First off I want to say thank you to everyone for the
birthday wishes and the stuff that I received on my birthday! You truly made it
a good one! I felt like I was getting too much stuff and too much
attention and I felt like it was all just too much, but, I am so grateful
for all the love! Just trying to give more than I receive, and I always lose, it
seems like. In a world where no one has a lot, and you seem to have it all, you
completely forget yourself. Thinking of myself for one day just felt
weird.....I had to get back to work fast, haha. But thank you so much!
Starting off the week we had an awesome family home evening
at a central Kampung house that brought in about 52 people! Most were
less active members. It was so cool to see everyone come out and beat the
average we have at church each week, haha! I just couldn't stop looking around
and smiling thinking how much I love all these people. It was the best.
We did caroling this week as a branch. So we all got in our
caravan of janky cars and worse, motorcycles, and we went house to house each
night and sang some off tune Christmas songs, but it was so much fun. Yes,
Christmas is finally here.
Elder Haslam and I got real festive this week. We couldn't
take our plain house any longer so we spiced it up a little bit. Thanks to some skills my
mom taught me our house is ready for Christmas and it feels a lot more like
home. You'll have to see the many pictures because in terms of Elders
homes....we crushed it. Just bringing in the Christmas spirit and showing our
Chinese and Muslim neighbors how big white people do it from America!
Love you all so much! Til next week!
Elder Thompson
Fun Christmas Note: "here in Malaysia we have to put the stocking under the AC because they don't know what fireplaces are.....so Santa comes through the air vents..."
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