It is crazy that I'm already halfway through the MTC!! All the older kids left this Wednesday and so that means my group are the old kids now! It is a weird thought because when I first came in I didn't think I would ever be as good as they were. However you can see it in the new kids eyes that they think you're pretty great. We had a good time teasing/teaching them though. It was super funny to just walk up to them and say "kumusta po kayo? ako po si elder wallace!" They just kind of stutter and look confused. But I know I did the exact same thing 3 weeks ago. So a couple funny things that happened that I'm gonna try to explain but I don't know if I can.
In Tagalog there aren't really words like the, is, are. So instead each verb gives out an ANG which is the focus of the sentence. for example nagturo Ang Diyos (taught God) the ANG making God the focus okay? And if you change what the focus is then the whole sentence is different. So as we were learning Elder Lougee Isa (or Elder Lougee 1 meaning the first twin(not my kasama)) said a sentence and the teacher looks at him weird for a minute and says "You just said that Jesus Christ killed the people" what he meant to say was the people killed Jesus but that pesky ANG.... other things that make Tagalog fun.... Heart is Puso and Cat is Pusa. So elder Bennion told his investigator he could feel the holy ghost through his cat. It's really the little things that make Tagalog fun. This week on Sunday we got to have about and hour long Q&A with Elder Bednar which was incredible. He is super super smart but he is also pretty funny and you don't get to see that side of him quite as much in GC. I learned a lot about prayer. He taught that everything has a spirit before it is created in earth and your morning prayer should be the spirit (like a blueprint) for your day. I never thought about that before so I've been changing up how I pray. In the choir this week we sang sweet hour of prayer which is an awesome song.
Dad so I wouldn't know what its like to sing called to serve with 3000 missionaries because there is a bit more than that here. Our teacher told us that this summer is the most full the provo mtc has ever been. I don't know how many are here but it is a ton. The cool thing about joy is that lots of people think it just means to be happy but that isn't always the case. look up 2 nephi 2:25 and look at the footnote on joy. We got 38 new missionaries in our zone so 4 new districts which makes it the biggest it has ever been with like 70ish kids. We go to church as a zone so its pretty big which is good because the way they pick the talks for the day is by making everybody make one and then telling everybody who will speak over the pulpit so you never know until you literally have to go speak. anyways bigger zone equals less chance to get picked. The nametag is english because the church was established in english so they just keep it which is a little sad but oh whale.. I go to the temple every p-day before I email you so we usually hit the 8:00 session.
I love you all so much and it sounds like you are getting ready to go to school which should be all fun and good. Mahal Kayo!!!!
Picture in the new part of the MTC
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