dear pamilya,
the fast was hard but
definitely worth it! we've improved, but our teachers make sure to keep us
humble to make sure we don't feel like we've already mastered the language and
can slack off. We're still teaching our teacher's as progressive investigators
at the beginning of each class period (3 hours) and it's super hard. we teach
the two progressive investigators 6 lessons a week and then we do a couple
lessons to return missionaries who speak Cebuano - it's so hard to teach RM.'s
something new! it was way cool teaching the rms at TRC this week though - one
RM ended up marrying a girl from Cebu so they both came to the lesson with
their way cute half philippino baby!
I'm progressing more
in the language than my companion and he's feeling really behind and i want to
help him in a supportive way but he's really independent and helping him might
just make him feel worse and he doesn't want to practice with me - I think it's
like when we try to talk to the teachers because you're having trouble understanding
them and you don't want to feel stupid in front of them so so far all I've been
able to think of is fasting earlier for him and trying to be super positive and
compliment/congratulate him when he does good. I also try not to correct him
all the time because that only discourages him from trying to say anything
except for when it's right and then he'll be afraid to say anything but he
needs to learn to speak in order to learn to speak well. does anyone have
suggestions for this situation?
I am now coming toward
the end of week six and we have 9 weeks (2 months) to the exact day! It's crazy
how it worked out going from may 16 to July 17 and we have 63 days (9 weeks
exactly)! Since it's our 6th week, they bring in a new group of Cebuano
speaking missionaries - they do it this way so the older Cebuano speakers can
help the younger ones. For at least the first day or two, we're going to try
and speak only Cebuano around them (but watch the impact it has on them - we're
hoping it makes them learn the language better and gives them more desire to
learn it but we don't want to overwhelm them). We're going to host for new
missionaries coming in on Wednesday! that means that when the missionaries get
driven up we take their luggage and show them where to go to get their nametag,
etc and then take them to their dorm to drop off their stuff and show them
around! everyone in the district is hoping that we get one of the Cebuano
speakers :)
...I'm also glad I
found a good computer that isn't programmed for some other language that throws
the keys and symbols off!
this Sunday we had a speaker
come and one of the first things he said was a scripture, James 2:17 where it
says faith without work is dead and how we need to participate and apply what
he's saying to our lives - it really hit home that i need to not just listen to
it but apply what they're saying. Afterwards, since there's missionary
president training in 1m, they had only one movie for us to watch and that was
characters of Christ, a Christmas talk given by Elder Bednar to the mtc. it was
way cool and one of the things I took away from it was that as he put it, I've
been creating large plates in my notes - a history of what the speaker said -
then he pointed out that we never use our notes, but we always know where the
spiritual impressions are and so we need to write down only those and create
small plates with spiritual messages and guidance.
maayong adlaw! maayong
suerte! maglaum ko nga sa imong semana mao maayo! good day! good luck! maglaum I
pray your week is good!
We've gone through another set of missionaries - they're headed to Oklahoma - one of them had us all say hi through his new tape recorder before he left early this morning. i feel old. i guess it's more that i've been here for a long time and so many people here are new.
mapasalamaton para sa inyong gibasa! giangkon nimo ang maayong semana!
pagkasinsero,
Elder Dallin Carlson
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