The Best 2 Years: Elder Jace Thompson in Omaha/Japan

Sunday, March 30, 2025

the one with cherry blossoms

"Boom, you looking for this?"

A little late to the party so this'll be a quick email with a lot of typos I'm sure....

Starting with Monday we hit up a mexican place that wasn't so Mexican... Had some good Korean food and a lot of second hand smoke 5/10😁

Tuesday we had a fire district council and then we did some service at a care center for one of our members! It was super fun and we just played some fun games and did some charades with them! 😁😆 At the end of the day, we did English class as usual and had so many people come! We had a new mom from Vietnam come with her two kids and it was so great! 😆

Thursday we had a lesson with Aki and taught her some English and a little bit of gospel stuff too! We want her to come to church but she doesn't seem too interested in coming to church...

But still had a good lesson and we hope she'll come soon!

Friday we did a practice lesson with a member, wrote some letters for the members since it was raining, and finished the day with game night! It was as fun as always and our new Vietnamese friends came as well! 😁😁 It's so fun having all of the families here and coming to so many activities! 😁😊

Saturday was a phenomenal day! 😁😆 We started by going to see some cherry blossoms with our friend Hide, his wife, his daughter, and one of their friends and his daughter! 😁 It was so much fun and we had a great time looking at the beautiful trees, eating some food, and playing together! 😁😆 After that, we went to an all you can eat meat buffet with an amazing couple in our ward and ate SO MUCH FOOD! Once we said we were about full, they decided to order two steaks and five more plates full of meat. Needless to say, it about killed us but, what a way to go out! 😆

Sunday, Bill came to church and we had another super great lesson with him! We taught him about the plan of salvation and we are hoping to put him on date for baptism next week! Please pray for Bill! 😁😆

Well that's it for this week! Feel free to email me! 😁

That's all, folks.

(Not so) Mexican food!

日本人になった

Lunch after DCM (sisters were lame and couldn't come)

Service at the care center! 😁😁

I guess I'm old now....

Lit sunset...

We found a park and got distracted for 15 minutes....

Sweet shrine

Cherry Blossoms with hide and his Family!

Yakiniku with the Sasaki couple ! 😆😆

Potluck after church! 😁😁 You can peep Bill, Lunt, and I in the back

We made dinosaurs....

Sunday, March 23, 2025

the one with a crazy good lesson

"Boom, you looking for this?"

Starting with Monday we hit up burger kind for lunch and then met up with the sisters at our church and played ping pong, some card games, and one of them is learning guitar so I was teaching her some stuff on guitar. Pretty fun day, and then at the end of the day, like always, we played basketball with our boys😆😆

Tuesday we had English class and then after that, we went and got food with our boy shoki, who we play basketball with on Mondays. He said he has some questions about Christianity, and we want to start teaching him soon if we can😆😆

Wednesday, we had Zone Conference😆😆😆

It was as fun as it usually is and it's always good to see some old friends.... I'm now the oldest person in the zone (mission age wise), and so it feels pretty weird 😅😅

After Zone Conference, we went back to our area, and we met up with a new friend from hellotalk! He seems pretty cool, and hopefully, he'll come to our activities!😁😁

Thursday, we went to the park with natsumi and her kids😆 We had a super fun time, and the kids are so funny! 🤣 They are all really crazy and they always want my attention, so they run around yelling JACE just to get me to look at them🤣🤣

After that, we met up with a member and he drove us around to go and visit other members and it was a lot of fun, we ended up doing that pretty much all day and it was fun to spend the whole day with him! We also had some really great conversations with members, and it was a day well spent! 😁

Friday, we had our game night, and both of our favorite families came, and we all had a great time! 😆😁 We played lots of ping pong and just ran around with the kids all night 😆🤣

It's always super fun, and I'm so glad we were able to get so many people to come to our game night every week! 😆😁

Saturday, we did some service at a nearby park in the morning. We helped clean up trash with a bunch of other people from around the area! It was really great and it's finally starting to warm up😁😁

After that, we went to my favorite Ramen shop in Japan (it's in one of my last areas) with our friend Hide! 😁😁 After eating dinner with him, we still had some time to kill, so we all went bowling together 😆😆😆

It was an absolute blast, and I don't think I could ever get sick of bowling 😆

Sunday, Bill came to church, and we had a really amazing lesson with him about baptism, the gift of the holy ghost, and enduring to the end😁

He's been reading the Book of mormon, praying, and thinking a lot about the church, and he is just such a good guy! We invited him to be baptized, and he said yes! He said he would pray and ask God when he should get baptized!😆

I hope things keep going so well with him! 😆😆😆😁😁

Spiritual Thought

2 Nephi 25:23

For we labor diligently to write, to persuade our children, and also our brethren, to believe in Christ, and to be reconciled to God; for we know that it is by grace that we are saved, after all we can do

Jesus Christ possessed merits that no other child of Heavenly Father could possibly have. He was a God, Jehovah, before His birth in Bethlehem. His Father not only gave Him His spirit body, but Jesus was His Only Begotten Son in the flesh. Our Master lived a perfect, sinless life and therefore was free from the demands of justice. He was and is perfect in every attribute, including love, compassion, patience, obedience, forgiveness, and humility. His mercy pays our debt to justice when we repent and obey Him. Even with our best efforts to obey His teachings we will still fall short, yet because of His grace we will be saved “after all we can do.”

—Richard G. Scott

Well, that's all I got for this week. Feel free to email me! 😁