Hey everybody Kumusta po ba kayo??(how ever you please) 

 Ayos naman ang buhay ni Elder Thompson ngayon, at syempre makakapagtuloy naman na magiging mas masaya!!(Everything is Elder Thompson's life now, and of course continue also be more fun!) Basta masaya ang buhay ng misyonero!! (Just enjoyed the life of a missionary!)Hey everybody this has been an interesting week indeed, we had a lot of special things happen this week and lets just say that a lot of learning still, you would think since i'm an old fart in the mission now you would think I would know what to do in all situations, but guess what HINDI!!!(NO!!!) Still learning naman!!!(turn) We had an amazing week none the less we had our temple day last Tuesday and that's always an enjoyable thing to experience!!! I love being able to go through the temple a least once a transfer, I'm so blessed for that. It's defenitly a very special place and i'm always so happy to be able to go!! The district leader stuff is going good I have an amazing district, the problem is 2 of the missionaries in my district are going home this transfer, one of the elders and one of the sisters, the funny thing is the sister going home is one of the only 2 sisters that came with me here to the Philippines and now she's going home!! HOLY COW TIME FLIES!! I'm honestly still feel like that I'm so young in the mission, but your guy's skype call home made me realize it!!

  Anyways Ed sounds like that he is still Ed still trying his best to be the tough guy!! Hhahah sounds like Addy's is loving life as well as NG haahah NG im going to be more tan than you are when I come home, except its going to be a farmer's tan hahaah PATAY!!!(Dead) Anyways we had a very big jump in our area yesterday we had 6 of our investigators come to church yesterday WAHOO!! All 3 of our investigators with baptismal dates came which is amazing!! It was such a happy day today!! I love washing clothes for 3 hours yes 3 HOURS!!! We don't have washing machines like everyone else, I'll show you guys how to wash clothes by hand when I get home(might save us alot of electricity) hahaha joke I'll just show you guys!! Anyways our area is progressing a ton, still on that thinking/waiting part on the school topic, so we will see. Um question what do you guys think about me getting a new pair of shoes?? The Rockports that I have the bottom of the sole is now opened up wide, what I can do is get that repaired for only 200 pesos and get a rubber sole installed, the only problem is I only have these rubber shoes and well they are very uncomfortable, I have seen a couple of good deals here, but maybe I'll just use the rubbers until I get my other shoes repaired, but what do you guys think?? Just want to know!! This transfer has been a 8 week transfer and its coming to a close, next week we will know if i am transferring or staying hopefully staying, but you never know, this is the Lord's will, anyways you guys will know that next week!! An amazing week for sure and miss you guys all tons and don't worry I will not get trunky its not something I want to receive!! Anyways love you all!!!

Mahal na mahal kita(I Love you),
  Elder Thompson

Love the pics but no captions!!!

Special Note: this email was actually sent out on February 12, 2013: Bad Mom didn't post it til now!!! We even received a ton of pics too!!! But no captions:(

Hey everybody!!!

  So everyone this has been an amazing week or sure, lots of learning on how to be a better missionary!!! We had an amazing zone training kahapon, we learned what, why and how to receive a true testimony of this gospel, we each used a different scripture, it really opened my eyes on what really is a testimony, not a storymony!! We have found ourselves sometimes having a storymony, but where is our real testimony. It was an amazing district meeting, we also, followed that up with an amazing testimony meeting. This was an amazing week of learning really I cannot express what I felt this week, it really helped with what I have been focusing on since, I know now this is the time for me to shine and I want to let you know all of you is do not hide your testimony, it can do a lot of things that we didn't think it could do!! OPEN YOUR MOUTHS!!!

   Mom those are amazing scriptures, the same chapter of the scripture in Proverbs is one of my personal favorite, it is Proverbs 3:10-11 it is an amazing chapter. Also the one from Philippians is also an amazing scripture, you never know what you will find in the scriptures, anywhere there is a scripture that is prepared for you. It is so amazing, another thing that I have loved about the mission, is dati,(previously) I had no desire to read and kinda just let it go by, but now whenever, I have time other than personal study, I read in the scriptures talk about a real turn around!!! I will be writing an email, either this email time or the next one!! First business is HAPPY BIRTHDAY NG!!! You are now a teenager, hahaha Mom and Dad how does that make you feel  hahaha jokelang!!(just joke) Sounds like you guys are really having a great time with everything we had a great week indeed, Ed has to get surgery, which is really cruddy, geez, that really stinks Ed and Addy still sounds like that nursery is a whole new things for ya!! Anyways sounds like you guys are enjoying life and really trying to be your best here! Me i'm trying my best to be a great, and obedient missionary!!, I still mess up every now and again, but i'm trying my best!! Anyways we are really making progression with everything, in the branch, we are still having a very hard time getting the investigators, to church it really is hard for our area, we are so far away, but we are still trying our best, the work other than that is going great we are finding new people to teach, still trying our best to really have them feel the spirit, and to be touched by that power. Love you all so much, really miss each and every one of you. Mahal kita(LOVE),

Elder Thompson

Dear Wonderful Family of mine,
 So to start everything off is congrats Ed on your success as a wrestler, 4th in state is not bad for a new starter, that is a very good job congrats talaga(really), that is a very good accomplishment, congrats very proud of ya Ed, anyways its also good to know that my sister is having a great time with this Blaine, but remember I have to meet him, I really want to now. NG should really wrestle, start him off even earlier than Ed or me so that he will be the best hahaha!! Working on the writing I realized that, just received a letter from Becca I would like the address of her mission, so that I can send it directly to her, also, I have a letter going out to Uncle Matt and Aunt Licia, so that's really something to be excited about, also Brisbane is where Elder Burgan is from so if he is assigned into his ward how funny would that be!!! Give him a pat on the back for that one!!!
 So anyways everybody, to start off the letter this week we go back to Tuesday, on Tuesday we had exchanges with the Zl's so yea it was pretty awesome, my companion, was Elder Rhoad's who just became our Zone leader after being an AP for a time, so we had a good time together really learned a lot from him we had a lot of success in finding, so I really enjoyed our exchanges, hes a great missionary and is a great example here in the mission. My companion, Elder Bagonbon is the best companion, that I have ever had I know I say that about all of my comps, but he is just amazing, I feel more comfortable around him more than any other companion. We have had so much success together, we just keep finding and finding, the areas are really starting to turn "puti" for "aahin" hahah guess what that means. I have matured a lot from being comps with Elder Bagonbon I think that is the reason why we were put together as companions, we are literally the same, a missionary couple, the Jensen's, are from Canada, they actually have a house in Queen Creek as well so they invited me over there after the mission, the said when we had transfer meeting, when I was called to be companions with Elder Bagonbon, they said "Now that's a dynamic duo" honestly he is the best comp ever and we have had so much success, so glad this transfer is 8 weeks long!! Don't want to lose this guy he is awesome, anyways still praying about it so give me some time, but I'll talk to President DeLaMare about it, anyways that's all we had this week, anyways other than the fact that we have a lot of preparation in our area, and soon to be baptisms in this area, thank you all for your support, really need it!!
Mahal kita (LOVE),
 Elder Thompson

Hey Wonderful Mother of Mine,

  So first off this was an amazing week for sure, me and Elder Bagonbon had such a successful week for us two this week we just keep finding and finding new investigators its like we are just getting them handed to us, but we are doing our best to really bring these people unto Christ, I really am enjoying my everyday endeavors as a missionary, it really is the best, by the way tell Uncle Matt and Aunt Licia that their letter is on the way and that expect it pretty soon don't know when, but I still don't know their address, so if you could send that too me and that would be very wonderful!! So just like everyday business, me and  Elder Bagonbon are very happy missionaries, yes very happy missionaries!! We this week had interviews with President DeLaMare, and that was a very enjoyable time, really enjoy being in that man's presence, you really can know that he has been called of God to help this mission really progress as it has and to eventually have this district to become a stake, we have been told multiple and multiple times that our district here in Morong really can become a stake we just need to push forward and do our best to find those Priesthood Holders that are less-active or if we have very potential investigators as such, we can really bring these people unto Christ and to receive that blessing as a newly formed stake!! Our district has a very big desire to become a stake so we really need you guys to pray for us here to eventually become a stake, I know it can happen here. So like always just loving my life as a missionary, love being a district leader, its sometimes very stressful, but its totally worth it its a blessing actually if you really think about it!!! So first off happy to know that Addy is following the Prophet's council Addy I love you so much!! Anyways Ed and NG sound like they are doing very well and still loving life, Ed keep going huh??

 So anyways me and Elder Bagonbon are really loving our investigators, this week we should be able to really find more and more, we have a lot of investigators 2 of which are really progressing we had a 3rd on, but Sister Malinao, our investigator, moved just a little bit outside of our area so we are not allowed to go to her, uHHH gotta love sudden moves!! We were able to assist her and her family move, brother also listens, but its really sister, shes GOLD!!!, but now has moved to a different area, I'll send you guys some pictures!!! We are really trying to work with 2 of our investigators Nanay Roxas as well as Ferlin Arabit to baptism, the problem is here is right now our church is being renovated, so the closest chapel is over 40 minutes away, but jeep and well we have a lot of people in our area that do not have the money to do that, but yet they always seem, right after interviews this last Thursday, we went to the Roxas family, they weren't there, we then proceeded to Ferlin and guess what Nanay Roxas was there, we taught both of the about the Atonement of Jesus Christ and that we can show our love for him by following our commandments, last Sunday they both came to church was very happy!! I'm telling you guys the Spirit really does work on the hearts of the children of men!! I love you all I have a lot of good stuff coming my way this week, just keep those prayers coming!!

Nagmamahal,
 Elder Thompson

Hello Wonderful Mother of Mine,

 Ok so I will actually be able to talk with President DeLaMare about that and see what I should do this week we have Zone Interviews so that's going to be so amazing for that actually its almost like perfect timing!! So anyways this has been an crazy week alright, we had a lot of crazy stuff happen this week. Me and Elder Bagonbon had a lot of great and also some crazy experiences, will tell you some of the funny ones first hahahah!!! Anyways first off this week on Friday, we had the apartment couples come by our house, the Enderles, and after they came by we decided to really try and keep our house, cockroach free, so what we did is that we have seen that most of the cockroaches that come into our house come from underneath the sink and so we decided to really and set the poison in there. So while we are spraying the poison, talk about cockroach have there was just millions of them and we were just all 4 of us in the house killing these things since, the cockroaches here can also bite here, so we were really careful, in the end we had fun killing cockroaches, in total, as a house just from under our sink we killed 76 cockroaches fully grown, and big!!! It was pretty fun, but that's not as important, as our spiritually experience, we have a less-active family, Hilario family, whose daughter was going to be baptized, and the crazy thing is the day she was going to be baptized, was Sunday and what happened was during our personal study, the Hilario family texted us saying that Marjorie, their daughter was very sick and had been throwing up a lot lately, so they asked us if we could come and give her a blessing, so what we did was yes we went to give a blessing, as we did, we asked them all to have faith and to pray constantly that she will be ready and be able to be baptized later that day. While we were waiting at church they came in and later after sacrament, talked to them and they said that she will be able to be baptized, we were very happy and Marjorie was baptized so I'm really happy and it was overall  an amazing week.

   So this area is going really well we are just really struggling with bring our investigators to church, since our church is being renovated at this time and since our area is a very poor as well rich area we are really having a hard time getting them to church since, the church we go to Angono chapel is so far away really the only people that come are the ones that can afford to come and that's very hard for us since that's the biggest problem for us, but me and Elder Bagonbon are really going to be focused on teaching the law of sacrifice to our investigators, so that's what we will be focusing on this week. Anyways that's really I got for all of you guys this week sorry, but for that I have a lot of pictures for you guys. Anyways tell everyone I said hi this week, and miss them all dearly funny thing is I get to see Elder McDonald only on DL training that's it last transfer it was every Sunday, anyways love you all tons Elder Thompson love you!

Mahal Kita (LOVE),
 Elder Thompson

Kumusta po kayo(How are you please)??

 Hey everybody this has been an very interesting week for me we had a big change in our zone and our district. We have a lot of new missionaries in our zone, actually 3 and guess what 2 of them our in my district them being sisters, we had a very new area just open there, and the cool thing is that Elder Basalo remember him?, is one of the first 4 missionaries to step into that area, its pretty sweet, so the thing is that we now have the biggest zone in the whole mission, yes even bigger than the Mindoro zone, anyways we have a ton of Filipinos in our zone now funny fact is that we have 3 Filipinos in my house, so yep my new companion, is Filipino, wahoo!!! Funny thing is Elder Tipene is now comps with Elder Braind, my 6th comp, and my companion was just with Elder Braind so we just did a little switcheraroo, anyways my companion is Elder Bagonbon, from Dipolog City, Mindinao, so hes from the scarier parts of the Philippines. Anyways so im still the District leader, and yes its going to be cool this transfer, we had last transfer nothing but foreigners in mt district now its nothing, but Filipinos hahaaha its funny so now i'l' have to do my workshops in Tagalog, that's going to be really fun, also still learning a lot of Tagalog, its good having nothing, but Filipinos in the house.

  Anyways we are really having a great progression with our branch we have been really making progress with all of the things, we even have home and visiting teaching going now so we will see how that goes here pretty soon, really think it will bring back a lot of people, really excited, about this and how the work will progress as well, we will see, me and Elder Bagonbon, are ready and willing to do whatever we can to have this area progress, and see how it goes with everything. We are really enjoying this area we are going to have so much progression, we just need people to act by their faith even though the church is over 30 minutes away I know that they can do it and so does the Lord we are trying our best this week I know we are going to have an amazing week!!!

Good to know that Jed still out there and giving his all that what I'm talking about, can't wait to see all the guys after the missions, its going to be amazing, anyways really excited about that stuff I honestly haven't prayed about where I need to go for school that's a kasalanan(fault) on my part anyways, tell everyone I say hi and that I need people to write to me and guess what I'm writing back yes hahahaha, I hate not getting letters on mail run talk about heart attack!! Anyways love you all and miss you tons!!

Mahal kita(LOVE),]
 Elder Thompson

Magandang Hapon po sa inyo lahat!!! (Good Afternoon please you all!!)
 Kumusta po kayo lahat? (Hello all you please?)Its been a long since the last time I was able to talk with you its been too long hhahaha, anyways this was a great last week of transfers, we had a lot of crazy stuff happen to us, we actually had a lot of great fun this week for New Years, we stayed up and got to celebrate together as a kabahay!!(housemate) Great last week with the elders in my house, but sad news, we are losing 2 of the elders in the apartment, Elder Tipene is one of those elders:(, so yes I'm still keeping the 1 comp every transfer streak going, wahoo:( really sad to see him go he's been an amazing companion, lots of stuff I learned to help him, and syempre(of course), me too!! Really learned how to plan in this area!! No I'm not training and yes I'm still going to be the DL not important, as it is as just doing the work, we are going to have 2 new sisters in my district, 2 of the sisters in my district are training, sweet!! Huh?? Anyways, COOL THING fond out this week!!!, we have a member we actually got a referral from the office, in our area when we went there the person was already member, she was just living in America, and just came back for a couple of months and actually we are going to start, teaching her son and his family since they are not members, where did she live, New York, why is that important, she knows Elder Tucker Denton, she met him while out in New York, hahahaaha small world huh?? Also, had an amazing New Years here in Binangonan, we have a municipal, just right by our house and they just had the best fireworks show, sorry totally owned Arizona, Arizona kinda stinks at firework shows no offense!!

  Had an amazing countdown as well, which was pretty sweet had a great time, also as soon as it ended me and Elder Tipene, just bolted through the rice field right by our house, problem was, we didn't get really far, we got stuck in mud heheheeh, luckily I was wearing only flip-flops, hahahaah nothing beats than getting stuck in mud in a rice field on New Years hahahaha, anyways this was an amazing week and we found out today, that 7 members in our zone are going tomorrow, so our entire zone will be at transfers tomorrow, you said that there is someone you and I know coming to my mission here soon right?? Just wondering anyways, was amazing to talk to you guys, by the way I don't have a worm, I just work out all the time, I don't cheat!! Anyways, its good to learn that you guys are still doing so amazing, was good enough for me!!! Addy is still Addy love ya, Ed yep hes Ed just lower voice, and NG love that kid hes awesome. Anyways good to talk with you even though I have really lost my English, honestly I have kinda gotten pretty bad at English!!! Anyways love you all and thanks for all your prayers, they are needed!!

 Mahal kita (LOVE),
  Elder Thompson

Jordan!!! Love that Kid!

Trycicles! another form of transportation in the Philippines

The District

The Zone

His mission Pres who he has developed a great respect and love for him!

Enjoying the the Fireworks?????? (where are they?)