...news of things happening around the world, is tough hear...

Hello Family and Friends!

This week was good as we got back in the swing of things and finished up a very hard working week! The whole district is sitting in this internet cafe together awaiting transfers so it is a little nerve racking! But anyways, let me throw out at you some fun stuff happening out here in Sarawak!

This week one of the nights we came into one of our less-actives houses and they had the Corner Canyon High School SBO Closing Video playing from our year....wait what?!   Haha they searched me up on YouTube and they found it, haha. So they were watching it and they wanted to know what was going on, so, I translated it for them! It was way funny and they all loved it!

We also had the opportunity of doing a lot of exchanges this week, so that meant that on one of the days Elder Orr and I were left with our two native Iban companions. That was a blast! It was pretty funny if you could listen to two white kids throw around Iban with two natives.  As Sunday rolled around this week, we came to church like normal only to find that our branch president hadn't prepared anything for the meeting. "Hey so, Elder Thompson, can you speak for us today?"......Oh gosh. So yeah I had to pull out a talk out of you know where and go on for 15 min, in Malay. Scariest thing ever, but it worked out! Stories, man, stories are where it's at. (Thanks Dad!)

  

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One last quick thing, as we get the news about these things happening around the world here in Malaysia, it is tough as usual. I hear about these not only from other sources, but late because of the lack of information here. I am saddened and humbled, but my mind always returns back to the recent talks given by Prophets and Apostles of God that talk about these rough times hard. Not just recent talks but many talks that have been given just in the last decade. Just in this recent conference there were many. Gary A Stevenson talked about holding to Christ in these hard times to come. Robert D. Hales talked about us being pilots in this day. He said that we must be able to pilot our planes through the oncoming storms. Quentin L. Cook talked about making sure our boats were strong enough to withstand when the tide draws out. There are many more that talk about similar things, but they all point to one eternal truth: That there are storms and troubles ahead, and we must ready for them, and the way to do that is to stick to Christ, and stick to this Gospel. This is apart of God's plan. I don't mean to sound ignorant, that is the last thing God wants. We can aid and pray and fast for the world. I guess my point is that we should not be scared and we should not fear.

I will finish with one of my favorites from this last conference. As Richard J. Maynes explained, we must be centered, as clay in the center of the potter's wheel, exactly in the center of this Gospel if we are to stand in the oncoming things. The world is spinning and will continue to spin faster and faster as does the potter's wheel, if the clay is not centered perfectly, it will not be able to become something beautiful. I have a strong testimony of this not only because I took a year of pottery in high school and learned this the hard way haha..., but because it is so true for today, and will be true for the days to come.

Love you all!

Elder Thompson

2015 Draper, Utah Missionary Letters thru Nov14-2015