Hello everyone!
Okay so first of all funny story from this week. I guess
they changed me MTC address from what they originally told me so now it is the
same but September 4th as the departure date and unit #48
It was funny because some of the letters went through my
first few days but the majority of them were redirected and got here all on
Monday.(That's why I didn't answer your questions last week, sorry Mom) It was
crazy because I walked in and had 12 Dear Elders and everyone heard about it
because I guess that is an unheard of thing for 12 letters in one day! Now
everyone says "oh it's mail time! Sister Turner gets to hear from her fan
club!" haha it's so silly but I really do love hearing from everyone and
thank you for writing me! Everyone who wrote me, even if I can't respond right
away, know that I am totally in your fan club too and am rooting for you in all
you do and pray for you all everyday! Thanks for the love!
Last Saturday after I wrote you all, we went to the Provo
Temple because we are allowed to do that on P-days. I love the Provo temple. It
is such a beautiful place both inside and out. Funny thing that happened though
was that I got lost because I had never been there before and everyone just
kind of took off because they had been there many times before. Then I couldn't
find my companion and then I couldn't find my clothes to change into because
the key to my locker was gone and then I lost my purse and it was just one
thing after another. haha those poor temple workers. Trying to help a tired,
clumsy sleep deprived sister Turner:) I think Heavenly Father knew what he was
doing when he put Sister W and I together though because I lost my keys at the
temple and a few days later she accidentally flushed our room key down the
toilet. haha Perfect match! Except we need to step it up or we won't have any
backups.
Sundays at the MTC are so great! We had our first sacrament
meeting in Tagalog which was kinda neat and then we went to relief society
which is a meeting where all the sisters go and hear from a super awesome
speaker! This week was SISTER SHERI DEW!!!!!!!!!!! what what. Mormon
Celebrity.
Sister Dew talked about how God won't force us to learn, we
have to exercise our agency or ability to choose in order to learn. Action is
always required. Spiritual work is work. She talked about how one of Satan's
most effective tools in leading us astray is to make us think that we should
look around us at what other people in the world are doing to see what we
should strive to become. But in reality we should always look up! It was really
amazing,she is an incredible person!
It was such a great meeting also because one of my best
friends Sister Jex sang a solo, she sounded so great and I totally cried. I am
so blessed which such amazing friends!!
This week Sister W and I were also called as the sacrament
meeting music coordinators and are teaching the little Sunday school
type class this week so that is exciting.
Sister W and I have committed to always "SYL" or
speak our language. We speak in super broken Taglish and it's funny because I'm
almost certain that my Tagalog is not improving, my English is just getting
worse. haha so Now I speak both broken Tagalog and broken English. Jokelang.
It's going pretty well considering. Tagalog is a beautiful language and I am
excited to be able to understand and communicate with it more. (Hopefully
soon!)
One of our teachers, Brother kaka is from New Zealand and he
is seriously the coolest person to ever live. Actually I don't really know him
at all but he is a really great teacher! haha He has a super cool accent and
reminds me alot of Jaron Beckwith in how he is just so nice and friendly to
everyone. He is super chill and he told us that "Learning a language is
hard but learning tagalog is easy". I really want to believe that! haha
The other day he was teaching us something and I asked him what language that
was from and he said English. haha embarrassed-po. I told him I don't know how
well I can learn tagalog if I don't even know English and he said I should
probably just give up on English and focus all my efforts on Tagalog.
"Maybe you'll have better luck with your next language sister
Turner". Thanks Brother Kaka. Thanks a ton! haha
He also asked us why we were learning Tagalog. Then he showed
us a bunch of super cute pictures of the Filipino people and he simply said
"You are learning this language to help them. You are doing this to let
them know that God loves them. This isn't just vocabulary memorization. This is
for THEM. Whenever I am feeling frustrated with the language, I just think
about those people in the Philippines who I could maybe help by sharing this
message of God's love for them and the plan of happiness he has made for them
and I become so much more motivated to learn crazy congregations and vocab
where one word is the length of the alphabet haha. It's great. Teachers here
are so awesome.
Oh also this week was interesting because I had this super
bad cold (still do) and learning Tagalog while taking a bunch of cold medicine
and not being able to sleep at night is definitely an interesting experience
but God has been giving me so much strength I know, because no matter how bad I
felt, I was able to complete everything I needed too! So blessed! Also Sidenote
but Dad will you please make me some of that chicken rice soup stuff you used
to make for me when I was sick when I get home because I have been wanting that
so bad all week! haha Love you!:)
I love the three hours of study time we have in the mornings
for personal, companion and language study. The MTC campus is seriously one of
the most beautiful places in the world and it so nice to study outside. This
week, Sister W and I were sitting outside doing language study and a couple of
Elders came up to us and asked us if they could practice teaching us a lesson.
Of course we said yes! During the lesson, one Elder sang a hymn and it was so
beautiful. I bet it looked weird this One teenage boy serenading two sister
missionaries with a hymn but the spirit was so strong when he sang it was
amazing. The MTC is a pretty great place.
Okay so I am about to run out of time so I will just bullet
point a few other things.
-Sang in the choir for Tuesday night Devo and it
was amazing. I have so many cool stories I guess I'll have to tell when I get
home because It's just too much! ah! haa
-Brother John Groberg from the other side of heaven spoke to
us and it was one of the most spiritual and amazing firesides I have ever been
to.
-Sister W and I were super nervous right before our lesson
to our investigator because we didn't know any of the words in tagalog and the
investigator only speaks that. We decided to hum a hymn before going in and we
both started singing "I need the every hour" at the exact same time
without planning it. It was so neat and our lesson went so well after that! (We
are getting really good at charades and kind of good at Tagalog)
I love being a missionary. I love being at the MTC and I love
all of you.
Have a wonderful week!
MUHAL KITA
Sister Turner:)
p.s- didn't even have time to explain the title of this
letter. haha oh well. :)
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