So this week is technically week two even though I've only been here like 10 days from the day I arrived. I love the MTC. The time seams to work different here. The days are long and drag on but the weeks go by in a snap. Sundays here are really cool there are 2 or 3 zones that make up a branch and the branches all meet in different class rooms in the big glass tower. (the school house of the MTC I guess you'd call it.) Some of the pictures I included was the view from the sacrament room I am in. We then go to a district meting where our district (13 people) meet and have a lesson/ district council. We then have priesthood with our district and the sisters (our triple) go to a zone Relief Society. The rest of our days are pretty regular our district has exercise first thing in the morning then after lunch we have class until dinner. After dinner we go back to class until 9:15, then to the residence halls for bed. Classes are great they mix language and doctrine classes. I'm having a little bit of a hard time with the language. I usually can memorize about 5 words a day. (For those wondering my subject translates out to be I am Elder Davis. Also yesterday my teachers drooped a big bomb on the class... We teach our first real person on Monday we will be teaching a real member who speaks Tagalog so ya that will be kinda big. I'll tell you more about it next week. The classes are crazy because they are almost nothing but Tagalog however, I have leaned so much because of it. Me and my companion have gotten along so well so far and I am so glad to have been assigned to him. our district is amazing we have grown so close together. Those of us going to the same mission are exited because we could end up being companions there. However we are kind of sad because we most likely are going to lose track of the sisters who have become a great strength in our district in both the language and in spirituality. We as a district try to do something they call SYL here (speak your language) as much as possible we sit together at meals and we walk everywhere together speaking as much Tagalog as possible. When we don't know a word we speak English (we call it tagalish) Its pretty funny because every other word will be in Tagalog while everything else is English. Cool little fact Philippine missionary's make up about a third of the residence at the MTC right now. A lot of which are speaking Tagalog. We have more Tagalog speakers here right now than we do Spanish or English speakers so every where we go if we see a tag in English we automatically assume Tagalog and jump into Kumusta po (the Tagalog hello) more often than not we get it back in response then get asked how are you in Tagalog, but occasionally we will get a confused look and we'll revert to English. We spend almost all day with our district all of our classes are with them so we come to love them. Our district has actually arranged district study times outside of class that we will go to our assigned class room (every district gets a class room that is just there's no one else's,) and study. We have improved so much because of it. We each teach each other and learn from each other and it helps us so much. We have two amazing teachers Brother Hulick and Sister Spears they have helped so much and they might as well be a member of the district with how much we love them. Today for P Day our district went to the temple. Me and my companion came back and did laundry so ya pretty productive I impressed all the other elders by stitching up some navy blue slacks that were to long so now I've had like three elders ask me how much sewing I knew and if I'd be willing to take care of thier pants or shirts.
So this week I'll leave you with a verse from Ang aclet ni Mormon (The Book of Mormon)
Alma 34:39 "Yea, and I also exhort you, my brethren, that ye be watchful unto prayer continually, that ye may not be led away by the temptations of the devil, that he may not over power you, that ye may not become his subjects at the last day for behold he rewardeth you no good things." I can testify of the strength of prayer and challenge each of you to some way to improve your prayers whether you are just starting to pray or you have had a great relation ship with your Heavenly Father you can find some way of improving your prayers and I would invite you to do so/
Flags at the MTC
View from the MTC
Elder Davis' Room
Elder Davis and some of his District
Elder Davis' desk after study time
The first package mom sent (She needed to send his inhalers and figured just medicine was boring so she slipped in some goodies too!)
The district at the temple
Elder Davis
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