Thanksgiving!

So this week has been great. When they say the MTC is the best place to be during the holidays they weren't kidding! JEFFERY R. (A.K.A THE MAN, A.K.A THE SPIRITUAL HEAVY WEIGHT CHAMPION) Holland spoke to us on Thanksgiving. I have never been so close to someone I love and respect in the church like a celebrity! haha! just kidding it was such a good message though. It really reconfirmed my choice in serving a mission. He spoke to us about the Prophets of Old who saw that they would be killed for their convictions in the Lord. They knew they would lose the fight in their dispensation and yet they still fought on. He told us it's because they saw us missionaries right there in the MTC and he knew that they would see us and say "Finally, It will work" so they continued to carry on the Lords work. They knew that this last dispensation would work! I am grateful for people's sacrifices for me and now I am here trying to give back. He also said that Missionary work isn't another "life" that I am not going to go back to my "real life" in two years. This is our real life! and after this we will probably not do anything more important probably some stuff equally important but just as important. I love Elder Holland! Anyways besides that Tagalog is coming along in baby steps. The gift of tongues isn't something I have so strongly haha! So far I can say basic greeting conversations and than I can pray, and I can kind of bare my testimony. I am learning sentence structuring so maybe now I can speak Tagalog. But the language is a lot of memorization based stuff and I suck at memorizing but I guess every language has that kind of feature. Anyways I Miss the world so much! But I love the spirit in the MTC and I sometimes wish I would never leave it! We heard about what the Philippines is like from my teacher. I am so excited! The food sounds SOOOO good! Also I just can't wait to escape! haha just kidding! but One thing I would like to say is if anyone has sent me a letter from Dear Elder I'm not sure if your return address is on it or not so if you were expecting a letter and you didn't get one that might be why! haha Well it's been a good P-Day! Mahal Kita World (Love YA)