Week 2- MTC
June 28, 2016
Dear Family and Friends,
Wow! This week
went a lot faster! I feel like I was just sitting down to email you a few days
ago. The Spirit here is sooooo strong, and sometimes it hits me so hard. The language is coming along
great. Sometimes I get stuck on some of the grammar concepts, for example: each sentence can be either object
focus, subject focus, or location focus. Because of the different
focuses, you have to conjugate a few words and choose certain filler
words. It's really hard to know
what focus the sentence is, then it's
also hard to conjugate the words and filler words correctly. Our teachers
told us that one day it'll just click.
Hopefully that comes soon…but I am feeling great about everything.
This week was cool and odd at the same time because of
the Mission President Seminar that was going on all week. We weren't allowed to eat in the cafeteria all week so we ate in the gym. It wasn’t all that bad because they brought
in good food like Chick-fil-A, and some really good island type of food. The island food was bomb…definitely worth
eating in the gym. Other than that, the
experience was awesome. All 12 apostles and many General Authorities were
here. It was really cool that they were
all here and that we got to see them. The best part of the week was
getting to meet our Mission President, President Cruz and his wife. They
are both from he Philippines. I don't
remember where President Cruz is from in the Philippines, but his wife is
actually from Iloilo. They both speak English, but it is a little broken.
When I first met him, he thought I
was Neil L Andersen's grandson because apparently his grandson just entered the
MTC too. Talking to them made me just want to go to Iloilo
already. They said Iloilo has the best mangoes in the world, can't wait to try them. He also said
you haven’t been to the Philippines unless you’ve tried balut… so I'm going to
have to do that when I get there. Other than that, they really focused on
how we have to be exactly obedient and how we must love the people. It
was a really spiritual meeting and I just can’t wait to get there.
Today we went to the temple to help with the
renovations they are doing in the temple. We spent all of our time in
three endowment rooms ripping up carpet and scraping glue off the ground.
It was nice to help with the renovations… it was really cool because that only
happens once every 10-15 years. Even though the experience was cool, I
did miss doing an endowment session.
Elder Gunter is still awaiting his new assignment.
I feel bad for him because I would not want to be learning a language that he
will literally never use, but he always seems happy and he doesn't mind
learning Ilongo.
Other than that this week has just been a normal
week... grinding away. Have a great week!
Best Wishes,
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