Hello!!!!
So sorry about last week. I am getting all your dear elders and packages and whatnot and they are awesome! (ps an elder in our district has yet to receive anything!!! So he decided he would take a letter from me as a tax for getting them from the box and he read dad's first letter and was DYING and so a bunch of the elders read it and all thought it was hilarious and want dad to write them and all want to meet him. lolz they were both hilarious :) ) anywho!! the grey skirt is perfect, thank you!! great job on the length! I did not get abducted by pirates buuuut sometimes the elders are a lil bit savage so does that count? ;) joke long joke long (jk jk) and i did get rocky mountain fever aka a wicked cold this weekend. suuuper lame but its pretty much gone already sooo it's all good!
We went to the temple today and it was lovely! The weekend with your sisters sounds awesome!! im so glad you got to experience that with all of them!! Grandma Sheldon sent me a letter right before that and so did Lindsay right before her baby! so it was perfect timing! Nick is destroying all of you at writing me. he wins, hands down!! thanks broski!! Its always fun to read all of your letters! I sent in my ballot today!
We should name my blog something cool in Tagalog like pananampaletaya (faith) ooooor something else that i can't think of right now.... i'll work on that. also, smile gun is actually ngiting baril, sorry i didn't know about linkers last week so that was totes wrong. my b.
Tomorrow we're teaching real people at the TRC!!! Two lessons all in Tagalog! and then the next day we're teaching a new "investigator" and the next day another "investigator" (our teachers do role playing so we can have a progressive investigator) its crazy! also, if we learn Joseph Smith's account of the first vision before saturday in Tagalog, our teacher will show the elders how to tie their ties really cool and the sisters get..... biyaya sa langit. (blessings in heaven) but its all or nothing so we're memorizing it to help out the elders. our teachers are both super great!! they have so much enthusiasm and love for the gospel and the people of the Philippines! it makes me so excited to go there and serve them!!
we have such amazing opportunities for growth here! for example. last week Sister Burton taught relief society, this week it was Sister Dibb! (Ann M. Dibb) both did an amazing job! I had to bring my journal with me today to remember what has happened this week because all the days just run together!!
We played soccer yesterday!!! it was super fun! kinda crappy soccer, but way fun to get all the sisters from our zone out there together and mess around. the brother that was working the field served his mish in Ventura!! he was in first ward when sister dalton and doxey were in our ward! (were they together??) anyway around then.
I've decided to write a miracle a day in my journal and it has been really fun! the Lord is so kind and there are miracles around us all the time! its really cool to step back and acknowledge and thank the Lord for what He has done in my life that day. plus in the five million prayers we say every day! but those are in Tagalog a lot and our vocab is limited so we can only thank him for like ebanghelyo at Espiritu Santu, at stuff like that. so we are always suuuuper grateful for those things lolz.
Being in a threesome is super fun but it definitely has its own challenges so its been a great opportunity to work on my people skills lolz and to really turn to the Lord to find out how to work through some stuff! (don't worry my companions are amazing! and we're having a great time together and all is well :) ) i just have a lot to work on, for sure. the language is coming along pretty well, i can understand a lot more than i can say but the last couple lessons i have mostly been able to describe what I'm trying to say using round about language like we had to explain what a prophet was.... so we said he is a speaker for God, and our investigator was like oh so you're prophets?? and we were like noooo we are little speakers for God, the prophet is the Main speaker for God! obviously not the best explanation buuuut it worked and we didn't know how to say things like authority and keys and priesthood and stuff like that so it makes it interesting and it definitely tests the depth of our understanding of the gospel because we have to explain everything using the vocab of a three year old definitely exciting! also if i start talking like yoda in my emails it is because the Tagalog sentence structure is totes backwards and we need to start thinking like that so we can get the hang of it. also tagalog has in-fixes. like english has prefixes and suffixes. Tagalog has those PLUS infixes. suuuper exciting. it is actually kinda exciting, no joke :)
ok cool, time's almost up! ps the teaching cycle is amazing and the Lord blesses us so much when we follow His plan for things (like use the teaching cycle to teach our investigators!!) the gift of tongues is definitely what is getting me through these lessons and it is so cool!!!!!
love you all!!
mahal kita!!
-Seeester Jones :)
Wow! I am so excited for your mission just from reading your emails! Love you lots!
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