Magandang Hapon Saiyo!!!
   Hello everybody another great week in the service of the Lord has gone by and it just keeps getting better and better the work is amazing and I'm loving it. So this week we had a great turnout this week for all of our investigators at church. We had a number of 4 of our investigators come to church and one of them was Romela who by the way last Saturday passed her baptismal interview and will be baptized on this Saturday on September 22nd. Really excited for this also with the fact that she asked me to baptize her so I'm really excited to be able to do this. Lots of progression with alot of our less-actives in this area as well. Especially one named Niki De-Vera who was less-active for a long time but has been coming back now. She came 3 weeks in a row, but had a work thing that she had to do so she wasn't able to come last week to church, but yesterday she came to church and is still always so happy when she goes every time we go there she always feeds us so its a win-win situation over there. With you question on the relief effort its still going, but its done in our area we didn't get badly hit as some other parts of our mission. With the rain it just keeps coming and i don't think that it will ever stop with that is if you forget you umbrella and get wet you will definitely get sick i don't know if this happens with the other 2 in tropical areas, Elder Schmid & Elder Reidhead, but i did not forget my umbrella, but since the squatters are so freaking jam packed together you cant get anywhere and well i got wet and the past 3 days i have been in the house sick with a nasty fever i don't know why it doesn't happen to the other guys, but it does here maybe its just so freaking bi-polar weather here. You wake up and its bright and sunny then after 5 minutes you got a rainstorm its ridiculous here, but i still love it.
 So this week we had a lot of success me and Elder Basalo we keep finding new investigators in our squatter parts of our area NIA. We found a family this week the Retoni Family a full family that is very awesome. Brother is from the province of Ilo-Ilo and all of family as well has his wife are doing there best to do all they can to get by. We found them through a member or a referral given to us and first time we went to them taught them about finding Faith in Christ. We used the video for that and it was a very good first lesson with them since the Spirit was very strong and Brother started crying he told us that he has been looking for the right religion for his whole life and he feels we have something that he has been looking for so we have set a return date and will continue to teach them so wish us luck.
 So like i said this week had its ups-and-downs, but it a was overall another awesome week doing the work of the Lord in the Philippines i love you guys and all that you have done for me.
Mahal kita,
 Elder Thompson


Went on splits with 3 missionaries at the MTC  from Cambodia