Week 5 at the MTC!

I am getting all my weeks mixed up lol! My last email was suppose to be week 4 and this week has been week 5 because this coming up week is WEEK 6! MY last week here! I am soooo stoked/nervous haha. I can't wait to be in the Philippines helping with the disaster that has occurred. I wish I was there right now haha. So, this last week up until Wednesday has been pretty ehh. Nothing really exciting happened. Wednesday though, we got a new sister in our zone who is a solo sister. Which means she is all by herself in a district full of elders. Well, the branch presidency chose me to be her companion when she is not in class. So technically I have like 3 companions...how awesome is that?! I absolutely love my new companion, she is sooo fun and we get along sooo well. She was really shy on Wednesday, but since IM her companion we all know that wasn't going to work very well. Shes not shy with me anymore haha. Shes actually opened up a lot and we have gotten to know each other really well:) She is just the bees knees let me tell you:) Thursday we did TRC's but instead of teaching face to face...we skyped somebody. It was hard haha. We kept breaking up and like every other thing we said was "Paki ulit?" which means please repeat haha. It was pretty difficult to get a message about getting revelations through the Book of Mormon when we only had 20 minutes and we couldn't understand a word the poor lady was saying haha. But, in the end it all worked out and the lady ended up hearing our message and understanding us. It was a cool experience. Oh and I jammed my finger playing four square at gym...hindi mabuti:( It hurt haha. Yesterday, nothing really happened. Class was super fun because we have learned everything that our teachers were suppose to teach us, so now for the next week I guess we are just suppose to review the things they have taught and ask questions. So we just goofed off pretty much the entire time during night class haha. But, we are not going to do that again...we are going to actually do what we are suppose to do haha. Anywho, thats pretty much all the importantish details from my week haha. Talk to you all later! Mahal ko kayo!:) Love/Your Friend, Sister Halley Jean Ramsey

So, I know that my last few emails haven't been very informative. So this time I am going to try to make it better. Ill start with my companions, Sister McClain is a super sweet and I love her soooo much. She is so stinkin smart and always has such great ideas for teaching and stuff. Then there is Sister Shaw, OMG!! I don't even know where to begin with her hahaha. She is so funny. There was this time that we were all in class and she was standing by the whiteboard and she tooted and tried blaming it on one of the Elders that was sitting next to her. It was so funny and she does that ALLLL the time lol! Especially in our bedroom! Then there is my entire district and they are just the greatest people everrrr. They are so fun and we always have a blast. They make learning fun...which is pretty hard to be honest. This last week L Tom Perry came to the MTC and spoke at our Tuesday Devotional. It was super good! He talked about missionary work and talked about the Philippines a lot so it really made me feel like his talk was directed towards me. Which it was directed toward everyone but it really felt like what I needed to hear. And during sacrament last Sunday I kind of broke down because everything that President Christofferson said in his talk was exactly how I was feeling and It felt really good to have all those negative feelings taken care of. I absolutely love going to the Temple! I am super sad that today will be my last time going while here at the MTC because they are closing next week for remodeling of some sort. But, I am still happy that I have gotten to go as much as I have. It is the most peaceful place on the Earth and the best place to go to get answers to prayers. This last week not much has really happened. Just the normal, classroom study, companion study, and language study. Pretty repetitive haha. But still really great:) I got to pretend to be an investigator yesterday for my teacher who was teaching me the Ebanghelyo ni Jesucristo and it was super fun haha. I really felt like the investigator and I had the urge to like want to know more about what she was teaching me. It made me realize that that is how the people are going to feel in the Philippines when I am teaching them and it made me really excited to go because I want everybody to feel what I felt for themselves because it was literally the best feeling I have ever felt in my life. Alam ko po na totoo ang Simbahan ni Jesucristo! I really do. At Alam ko po na totoo ng Ebanghelyo ni Jesucristo! And I am so beyond blessed to be here at this time preparing to serve those in sa Philippines. Alam ko po na this is where I am suppose to be and I wouldn't have it any other way:) Sa pangalan ni Jesucristo, Amen:) Have a great week everybody! Love/Your Friend, Sister Halley Jean Ramsey

Weeks 2 & 3 at the MTC (:

Well, It has definitely become an emotional roller coaster here. It's finally starting to hit me that I am in the MTC preparing to serve the Lord in the Philippines...THE PHILIPPINES! Like woah! I honestly didn't really think all that much about it before I left, I was just like. Oh cool the Philippines. But now its like real and I'm sooooo excited! Tagalog has become a bit more difficult to get. I am adjusting to new words and stuff pretty easily but I am just having a really difficult time forming sentences that actually make sense haha. This last week has gone by so super fast and we are learning how to conjugate verbs in Tagalog and lets just say its not easy. But, luckily I have really awesome teachers that do a super good job at explaining and doing one on one with those that need it. I start TRC's tonight with my companions. It's not going to be that difficult I hope, because we are going to be teaching members who served missions but were sent home because of injuries or something. So they aren't pretending to be anything. They are being themselves and our job is just to increase their pananampalataya (faith)! I know...its like 3x longer than the word it means. Super weird haha. And puso is heart and pusa is cat...so those two get mixed up like alll the time haha. My favorite parts about the MTC so far are visiting the Temple every Saturday and Sunday, devotionals on Sundays and Tuesdays. And how strong the presence of the Spirit is. It's so crazy!:) And this Tuesday L Tom Perry is speaking at the devotional...i'm super excited!:) well, I got to go, but I will talk to you all soon! Kita Kita! Love/Your Friend, Sister Halley Jean Ramsey