Twins Ah?

Walking around the streets of Bangalore with another tall white guy that looks exactly the same as me regularly causes people to lift their eyebrows and turn their heads as we walk by. When we talk to people on the streets, our conversation usually goes something like this:

Us: Hey guys, how are you?

Them: Fine! Where are you from?

Us: We're from America. 

Them: Ahh, okay okay. Twins Ah?

Us: No we're not twins. We're looking the same right?

Them: Yes! You are own brothers?

Us: Nope. Also not brothers.

Them: Cousin brothers?

Us: Yeah, let's go with that. We're cousin brothers. (which in India really doesn't imply that you are blood related but related because of friendship or something)

This week was pretty good. We've had a ton of good time to go in our area and teach the people. Elder Ball and I are teaching more lessons than ever which is cool because the last time I was able to teach this many lessons was when we were companions in Rajahmundry. We must be the power companionship. We have a ton of really awesome investigators right now and becoming really close friends with them all. Baptisms will be coming!!

Church yesterday was really good. There are some really cool members of our ward that I'm excited to have some time to get to know. Our ward is about half American people because many of them are working here and stay within our ward boundaries. Very interesting for me to see what a ward is like with American people serving in many of the callings. It's been a long time since I've experienced that.

That's about all for now.  (Pictures are at the bottom) We're working hard and having a really fun time while we're at it. Hope you all have a great week!

Love, Elder Thompson

We've started collecting a few traditional recipes from families here and there and then learning how to cook them ourselves. We made this one after church yesterday. It's called Dal (Telegu =papu) with white rice and popped. Very delicious and extremely cheap to make. It's made out of Dal lentils and a few vegetables and spices.

With our investigator Raj Kumar. He was a walk in to church one week and been consistently coming to church and taking the lessons from us ever since. He was pretty shocked to hear about the Plan of Salvation and life with his family after death. As we taught him that lesson, I realized even more how lucky I am to have the knowledge of God's great plan in my life. It makes me more motivated to find and help other people learn about this essential doctrine as Raj Kumar has just learned. We're working to help him be baptized next month.

Us with Shabbeer, another one of our investigators. He overheard Elder's Ball and Basil teaching somebody else in a restaurant last transfer and was intrigued by our belief and knowledge of God. We had a nice visit with him here in the park.