Well this week was Elder Averett's last week as a
missionary... it's kinda wild cuz all the Hermanas in my MTC group are also
going home... I'm super old.
The thing that made week super fun was a giant service
project we helped with. Agrinorthwest is one of the largest farms in the US and
it's owned by the Church. They are the potato supplier for a ton of the biggest
restaurant chains in America. Since the coronavirus has hurt restaurants they
had a ton of stored potatoes that wouldn't be sold so they said that we could
give away as many potatoes as we bagged. So for 2 days we went and bagged
potatoes from this giant mound.
I dont remember how many tons they said this storage was
holding but it wasn't even 1/3 full. We ended up bagging 31.5 tons of potatoes
to give away to the needy and we didn't even make a dent in this pile. I will
include lots of pics.
It was super fun to get out of the apartment and get dirty,
and work a little. The third day we went back to the farm but this time to load
all the potatoes into trucks. For some reason they only asked that 4 elders
come but we definitely could have used more help haha it was probably the
hardest work I've done in a while. It was a lot of fun though!! We did a total
of 1800 35lb bags.
I'm super bummed to see E. Averett go, but I get to stay
here in Kennewick at least one more transfer with E. Newton, my new companion.
I've served around him a lot already so I know we'll have a good time.
Anyways, another kinda short email, hopefully things will
pick back up soon.
Les quiero,
Elder Thompson
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