MTC

April 17, 2015

Hello everyone!!!

I am absolutely loving the mtc!! I've only been here for two days now

and I love it! So I arrived at the mtc at 12:45 on Wednesday. A host

missionary took me and my luggage and checked me in! It was so surreal

putting on my name tag. After getting everything and getting checked

in, I went to my classroom and met my district! Such am awesome group

of kids! Some of us are going to Santa Rosa, others to New York, and

some to Provo! My companion is Sister Moore. She is from New Mexico

and she is just a sweetheart! She had ADHD so she's a little

different, but I hop I can come to love her! 

We just talked and got to

know each other better as a district, then we went to meet the mtc

presidency! After that was dinner and unpacking! The food is great :)

then around 5:45 we had a teaching experience activity. We met with a

group of about 30 new missionaries and we had the chance to see and

feel what a real teaching experience is like! It's crazy how much love

you can feel for a person after just meeting them! I just have a

burning desire to share the gospel with them, but I have a hard time

finding my words. I hope I can get better at that soon! After that we

went back to our classroom and met a member of our branch presidency,

bro. Monson (pres. Monson is his uncle!) then we went back to our

apartment and got ready for bed! There's four of us in my room, all

going to Santa Rosa!

The next day we woke up at 6:30, got ready, and went to breakfast.

Then to our classroom where our teacher bro. Lockwood taught us about

personal and companion study. Then we went to a meeting to learn about

our purpose as missionaries and the people we will teach. After that

was lunch, and my district decided that we were going to try to always

sit together! I ABSOLUTELY LOVE MY DISTRICT! We talk and laugh all the

time! There are five elders and six sister in my district and we are

the only district in our branch at the moment so it will just be the

eleven of us at church on Sunday! Haha pretty awesome though! 

After lunch we had gym time! Probably my favorite part haha our district

played volleyball all together! So much fun!! After gym, back to the

classroom! And guess what?!? WE GOT OUR IPADS! We are the first

English speaking district to ever get iPads while in the mtc! We are

the pilot group to see if they will help with the learning process and

teaching process here at the mtc! IT IS SO COOL! We have no

restrictions on them so they are completely trusting us with this! We

can download any apps that we think would help with being a

missionary. It's crazy, but it's awesome! We are suppose to keep the

iPads with us with us 24/7. We also set up our own Apple ID accounts

and iCloud accounts so everything will transfer to our new iPads we

get in our missions. After we learned how to use the iPads we went to

dinner and then back to the classroom. We met with more members of our

branch presidency! We each took turns talking about our backgrounds,

why we came on missions, and our testimonies! The spirit was so strong

in the room! We then each got interviewed by bro. Monson and then got

callings! I got called as the Sister Training Leader(stl)!! It's

basically the girl version of a zone leader! I love the sisters in my district so I'm happy to help them as much as I can!

So I'm doing great!  My p day is Friday mornings so I get two while I here! I LOVE being a missionary! I'm learning so much and the spirit is always so present here! It's great!! I love you all so much!!

Love, Sister Thompson

Pictures 1. Me and my companion 2. I ran into a familiar elder! Elder Viehweg 3. My

district at dinner!