Week 1

KUMUSTA EVERYBODY!!!!!!!!!

The MTC is freaking awesome!!! I love my district and branch!!!! We are hilarious!!! Most of us our Polynesian too! Hawaii, American Samoa, and Tonga. We have an Elder from New Zealand and Australia too. WE ARE AWESOME!!!!! Let's just leave it at that!

Guess who my companion is...... Sister Hogge!! The girl I met on the Filipino Mission Facebook page! YA!! Dude, she and I are the best together! We crack up laughing at each other all the time! Sometimes in devotional, or watching the Joseph Smith movie..... not the best things to be irreverent in, I know. But hey, I did tell you we are the most hilarious and funnest and most awesome branch :) She really misses Sacramento and her family, I keep telling her they love her and are all super proud of her and she and them will receive AMAZING blessings from her service. She's just homesick is all!

I would send pictures, but my camera isn't working on uploading these pictures onto their system. Neither are a couple Elders in my branch. Acca-weird!

Lemme tell you 'bout my district!!!!! So there is me and Sister Hogge, who is from Sacramento. Then there is Elder Call from.... Some where by Logan. He's also our district leader. And his companion Elder Muir from Australia! Hahah, they are hilarious! I'm picking up on Aussie lingo too! Twit, banggers and mash, sweet-as, there's more but I don't have very much time! We mostly just mimic what he says! Well... I DO! He's helping me with my accent! And we help him with his! Then there is Sister Lindsey from Eaglemountain and Sister Pettijohn from Oregon. They are adorable! Super innocent mo-mo type! Then there's Elder Agavale from American Samoa and his companion Elder Kaafi from Tonga. THEY ARE HILARIOUS!! Kaafi always falls asleep! And they get the giggles all the time and then we all go off! We are learning I promise!

Our teachers are Brother Pakisala, from Hawaii!! Graduated from Kamehameha even! Served over in Cebu. And Brother Young, from Provo. He says, he's really old! He's 24. He can play 30 -something instruments!! They are super fun and I wish they would have taught me in high school. They know how to teach!

We had an awesome testimony meeting on Friday and Elder Muir shared an amazing scripture, Alma 29:9 LOOK IT UP! Typical missionary scripture! And Brother Agavale shared an amazing thought. There are three names on your tag. Yours, The church, and Jesus Christ. Your's and Christ's are the same size. Meaning we should always strive to be like him! And Elder Call shared a thought too. Our nametags are engraved, not printed. We need to engrave the gospel into our life! Super amazing!! 

I saw JD! Got a picture with him at the map too!! For those who don't know, he is my cousin.... he took me to prom my Junior year. He leaves the MTC today for Latvia!! His language is super confusing! I really wish I could upload pictures right now! I need a card reader super bad!

Other highlights....SUNDAYS here rock!! Awesome lesssons, temple walks, relaxing, all of it. OH!!!! And I have't cried! Like at all! I mean, Spiritual stuff like in relief society and class things, ya. But Not from homesick stuff. I love and miss you guys a ton, but ENough that it's not constantly on my mind!

We have our first "investigator" (a temple recommend holder/ LDS person who acts like an investigator) Her name is Mildred and she only speaks Cebuano. GET THIS......... I GOT THE GIFT OF TONGUES! From what Sister Hogge says, I was speaking it fluent-ish! We were teaching her about prayer and she asked about how and I totally bore testimony, told her how, and why and... OH MY GOSH!! IT WAS AMAZING! Highlight of my week I'd say! we've began to teach her about repentance too.

I LOVE YOU GUYS!! GIHIGUGMA NILA!!!!!! I wish I could tell you all more! But, Elder Muir and Agavale are hackling at me! These guys right?? Hahah :) PS WRITE ME HANDWRITTEN PLEASE!!!! You know the address :)