MTC - Week 9

MTC – Week 9

So I had an interesting turn of events this week in my mission experience.  Last week at this time I thought I would be on a plane to Thailand right now. So on Thursday, we get on the computer and Elder Brander is on his missionary portal, I am looking over at his screen and I notice that the picture of our mission president had changed to some other people. I point this out and we read the description and come to find out that it is a picture of the Long Beach mission president. We already had some idea that we might not get our visa's. We go and check my portal and find the same picture of the Long Beach mission president and wife. We have every one in our district check their portal and everyone in our district had gotten reassigned. There are three in our district going to Long Beach, California, 5 going to Modesto, California and 4 going to Atlanta, Georgia. This was shocking because, beforehand, we had heard that a few of us might not get our visas but it ended up being all of us. 

I am pretty excited for Long Beach. It will be very cool to have two missions, we should only be reassigned for about one transfer (6 weeks) and possibly less if our mission president wants us as soon as our visa's come. I think we will end up being there for however long the Lord wants us there. All of the people going to Modesto left early this morning, they ended up staying up late because they didn't really have time to pack. It seems really empty here without all of them. The rest of us leave early tomorrow morning. It has been kind of nice to have a P-day right before we leave, I have already done all my packing and now I just can relax till dinner.

The week has been pretty nice. Last Saturday we had a testimony meeting in our class and said good bye to all of our teachers. The people still left here will get to have another class after dinner with one of them. 

None of us will probably get to speak much Thai in our reassignments but we might be surprised at what comes up. I am worried about not speaking everyday and only getting an hour to keep my language up. I have a feeling it will all work out fine and I will be OK at speaking Thai still when I get to Thailand. 

The Long Beach Mission is the smallest mission, I am pretty sure. It only has about 20 square kilometers of land and then two islands that I am not even sure there are missionaries on. It will be interesting to see what happens.

Yesterday we sang a nice arrangement of How Great Thou Art with the Cantonese district during Sacrament Meeting. It included both groups singing in English and in the mission language. I think it turned out well. We also had the BYU Mens’ Choir come yesterday for our devotional. They are very good.

Well, it will be an interesting next week going out into the field I am excited to see what Heavenly Father has prepared for me in Long Beach.

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