Elder Bryce Thompson: June 2025

Monday, June 16, 2025

6/16/2025 Week 76- water balloons and baptisms

Monday was a pretty sweet day! Got to have a zone pday at the church. Played a bunch of different games my favorite was dodgeball... but everyone is against everyone. I thought I had the coolest dive to catch the ball. I landed really hard but hey I'm fine now! I was pretty sore for a few days after.

Tuesday was a miracle filled day, found out our friend Donald was still good to be baptized even after a little opposition scare. We had district council which was super good! Then we had the chance to help out with a missionary Olympics for the primary!!

Wednesday we had a mission wide Zoom and a Kahoot. Of course Elder Smith and I got top 3! Then we went to the mission office so Elder Smith could have his departing interview. Had some lessons and then played water balloon volleyball with the Deacons!

Thursday Elder Smith went to the temple so I just joined some other Elders for a few hours and other than a couple lessons that's about it!

Friday we had 5 lessons with our friends which made it a really good day!

Saturday was the BIG DAY started off really good with Breakfast with President John! And then we went to have lunch with a member from Fort Worth...shoutout Stephen!!! Ok and then we went to Donald's Baptism and wow it was an amazing experience! The spirit was so strong and nothing went too wrong. On the way to a lesson we got to help a lady who ran out of gas just before a gas station. So I got the privilege of steering a dodge challenger while my companion and a service missionary who was with us, pushed 🤣

Sunday was spectacular, wasn't as hectic as it's been but 3 church services is still a lot!!

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1. Zone Pday

2. Catus Antiques

3. Donald's Baptism!!!

4. Trunky Monkey 🐒

6/9/2025 Week 75- I'm the Next Mission President 😎

Started the week by spending 1 1/2 hours at the mission office working on zone council. Then we went fishing and that didn't get us anywhere, then went to In n Out and then played a bunch of card games for the rest of pday. We had a really awesome with two younger kids and well one of them really wants to get baptized so now we are helping her get ready for it :)

Tuesday I had my final interview with President John!! Then we had a zone council where we emphasized the importance of boldly inviting and warning hard of opposition. We termed it "Invite then FIGHT". Had a super busy day the rest of the day!

Wednesday we were able to have 4 lessons with a few of our friends, and they were super good lessons! Other than that just a normal day of missionary work!

Thursday, more lessons and we got to hold a scripture study class that night with some youth. Only 4 people showed up, but hey that's greater than 0. It was a good time.

Friday we had a very revelatory MLC talking about what we can do as leadership to help the culture of the mission stay strong especially with our new mission president coming in a couple weeks. Afterwards we picked our truck up from the mission office and well let's just say it wouldn't start so we had to jump it haha (haven't had problems with it since)

Saturday I was on exchange with Elder Rogers, the best district leader ever 💯. I learned a lot from him. Lesson with Donald and then had a combined comp Study with Elder Larsen one of my former companions!! To end the night we got to go to a Mission-member fireside, it was fun because I got to do the Q&A session with my companion :)

Sunday was hectic but even crazier than usual! Had 3 church meetings as usual, then we had stake mission coordination, then we got to teach a mission prep class, had no time to think... but Sunday is always my favorite day of the week!!

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1& 2. Sitting at President's desk 😝

3. Invite then FIGHT🥊

4. Look at all those chickens 🐓

Wednesday, June 4, 2025

5/2/2025 Week 74- Rangers game!!!

Monday was a good old fun pday. We started off the week by making phone beds as a district. The picture will help it make sense...we also did facemasks. oh and then Elder Grover and I got to go to a Rangers game!!! They played the Bluejays and lost by 1 run but that's alright, it was fun regardless!

Tuesday we started the day by going to the office to take our truck in. We got a new car temporarily until we get a new truck hopefully next week. It was a crazy morning. Then had district council and a few lessons and that's about it!

Wednesday we had a whole ton of contacts, and we were out talking to people when we got the opportunity to help some people tear down an old fence and start building a new one! It was quite the experience! Then had a very good lesson with our new friend Donald! Also we found out Elder Grover is leaving us 😢

Thursday was just a bunch of getting ready for Elder Grover to leave on Saturday. And a whole tone of other contacts!! We also started a new exchange, I joined a set of Elders in their area.

Friday was a really sweet day. Learned a lot from Elder Rogers and Elder Jensen. Their area was out in the boonies which I love so much so it was good! At the end of the night we had a lesson with Ahmed... he is an older gentleman from Jordan who only knows Arabic so we taught him using Google translate. And luckily a member from Utah was able to call in. It was crazy because at the end he was telling us in his limited English that he knows Joseph Smith is a prophet, the spirit was so strong.

Saturday we said goodbye to Elder Grover and then we moved on with the day :( went out with a member who was in home MTC and it was so cool!!! Overall great day!

Sunday was crazy as usual. Our friend Donald came to church!!! We had a lesson with him later that day and we invited him to be baptized and he accepted! What was really cool is that it was the member who invited him. THE SPIRIT WAS SO STRONG!!

Pictures:

1. Facemasks

2. Phone beds 🛌

3 &4. Rangers 🤠

5/26/2025 Week 73- Mormon vs Buddist Temple

Monday was a crazy busy day. We had district council and then went out with one of the youth preparing for a mission. Lets just say it was amazing and we had so many lessons with him! We then ended the night with a couple other lessons!

Tuesday we got to go to the Temple and it was really cool because the Haslams got to take us. They first came to the mission when I was in the FW YSA and I've gotten to know them since then! We then hung out as a district for a little while going to the thrift store and playing games at the church!

Wednesday was a normal day went and made a bunch of visits but nothing roo crazy. We then started an exchange that night. One of my previous companions Elder Larsen joined me here in my area!!

Thursday was a pretty sweet miracle filled day, we had a few lessons which were great! Made a bunch of visits and nothing came from them. But I learned a lot from being with Elder Larsen for the day!!

Friday had a bunch of planning and even more lessons. We definitely didn't plan a lot of things that happened. But that's how it works sometimes, a lesson falls through, well let's go and talk to people out and about. That night we got the opportunity to check out a Buddhist temple here. Never thought I'd find one in Texas, but it was a neat experience.

Saturday was a normal visit-filled day with a couple of lessons. I feel like we did something super fun but I don't remember...

Sunday was a little more calm than last week but still super hectic! In Elders quorum we talked a lot about the priesthood and responsibilities as a priesthood holder and it was just a really nice reflection!