Mom asked: Do you feel like a missionary now? You've had weeks in the nitty gritty.
No,
I feel like... nothing really. Haha we do so much prep, but really it's
just learning. I haven't done any real impactful things at all. I'm
currently a wanna-be missionary :) But one in-training.
Tell
Abby that bases only get more complex as you go... haha ah well.
They're way important though. My favorite grammar to use right now is
Toki ni, and nakerebanarimasen, so maybe you could look into those. :)
Make sure you understand basic particles first though! I think ni is the
hardest to completely understand.
And
tell Dad that if I'm memorizing 20-40 words a day, he can do more than
like 3 characters. :P Also, if he's going for bit by bit of progress,
it'd be better to focus on words and grammar, since talking is more
important to a newbie than reading. Also, reading is harder.
I
got it (camera)! And the camera bag and the SD card. I actually dropped it first
thing and the top popped a little bit off so I was a bit scared I broke
it immediately, but it snapped right back on and it's working
perfectly. :) Thanks a billion. I've been semi-expecting it, so every
day I've been asking Cannon, who picks up the mail as DL, if he got/ is
going to get my package. Reber's always just shakes his head at me like
"You are never going to get one." So when all the Churrotachi walked
towards me and Cannon was holding out the package slip I exploded with
excitement a bit. Best day ever.
All our teachers are amazing. Panganiban is just probably the
most immediately impressive spiritual 3 Nephiteish. (Seriously, whenever
we get a new sub we ask about it and they don't even like think about
it, they're just like "obviously") The demonstrations do make me nervous
sometimes though. They're pretty fine, but then last time we were doing
a fundamentals (spiritual focused one) on the Doctrine of Christ, and
we were supposed to basically teach ourselves in a way that would help
ourselves strengthen our faith in Christ. So we shared some
needs/worries with our companions and then the companion pretended to be
you and you basically tried to help yourself as a representative of
Christ. Really weird and circular, we've never done anything quite like
it before. So my doryo's turn went fine, but then we switched and
Panganiban took and moment and told the teachers basically that "the
temptation is to not pay attention to this part, but this is the most
important because you can assess the missionaries progress and figure
out what they need from the exercise." So then someone asked if we could
spread out so they could like hear individual members. So we did. Super
awkward and scary to be trying to address my own problems and follow
the spirit while I'm surrounded by like 5 teachers staring at me and
taking notes. I really appreciated the one teacher who was obviously
listening but didn't turn to face me or anything (I was behind him) so I
could just pretend that maybe he wasn't listening. Ah well. We only do
them once a week.
Love you, Kylie :)
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| Sands Shimai and Williamson Shimai |
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| Enjoying a day at the Temple |
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