So this week might as well have been 3, with how long it has felt. But it was such a good week. I have been doing much better in the language and I have come to love it. So Monday we taught a real member with a real lesson. But here's the curve ball... At about 10:00 my district has exercise time, which means basketball for most of the other elders and 4 square or volleyball for me. (I don't like to play Basket ball, especially not when all of them did it in high school.) So at about 10:30 I go looking for my companion only to find that they had cleared the court he was on because there was blood on the floor. I immediately knew who it was and ran to the trainers office to find my companion with a big old band aid on his forehead and another elder from our district with one on his eyebrow. Turns out they had collided on the court and my companion had split his head and the other elder had cut his eyebrow open... so because it was labor day the MTC was running on basically bare essentials so the health clinic on campus, they should have gone to, was shut down so they had to be taken to the one down on BYU's campus. Lucky for me we were able to call our branch president and get permission to go on splits so the two elders that were hurt went together and Me and the companion of the other elder were together. So we spent up till about half an hour before the TRC lesson not knowing if our companions were going to be back in time frantically planing a lesson between classes. My companion did come back all he needed was some supper glue and a butterfly and he was ok. The other elder however needed 7 stitches. We ended up teaching the lesson. It actually went really well compared to what we thought it would be. Our first lesson we did good but we kinda just stuck to a script and didn't even think much, or let the spirit work thru us very much, (mistake) that lesson was good however the second lesson was much better. Even though we didn't have as much Tagalog we taught by the spirit and it was much better. So any ways it was good.
So to what my header of this email means. In Tagalog that translates to Merry Christmas! In the Philippines they celebrate Christmas from September till the end of January. So on September first I woke up to all the elders singing Christmas carols. It was so much fun we just go around singing random Christmas carols all day. Seeing as I love Christmas this Is a huge bonus for me.
We as a district have had so much fun we just walk around speaking Tagalog. It's funny seeing the new people as well as other older elders try to figure out what we are saying (they know what we are speaking because we made speak your language stickers for our tags.) Speak your language is a cool program the MTC has that encourages missionary learning new languages to speak there language with others as much as possible. They have flyers and other reminders every where with the abbreviation of SYL. Most languages have a sticker to go on there missionary tag telling other missionary's what language they speak. Tagalog doesn't so most of us have made our own. Its pretty cool.
So my message this week comes once form Ang aklet ni Mormon (book of Mormon)
Alma 17;9-10
9 And it came to pass that they journeyed many days in the wilderness, and they fasted much and prayed much that the Lord would grant unto them a portion of his Spirit to go with them, and abide with them, that they might be an instrument in the hands of God to bring, if it were possible, their brethren, the Lamanites, to the knowledge of the truth, to the knowledge of the baseness of the traditions of their fathers, which were not correct.
10 And it came to pass that the Lord did visit them with his Spirit, and said unto them: Be comforted. And they were comforted.
God Knows your troubles and your trials. If you go to him in prayer asking for help or comfort he will give it to you as you go with a sincere desire and love of Him.
Elder Davis
PS Merry Christmas again.
(The picture is of Ethan and his companion (notice the butterfly on his forehead) and the Sister missionary closest to him is from HERE! He knew her from the Young Single Adult ward here in Salem. She left the MTC Tuesday for Florida. Her name is Sister Johnson.
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