Magandang hapon,
Let's see. This week seems like it has gone by so fast, yet so slow. The hours are long, the days are short. The days are long, the weeks are short. I feel like I have been here for ages, yet it has only been nearly two weeks. Time is an odd concept.
So this week I decided to play basketball during one of my gym times and I am obviously an accomplished basketball player. We played 3 on 3 with a few sisters, needless to say I got nailed in the head twice (one being my face) with the ball. Then I proceeded to be pushed to the ground and had my hand stomped on. I forgot to take a picture of it, but it pretty much looked like I had been in a fight all of my knuckles were bruised and I had her shoe imprinted on my hand. Needless to say, I won't be playing basketball again. But luckily that was the worst of it for me. Yesterday two of our elders broke bones playing volleyball. One only broke his big toe, but the other broke his ankle. So they had to go to instacare. It was our Fijian that broke his foot and he is too prideful to use crutches or a brace or anything. So he has just been walking around like it was no big deal. Hopefully he doesn't have to be delayed at all because of it, word on the street is he might have to get surgery.
Oh you were wondering about my district. All of the Sisters are going to Angeles with me and all of the Elders are going to Bagio. But the other district that came in the same day as us is just the opposite, so all of their elders are coming with us. Also new missionaries come in tomorrow, apparently we have almost two districts worth coming in for the Philippines. And for temple day, aka today, we have the lovely opportunity of going over at 5:45, pretty much it couldn't be any earlier. But it is great because we get to eat breakfast there afterwards and it is a nice change up. One of our elders has gained 16 pounds in the last two weeks! He is pretty proud of it.
I got to leave the MTC the other day. Out to the real world. Sister Marcucci had a root canal before she came and was still having pain from it. So her and I got to take the MTC shuttle over to the root canal guy. She had actually pulled out a piece of popcorn the day before from it and it had stopped hurting. But we still decided to go to the dentist to check for an infection....and there was no way we were going to pass up our opportunity of visiting the real world.
For conference they played the sessions in the huge room where we have devotionals. But we decided that it wasn't worth sitting in those chairs for hours and hours and went into the overflow rooms. Which were much smaller and had better chairs. And best of all we didn't have to be in our chairs early and even better of all we had made goodie bags from our plethora of food and were able to snack on them in there. Conference was great though, we had a few district discussions about it afterwards. I loved how often missionary work was mentioned, it was exciting for us. Also did you watch the young women's conference? We watched it. You should look it up, it was great. Mainly the little girl who said the opening prayer was awesome. I couldn't even close my eyes while she was praying, I was just too enthralled with her. Via the advice of conference, I have been trying to focus on what I do know. Not what I don't know. Because there sure is a lot that I don't know and that is not too encouraging. Also what language do you think is spoken in Heaven? Pretty sure it is Tagalog (obviously I am bias).
Hmm the other day we came into class in the morning, usually we direct those three hours by ourselves-no teachers. But when we walked in there was Sister Mary Rose, our investigator that we have been teaching. Surprise. She is now our second teacher. So she teaches us for three hours in the morning, then Brother Nuttel teaches for three in the evening. We have moved on from learning really any more vocab, we have to do that on our own now. We have moved into grammar. Lovely. Considering I am not an expert in English grammar, that translates poorly over to Tagalog. I have to super focus, just to make sure that I understand the sentence structure and tenses and on and on and on. It is abnormally tricky. Rosetta stone did not even hint at this.
What else random do I have to tell you....only one other girl in my room hears the alarms in the morning but no one but me wakes up to them. So I get up and just head out of the room, as to not wake them. I don't find it to be my job to be waking them up every morning. But unfortunately that means most days we are late. I just stand by the door for around ten minutes waiting. We are not the best at getting to class on time, obviously. Also neither of my sisters wear watches! Some days they ask me the time at least every five minutes. If I couldn't have read a watch before I sure am an expert by now.
Every Sunday and Wednesday there is ice cream here. BYU creamery ice cream. Last Sunday we (the sisters in my district) couldn't decide on just one each. Thus we got about six bowls and shared them between all of us. It was great. Felt just like home. Even with the cupcakes we would get a knife and cut them up into little pieces, we could each try a bit of each. I am my mothers daughter.
I loved the snow today, I have absolutely no clothes appropriate for snow. But it was still great. I was mainly excited because most of the missionaries in my district had never seen snow! What a sad life.
Thanks to Brianna for sending my district cupcakes, the boys ate themselves sick.
I'm going to try to send some pictures, I found a computer that actually will send!
Love you, miss you.
Sister Lindsay Hall
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