🔥🔥🔥MONTANA🔥🔥🔥

Dear Family and Friends,

Montana is burning! There is fire everywhere and the air quality is

terrible. Last I heard, there were about 70 wildfires across the

state. Please keep Montana in your prayers, we need rain and snow.

It's been very hard to breath this week, my friends. The smoke is

killing me! And the asthma isn't helping either. However, neither of

us are feeling quite as sick as we were last week, which is a huge

plus!

We had a super powerful lesson with Pete this week. Pete's biggest

hold up is that his parents baptized him as a Lutheran when he was a

young boy. He believes that the LDS church is the true church and that

it would bless his life, but he can't get past the feeling that it

would be a big disrespect to be baptized in another church than his

parents baptized him. Over the course of the lesson we realized there

is only one thing he will do, and that's read the Book of Mormon, so

from now on, that will be our focus! If it grows his faith, he will

make the choices and take the steps he needs to.

We also met with Yessica, Mari, and their cousin Edgar this week!

These three all live together up here in Montana, but Yessi and Mari's

mother lives in Vegas. In the past Edgar hasn't really been there for

everything, but this week he stayed! The lesson was fantastic. Tons of

participation, Yessi's member friend was there and she testified, the

spirit spoke to each of us... it was amazing. And now both Yessi and

Edgar are praying for a day to be baptized.

Another lesson with the Morrisons, and how we love them! When we were

walking up to their house this week, little Sariah was outside talking

to her young friend and her friend's mom, as well as her best friend

Bobby! Bobby is an elderly woman, but she and Sariah are as close as

friends get! They spend tons of time together, it's so cute. Bobby is

currently reading the Book of Mormon. As we walked up Sariah ran and

gave us hugs despite our protests and dragged us over to meet her

friend Nina and her Mom. They were both very kind. What a great

missionary Sariah will be! As we walked away, Nina looked at her mom

and said, "Mom, can I have them?" Hahaha that made our day! Sariah is

shooting to be baptized on the 23rd, and we hope Bobby, Nina and

nina's mom will all be there!

We went out to visit with Carlos this week and he was home, but he was

heading somewhere. We still ended up talking to him for about 45

minutes! This man has SO MUCH FAITH!! He has the biggest heart as

well. All he wants, ALL he wants is to serve other people. He just

gives stuff away because he loves people, and he's amazing. We have to

be careful what we tell him we like haha. He loves the few things he's

read in the Book of Mormon, and is extremely excited to read it with

his family. He's right up there with the most prepared people I've met

on my mission!

It's been a great week! I love this gospel. The people are amazing.

And I love you all!

Love,

Elder Thomas

The smoke picture I took

The smoke/fire pictures I did not take.

Getting shuttled to MLC IN Helena! We wake up at 3AM, 

and leave at 4AM for this.

We were each assigned a spirit animal by way of democracy on the way

up... this was mine haha

Zone Conference with the Zone! Best zone ever peeps :)