It's been a good week this week! Parts of it went by slow, and others fast. It was going really fast because our original plan was to fly out tomorrow morning. Last weekend though, we got a notice that our visas haven't come in. They finally told us that they are close, and that we will be getting them sometime this week. We are probably going to be leaving around Thursday this week. A lot of the people that were going to be flying out there were pretty mad. It didn't really make that much of a difference to me though cause I know there has got to be some reason why we are staying a few extra days. It's just getting us more and more excited to get out there!
We taught our last Skype TRC to a member in Australia who is Chinese. It was going pretty well, but I noticed my companion wasn't saying much for some reason. We went the whole lesson, and then after He told me that he wasn't able to hear her, he just heard static the whole time haha. I guess he just bore testimony of stuff I was saying so it worked out. The lady liked us a lot and said that if she came to Taiwan while we were there, she would take us out to eat food. She is actually the one who's daughter fellow-shipped my teacher when she was less active so they're good friends.
Speaking of my teacher, I love her a lot. She is very opposite from me, but she is amazing. She really cares about her students even if she doesn't show that much. She shared with us her conversion story and it is really powerful. I can tell that she wants to send us out to go and care about people. She wants us to not go out and baptize, but to go out and convert people unto Jesus Christ. That's the only way to lasting conversion, anything else and they wouldn't be able to stay in the church.
We had in-field orientation this week which basically just got us into the right mindset to go out into the field, and it got us all pretty excited. The sad thing is some guys in our zone are leaving. They left this morning. People from Day 1. Things are getting real now. We all know that now is the time to work the hardest we can. It's kind of sad cause I don't know if I'll be able to see most of these Elders again. In my zone, there are 15 missions so it's pretty spread out. Everyone is happy to go though, and start serving real people. The Elders and I that our here still are the oldest ones in the MTC now.
Well here we are, my 9th week. The MTC has been a great experience. I've gotten to know lots of amazing missionaries, and be able to look to them as an example. I've been taught by two great teachers. Very different from me, but also who loved me. They taught us some Chinese, but the biggest thing they taught us is to have desire. As I'm leaving this week the thing I've really learned from the MTC is to work my hardest and give everything I have to this work. I'm never going to get another chance like this again. So might as well give 100% of myself.
I love you all so much.
-Elder Grayson Thayne
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