soo this week was pretty chill. I already told you all about t-givs and nothing has really happened since then... [I'll post Sarah's Thanksgiving letter next...]except our district sang in church on Sunday and sounded awesome. just saying. we have a really great mix of singers its way fun. we sang Be Still my Soul, partially in tagalog and partially in english. way fun. we also have to prepare a talk every week in tagalog and then they call on two people randomly to speak but you don't know if it will be you until after the sacrament. sooo we started preparing those and its super fun! this week, elder sneezy and i decided to include random tagolog words in our talk to see if anyone noticed. and then of course neither of us got called to speak. pero! we had awesome talks prepared that included the words: cyanide, fireman, albino, and gorilla in them quite nicely :)
Next week. jk next week is fast sunday and the week after is our last week!!!!! we only have one ish p-day left and we get our travel plans in two days!! im super excited about that, in case you can't tell :) this week we get to host!! (show the new missionaries around the mtc when they first get here)!! it should be fun, mostly cuz its different :) i'll tell you if i get any criers next week.... yesterday we had a lesson on the fundamental teaching people, not lessons, and it was suuuper good. im pretty sure my teacher is kinda like what joseph smith would be like if he spoke tagalog and taught at the MTC... it could be that we just watch that movie all the time though. ... but seriously, my teacher is joseph smith, winks and all (go watch the movie.) anyway he got super excited cuz he said we were all teaching the best he has ever heard us teach!! (i think that's cuz we were speaking english but its all good ) he had us all write down a concern and keep it secret, keep it safe (yes he made that LOTR analogy in class, twas a party) and then two other missionaries had to teach us and try to address our concern without knowing anything about us, just by asking good questions and listening to the Spirit. we had some suuuper random concerns in there but after the first try when we were getting used to it, we found and addressed their concern every time. it was super cool. now we just have to do it in Tagalog! both of our "investigators" (our teachers pose as investigators they knew in their missions and we teach them) have committed to baptism so thats exciting! except one was supposed to get baptized on friday and we have only taught him the first lesson and half of the second soooo we postponed his date till next week.... which is awkward cuz our other investigator was supposed to come to his baptism... oh well maybe they can just get baptized together now! anyway its fun slash super cool to get a taste of seeing people change their lives because of the Savior and the gospel, even though they are pretending. they react and act just like their investigators did and they have real problems and concerns. one thing we learned this week is that the doctrine is the only thing that can really help. we can't fix their problems, answer their questions, or talk them through their concerns. all we can do is lead them to the doctrine and to the Savior and as they develop their own relationship with Christ, he will fix their lives. Everything in their lives. so all we have to do is bring the Spirit and teach the lessons! nbd :) its a pretty cool feeling to be able to be the Lord's hands in this work. and it has only just begun!!!
aight im outie. we're singing Jesus Once of Humble Birth this week, Christmas has begun!!!!!!!!
stoked ako.
Mahalkita!!!
-Sister Jones
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