MTC Week 1

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Hello everyone!!

 To all my friends on missions can you guys add me to your list of weekly emails? Ok thanks.

This was my first real week at the MTC and it kinda feels like I've been here for a year. Time goes by slow and I feel like I'm always reading something or eating in the cafeteria. It's pretty repetitive but the people here make it so fun. I've grown so close to my District and my roommates. We do everything together, and I laugh so hard at everything. I love talking about their past stories and the more we talk the more I realize how different we all are. The spirit here is so strong and it makes me feel so happy. There's so much to learn and makes me feel excited.

Thanks for all the birthday wishes :) General Conference was unreal and it was nice to have it on my bday. 2 hour church will be amazing. I've learned so much about everything including myself in the past week. We finally got our regular schedules so we study in the morning and then we have classes in the afternoon. My teachers are so nice and helpful with Tagalog. They expect a lot of us and we try our best. It's so hard to remember all the things you memorize and everything in the language is flipped so that's uh fun. I taught my first lesson with no notes with my companion to my teacher and it went super well!! It's a fun language to learn cause there is so many repetitive vowels and syllables.

We get exercise time which is ok, but there's not very much choice... its either running, lifting weights or like basketball. And there is a bunch of Provo sweatys that go so hard. It's annoying so I've decided to work on the gains. That sucks too lol.

Also I've been thinking a lot about how I need to be prepared to go out to the Philippines, so I'm trying my best to work hard and learn as much as I can before I embarrass myself in front of filipinos. I'm super happy here which is surprising and missionary work isn't as bad i thought haha. Anyway I hope everyone is doing very well and wish you all the best. I love hearing from you all and what you're up to :) 

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