Well my last p-day here at the MTC. Getting close to
leaving! I'm pretty excited! We got a change in our travel plans today and
instead of meeting at the travel office at 6:00 PM we will now be
meeting there at 5:15 PM and be taking the frontrunner. So that's
pretty wild, has to be a new change, I think?
As for this week it was pretty awesome. It is our last
one… I'll start with what we did last Wednesday. So Bro. Olsen had a deadline
for the revising of our grammar book so we spent like half of our class helping
him find mistakes and add new things, which was pretty cool. Then we had Bro.
Sanchez teach us the rest of the time so he could finish working on the grammar
book. Bro. Sanchez is way awesome and so funny! He is a way good teacher too
though and we get to have him again on Friday after our infield
orientation that we have all day on Friday, pretty much. One awesome thing
he taught us is that we need to realize why we are learning this language. It's
not because we think it is cool to learn the language, but in our hearts we
need to have the reason is, so that we can teach the gospel to the Thai people,
which I thought was cool so I've been praying for that help and I've definitely
seen it working!
Still been playing a lot of volleyball. I'm starting to
get good, I can't wait to get back and tear it up on the volleyball courts at
the Sports Mall, that’ll be fun. Thanks for the hops I've been blessed with I
can spike it pretty good and get tons of blocks I love it. We got Nate’s spicy
hot sauce the next day which was pretty awesome we put it in our fry sauce and
we were just eating it and we could definitely feel the heat, it was so funny
though. Also, we may not get our translated name tags before we leave which
kind of stinks, but oh well... Friday we got our travel plans which
was way exciting we fly out at 10 PM to LAX then to Hong Kong then to
Thailand and get their Wednesday morning at 10:00 AM which kind
of stinks that will be a long day.
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| Soon to be leaving the MTC in Provo, Utah and heading to the city of Bangkok, Thailand...just a little bit different :) |
We got another new teacher now Brother Todd who helps
Bro. Thrap. Oh and I kind of got sick for the first time
this week, it was more of an annoying sickness, but nothing I couldn't handle. I'm
almost over it; it should be gone tomorrow, hopefully.
Also, we had TRC Saturday which was another
great experience. We taught Sister Rosa a RM from Thailand and she was way cool
and she said we helped her feel the spirit a lot and felt our lesson was a revelation
we received for her, which was cool. Then later that night we were on a five
minute break and walking around and Ely Hansgen teacher stopped us and asked if
we could help her class for a minute. I got to talk to Ely and we had a
way awesome spiritual experience together and I saw a side of him I had never
seen before, which was cool. He left on Monday along with Clay I
think which is pretty crazy. It hasn't hit me quite yet we are leaving.
Sunday was way relaxing, we had a mission conference
which was cool and after we watched some videos in the classroom. Johnny Lingo,
The Phone Call, and a movie on Joseph Smith which was way cool. The speaker we
had at the devotional was amazing. It was Dallin H Oak’s daughter, Jenny Baker
who is like one of the best violinist in the world, she played like 6 songs and
she was just incredible.
Monday I go to go with Elder Crump to get his
glasses fixed, so I got to leave the MTC which was way awesome ha-ha and
then they ended up cracking his lenses, which was not good so I went back with
him yesterday to get them fixed again. We had such a funny van driver and he
wasn't even supposed to take us, which was funny. Also, it was Bro. Olsen’s
half birthday on Sunday, so we bought him a Thailand shirt and all
signed our names on the back which was cool, he loved it. Bro. Olsen is the
man!
Today we got to clean the
temple for 3 and 1/2 hours, it was so awesome! We got to clean a ton of the
windows and I had the funniest old lady talking to me the whole time, she was
so awesome! Then after she took us on a tour of the temple and we got to
go into the celestial room and pray and she took us to sealing rooms and we got
to see the new stuff they remodeled. Also, she took us into the Brides room,
which was pretty crazy. It was so beautiful in there. I doubt I'll ever get to
do something like that again it was so cool! We may get to go to the temple one
last session on Monday morning, our Branch President was asking President
Nally the MTC president if he would make an exception, so we will see how that
goes.
Well that really is all for this week it was really a
great week and I'm doing super well and am happy! Love you all, thanks for your
support in the MTC. Make sure if anyone wants to write me… Mom just give them
my email I guess, unless they want it to take a month to get there ha-ha.
Love, Elder Watkins
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