Kumusta!!!
Sooo this week has been great! Doing what we always do which is pretty much
studying, planning and eating. sorry if these emails get repetatiive.
haha.
We are now teaching two progressing investigators which keeps us pretty
busy. Each lesson gets better and better as we start to learn more about Tagalog
sentence structure. I am still struggling to get the grammar down but everyone
says "It will come" and I just keep praying that it will so we will see!! I
learned something really valuable this week during a workshop we had where we
had a partner that was not our companion. With that partner we took turns
teaching about the message of the restoration. My partner was this little sister
from a little island next to Fiji. She was so sweet and could hardly speak
English. As she started sharing the message with me, I noticed her points were
really scattered and she could hardly think of the English words to say to me.
But I also noticed something else. She was speaking from the depths of her
heart. Even though her English was broken, I could tell she had a testimony of
Joseph Smith. I felt the spirit so strongly during her lesson. It reminded me of
what this is all about. It's not about a language it is about the spirit. If I
can learn to utter a few words in Tagalog and speak from my heart, that is all I
need:)
This Sunday was fast Sunday (I'm sure you knew that) it was amazing because
it was all in Tagalog! and I understood most of it!! I didn't bare my testimony
because I thought I would let the district who was leaving bare theirs. But it
was just so amazing to sit back and listen. They all speak so well and I could
understand!
Anyway so these past few days have been kinda sad because one of our
districts left yesterday. They were so awesome and nice It will be quiet on our
floor with them gone. On the bright side, now that they are gone we ransacked
their classroom and all got new and improved desks!! And when the next district
leaves, we get their rolley chairs! yup that's the way things work on the
Filippino floor. haha. So we won't get new districts until we are three weeks
from leaving which is sorta weird. Oh and to answer your question mom My mga
kasama (companions) are going to Baguio (sis palmer) and Naga (sis evans)
Half our district is going to baguio and the other half is Naga.
So funny story about Sister Palmer, she speaks perfect Tagalog in her
sleep! Seriously! It always takes me a while longer to get to sleep and I always
hear her practicing her phrases it is the funniest thing ever.
Another little fun fact. I overheard an elder saying this here at the MTC
"I figured out the best way to travel around the MTC. Just follow Sisters
around, the crouds of elders part and you can follow in their wake" the sisters
and I thought this was the funniest thing so we decided to put it to the test
and it't true!! There are always huge groups of elders just standing around and
as soon as we walk in their direction they part like the red sea. Best part of
being a sister at the MTC.
Another fun thing. Our elders say the funniest things in their lessons.
Last night they were teaching our investigator named Efron. Efron asked if elder
Sorensen had a wife and he said "Hindi po ado asawa" Which he thought meant "I
don't have a wife" it actually means "I am not a wife" haha! I laughed at that.
Things like that happen so much our elders have also told our investigator that
they were his children and that a pig would pick him up for church. lol. Anyway
just some things that I hope make you laugh.
I hope you all have a great camping trip!! I will bear my testimony to you
in tagalog:)
Alam ko po na totoo Ang simbahan ni Jesucristo ng mga Banal sa mga Huling
araw.
Alam ko po na totoo Ang Aklat ni Mormon . Alam Ko po na buhay ni
Jesucristo. At Alam ko po na Magmahal ng Ama sa Langit :)
It's short and sweet but there it is!!
Let me know how the camping trip turns out!!
I think I will try to put more tagalog in my letters. But I am out of time
now :((
Mahal Kita pamilya Ko!! Mahal Kita Alex! Mahal Kita Samuel! Mahal Kita
Mommy! Mahal Kita Daddy!! Mahal Kita Rachel abbott and Bennn!!
Sister Stapp
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