Week 5

Kamusta Po Kayo!

I think it's been 5 weeks in here, and we have 4 left.. I think. 26 days till Christmas though. First off, thanks so much for the package- it was awesome. I'll send a picture of the christmas lights eventually, and yeah I've taken a few pictures already. There's not much to photo here, so the majority is of the temple and such. Just did another initiatory session this morning, I like those more than Endowment sessions, but we may switch back next week. Yeah, we got dumped on a few days ago so there's a lot of snow- but the cold isn't too bad. And I've got a fresh layer of fatty fat so that keeps me insulated quite nicely. Food here is killing me, but I'm optomistic on this Philippines Diet I'll be switching to in a month. Crazy to think that it's December soon. Um, it doesn't really feel like I've been in here a month- but at the same time it does. It's kind of strange that way. In all honesty though it's true- if you can get what I mean- that days are long but weeks are short. We plan for the week as a district every Friday, and you hit that next Friday and look back and are like what? We're already planning? But when you're waking up at 6:30 in the morning, it feels like you've been working for a week by the time 9:30 rolls around.

Also I'm stoked to hear that June and Arber came over too! I haven't heard much from Arber, but I'm really happy they stopped by. And yeah, June keeps cutting her hair , aha , but she can pull it off and likes the way it looks so that's all that's important. My english is definitely getting worse, too, so if I start misspelling words I apologize. I often take a second look at a lot of things I write. Not so much type, but so many words like 'develop' develope?' look so weird now. Tagalog is climbing pretty fast still, and it's pretty silly to think that after just a month I can pretty much say anything that I want to. It's not the most fluid, and I've definitely got to think it out in my head before saying it- but I've noticed that a lot of words have taken on their own meaning now. And I don't translate them from English before I say them. Little ones like oo , hindi , siyempre , talaga , pasensiya , and others. But our class has now switched over to complete Tagalog, so English is ' bawal ' sa klase. (prohibited). One good thing about Tagalog is that a lot of their nouns come from when the spanish had control of the country. So a lot of words that soaked in through my 5 years of hilarious espanol have been a big help in understanding things. There's still a majority of nouns sa Tagalog, but it definitely helps to always have that.

The coat you sent me is the one I got from Gap, but it keeps me really warm so thank you. I would love gloves, haha, send soon. AND NO MORE SNACKS!! haha even my roommates have started to refuse them! I wouldn't mind so much if they were like fiber one bars and stuff, but when you bake them they go bad really quick in our room because it's a pretty humid climate with the warm air and cold air, and what not. So they grow mold fast, so we have to eat them fast, which suucks. I feel gross enough from eating the cafeteria food, so please please no more baked stuff, haha. Thank you so much for the drink packets, too. Um - the Rexburg clothes have still not come , you may want to call him. And I don't need anymore shoes, these ones are going to last me for a while. I'll be surprised if I buy another pair before a year is up. Um, please send the King Follet Discourse to me. It's a Joseph Smith talk. You can just copy and past into Dear Elder if you want. Also the BOM Easier w/e books, send those too if you can.

So Thanksgiving. The week here has been pretty normal, but Elder Holland came on Thanksgiving and gave an awesome talk, as usual. Mostly about families, but about the savior and stuff and it was just really good insight and he is clearly the most powerful speaker of the 15. I love hearing him speak. Also I started doing choir a couple weeks ago, and we actually sang Come Thou Fount last tuesday during Devo, which is the best church song that's been written.. clearly. But other than that they have really bad selection of songs. I've come to like the song Master, the Tempest is Raging a lot too. And started to dislike Called to Serve.. aha. We sing is sooo often.

Okay, that's all I got for today I think. Maybe I'll write a handwritten letta, depends on how much time I have. Thanks for everything mom + pop. Also can someone send me a Monday New York Times Crossword once a week? I've got time on P-Days and like 15 minutes at night to do it, and I would love to make sure that the MTC isn't completely dumbing me.

Salamat po.
Mahal Kita!