Its me again. This week has been a good one. General Conference this past weekend was great, even though we did watch it sitting in a gym. The entire MTC was convinced that China was going to be opened for missionary work, and even though it didn't happen it was still a really good conference.
The language has been coming along pretty well, but it's a hard one. I keep accidentally trying to use Spanish or Mandarin every once in a while but I'm getting better at going right to Tagalog. Our district has a list of words that are bawal (not allowed) in English so we can only say them in Tagalog. Tomorrow we have a test on about 400 words and phrases that we have been working on this past week, so I need to do some more practicing. Yesterday we had our first grammar lesson and learned the first two of 30ish different kinds of verb conjugations so that's a party. But Tagalog is super fun to speak. For anyone who wants an example of Tagalog, one of the first words we learned was 'panampalataya' which means faith. It's been a challenge, but I already love the language.
We've learned how to get to know people using Tagalog and the other day our class went outside to practice on random people on campus. The thing was, the teacher didn't tell us (and none of us were smart enough to think of it) to ask if we could practice Tagalog on them, so we kind of just stopped people walking down the sidewalks and started speaking a language they didn't know. It was super funny once we had all realized what we were doing.
So yeah, the week has been good. My kasama (companion) and I have a good working schedule now and we try to use Tagalog as much as we can. I literally had a dream I was studying Tagalog
It hailed this week and just to let you all know, hail is dumb, and so is the cold. Also, we got our Aklat Ni Mormon's this week which is super nice even though I can't read it yet because of the sentence structure.
That's it for this week
-Elder Scott Collier
P.S. I ran out of Oreo's this week and I definitely wouldn't hate anyone who sent me some more of them (or literally anything if we're being honest)
The snow on the mountains was way pretty but I'm glad its gone now because its "warm" again.
We have a lot to study and I keep the basic core and a notebook to write new words in in my pocket
Our tags in the Philippines are in English because that's what the people are used to, but we have tags that let people know what we're speaking and to speak it if they know how
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