Kumusta Po Kayo Any Pamiliya ko at Kaibigan ko,
I cannot believe my time at the M.T.C has come and gone.
 It has been an amazing experience and things keep
 happening right up until the last minuet here
Halimbawa( for example) The other night at about
 midnight the fire alarm went off in the sisters dorms
 which sounds like nothing to big deal maybe a nuisance
 ( at least it was just this to me) I thought my alarm
 clock was going off at first actually and i couldn't
figure out why it wouldn't stop. Then as i grabbed on
 my pair of gym sweats which i put on backward and
stepped out the door all chaos broke out. Their were
sisters every where running screaming some even crying
 sister mains and i were literally pushed down the
stairs and out into the cold snowy winter. We all trekked
 to the gym where they held us for a while, turns out
 it was burst  pipe in the basement that set it off,
 but it was just insane to see the mass hysteria that
 ensued kind of funny actually. Hermana Barker
( a friend of mine) said the first thing she grabbed
 for was her name tag! Figures right?! We are so blessed
 here though This Sunday in R.S. we got to see
Sister Dalton and she was amazing she spoke so well and
 her words were so powerful. I even got to go up and
 see her after wards it was just amazing because she
was like my YW leader always and she always will be
in my eyes! I love her! We had to say good bye to our
 Guro's ( teachers) it was the saddest thing. I haven't
 written much about them actually to which i feel bad
for all I can say is this, it is not in my biased head
 when I say we had the best! Other Guro's and students
 agreed our teacher's were Pinaka the best! I cannot
 believe how they were able to explain such complex
concepts in Tagolog so simply and they both taught more
 than one lesson leaving the entire district in tears!
 So Mahal Ko Kayo Brother Ogden and Brother Hyde I am a
 better missionary because of you! We'll we're headed off
 in just a few hours and its crazy to think that after 32
 hours of straight travel the district will have to part
 ways. I know it will be tearful but I think we're all
 sooooooo excited to go to the Philippines right now. I
 just cannot wait!
Mahal na Mahal Ko Kayo,
Sister Quinn

Kumusta Po Kayo Ang Pamiliya at Kaibigan Ko,
I am almost out of here ! I see a light at the end of
 this tunnel! Joke lang! I actually maybe might one day
 soon miss the sweet sheltered life we live here at the
MTC. In answer to a request by my Nanay (Mother) last
week the following is a general generic schedule of a day
 and then a following day by day my own personal
evaluation of the week here.
6:30 Arise and pre-pare for the day ( DUH!)
7 am breakfast
7-30-10 am class
or maybe MDT ( missionary Directed time not as many believe
 it to be missionary dork off time!)
11:30 lunch I know its early but I've adjusted!
12;15- 1 pm Gym
30 min prep for calls
then 1:30- 4-30 calls again
4:30 Dinner this still seems early I swear its like I'm
 eating on the schedule of a 4 year old!
5:15-6:15 and hour of personal study
6:15-7:15 and hour of Companion study
7:15-8:15 MDLS ( Missionary directed Language study)
These are the days in my opinion
Sunday - Pinaka Da Best! We get a 30 minuet siesta in my
 branch its amazing!
Monday- P-day only last for like 3 hours so its okay i
still like Sunday better
Tues- Devotionals day ( wonder which apostle is coming
 this week?!)
Wed- LONG class day this when we have the most class
Thur- We get and evaluated teaching appointment its great
 to measure our progress with the language we alawys have
 a 15 min meet and greet language task and then now we are
 teaching whole lessons sa tagolog this weeks was amazing!
Fri- Also a long class day and LGM day ( large group meeting)
 there are more acronyms at the mtc than i could even
 write in 1 email honestly!
Sat- the DREADED RC i think I've had my last one of these
 but I am very much not a fan of the church's call center.
 Half the time you get answering machines and the angry
callers always put me off making any more call, but the
internet chats are not so bad.

Any ways that's all for the schedule now with the big
exciting news of the week ELDER DAVIS IN QUARRINTINE! We all
 got tamiful pills so no worries we wouldn't get it OH and
 ya I got a free swine flu shot Swertay ( Lucky) I know!
 and they set up this sort of virtual class room for
 elder Davis it was crazy but really good.
The other big news of course is TRAVEL PLANS! We got them
 Friday and every one is freaking out!
our travel plans are as follows
Dep SLC 8;25 pm
arrive LAX 9:26 pm and then a 2 hour layover
Dep LAX 11;25 pm and arrive in Taiwan at 6 am their time
 their is a 16 hour time difference so that means that's
right its a 16 hour flight! You know I'm excited about that.
lay over in Taiwan for 2 hours and arrive in Manila at
11:45 am and have a 3 hour bus ride to Angeles so all in
 total
that is 30 hours of traveling! I'm gonna die! well i hope
 not any ways!
Keep praying for me you all and know that I am praying for
 you always
Mahal Ko Kayo,

Please remember to write Sis Quin now a through pouch mail:
Sister Mary Ashton Quinn
Philippines Angeles Mission
POB 30150
Salt Lake City UT 84130-0150
USA
you can also go to Dearelder.com
You will need mission information above. This is a free
service for pouch mail missions.
and is as easy as email. Let's keep her mail box full!!!

Komusta Po Kayo ang Pamiliya at Kalibigan Ko? Buhay Pa?
Craziest things about Thanksgiving at the MTC
1. People qeueing 3 hours before the fireside started.
2. 20 minuets to eat my "thanksgiving meal" they tired
 to feed the whole MTC in just under and HOUR! it was
 nutz!
3. A Sack dinner consisting of plastic cheese sandwich,
 chips and a fruit pie. Thats right this was what i ate
 for my thanksgiving dinner a sack lunch!
4. Pinaka the Best fireside ever by Elder Holland!He
answered questions from some of the missionaries it
was brilliant!
In other news though yesterday I threw up! I'm pretty
 sure it's because I ate something bad , that had gone
 off, but my district is pretty much convinced that I
have the plague and are treating me as if I we're already
 confined to the leaper colony ( my word for quarantine)
NO worries though I assure you I am fine, Buhay PA !
( I'm still alive!)
I've decided this week to share with you a few of the
funniest errors in translation that have come up in the
 past few weeks. We found out as we we're teaching the
 first lesson last week just how important having the
focus of your sentence in the right place is Halimbawa
( for example)
if you were to say : Pumatay ang masama mga tao ni
JesuCrsito. you have said that many wicked people killed
 Christ.
Pero
if you were to say : Pumatay ng masama mga tago Si
JesuCristo you have just said that Christ Killed many
wicked people!
and therefore we all now know that focus is VERY
important Pinaka Mahaliga!
The other funny one that happened a lot at the begging
 and happens much less often nos is the fact that name
(Pangalan) and prayer ( Panalangi)sound very similar
and so often we say and now Elder so and so will say
for us The Name! We always wondered why our teachers
 laughed at that!
Any how the laundry is almost done and so goes the way
 of my P-day!
Mahal Ko Kayo,
Sister Quinn

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

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

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