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
