Dear Mom,
Thanks for all of the treats. Just so you know I would really like it if you would not send gum because I cannot have it. I am going to keep the gum you sent so it should last my whole mission. haha I am sending some stuff home for you to send back to me. [He sent home laundry.]
I can't believe that I am going to be leaving the MTC. It is very exciting, scary and crazy. This has been the longest, shortest three weeks of my life. I have already seen the blessing in my life. Your letters have helped me a lot.
My district is great. I am really glad to be moving on but I will miss these guys a lot. I had to teach my teacher Brother Bunker but I had to get what I needed to teach by personal revelation. My goals was to find something that that he needed to hear. So what I got was "pressing forward." He is going to school to be a doctor. So when I finished praying I couldn't get the thought out that I needed to talk about pushing on. So when I got in to teach him I told him that he needs to keep pressing forward and get to his goal. He told me that he does need to have some encouragement. So I then read Moroni 9:6. After that he told me that that was a great scripture for him and that he really needed to have someone tell him that he could do it if he kept on going. It was really cool to know that Heavenly Father really did tell me what Brother Bunker needed.
I love teaching. It is so cool to have the spirit use you to talk. I have said some of the craziest things and inspiring things and not knowing where they came from. I really wish that I wouldn't have taken all of this for granted. I wish I wouldn't have just gone through the motions. But I am learning a lot and I know that I will have some really trying times but I just have to keep pressing forward like Brother Bunker.
Tell Tucker that he needs to start preparing NOW! It is way different than I thought it was going to be. It's not as silly as you think, read the Book of Mormon and pray to know that it is real. Do what Mom and Dad tell you to do. Listen to me hahaha. But it is crazy how He works.
Love you lots,
Elder Thompson
Post Script written July 2012 after returning home:
I remember the day I went
in to the MTC was bad! It was so scary, but I knew that that is where it all
started I remember sitting in the Suburban not knowing what I was getting myself
into just kind of wanting to go and just get it started. I remember driving up and getting out and
hugging everybody and then walking off to the place where you go your name tag and
picture taken.
The guy took me to my room
and I remember not knowing what was going on. When we got to our room there
were some missionaries that had already had their stuff there. Then he took me to my classroom. When I walked in most of my district had
already arrived and I looked around and saw one guy with glasses that made his
eyes look really big and he looked like he was 15! My teacher, Brother Bunker, introduced me to my comps, yes I had two ha-ha, Elder Barkley and Elder Boudreaux, he was the
one that was the dorky kid. I thought to
myself, damn this is going to be a really long time. I sat down and our teacher talked to us. I don’t
really remember it all that well.
The MTC was not fun and I
disliked it a lot. I did not that they
cut off all communications. The one
thing I wish I would have done is made them drag me away from my family. I had no idea what it was going to be like and
I had no idea how limited the communication was going to be. I mean that’s all I really wanted was to tell
my family all of the cool stuff I was learning.
That’s what I hated the most. The
MTC is crazy… it’s a place, I don’t really know how to explain it, it’s a place
that is so spiritual but I wanted out! In
all of my journal entries I always said I can’t wait to get out to the field.
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