Teaching in French

Hello everyone,

This week was pretty awesome!  We saw a lot of miracles happen to us.  One of the best highlights was I got to go on a quick exchange with Elder Dimache to teach the Mutomodo Family.  I didn't really teach.  I just sat there as they spoke French to one another.  Even though I wasn't able to understand what they were saying, I felt the spirit as Elder Dimache told them about the Restored Gospel and Church.  Last time we taught them we had tried to invite them to baptism but they didn't understand.  But Elder Dimache was able to put them on date for the 20th of February!  It was really inspiring!  Maybe you can come with us some time.

On P-day we went over a member’s house for dinner and they had their son over and low and behold he played guitar and he had a Les Paul Gibson!!!  Yeah buddy!  I got to play it to.  It was pretty awesome!  Unfortunately all I knew how to play was rock, so I played a little Van Halen Panama.  

Anyways Transfers are this week but I am staying and so is my companion so I will be killing Elder Facey off.

Ya'all have a great week!

Elder Tyler Compton

Elder Compton and Elder Facey

Crazy Week with Unplanned Transfer!

Hello everyone,

This was a crazy week and probably none of you know what happened.  This week [my companion and I] had a few awesome last days together.  This week was a pretty different week with lots of good things happening.

When I was with Elder Reber we had a team up who went with us all day.  We were able to sit down and teach two lessons, one with a family of three and one with Keston.  Keston was on date but he fell off because he didn't come to church on Sunday.

But after having an awesome day with our team up with David we got home and got a call from President Foote.  He told us that there is a missionary struggling with obedience and that there will be an emergency transfer Thursday (last week).  He explained that they are going to do a three way change up so I was moved to the other elders in our ward and then elder Reber got a new companion and now I am companions with one of my favorite elders in the mission, Elder Facey who is from England!  But he does not really have an [English] accent anymore because he's on his last transfer so he sounds like an American.  Anyway, I now live in a member’s home.  The member’s name is Harry Smith.  We call him “President.”  He is a WWII veteran and he was a cop for 30 years.  He's a pretty cool guy.  

Elder Facey and I received a referral that the sisters got but they [referrals] live in our area so we went to see this family.  They came from Kenya Africa just a week ago!  We taught them the restoration.  Their son had to translate for them because they didn't understand English.  We had an awesome team up with Brother Bridges who invited them to church on Sunday.  And they came!  Which was exciting to see.   Five family members are baptism age.  This week we are going to go over and teach them with brother Bola who speaks French which is their native language.

Anyways, this week has been very eventful.  Thank you all for your prayers and support!

Elder Compton
4036 Oak Crest Dr.
Tucker, GA 30084

Book of Mormon Referral

Hello everyone,

This week was good and bad.  We will go bad first.  We were going to have an investigator go over to Brother Bennion's home for a lesson.  But it fell through and we were really disappointed in that both Elder Reber and I were looking forward to that.  

But good news David Pickney, Elder Ashworth's convert.  He went into the doctors to get an MRI and he got the news that 95% of the cancer is gone and that the other 5% should go away.  So he can go back to work now.  He also gave a talk on Sunday, and did a very good job.  He had a very powerful testimony of the Gospel.

So on Saturday we had a pretty cool miracle.  We received a referral for this man that he wanted a Bible.  When we got there he was like I have a King James Bible but I want one of those Mormon Bibles.  I never had a referral for a Book of Mormon before.  It was awesome!  We were able to sit down and talk with him and talk about the Book of Mormon, where it came from, why we need it, and how it relates to us.  I don't know if he fully understands what the Book of Mormon is and all but he said he would read it.  We have an appointment with him.

Also we went over Bro. Fragher and he likes to rap so we asked him to rap us a song about missionary work.  So he did.  I wish that I could send through email because he's really good and it was awesome!

Alright you all have a great week!

Zone Conference

Zone Conference

Short Note and Cool Whip

Hey everyone,

This week I won't have time to really write that much but this week was a good week!  New Year's Eve we ate with the senior couple in our ward.  They work at the employment center here for the Atlanta area.  Then we filled our faces with Cool Whip!!!  Yes we did it!!!

Anyway, have a great week!

Tyler

Merry Christmas!

Hello Everyone,

This week we had a lot of success on seeing members.  Numbers don't show, but on Christmas Eve we were with Bro. Gomez who is the high priest leader in our ward.  We went with him to visit members in the ward.  We had 5 RCLA [Recent Convert / Less Active?] from that but we saw a total of 17 families with him.  It was pretty awesome.  As well we had dinner with bro Gomez and our ward mission leader that night so Bro. Gomez had somewhere to have dinner with someone.

On Christmas we went over to Bishop Hammond's house and had lunch and Skyped our families.  When we got there we got to make cookies, so it was fun.  I chose Bishop because we haven't met him really so I thought this would be a perfect chance to talk with him for a little bit and get to know him.  And that went well.  After that we left and tried to see James and Karen and wish them merry Christmas.  And we saw a few others and had dinner with Alex.  So it was a good day.

Then on Saturday we went and saw some PTs [?] after which we had lunch and then we got picked by Brothers Outlaw, Fragher and Pickney.  We went to a few of our appointments with them.  One of us and one of the brothers would teach and the others would find.  We were pretty successful doing that.

So [here is] a crazy story.  On Sunday as we were riding our bikes to a dinner appointment.  A black Mercedes Benz hit me while I was riding my bike!!!!  No bones broken, no stitches, no brain damage, just a black Mercedes Benz with a white streak on his front bumper!!!  Ha ha!  We shared a card with him as well before we left!  For all of those concerned about the bike, it is fine as well and still rides great!

Thank you all for the letter and such that you have sent to me!

Making cookies at Bishop Hammond's house

Elder Schienk one of my favorite elders out here

Merry Christmas!!!

Merry Christmas everyone!!!,

Wow!  Christmas is here and it’s like 70 degrees outside!  It really doesn't feel like Christmas.  We need some snow and then it would be Christmas.

It’s been pretty exciting though.  We have had a lot of fun.  Last Wednesday I got my new companion.  His name is Elder Reber from Enterprise Utah which is North of St. George about an hour.

This week we went to town on finding [investigators] and getting to know the members.  My last companion had been here for six months before me so he already knew everyone.  I didn't get to meet very many people [in the short time we were together].  But we had tried to see as many members and find a whole lot.  And we were able to see the fruits of our labors.  We found some really awesome [investigators] to teach.

Christmas we have our plans all figured out.  Thursday we will do weekly planning after which we have an appointment with a man and we are going to see a bunch of people.  From like 1pm until our dinner appointment at like 7 we are going to see people with him.  Then on Christmas we are going to open packages then go over to the bishop’s house and skype [home].  Then that night we are going to eat dinner with a family.  Those are our plans so hopefully we will stay busy the hardest time of the year for missionary work.  Oh, also, we have a Christmas zone conference.

Anyways hope all is well have a very merry Christmas!!!  Love ya all!

Warm Christmas!

More Teaching with Elder Facey

Hello everyone,

Merry Christmas!!!  This week was awesome!  Elder Crockett hurt his ankle [now awesome that he hurt his ankle] so he got to go with elder Ashworth and I got to go with elder Facey for the week which was awesome!  Because me and Facey are tight like that.  But we were able to get a lot done even on bike.  Elder Facey and I are really good at is teaching in unity.  We had a lot of teaching we had to do this week.  We were rocking it as the spirit was there as we both testified!  It was really exciting.

One of the people we were able to teach was Michelle.  Michelle is a lady who has been investigating for ten years now and is finally ready to be baptized and we were able to put her on date.  So she is planning on getting baptized after the Christmas-“ness”.

We also taught this man who is really nice.  He has a lot of potential.   Our lesson began with talking about different philosophy of our church compared with others.   That was great but it was just a conversion but we were able to bring it back to talking about the Restoration and the Book of Mormon.  It was really awesome!   Over all this week we had a lot of success.

Well it’s transfer week and it looks like I will be staying here and I will be getting a new companion.  So it works out pretty good.

This week I've been studying Abinadi's talk to King Noah.  In short it’s like 2 Nephi 31 but more in depth.  It’s really awesome.  If you want to really and get deep with the Gospel of Jesus Christ.  Read Mosiah 11-17.  In Chapter 18 Alma preaching to the people what he heard from Abinadi.
       
Oh, as well, last p-day we went to Pediment Park in down town Atlanta.  We had a lot of fun.  

Thank you all for your love and support!

p.s. Oh, btw it’s been 70 dgrees here I've been wearing just a white shirt and tie.  Sorry for those of you in Utah that are really cold...

Last p-day in the park with mid town behind me