kamusta kamo?
I hope everything's
going well for everyone - It's so crazy here, most all of every day is all
planned out with everything to do! The language is progressing slowly, it's all
about learning for the investigator, so most all that i know is church related.
It was kinda funny when my teacher read a line from his packet that he got
before he went on his mission - they hadn't had too much materials at all. It
said that Cebuano is a jungle language and you learn it by mimicking natives -
for now, our teachers are our natives. the letters make the same sound every
time you say them - a as in all, u as in illUminate, o as in bOat, i as in EEk.
some of the words we are learning (all gospel lesson related, of course) are
ebanghelyo for gospel, mga kasulatan for scriptures(mga sounds like manga, and
any ng is sort of a sound where you put the back of your tongue to the top of
your mouth) if you add mga in front of anything it makes it plural; panahon for
time, karon for now. In Cebuano, the name of our religion, The Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter Day Saints, translates to Ang Simbahan ni Jesukristo sa mga
Santos ulahing adlaw. then The Book of Mormon translates to Ang Basahon ni
Mormon. the ni is a non focus noun marker for names; the focus noun marker for
names is si (Si JesuKristo mao ang atong manluluwas ug atong manunubos) the
general focus noun marker is Ang and the non focus noun marker is sa. these
markers can translate to in, to, for, etc., or even just to mark it. Every
sentance has a focus, which really defines what the person means to say - I'm
liking Cebuano, even though it's frustrating.
Apparently another
Cebuano group is going top arrive at the MTC in a couple weeks once we get to 6
weeks (we're finishing up week 4 here) - it's going to be so fun to speak only
Cebuano to them when they get here! it'll be way fun to try and immerse them in
the language to try and get them to learn faster, and it'll help us to with
trying to "magsulti among linguahe" like our teachers are encouraging
us to.
pagsincero, si Elder
Dallin Carlson
kamusta ang imong adlaw?
kamusta, akong
pamilya!
it is seriously sooo
busy here - my companion seem to be getting a little closer, we're still
struggling, but i guess that's a good thing because otherwise we'd probably be
laid-back and not progressing. seriously, every minute of most every day is
already planned out - we're even supposed to plan out everything for our study
times - what we're going to do and how for each part! It should help us be more
effective by doing that in our planning time though. during our last lesson
with our teacher (bro. morrey, acting as a phillipino investigator), we were
struggling through the lesson, and our teacher paused the lesson and told us
that the level of excitement, etc was being set by the investigator, and he was
acting bored. Anyways, he proceeded to tell us that we have the most awesome
thing to give to the investigator, and we're so focused on the language that we
never smile once after we enter the door because we're so worried about the
language and nothing else. so next time, we're going to try and forget about
the language, teaching the whole lesson, and try to make a bigger impact on
the investigator by letting our personalities show through.
gugma ko kanimo!
Elder Carlson
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