Happy Easter!

Hello Everyone,

This week just flew on by honestly!  We have been going really hard and been teaching a lot of people.  Some people we have been teaching that are one date are Ceu, Bishal, Myia and Caleb.  Please keep them in your prayers at night.

This week it finally rained!  Blessings!  I will show you a pics of the pollen, but the rain finally got it out of the air which is nice.

The weather was kind of cooler this week but last week we had days that were 80 degrees, but now the days are not quite that warm.

This upcoming week we have Mission council in which we have to go down to Fayetteville and I guess have a council on what we need to do as a mission.  So that will be exciting.  As well we are pretty excited about General Conference.  There are always miracles that happen with conference.

Thank you for reading my email!  Happy Easter!

-Elder Compton-

Pollen on shoes!!!

Another Week in the GAM!

Hey Everyone,

Another week in the GAM (Georgia Atlanta Mission).  This week was pretty cool.  On P-day we were walking through the mall and I came across a Compton shirt.  I was like dang we are getting that so i got it.  It’s like huge on me but it’s got Compton on it!

Tuesday we had a zone training.  Our mission President gave us a training on Teaching Repentance Baptizes converts.  It’s kinda been [his] theme.  Basically he wants to go into details of how to repent in every lesson we teach and invite them to repent.  Then my companion had [his interview] with President Foote so they talked and that gave me some time to talk to some elders I had known before that I had not be able to talk to [for a while].  Then we got stuck in traffic because we left at 5:00 pm and we had to go from the bottom of Atlanta to the top of it.  It probably took an hour and a half.  So we had to cancel all of our appointments.

We had some pretty “sick” Appointments this week.  We are teaching an Italian who is a musician.  He really likes what we are teaching him.  We were there teaching him for a solid 2 hours.  We taught all The Restoration, most of the Plan of Salvation, and some of the Commandments.

We were also able to teach Cheil The Restoration and then go back and watch The Restoration video with him and he understands, I think.  He is the one from Burma close to Thailand.  It’s kinda hard because he speaks so little English but we are going slow with him.

Thank you all for all that you all do!   Keep me in your prayers!

-Elder Compton-

Zone Conference

Elder Facey Has Gone Home

This week was pretty crazy.  Monday we saw Brother Bridges and he took us to Golden Coral where we ate ourselves sick!  It was pretty awesome!  Then on Tuesday we had district meeting.  Then Elder Facey packed like all day.  Then we had a member feed us dinner.  We had fish and chips in preparation of going home for elder Facey.  Then that same night we had a huge hamburger!  It as well was good so this week is just slam packed with good food!

Then Wednesday was the sad day that elder Facey went home.  I got Elder Park.  He's pretty cool.  He is from South Jordan.  Anyways, we went to town on finding and that has kind of been the rest of our week was finding.

We found this hippie whose dad was Mormon and we started teaching him.  Oh!  As well, Connie dropped us like a rock when she found out that Elder Facey was gone, so no more Connie.

This week the Segovias wanted to have a b-day cake for me!  So that is what that picture is.  The underlining reason is sister Segovias is on a no sweets diet and her cheat is b-days so that is why!  But it’s been good.  I don’t know I like the idea of being district leader.  It is a lot more stressful.  I’d rather just do the work.

Anyways, sorry this email was not organized.  I just kind of through in a bunch of things that happened.  Thank you all for your support!  Keep on praying for the work to move forward!

-Elder Compton-

Pre-Birthday (by a lot) Cake for Elder Compton

New Member Goes to the Temple

Hey everyone,

This week I don't have a lot of time but this week I got to go to one of my recent convert’s endowment.   He was baptized right after I left but I was able to be there for his endowment.

Then the next day we went on exchanges with the zone leaders in Clarkston.  WOW!  I don't have to travel the world they are all there!  Like everyone from the Middle East, Asia,  and Africa live there.  I met a guy from Nepal!!!!  That’s pretty cool if you ask me.

Then on Sunday we had Connie and Melvin come to church again.  They are doing good.  And elder Facey is leaving to go home to England, so hes pretty excited.  I will be taking his place as district leader.

Thank you for reading my email! Hope all is well at home!

-Elder Compton-

Service with the Red Cross

Hey everyone,

This week went by so fast!  But it was great!  Monday night our plans fell through so we went over to Brother Bridges’ house and taught him and then he took us to get some food so it was a pretty fun night!  Tuesday Elder Facey needed to buy another suitcase so we went around to get that then we did some finding and that was about our day.

Wednesday we went finding down the street from us and found this man name was Jail.  He is Burmese and very welcoming.  We sat down and share the restoration with him.  It was kind of hard because he is really slow with the English.  But he said we could come back and teach him more.  Pretty cool.  Atlanta is such melting pot for of different people.

Then Saturday we had a service project with Red Cross where we installed smoke alarm systems in this one neighborhood.  There was a house that burned to the ground taking with it a mother and two little kids so it woke up some people so the Red Cross is helping out a bit.

Thank you for all your support.  If you get a chance, write me a letter of what is going on from home!

-Elder Compton-

Visit to Stone Mountain

Hello everyone,

This week we went to Stone Mtn. And here are some pics of it.  You will be amazed how high it is.  It is 1683 feet about.  But I must say it would be pretty awesome if you had never seen a mountain before.  Stone Mountain is a solid piece of granite rock poking out of the ground.

This week was a pretty slow.  We went and saw the Mutombo family.  Did a lot of finding.  A few of you may know Tyler Cooper and [his dad] Darren Cooper.  They took me and Elder Facey out for lunch on Thursday.  Thank you!  That was pretty cool.

Sorry for such a short email hopefully pics will make up for it!

Thank you for all your support!

Elder Compton

Stranger Things

Hey Everyone,

Well this week was so cold!  But we pushed through it and were able to see most of our investigators.  Tuesday we made a lot of phone calls and tried to stay warm.  We were able to get in [to see our investigators] with a few members and teach 5 lessons with them.  Later that day we ran into the Sis. Escobar and she told us about a family who use to come to cub scouts with her husband.  We knocked on their door and Tommy, the husband, answered the door and was like, "Hey! You are from the Latter-Day Saints church right?"  We answered, “yeah we are.”  Anyway, he told us to stop by sometime and that we could teach them.  So we have big plans for them.  Also, we taught the Word of wisdom to Karolyn at the Mayes home with Elder Brown who works at the employment office.  It was an awesome lesson we had.  Elder Brown helped a lot in teaching and she committed to live the Word of Wisdom.

Wednesday was good.  We had zone training, and went to the temple.  It was really nice to go to the temple.  Fills me up with the spirit to last me a while.  Zone training was good.  I like how we talked about Chapter 8 in Preach my Gospel.  We learned a lot of different ways to be organized.  And I hope that my input was helpful.

Thursday we were walking through a neighborhood and we saw all these Hollywood trucks with lots of stuff.  Well they were filming "Stranger Things."  It’s a TV show that will be on Netflix soon they said so if ya’ want to see the ‘strange things’ missionaries walk through, go watch it.  

Friday we did an exchange.  First half of the day I went with Elder Reber and we went and taught the Johnson family the Plan of Salvation.  Then we had a member take us to lunch.  After that we did some finding and found a man named Mike and he invited us back.  Then elder Peterson and I went and saw Connie and Mailen.  Then we did some finding around them and talked to a lot of people.  Then we went and saw Jason and then set an appt. with Donna to come back and see her.  Then we ended the night over at the Robinson family for dinner.
       
On Sunday, Karolyn came to church so we were happy with that.  This week was ward conference.  During priesthood one of the counselors was teaching the lesson and he said, "’elder Straight Out of Compton’ what do you think of it is talking about in the second half of the this scripture?"  Anyways, I thought it was funny that he said that because most “hood” people always say something like that to me but not someone who is a doctor!
     
Anyway, I hope everyone had a great week!  Keep up the great work!  Love you all!

Elder Compton