The Best 2 Years: Elder Jace Thompson in Omaha/Japan: the one where he left nishinomiya

"Boom, you looking for this?"

Aiight sorry in advance because this is gonna be a long email but I had a crazy week so its well deserved.

Starting with Tuesday we went shopping for p day (not my idea) and yeah that was the whole day😭😭

Wednesday we got transfer news and I am going to Uwajima! Its on Shikoku and it is crazy 田舎 (countryside and rural) so missionary work might be slow but the its gonna be a party. My new comp is Elder Holmes who was in the MTC when I was so we know each other a little bit.

Thursday I started packing up some of my stuff and while I was doing that, my comps made a valiant attempt at no bake cookies... it did not go as they had forseen.... there were too many oats so it was so crumbly you couldn't make it into a shape and they burned the heck out of them....also they didn't add any vanilla extract so they didn't taste very good. There was so much sugar and crap that if you ate a handful you had a stomach ache for the next couple hours. They didn't want to waste the food though so they called it cereal and ate it for breakfast over the next few days. Every day they started the day out with a massive stomach ache. Luckily I was just packing so I don't have to tie my name to that disaster 🤣🤣

Friday we had out game night and yuta was the only one who pulled up...luckily he's the one that has been teaching me ping pong so me and him played ping pong for like 2 hours and just talked. I invited him to this hawaiian night that some sisters in our district were putting on which he seemed really excited about and wanted to come. I also told him that I was gonna be leaving Nishinomiya on Monday which he was much less excited about

Saturday we dropped perkins off as he was gonna be spending two days in Akashi with elder Noda while elder Noda was waiting on his comps to get to the new area. That night we had the hula night which was an absolute blast and I may or may not have been "gifted" the opportunity to dance in front of everyone. That went about as good as you'd expect for a white kid trying to hula dance. Yuta also came which was awesome and he really enjoyed it. But near the end of the night I saw him crying so I asked him if he was ok and in the best broken english he could muster he said, "Jace....last....day." Yeah that got me depressed pretty quick so I was like what if you come to church tomorrow and we can say our goodbyes then? And he got a lot happier and said that he really wanted to come to church

Sunday was a good day. Yuta did pull up and he seemed to enjoy it. He said it was a little difficult to understand but that he wanted to learn more so that was awesome. We also had a baptism of one of the kids in the ward so he stayed for that and then we said our goodbyes. Yuta is so sick and he will always be the person I credit my ping pong skills to...it was sad to say goodbye but maybe someday ill be back in Nishinomiya. He also said he wanted to visit me on shikoku so maybe I'll see him in my next area?

Monday was a looonggg day. We started out by finishing up packing everything and then we left for Kobe. We got there with a bunch of other missionaries and were just talking and saying goodbye because for some of them it was their last day. I was meeting up with elder Hogge (from the MTC) and elder Lau (also from the MTC just younger district) and we were getting on a bus to get to our areas. But elder lau and Hogge pulled up like 10 minutes late so we missed that bus and the next one wasnt for three more hours. So we just chilled with other missionaries and talked and got some mcdonalds. It was pretty fun and good to catch up and day goodbye to lots of missionaries. Then we got on our bus and were off...we met up with our comps and got to some other elders apartment at like 10:45 but I'm writing this at 11:40 and no one is ready to go to bed so we'll be up late...

Spiritual thought

Don't have a lot of time so I'll keep it quick but

Doctrine and Covenants 84:63

And as I said unto mine apostles, even so I say unto you, for you are mine apostles, even God’s high priests; ye are they whom my Father hath given me; ye are my friends;

Today I just wanna give a massive thank you to all of my friends. You guys are the best and I love each of you! Yall are one of the biggest reasons I am a missionary and I'm so grateful for every single one of you. I cant wait until we all get home and we all get to party again! I hope everything is going well and if you need anything just let me know!

Side note... please tell your friends that you love them cause someone probably needs to hear it.

Well thats all I got this week! Feel free to email me!