I can't believe it's
already P day... It feels like i just emailed everyone yesterday!! Time
is so strange here. The days are long but the weeks just slip between my
fingers. Samoan is one of the prettiest languages ever! But it is soooo
hard for me. I'm working hard, sister garvin and i basically live for
vocab. Over meals, in between class, in class, we are always speaking
vocab. I know speaking was the wrong word to go in that sentence but
it's the correct word in samoan.. I'm wicked fobing out.
BAHAHA!!!
Yesterday we were leaving the classroom for the night and sister garvin
said "no we come back"!! The struggle is real!! The worst is that our
english is slipping but WE DONT EVEN KNOW SAMOAN!!!!!! We had to teach
Uso (same gendered sibling... but he is a brother... they don't make us
change it) Hawes last night in samoan spur of the moment.. no notice...
*insert correct english here*. The whole class taught him and no one
knew what to do. Most of us just sat there trying to fabricate something
to say. (i can still remember words like fabricate... what is wrong
with me?)
After that atrocity we basically
went and cried frustrated tears to "our teacher" (they claim that they
are joint teachers but uso kinnison taught us way longer than haws) Uso
Kinisone. He offered to come early to his shift (our dinner) and just
talk to us in samoan. BLESS HIM!!!
It has been a
rough week. The realization that I am leaving the MTC two weeks from
monday (Mom's note: she leaves Sep 7th) is not helping anything. It's kind of like: Here are all of the
sentence structures, here's a dictionary, find some vocabulary and leave.
I never thought I'd want to stay in provo longer than I had to, BUT
THIS IS GOING TOO FAST!!! I STILL KNOW NOTHING!!! that's not true but it
feels like it.
Next week we are teaching a
lesson every single day alternating betweeen Faletui (Uso HAw's
investigator) and Silao (Uso Kinisone's investigator). We teach Silao
for the first time on monday. Not to mention that we have TRC for the
first time on saturday. TRC is when we teach two different sets of
people that are members for 20 minutes. with nothing but our brains.
what. i'm going to die.
THATS TOMORROW!! WHAAAAT?!?!
I
really do love the MTC. Sister Garvin and I hold eachother accountable
for eating healthy (which is basically impossible in the MTC by the
way). Today was a bit of a fail... we ate all of the sage butter
popcorn... it was delicious. OH! and we at all of the canadian smarties
my family sent us in basically one sitting. Which reminds me sister
Garvin humbly requests that you send us more if you guys still have some
from the drive home ;) We also wake up early and go running. I was
doing really well initially, until i pushed myself too hard and had an
asthma attack. sister garvin was furious with me. since then i haven't
really been able to run but i'm okay!!
What else...
ummmmmmmmm
My scheduled leave date is the 7th not the 8th? haven't heard anything about my visa.. but i should this upcoming week!
other news...
the struggle is real. I don't know that i have anymore..
img 59 is our distrcit minus sister corrigan
Back row: Wolz , Anae, brooks, holt, damuni
Front row: REid, Garvin, Peo (check out my awkwardness.. Whoop whoop!!)
the companionships are: Wolz and anae, brooks and damuni, holt and reid, peo garvin and corrigan.
Anae
and reid have Samoan families, which i personally think is like
cheating. Everyone asks if my last name is samoan... I just look at them
and laugh. I am so palagi (pa-lang-y)(slang for white people). But Peo
is pronounced the correct way in samoan. Just some fun facts!
img 60 is how we practice our lessons for investigators
Despite
how difficult my week has been I KNOW my heavenly father is watching
over me. The spirit is always helping me and editing things i'm saying
in my mind. I know he cares about me and everything im doing. I cry to
him all the time and i know he is listening. Every vocab word i get
stuck on, he is there to help me. I have never prayed so much in my
entire life, and never before have i felt the spirit so strongly inside
of me. No matter hard time i am having i would never trade this
experience for anything. I am so happy i am here, and I couldn't be
having more fun. I can just feel all of the incorrect verbs... I
apologize! let me sum it up: Heavenly father love me; heavenly father
love you; heavenly father love everybody! I'm going to stop now.
Thank you so much for the packages and mail!!! sister canaan you are great!! It was so awesome to see Jansen Sears this week!!
Alofa,
Sister Peo
P.S. the title to my last letter meant"I love my tripanionship!" this one means"difficult"
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