Tuesday, June 5, 2012

•Kamusta kita!!!...6/04/2012


sa akong nindot pamilya‏   It is wonderful to my family

kamusta! thanks for the email.

We have mostly Cebuano Classes, and a couple times a week we study doctrine - there's a lot of ;times in the day they fill with "additional study time" where we usually focus on the lesson we'll give to "among mga maestros" as progressive investigators. we have firesides every Sunday and devotionals every Tuesday. most of them have been part of the MTC presidency or the temple president, and the rest seem to have been part of the 70s.


mas mga hunahuna‏  more thoughts

There's only about 18 of us in the whole 2000 missionaries in the MTC learning Cebuano - so our teachers over the three districts are in charge of most all of the books and curriculum we use! the Cebuano speaking missionaries leaving tomorrow are three in total - their district has three missionaries - Sister Fina'i (Samoan),Sister Uitu faleagafulu(also Samoan) and Elder Wiscombe (very American). the weird thing is, though, that Cebuano is the 5th most spoken language in the church, right under Tagolog! the reason that there's only 18 of us is that most of the Cebuano speaking areas have people from the Philippines MTC go there because it can be dangerous in those areas, especially for white people. anyways, most of us Cebuano speaking missionaries here are headed to Cebu, the rest are headed to Tacloban (like my companion). Tacloban is mostly all a Bukid area. Cebu is apparently very Americanized, but the surrounding area is very poor. I heard that the people there are friendly, they'll just want to feed us but sometimes not be interested in the message but only the fact that we're foreign.
So the other day in gym, we were playing volleyball and someone spiked it hard and I swung my arms to hit it with a bump, and even though the ceiling is super high, i knocked out a ceiling tile and it fell down and landed on a corner, so it broke into at least 5 pieces- so we cleaned it up and I think I'll stick with sand volleyball outside from now on :P
Ayo ayo!
Elder Dallin Carlson
p.s. one of the other elders in my district knows someone else on our floor, and so he gave him a funny letter that was actually a dear john that was creative and hilarious! then he got a letter back saying that the other guy was tired of being bossed around and asked about the dr

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