CEREAL
Hello everybody!
This week was a good one with ups and downs as they
all seem to have. But here is mainly the highlights, because highlights are the
stuff:
We had Zone Conference this week. Normally I have to travel
by plane to Singapore but now that I am living in this insane (good) city, no need! We
had a great couple of days filled with new ways to do missionary work and
always great insights. This Zone Conference was especially sick because for the
night activity that we usually have after it is all over we got to see the
Marina Bay Sands light show! It has been something that all the missionaries
have been wanting to do since we got here, so we did it! After the light show, we all sat down next to what they call the
"Merlion' here in Singapore. (A big lion/mermaid statue that shoots a fire
hose worth of water out of it's mouth) All of the missionaries sat down and we
sang a couple hymns right there on the steps and it was awesome! So spiritual
and real.
This week was especially sweet.
I once again had the opportunity to purchase, eat, and enjoy American imported
cereal. YEAH. Real, good tasting cereal that isn't ridiculously expensive, with
fresh store bought milk too! You'd be amazed what you get grateful for out here
when you've been 'deprived' for so long, haha.
We did some service this week! We helped out a lady in our
ward that needed her apartment painted. Little did you all know Elder Thompson
is a master painter...of walls. Oh yeah. But honestly it was way fun. It was
hot, but it's always a good time to get your hands dirty in the service of
others! My favorite type of missionary work. This week was HOT. Most of the days it gets up to 96 degrees
here. Then add 80% humidity. The phone actually tells us what the temperature
"feels like" too. So it usually tells us it "feels like"
115 degrees. I'M COOKING. All we do is sweat. It's so awesome :)
[So, humid and sweaty, the watch 'rusted' off ]
When the weather gets hot you get huge monsoon rains and
HUGE lighting and thunder storms. I mean BIG. The lighting stretches across the
sky and it's the coolest. The thunder sounds like huge artillery cannons are
going off every 30 seconds. Yep. It's also a war zone here haha.
To finish off, we got the opportunity to teach the Relief
Society about missionary works a little more on Sunday. What we taught wasn't
important. When we walked into the room we felt IT. IT was real. The biggest
room in the building, filled with the strongest and most spiritual women. They
rule the church here. They show everyone up. The Spirit in that room was crazy
I almost couldn't handle it. They were all listening. No phones. Bright,
smiling, light, faces all looking up at us. The women of this church.....awesome.
That's it for me this week! Love you all!
Elder Thompson
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