I did not transfer! Elder Monzalez did, however, transfer. It was a good two transfers! I now have my first Junior Companion, Elder Domantay, from Mindanao, Philippines. Hopefully he can teach me Cebuano! He seems good, I'm excited to work with him!
I'm trying to remember what happened this week, it was kind of a crazy week.
I think the highlight of my week was our Zone Conference. We have some AWESOME people in our mission. We received trainings from some zone leaders and the assistants and WOW... I was so impressed. I hope I can have those kinds of teachings skills by the end of my mission.
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| Zone Conference - posted by Tanner's mission president |
To answer the question about the languages, yes they are similar. They are all similar and also super different haha. The overall structure of the languages is essentially the same. It's all a similar thought process and everything. But even with that similarity, you still can't understand the other languages unless you have learned some of the vocabulary. For example,
let's say I had this sentence in Ilonggo:
"I was walking the other day with my dog and suddenly it bit someone!"
If I heard that in Tagolog it would be like this:
I was ......... yesterday...... my dog.... someone!"
It's super weird... They all conjugate things differently in the different languages, and then sometimes they have words that are the same in Ilonggo, but with a different meaning. One example in Tagalog is the word, "dito" which means "here" in English. In Ilonggo, the word means the exact opposite of that, "over there". Same with Cebuano and Ilonggo. "Karon" in Ilonggo means "later" and then in Cebuano it means "right now." My first area was a bit confusing with that one because it was half Cebuano. I wish I could go in-depth about the language because I love it, but I don't have a ton of time. We are getting close to Mother's Day though! I'll get to Skype you soon!
Something I learned about in our Zone Conference last week is how important it is to be "writing our own scripture." The Zone Leaders referenced a verse in... one of the Nephi's, I forgot where... but it talked three things. We must first find personal value in reading the scriptures. They need to be meaningful for us before they can help us. The second is, we must ponder them in our hearts. Along with that pondering, we should also be applying it. And then the third, the one I found the most interesting; we must write our own scripture. Every night (and I have still not missed a night, yay!) I write in my journal and I talk about my day. Sometimes it's a super funny, ridiculous story about my day, but then sometimes I learn so much from myself, just by writing my experiences. In the temple, we learn a lot about following up with our Heavenly Father. Writing in my journal has personally helped me follow up with my Heavenly Father. It makes me reflect on my day, my actions, and the things that I tried to improve one. I really enjoy that time I have to write my own scriptures. We don't know who will benefit from reading our experiences. Even Alma wrote letters to his sons. I doubt he realized that they would be a part of this book we have today. So basically what I'm saying, if my point is unclear; I think everyone should write in their journals! Because it's good. If you rarely write, write more. If you don't write, start writing.
Okay, I think that's probably it. Hope everyone has a good week!
Elder Welton
P.S. Sorry no pictures... This computer shop seems a bit sketchy... I'm not gonna risk it.
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