Happy Birthday Singapore!

This week was Singapore's celebration of their day of independence on August 9th! Also Singapore got their first gold medal of the Olympics with this Schooling guy who beat Michael Phelps. It's pretty big news and everyone was going nuts. They even announced it in sacrament meeting yesterday... What did Singaporeans do on all the other days of the week this week?? They walked around and they played this, Pokemon Go game, day and night!  It came out some time ago here in Singapore! It's alright, more people to talk to! Man, that is Singapore this week in a nutshell, what need I say more?

I'll still say more don't worry! For P-day last week we played some Wiffle Ball as a house (basically Baseball) and that was pretty fun! It was good to release some stress and compete a little bit with some baseball players haha. Always a good time with our house!

  

On Singapore's birthday we had a great time barbecuing with some of the Filipinos in our ward! If anyone wants to know the Filipinos are way good at BBQ. Not to mention they are always a good time no matter what! We had a sweet BBQ pit location right on the beach and a nice night to go with it. Everyday feels a little like paradise here!

To add on to the Pokemon Go game stuff, you have to imagine, I live on an island that is not much bigger than the Salt Lake Valley as a whole.  There are 6 million people here. It's Asia. We're talking technology and gaming craze here....So there are MASSES of people walking around trying to find Pokemon. EVERYONE is playing it. EVERYONE.

On another note we are a having a blast playing basketball with Filipinos throughout the week. They love to play basketball and they love to play with us Americans. We give 'em some nice competition and we get a nice workout in as well! 

Those are some of the highlights from this week for Elder Thompson! Hope everyone has a great week!

Elder Thompson signing out.

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Draper, Utah Missionary Letters seen thru Aug 13-2016