with me is I'm searching for the truth and i think that this is the closest that comes to the truth. As well as what we learned at zone conference. Our mission president, President DeLaMare had us apply this scenario with this stress, we were applying giving a baptismal date and this 5 minutes we have is what we have to teach this person the only time we have to teach this person it really put stress on us, but you realize how much time we really have as missionaries I did the district meeting workshop today and I really stressed the 4th Chapter in Preach my Gospel and why in this short time we need to listen to the Spirit. Great thing that I learned this week constantly learning new things everyday I swear the mission is a learning place talaga squished in only 2 years.

Speaking of that this week we had temple tour this week and we brought the Silla family as well as the Galleon family they both had a great time at the temple so did I. I got to see alot of the members from all of my last areas and got to see how they're doing and got to see the Corrales family there the family the I baptized in my first area, Quezon City 3rd Ward. I was definitely happy to know that they are still going so strong and really have that desire to still go to the temple as a family. It was an amazing day for sure.

Also this week you guys asked about a very special event, well Romela Salazar Alati-it on Saturday September 22nd was baptized a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and was confirmed right after the baptism. WAHOO!!! She is my 8th baptism in the mission and I'm really excited to see how she goes throughout her life as a new member. It was amazing when she bore her testimony she thanked all the members that had helped her, but gave her special thanks to the 2 missionaries that found her, Elder Thompson and Elder McCoy, as well as her sister who is actually a returned less-active member that's how we found her. I was really touched by her testimony and felt so good to see all of my good work that payed off!! I love being a missionary so much its the best job in the world with the best pay just think about it!! With your questions I have thought about going out to BYU-Idaho, but we will definitely see on that when I get home. What else o with my Christmas package I would definitely want some new shirts the ones that are the STAFFORD EVERYDAY the ones without buttons on the collars I don't like the other ones they are way to stinking thick!! If that's fine other than that that's what I can think of for now, but that's a long time from now so don't worry about it now. Anyways love you guys so much I love serving the Lord here in the Philippines its a special opportunity indeed!! I love you all and wish all the best of muck in everything.

Mahal kita,
Elder Thompson