A lot of good things happened this week. We got our travel itineraries and reassignments. I got my travel plans along with the missionaries going to Canada. Most people got notices saying that they will get reassigned because the visas are so slow right now. My companion got reassigned to Indianapolis. We don't know why I am going straight to Australia and he is not. I know he will do well in both places. My flight is long, and I have a couple of layovers, but I am so excited. I leave the MTC on December 1st at about noon, and I will arrive December 3rd. Even though the Taiwan missionaries got reassignment notices, they may get their visas if they stay in the MTC for a couple more weeks. It's all in the air right now.
Thanksgiving is coming up. We are going to do a service project and watch a couple of devotionals. There is a rumor going around that David Bednar is going to speak. That would be so cool. We all love him because of his talk "Character of Christ". But it's just a rumor.
I ran into Keenan Kanahele from my home stake. I did not know we were going to be in the MTC at the same time. He is going to Samoa! I was so glad to see him.
We got another wave of missionaries this week and the MTC is so crowded now. There are over 2000 missionaries here now. The 4 square line is so long it wraps around the court, so I decided to spend half of my gym time in the weight gym. I split with another companionship, and we work out. Then we still get to play 4 square a little. It's nice to change up the routine a little after doing the same thing for 8 weeks.
This Elder in our district got bad shin splints, and he chose me to go to physical therapy with him. We went to a hospital way across from BYU. They made him do all these exercises. The weirdest part of this whole experience was seeing the outside world. We passed by my old dorm, the place I got my hair cut right before I went in the MTC (Craig's Cuts), and the place we used to have family evening at BYU (Fat Cat's). It just felt weird.
I got a bye bye shu (book) which is a notebook that people sign like a yearbook. One of the nice things about staying at the MTC for so long is that you make really good friends with people. I am sure many of these people will be my friends for the rest of my life.
One of the members of the MTC presidency is traveling somewhere for business, so we won't be able to see him again. We all love brother Seow.
I saved the best for last. We finally committed one of our mock investigators to baptism. The teachers are the mock investigators, and they pretend to be an investigator that they baptized on their mission. So it is more realistic than you might think. This "investigator" is named Ye Hong and he had no religious background because he was from mainland China. This is why it took us a long time to commit him, but most of the people on Melbourne are going to probably be from mainland China.
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Elder Jordan Andersen
DEC01 AST-MEL
2007 N 900 E Unit 19
Provo UT 84602
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