...and thats how we ended up in jail

This week was seriously wayyy too fast. It got off to a super crazy start. Transfers were last Monday. My comp (Elder Maurer) showed up. Within the hour of his showing up, we got a call that some of the missionaries in our zone got into a tricycle crash. One of them was in the hospital. So, we raced over to give him a blessing. That night, we didn't have time to get back to our house, so we slept at the Elders that are closest to the hospital. The next morning, we went on exchanges because the Elder in the hospital has baptisms on Saturday that they still had to interview. So I spent the day at the hospital. (He is ok now. He is healthy and back to work)

Then we got home to our house and introduced Elder Maurer to all the members and people that we are teaching. It was awesome. I am really excited for this transfer. 

Thursday, we hopped on a 4 hour bus ride down to the mission office for Leadership Council. It was awesome. I seriously love President Oldroyd and come away from all of those meetings super inspired. That took the whole day Friday and my some miracle, we actually got a trike that would take us to our area late that night. 

Then Saturday, one of the members told us that she was going to visit her husband in jail the next morning. We were both super excited for the invite. So, the next morning we woke up extra early and went with her to visit her husband. Turns out, they were having a giant festival at the jail. There were tons of native Filipino tribal dancers and stuff. We just sat right down in this giant line of inmates and watched the whole thing. We were there for like 3 hours and it was super fun to talk to all the people there. 

On Sunday, we did Come Follow Me study with a bunch of the members from our ward. This week's topic was awesome. It was about all of the recent converts which is awesome for our area because most of the 40 or so members in our ward were baptized in the last 2 years. I loved when it said something about how "faithfulness in the past will not be enough to face the storms that will come." We need to all be doing the little things that will give us protection in the days to come. Keep it up!! I love you all. 

Love Elder Thomas

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