Final Days at MTC

I am feeling better, I got released from quarantine Sunday afternoon. This week has been full of many cool experiences. I finally got a picture of the view I get to see for 6 hours a day while I'm in class. We figured out where the vending machines are in our complex, and they have things like licorice, pizza, soda, and even ice cream in them. The food has been lowering in quality, the only good thing we've had this week is Subway. We've been eating pretty much anything else besides the main courses. Later in the week, we made a basketball hoop out of a hanger in our room. We've been playing Pig with the basketball you sent before bed.

Since this is our last week, we got to do lots of different service. Monday we got to welcome the new senior missionaries by carrying their luggage and showing them their rooms. Tuesday we got to got back to the docks where the food arrives and took all sorts of ice cream and yogurt to the different fridges and freezers. Wednesday we welcomed both North American and international missionaries. The international missionary I helped spoke only Portuguese and Spanish which was a very difficult thing to do but we got him settled in. I then went down to the garage and got to help new missionaries get unloaded and led them to their rooms.

We had our last TRC week, and we were sad to say goodbye. Me and Elder Robert's taught a nonmember student at UVU named William. He's from Salt Lake City and all his friends are on their missions. His experience with the church are his friends talking to him about missions, and he loved to play church ball. Me and him talked for a while about basketball. Our meeting with him were great. We got him to pray and got him excited to read the Book of Mormon. Last night was our last meeting so we got his email and we're excited to keep talking to him while we're out in the field. 

After all the experiences I've had in the MTC, I'm so excited to go out to North Carolina and serve the people there.

-Elder Thompson