The Best 2 Years: Elder Jace Thompson in Omaha/Japan: the one with the boar 🐗

"Boom, you looking for this?"

Starting with Monday we went back to the Indo curry place but this time we got the all you can eat deal...most all you can eat places just give you one thing thats unlimited and you end up running out of other stuff to go with it. This place is not so. You can get everything on the menu 1 time, and you will run out of room far before you will be able to eat everything on the menu. It was phenomenal, and we ate SO much food 😋

Wednesday, we went to go play baseball but it was raining again so we didn't play, however on the way back we saw a bunch of kids playing soccer so I asked if we could play and we ended up playing soccer with these kids for like an hour and it was awesome😆😆 also starting today we have a big mission tour. So, a member of the 70, Elder McCune, started going around to a couple of places to talk with all of us. We each have one day of being in person and ours isnt until friday but we have meetings every day until then.

Thursday, we left and started traveling to okayama, which is where our in person meeting is. We stopped and stayed with the toyo elders, but one of our trains got delayed, so we didn't get there until midnight.

Friday, we had to leave early to get there on time so we were up at 4:45am. Needless to say, I was hekkin tired, so I slept the whole way up. The meeting was great, though! He talked about strengthening member relationships and how import members are in the work! There were tons of missionaries there from all over, and I got to meet up with Sister Guth and Elder Shoplift from the mtc, who I haven't seen in a minute, which was awesome. When it was all over, we headed home, and surprisingly, we made it back to our area that day.

Saturday, we started out the day strong with making some wild boar for lunch. It's about as good as it sounds, maybe worse, so I didn't eat much. It smelt like a wet dog, and our apartment reeked after we made it. We had to use it at some point, though, because a member gave it to us. The rest of the day was pretty normal besides the fact that back home, my sister got married 🤯🤯 Still hard to believe that I missed a full wedding out here.

Sunday was kinda crazy! First, we had a deaf homeless dude show up to church, so that was dope. We talked to him the day before and told him to come to eikaiwa, and then he just pulled up to church. We also had a member meal that night (my first in Uwajima), and she fed us tacos! Holy, I miss America. Our food just wins

Spiritual Thought:

2 Nephi 33:2

But behold, there are many that harden their hearts against the Holy Spirit, that it hath no place in them; wherefore, they cast many things away which are written and esteem them as things of naught

If nothing, or nothing we recognize comes through, we imagine [God] has let us down and reject Him, perhaps at the very moment when help was on its way.

–C.S Lewis

It's not always easy to hold on, especially when we feel abandoned by everyone, but remember, remember, God will never abandon us. He would not do that. No matter how alone you feel, never forget that God is always with you.

"If your prayers don’t always seem answered, take heart. One greater than you cried, 'My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?' If for a while the harder you try, the harder it gets, take heart. So it has been with the best people who ever lived."

–Jeffrey R. Holland

That's all I got this week! But feel free to email me! I love hearing from you guys!