WEEK 2

 Anyways this week has been a very crazy week!! Getting to the Philippines was a crazy adventure and so exciting!! I loved flying on the plane and getting and driving to the country!! the food on the plane wasn't that bad and i flew with 4 elders from Utah and Idaho. WE tried on some sweet Gucci 500$ sunglasses that actually looked like they were from the dollar store. When we got here there was another plane from LA (we went through San Fran) that had 16 missionaries on It! all going to my same mission!! pretty cool to have so many white friends here in the Philippines already;) anyways, we stayed at a hotel for a night and that was good. Holy moly driving from the airport and the Hotel to the MTC were crazy! there are no laws here and its the coolest thing to know everyone here is like a get away driver cause they weave in and out of cars like its no ones business. When you get in a car here its like stepping onto a roller coaster with horns and motorcyclists every where no joke!! Its soo fun!! so we got to the mtc and we pretty much go to class and eat rice all day. There is so much rice here its crazy. I swear Ive already eaten a whole field myself. 

   So I want to switch gears for a minute and be honest. I have been fairly homesick this week and its been pretty tough to adjust to this life of 8+ hours of class all day and then that is it. I like to be outside so a lot of the time I feel like we are stuck in a prison almost. Its great to learn about the spirit and how to teach and the lords work and I am doing well with the language but homesickness has been hard. A lot of this week has been mental. If you could imagine a full day of hard football work outs that are super intense and then transfer that to your brain and on top of that throw in going to a new country with so many new things and changing your complete schedule, that is pretty rough and its been hard. Now its through prayer and study that have helped get my mind off of things but it always seems to still be there a bit. It a good thing to miss my family, because it shows me how amazing my parents are and how much I love them. A lot of adjustment this week.

It has been great to grow my testimony this week and learn a lot of Tagalog!! its fun to goof off and sing really loud in the echo-ee stairwells and such, it helps me stay sane to sing;) I cant wait to get to the field!! Moral of the story is that sometimes life is hard but we can always work through it and god is always there with us. Love your families and tell your family members how much you love them always. God is good and loves all of us.