Over the Hill and Ready to Roll

Date: August 06, 2015 

Area: Provo MTC until Singapore Aug26 
Companion: Elder Bloem

Hey everyone! It's kind of an old person saying but that's how you feel when you're over halfway done with the MTC experience! Time is really starting to pick up and it's amazing how long everyday feels like, yet at the end of the week you wonder how it went so fast! Still loving it, the routine drags some days but it's worth it when you can look forward to getting on a plane and flying around the world! 

We are starting to teach in the TRC, where volunteers come in (usually who served in your mission) and you teach them. We were supposed to give them a lesson but we ended up talking to everyone about their lives and barely got a lesson in...woops. It was way fun to talk casually with someone for a change so we just went with it! 

For Sunday, it was fast Sunday, and let me tell you, studying and sitting on a empty stomach for that long was one of the worst things ever. Don't get me wrong Sundays are awesome here, but fast Sundays? Nope. Until they let us in for dinner....what a glorious hour that was. I obviously had to make up for three meals in one so yeah you can imagine what my tray looked like...so good. Then toward the evening we had our devotional, and Sheri Dew spoke, she is the CEO for Deseret Book and she killed it, she was so good. 

Speaking of devotionals we had heard rumors all week long about how the Tuesday night devotional was to be broadcasted worldwide to all MTC's so we all knew someone big was coming. Lo and behold Russell M. Nielsen walks in and everyone stands for the President of the Quorum of the 12. It was so cool and you could feel the spirit and you knew God was with him. With all that has happened and is happening to the 12 and the first presidency, it was cool to see him speak. The choir sang "Be Still My Soul" for him to and that was probably my favorite part. It fit the situation so well and everyone could feel the spirit. Devotionals are so sick. 

Yesterday came and a bunch of you new guys came in! I got a chance to see Elder Jax Matthews. ELder Tanner Swan, Elder Holden Swan, Elder Austin Carroll, Elder Michael (Dileuw??) , and Elder Nick Beard! Way cool to see all those guys and I"m hoping to see the rest pretty soon! Again, loving being able to see all my bros and people I know walking in here all experiencing the same stuff! We're all doing the good work! 

Excited to get out to serve Singapore and Malaysia!

Love everyone,

Elder Thompson