Thursday: Was Pday again.. I have a love hate relationship with Pday because I just feel so homesick after writing you guys.. haha but I also love Pday because we get to leave the MTC and go to the store and things. Me and Sister Holzworth also found some time to sleep on Pday so That's awesome! hahah
Friday: I recited the whole first vision in Tagalog, which is a huge accomplishment considering I don't even know it in English. It is so hard to actually learn the meaning of the words.. I'll just memorize everything, but have no idea what it means... So I can speak a lot of Tagalog, but I have no idea what i'm saying.. if that makes sense? haha idk i'm weird. One thing that is awesome about my district tho is that we sing Tagalog hymns all the time! We sang I need thee every hour and OH MY GOSH the spirit was so strong! I love singing in Tagalog, idk what it is it's just awesome (and probably because all the Filipino's tell me I have a good singing voice lol) They are so nice to me. I love them all so much.
Saturday: We taught more investigators, which is kind of rough considering they speak so fast. So Me and Sister Holzworth were teaching our investigator Malou and she was speaking such fast Tagalog we ended up just staring at eachother and laughing.. haha It took the spirit away, but it was honestly hilarious. (Our Teachers are our investigators just so ya know) Man, it's hard teaching when you have so much to say, but you don't know how to say it...
Sunday: Sunday's are my favorite days, they are just so relaxing and so chill, I LOVE THEM. We had an amazing lesson in Relief society on Virtue. It's weird because I always knew what virtue was, but not really. When Sister Chantry was giving the lesson she really went in debt on virtue and how important it is to be a virtuous woman. It was such an impactful lesson and I really understand the power woman have. God loves us so much and he gives so much power and respect to women. We just have to know when and how to use it.
Monday: We found out that on Wednesday we get to go proslyting in Manila for 4 hours!!! I'm so excited, but so nervous. I get to go teach in my mission! It will be such an amazing and humbling experience. I'm so ready to see what the mission life is actually going to be like. In the MTC we are kind of just in a little shelter bubble.. It's good, but I also want to see what the actual Philippines is like. So i'm excited to go out and practice talking to people (even tho A LOT of people are going to laugh) LOL.
Tuesday: I DRANK MY FIRST DIET COKE HERE!! It's actually not really even diet coke tho.. it's called Diet Coke lite... but who cares it's close enough. So that was probably the highlight of my day! haha the low part of my day was eating rice (of course) and I ate liver... without knowing. haha that worst part was it actually wasn't even that gross.. haha but anyway i'm finally starting to get used to the food here. It get's better and better everyday, so that's good.
Wednesday: We had that disgusting fish again.. this time I took a picture to show you guys because ew it is so gross looking haha We asked our investigator Ian to be baptized tho. It was the first time we ever asked one of our investigators to be baptized. The lesson was on Faith, Repentance, Baptism, and Enduring to the end. It was such a powerful lesson and the spirit was so strong. We just felt like it was right to ask him if he wanted to get baptized... and he said YES! Oh my gosh you guys don't even know how excited I got and he's not even a real investigator haha man it was the best day! I was just smiling from ear to ear! haha
Thursday: We played a prank on one of the elders in our district (cuz that's the only fun you can really have here in the MTC), but he lost his markers so we were making fun of him because he was freaking out. haha he's probably one of the most dramatic Elders ive ever met.. haha but anyway to be funny we wrote "We have you markers -go to the next slide" on a powerpoint slide. So when he came in and saw it he was freaking out at us like "whoever has my markers better give them to me NOW." And he was just really having a hard time hahaha so anyway the next slide said JOKELANG :) (which just means kidding, obviously) with a picture of a Koala bear in the back and oh my gosh he was so mad! I honestly thought he was gonna kill someone hahah it was hilarious!! but anyway we also played Bad-mitten at gym later that night, We played with some tongans. Sister Holzworth was on a team with Sister Loelea, and i was on a team with Sister Toa. They are violent Tongan girls haha. Sister Toa kept trying to kill Sister Holzworth with the ball thing! Hahaha man it was funny! We have some pretty good times here at the MTC. Spiritual and just fun! :)
Friday: Today, we went to the temple super early which is always so good. I'm going to miss the temple so much when we actually go to leave. We can only go to the temple every other (maybe) transfer once we are in the actual mission field. So that's kind of a bummer. On the way back to the MTC from the temple I saw someone who knew Jannett and Quinn Pinson. I think their names were Elder and Sister Anderson? I'm not sure, but they were really nice. I love seeing really anyone who knows someone I know haha It just makes me feel like I already know them. haha
Anyway, know I'm doing really well. I love the MTC and I love being a missionary. I love getting everyone's emails so thank you all! Everyone is so nice to me and I am so blessed to have you guys to support me. Know I pray for you all and I hope everyone is doing well. I love you all so much!
Mahal,
Sister Barton
I can't believe she's only in there for six weeks. I thought she'd be there for a couple months. She won't ever really feel ready to leave the MTC, but she will learn so much more just being out in the Philippines. One of my most spiritual experiences on my mission was when I memorized the whole first vision. I loved just having JS words in my memory so I could recount his experience anywhere, anytime. His words became a part of me and they are one of the stongest testaments to me of his prophetic mission.
ReplyDeleteIt's fun to teach the lessons in the MTC. I remember the role playing we did. But what I loved the most was when I went back and taught at the MTC. I loved having the missionaries role play to me. ;)