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

"Boom, you looking for this?"

Starting with Monday, we had a pretty chill P day. We just called the fam, got lunch at McDonald's, got groceries, and then kinda chilled the rest of the day. At night, we went to a members house for dinner! One of our friends (Jennifer from Bangladesh) also came, and we all ate, played games, and had family home evening together! Their family had a lot of young kids, and we all played uno, and it was SUPER chaotic... Really reminded me of home🥹🥹 Hands down the best member meal I've had to date😁😁😆

Wednesday, we had MLC (Mission Leadership Conference), and since I'm now a Zone Leader, I got to go! We go to the church right next to the mission home for it (which is in kobe, about 3 and a half hours away) and met up with tons of missionaries! I got to see lots of people I hadn't seen in a while, and it was just a good time. We talked about goals for the mission and then talked about Zone Conference as well! Zone Leaders always give a 45-minute training in zone conference, so now I get to prepare, plan, and do that!!😆😆🫠🫠 Right as we got home, we went to eikaiwa and it was really fun! We had lots of people come and it was really relaxed. We spent the whole time introducing ourselves and then playing a little game! It was a good day, for sure!

Friday, we left our area again to go to a baptismal interview for someone who speaks Portuguese! My companion is from Brazil and was the closest elder to the area, so we took another 3 hour trip down for the baptismal interview! It was also pretty fun, and I got to meet up with my comp from the MTC, so it was good to catch up and see how things have been going! Before we got home, we met up with a friend and got dinner with her at McDonald's (my comp really likes it so we'll be going pretty often I think 😆😆) we gave her a book of Mormon and taught a little lesson at McDonald's and she was super nice and we are hoping we can keep teaching her more!

Saturday we had a blood drive going on at our church and while people were waiting and stuff we had a band playing for everyone and then there's also these robots that are kind of like Legos just a little more complicated and lots of people in the area brought them and showcased them to everyone! It was a really fun time, and I've been getting a lot closer with the ward members here!

Sunday was great! We had two of our friends come to church, Jennifer (the girl we ate with on Monday) and her friend Paige (she is from Nevada). They are both in Japan as students and both are fluent in English! After sacrament meeting, we wanted to teach them in English so they would be able to understand more of what was being taught and since my companion doesn't speak English, yours truly was teaching that lesson🤣🤣 It actually went really good and the spirit was super strong! We're hoping they'll want to keep coming to church! 😁😁

Spiritual Thought:

3 Nephi 13:10

Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, “Thy will be done,” and those to whom God says, in the end, “Thy will be done.” All that are in Hell, choose it. Without that self-choice there could be no Hell. No soul that seriously and constantly desires joy will ever miss it. Those who seek find. Those who knock it is opened.

—C. S. Lewis

Holy fetch, I love C.S. Lewis... What a quote 😆😆

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

That's all, folks!