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Friday, November 27, 2009

Komusta Po Kayo Any Pamiliya Ko at Mga kaibigan,
Hey Family and Friends this week is Araw ng Papaslamat!
or roughly translated the day of thanks! We at the MTC
are all pumped and excited for your special Thursday
night fireside at which have have been promised Elder
Holland will be in attendance at , oh yes and their
will be much pie, but thanks for the early one Pamiliya
it was much appreciated. On Sunday we got a new District
leader and though I will miss amazing leadership of our
practically GI Elder Kitzmiller I'm excited to see what
Elder Holmes will do, or to pluralize his name sa Tagalog
Elder mga Holme. To pluralize in Tagolog you put mga in
front of the word so my Kasama(Companion) is now Sister
mga Main ( Mains) , and we've all been calling her that
alot now its hilarious! or at least our district thinks
it is! Our first week teaching a whole discussion
sa Tagolog went amazing Bro Idos told Sister Mains and I
that we we're just as good if not better than the
missionaries heading out this week and they are soo not
bad! It made us both jump for joy as we headed out of
the teaching evaluation room.One of our Our Zone leaders
( Elder Earl) has been assigned to labour in quarantine
which means we're all on the look out for more of us
getting swine flu. THAT would be awful please pray that
I don't . The other day sister Mains and I walked past
the building where they hold the quarantine people and
we heard tapping turned around and saw them all waving
at us with just about the saddest faces ever!
Up date on our lovely sister Tuifua for a while now
we've caught her checking herself out in the mirror
like A LOT, and when the teacher called her out on it
this week she said I'm just admiring God's creating.Our
teacher Brother Ogden had to actually excuse himself
from the class he was laughing so hard!. I'm certain
that tagolog has now taken over my life, its even in
my dreams apparently last night 3 of the sisters claim
to have heard me mumbling "Hindi Ko Alam" over and over
in my sleep which means " I don't know" Crazy hu? I
can't even remember what I was dreaming about. Still I'm
trying to keep faith that I'll be ready to go to the
Philippines when the time comes. Faith isn't easy you
know, its a 15 letter word in Tagolog ( Pananampalataya)!
Mahal Ko Kayo, ( love you all)
Magandag Araw ng Papasalamt, ( Happy Thanksgiving)
Sister Quinn

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Blog Post
Kumusta po Kayo ang Pamiliya ko,
I've just gotten back from performing a special musical
number, and it was wonderful! I accompanied one of the
Edler's in our district ( Elder Long from Utah) and he
sang I know that My Savior Loves Me. It is from the new
children's primary program for the coming year it was a
wonderful experience to do a special musical number a
little nervous of course but really great to do. So other
news Sherry Dew spoke at our devotional last night and
it was wonderful. The talk was amazing literally one of
those like life changing talks. This Thursday we taught
a whole principle in Tagalog not an entire lesson but
more of a mini lesson really and in it I said something
that roughly translates to ' I know when you pray in
your families it is really fun for god!" The tagalog
speaking RM we were teaching held it together pretty
well and didn't laugh too hard. Also in light news it
snowed for real the first time this week and our beautiful
Tongan princess sister Tuifua who's never seen snow in
her life made her first snow man. Watching her play in
the snow was about the CUTEST thing I have ever seen
she was bouncing around and smiling like a three year
old would have when they had seen their own first snow.
I'm excited to
say I've created the coolest new game that is taking
the sister's MTC dorms by storm! Toothbrush off or
in tagalog Magsipilioyo off ! Basically it is about
the most intense test of endurance known to man,
with only one rule first one to stop brushing is
the looser! I have yet to be beaten and as dorky
as this sounds its hilarious and fun! It started
completely by accident when me and this native Spanish
speaking sister just started brushing at the same
time and then looked at each other and it was like
unspoken communication we knew IT WAS ON! We both
giggled all the way through it but i swear we must
have brushed for at least 5 solid minutes. I told
the story to my roommates right after it ended and
everyone loves it now! Any way's I must head off
now to our Quote the district leader " mandatory
opportunity for service" ! Love the contradiction
in that but I'm actually really looking forward
to it I think we get to colour.
Mahal Ko Kayo,
Ingat,
Sister Quinn

Komusta po kayo lahat!
Hello ALL,
As of Lunes Ingless is Bawal. OH wait lunes is today!
Monday! So no English! posensha ( sorry ) I guess I'll
have to type this all out Sa tagalog, Jokelang!
This week was just as wild as the rest. The big topic
around all last Wednesday was that apparently
Elisabeth Smart entered the MTC and is going to France
dunoo if that's true haven't seen her yet and don't
really want to because I'm afraid I'd be really rude
and wouldn't be able not to stare.
Kahapon Sa Lingo( yesterday on Sunday) Mugusap Ako Sa
Tagalog
( I was the speaker ) I spoke in totagalog of course
but it is all at the last minute and I thought that
since I was playing the hymn's I'd be except,
APPARENTLY NOT! I was so shocked. I just got up and
almost wanted to cry but amazingly I made it through
the whole five minutes and everyone said they loved
my talk and that they understood everything I said,
which is great because I actually have NO CLUE what
I said. I know I spoke about Mga Propheta but thats
about it! Masaya Talaga ( it was really fun actually).
Our Tagalog Tutor Sister Fotu who returned from Angeles
this July gave me the best news I've received since my
mission call! Hinid Nylons Sa Angelse ( we don't have
to wear them!) Words cannot express how relieved me
and all of the sister's in the district are about this.
Also this week I officially feel like an oldie in the
MTC, tomorrow we will out live our roomies a pair of
state side sisters going to Indiana I think. It's just
crazy to think we still have 5 more weeks here ...
wait or maybe its four... Ya we all loose count of
this so often its scary! I miss you and and I LOVE
hearing from you the dear elder letters are like a
gift from the heavens.
Mahal Ko Kayo,
Ingat,
Sister Quinn

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

GA Week

Komusta po kayo pamiliya at mga kabiligan ko,
This week was what my Kasama( companion) has
been calling GA week. We've seen so many general
authorities. Elder L Tom Perry was the Tuesday
night devotional speaker and this morning at the
temple we saw sister Tanner which was soo cool!
I'm a bit worse for the wear since i just came
back from the clinic. I've had to have my typhoid
pills again apparently because I ate after taking
them they didn't work! :( So Happy Halloween. I
enjoyed my extra hour of sleep because of daylight
savings more than anything else, but I love the
package you sent Nanay ( mom). We got caramel candied
apples for dinner and because of the extra hour of
time we had many of the sister's trick or treated in
the halls. It was silly but fun none the less. Our
older Tagalog sisters have left this day and so we
are now the old district! Ano bayan?! Its crazy to
think that after only tatlo lingo ( 3 weeks) we are
already the oldest district. We're enjoying the last
bit of sunshine here after a whole lot of snow last
week. I miss you all and Mahal Ko Kayo ( Love you lots) !
Ingat,
Sister Quinn