"All in the Lord's timing."

Hey gang! This week on #whatsmysnack we roasted some hot dogs! Some members had us over and we were going to roast them over the fire but it was too cold and rainy, so we had this cool little thingymajig which got the job done! Nothing like some good old fashion roasted weenies!

We had a pretty cool opportunity on Wednesday. President and sister Bingham came to our district council  and president had interviews with us afterwards, love that man. He and sister Bingham then came out to a lesson with us. We taught our Nigerian friend Olivia and had a very powerful restoration lesson. Hopefully she will have the courage to talk with her father about meeting with us.

We were hyped for Kelvin's baptism on Saturday and everything was going good. He passed his baptismal interview with ease and he was pumped for Saturday. Friday morning we spent a lot of time calling members and setting up the program. We go to our lesson with Kelvin at 3pm and he isn't there and he doesn't answer our calls or texts. We were pretty stressed but went on with our day and at 9pm we went by with our ward mission leader and we woke Kelvin up. He told us his baptism wasn't going to happen because his mom, who is still in Nigeria,  won't let him be baptized without her being there. So unfortunately we had to push Kelvin's baptism to later this summer when his mom comes to visit. All in the Lord's timing.

The Illinois weather can't seem to make up it's mind. It snowed 6 inches two weeks ago then was sunny and 70 degrees then on Saturday it snowed another 5 inches! Still waiting for it to actually be spring out here. The church is true!!

-Elder Thorpe 

Pictures:

1.  #whatsmysnack

2. Spring

3. Spring...?

4. The weather is a bunch of rubbish

Easter!

Hey gang! This week on #whatsmysnack we have some dank sushi!! A Phillipino member took us to this new Asian place called Yummy Station and it was hecka good! Real good California roll, I didn't think I'd like sushi, but imma fan of Yummy Station. 

We had an awesome week being able to focus on the Savior. We shared the Easter initiative video the with all of our contacting and we saw some cool miracles from it. We found some cool people. Hopefully their return appointments go through this week! 

Kelvin is still doing good, if everything works out he will be baptized on Saturday! We are hyped about that, he is a stud! He has given his friends copies of the book of Mormon and he also sent one to his mom back in Nigeria, he is so sick. 

Life is good! I love this work! 

~Elder Thorpe 

1 game day!!

Sorry I forgot to send this last week,

Hey gang! This week on #whatsmysnack we have a low quality photo of a high quality meal! Brother Filio took us and the Bloomingdale elders out to the cheesecake factory with his family to celebrate his twin daughters birthday. Dang good herb crusted salmon, potatoes and asparagus! It's very rare you get to dine at a place like the cheese cake factory as a missionary. Tender mercies from the lord!

I don't have much time today. We are doing our 1 game day today! So a couple of the boys are going to the white Sox vs Rays game this afternoon! I'm not sure if I'm more excited to watch a baseball game or to be in the Southside again! I feel like I'm home!

Conference this weekend was amazing as usual! So many good talks that inspired me and hopefully all of you to be better! Especially presidents Nelsons simple words to do better and be better! I hope you all continue to study these talks from God's prophets and apostles! It's a great time to be alive!

We had some really good lessons this week with betsy & Del, Kelvin, and Kathleen. We have been able to have member couples come to all of our lessons with Betsy and Del and it has made a huge difference. They also came to church on Sunday and are making great progress. Kelvin we had 2 lessons with and he is solid, he watched conference and came to church on Sunday. He is looking great for baptism on April 27th!! Kathleen has also been making progress, she said she felt like she had better start actually ready the pamphlets so she did. She told us she feels like she really understands the apostasy and the restoration now! She is just really hesitant about coming to church for some reason.

Everything is going great in the burg! Except yesterday it snowed 6 inches, that was lame. But it's 55 degrees today and pretty much all the snow is gone. It is what it is.

I hope y'all have a great week!

-Elder Thorpe 

Watching Conference!

Cruisin...

Go White Sox!

Go White Sox!

See the small line of white in the stands up from the infield dirt on 3rd baseline?

#whatsmysnack Cheesecake Factory

Go White Sox!

"We are gonna have another good 6 weeks here in the Burg!"

Hey gang! This week on #whatsmysnack we have some hot nuts!! Lol these bad boys are good. Elder Romm got me hooked on them. They are peanuts with a crunchy shell covered in chilli powder. I guess I'm on the chili powder grind or something. The chilli powder has got it... I don't even know what it is, but it's got it!

It was a great final week of my 14th transfer. We spent a lot of time tracting this week. President has invited us to start setting a 2 hour block of tracting every night from 5pm-7pm because that's when everyone is home. So we started doing that this week and we have been able to talk to a lot more people, it's been pretty sweet. Nobody too solid yet, we got a couple return appointments but we will see if they happen this week. 

On Wednesday we met with Betsy and we invited her to read President Nelson's talk about the women's role in gathering Israel. Thursday morning we woke up to a text from her saying "you were right, I love it! I'm in!" We then went by on Saturday night to give her a blessing because she has serious abdominal pain and couldn't walk, she told us then that she had received an answer that God wants her to be baptized! Today she is feeling way better and is up walking around and is almost back to 100%. With Del being against her joining the church he told her she had to do her research. So she went on Google and searched "what is wrong with the mormons". Obviously she found hecka anti. So we are now working through that with her. But we love the grind. We will get her in the water. 

We found out last night that elder Freeze and I will be staying together! Good stuff! We are gonna have another good 6 weeks here in the Burg! Life is good and I'm pumped for conference. I hope y'all prepare yourselves to receive some major personal revelation! Have a great week!

-Elder Thorpe 

#whatsmysnack hot nuts.