I know you are probably distraught right now
about not hearing from me yet, pero alas my pday is today (Martes).
Which is a great day to have it we have
decided.
So you dropped me off. And the next few
minutes was pretty much a whirlwind. I was taken to a room where I
spent about three seconds with about ten different people answering questions
and receiving lovely gifts, aka necessary papers. Then I dropped
my things off in my room and was taken to a computer lab, by this
point I was only being spoken to in Tagalog and was reasonably confused as
to what I was supposed to be doing. After taking an orientation on the
computer. I was dropped off at my classroom. I have four elders and five
(including me) sisters in my district. The elders. We have two
from Australia, one from Fuji and one from Arizona. They are young. But
they are all reasonably fun to be around. Although
we occasionally question if Fuji really likes, but we just think that
it is his culture and women aren’t really respected there. But he is bound
to like us by the end. He is always joking with me, but I can never hear what
he is saying because he talks so quietly. So I just laugh anyways. The
first day here one of our sister’s didn’t show. So we were in a foursome
companionship. It was kind of fun. She turned up the next
day, she had been sick.
My companions. I have two. We are a tatlohan
(threesome). When we walk we smash the person in the middle and call
it a kasama (companion) sandwich. I was assigned to be the senior
companion. Which I thought was silly at first and seemingly pointless. But I
have had to direct us all of the time. In conversation, learning, walking, almost
all decisions I have the final call. I am not a fan of it. At this point I have
to kind of set the standard for our companionship. But so far it has been going
well. We all get along really well. But it is surprisingly a lot harder to have
three people in a companionship. It just brings an extra opinion to the table.
Yesterday we had a rough day. None of us were having the same opinions on how
we should teach. And one sister was being really stubborn. But we talked it out
and are now headed in the right direction. We have three bunks in our room, but
luckily there is only five of us. But nonetheless the room was made for four
people, so we have had to figure out how to share desks and closets.
We are supposed to be up by 6:30 that would be
nice. We are usually up much earlier, either to work out, go to the temple or
do our service (cleaning a building). We go from about 5:30 to 10:30 every day.
It is nonstop the first few days we had to rush to get dressed, rush to our
class, rush to get ready for bed. It has just taken time to get into a system,
so we are not feeling as rushed anymore. Although I am super rushed right now
because I only have a few minutes left on the computer. I have been able to
find sufficient food for my odd eating habits. Every day is very
structured, but at the same time it is not. We have assigned time to do certain
studying, but it is completely up to our companionship how we do it. And we have
a teacher that comes in for three-hour slots and teaches us Tagalog, the first
few days he only spoke Tagalog. An entertaining game of charades. He is a
really great teacher. We have already taught an investigator, in Tagalog, three
times. We have committed her to pray and to read the BOM. We can understand
more than we can speak right now, so it can be frustrating when we know what we
want to say to her but we cannot because of the language barrier. Our teacher
told us last night that we have learned most of the vocabulary he is going to
teach us and now we are just going to focus on grammar.
Easter Sunday was great, we had sacrament as an
entire MTC. It was passed to over 3000 people, all of them being worthy to take
the sacrament. We then listened to the presiding bishop speak. We have a lot of
devotionals here. It is a nice break from the studying that we do. My zone is
great they helped us pull a hilarious prank on our Elders yesterday. Um well
wish I had more time, until next week.
I have run out of time so I can’t send
pictures. Pasensha. Sorry.
But I am doing great!
You should write letters to the elders in my
District, they stopped passing out mail in class because they don’t get any.
Same address.
Elder Paz
Elder Vunibola
Elder Masame
Elder Bigalow
Love Sister Lindsay Hall
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