we went time travelling.

this week seemed like it flew. we just packed and got ready to leave did a departure devotional 
and spent all the money left on my card so i would have snacks for the plane. it was sad to leave 
everyone in provo because we had become pretty close with the fijians and cantonese people 
in our residence. but then we left for the airport. it was weird to go through lehi and see everything out the window of 
the front runner. 
     the whole time we were travelling no one knew what we were doing so that was sort of 
stressful. we flew to san francisco and then after a  5 hour layover there we went to south korea
which was a 14 hour flight. i fell asleep right when i got on the plane and didnt wake up until 
10 hours later when they gave us eggs for breakfast. it was crazy because when i woke up 
suddenly it was wednesday. i missed dinner so that was sad. on the plane they gave us slippers 
and no one spoke english. we stayed in south korea for 3 hours. while we were in korea we all 
tried a bidea  which was really weird and uncomfortable. it made me think of the japanese
missionaries at provo, good luck. when we flew to manila everything was in korean again and 
it seemed like a really long flight but it was only 3 hours. 
    the first thing i thought of when i got to manila was the safety zone video with the electric 
wires. we drove to the mtc. then we had a snack and some good presentations about how 
amazing the philippines are. this mtc is so much smaller than provo we  talked with the mtc 
president about blankets and irons so its much more personal here. im in a trio, and the food 
here is like real food and they make it right in front of us. we also have nice big rooms here with 
bathrooms and showers inside them! everyone here speaks tagolog so i never know what anyone 
is saying. its super humid here and hot and rainy but its nice. yesterday i did abs and missed 
cross country i don't think i can run here in the mtc but maybe in the field. i love you all and 
im excited to be in the philippines! also i slept from 7:30 to 6:00 the first night we were here so 
that was nice. bye bye! i'll take pictures hopefully next week. 

also i forgot to say we met elder Gong at the salt lake airport and took a picture. i don't know where that
picture went though.

I'm going to the mtc

Hello everyone! This week on monday I'm leaving to go to the Manila mtc so it will be sad to leave all my friends and family here again but awesome to do something new! Also most of the people I've met are coming with me to Manila. This week was pretty good I hosted on Wednesday and saw elder Harris but didn't host him. And we just keep practicing the language and how to teach. There are a lot of filipinos here and everytime we see them it's fun to try to talk to them. I learned how to say I'm fluent so now I can tell people that. It is crazy because I feel like I can't speak much then we get into a lesson And words just come to you in very broken cebuano. The spirit is awesome and the gift of tongues is real. Someone told us that when they needed to speak they found the words and when it wasn't important they didn't. And I can see how that is true. The gospel is true i love you all. My favorite cebuano word is karnero. Nakasaka ang mga karnero sa bukid. Karnero is sheep. Bye bye! 

1 more week!

 The mtc has been really fun and good. But I also would like to leave. On Friday we watched president Nelson's birthday celebration and it was pretty cool but It was long and made us all late for curfew. Elder Stevenson came to speak to us and we tried to do an english fast. It was cool and kind of hard. I was pretty quiet. Nothing really exciting happened this week except we skyped with a Filipino to practice teaching them. Everything is sort of mixing together here, this week might have been One of the more boring weeks we didn't do anything new or out of the ordinary. We keep going to lots of class and doing the same things everyday. We have had some really good classes and discussions this week, I made an analogy, we were talking about opposition in all things then we started talking about the story where there are two fish and the old fish is like hows the water? And they are like what is water? And I couldn't stop thinking about the cookies and chocolate milk I eat everyday. If you eat a cookie then drink chocolate milk then the chocolate milk doesn't taste sweet.  So I have been eating chocolate chip cookies my  whole life but if i eat something salty the the chocolate milk tastes good again. So in order to get the different salty perspective we need to do service so we can be in others shoes. 

    Class is better than it used to be now that we aren't just memorizing phrases. A ton of people showed up at the MTc this week so that's fun to say hi to everyone. Sorry none of my pictures sent last week I'll try resending them but I think my email is broken.

hiligayonon inheritance

Bula mga amigo, this week we had fast sunday and it seemed really long cause we had an extra hour and a half of meetings. One of my cebuano teachers proposed to his girlfriend, and we had a good devotional about growth mindsets. I also planted an avocado seed in my room. On Monday we hosted the senior missionaries and that was fun and cool. It was nice to do something different.

On Tuesday a district of people going to the Philippines mission right above mine on the map, speaking hiligayonon left and gave us a bunch of stuff the last cebuano people gave them. Some of the cooler things they gave us were a potted plant named hili and a monkey.

We were teaching a returned missionary about charity in cebuano yesterday. And the word for charity is gugma nga putli, and the word for chastity is kaputli. So our whole lesson he misheard us and he was talking about chastity while we were talking about charity. We didn't realize until we asked him to follow christ's example and be charitable. It was hilarious the whole time I was wondering why he was talking about sexual sins when we asked about how christ showed charity and he talked about respecting Mary magdalene we were all a little confused. my kauban and I just thought we were mishearing or something. He was really fun and it was still a good experience and I think he still was edified by our lesson. Anyway I love you all! Amping!!

Pictures:

4 Hili,  the flowers smell spicy when they fall off

3  my avocado, I thought I was a genius with my bottle setup

2 two oak trees I found outside

1 the monkey we received hanging on a banana that I am ripening.