GRATITUDES
I’m super grateful for music, for church music and for non-church music. Oh how I miss non-church music. I am grateful for the scriptures, I have been loving my scripture study, but sadly with language study, we have almost no time for scripture study, and I'm missing it. I am thankful for everyone I have supporting me back home, it is keeping me going. So thank you guys for that.
TIE TRADES
Tie trades are still going on, just at a smaller capacity. I traded a tie with one of my teachers and got him to sign it. It's a really cool one that he called his Iron Man tie. You can see me wearing it in a few photos on my album. Last night, I walked out with all of my ugliest ties, not expecting anything. I then ended the night with all new cool ties, and an extra tie because I traded one tie for two. Safe to say, I’m working my way up to a sock tie.
LANGUAGE
We started language FINALLY. This language is the weirdest thing I have ever seen. There have been so many times where the language almost seems like you can do whatever you want. There are these things called markers, and our teacher told us that you can have the words of a sentence in any order, just as long as the markers are right, and it will still be understandable. Also, the numbers are Cebuano numbers from one to ten, and then after that all the numbers are just the same as Spanish. Besides that, this language is so fun to speak. The words are just so satisfying coming off the tongue. I feel like I am picking it up ok. I don't feel stressed at all. I have a lot of faith that the Lord is helping me and going to continue to help me. So far I have learned how to introduce myself and my family (there’s a video of that in my photos album), how to bear my testimony and pray. I am just super excited to be fluent. It's going to be so nindot kaayo!
MUSIC
This week I have been listening to a lot of music. I've been listening to the Tabernacle Choir and Nashville Tribute Band (shout out to Brynae). For some reason I have been super interested in paying attention to all of the lyrics. I think a lot about how the people that wrote them wrote each line for a reason, and it's super interesting to see what they were thinking about when writing the songs, and I try to sort of put myself in their shoes. Another thing I've been thinking about while listening to them is how men and women's voices sound so good together. It makes me think about when we were being created, and what the decision process was like when God was creating our voices. Music is definitely an important thing in the long run. I know this especially because of how powerful music can be in all emotions. I will put links at the end to two songs that I really enjoy the lyrics.
THE PEOPLE
The people here are so cool and fun. Shout out Sibug and Mendoza. It's been real. I'll miss you guys. Me and Sibug made a handshake, and he told me I need to find him a gwapa amerikano nga babaye (beautiful American girl). The best parts of my day are messing around with everyone, and the nightly talks with all the elders in my district in my room. We started making mini bets throughout the day to keep the days interesting. For example, there is an elder here named Elder Upton. He is a guy from Australia who is known for talking to every girl at all times. The bet was placed that in under ten seconds he would find a girl to talk to after the devotional. HE FOUND A GIRL IN EIGHT SECONDS. These bets are mostly between Elder Ebert and Elder Nault, but it's fun to also guess, especially since I'm not putting any money on it like they are. So if I lose, I'm still good.
SPIRITUAL MOMENT
So me and my kauban had to teach the lesson in priesthood this Sunday. The zone leaders were supposed to let us know the Monday before, but they were sick on Monday so they didn't tell us till Saturday. So naturally, I was super overwhelmed. So I started praying hard that I would find ways to fill the time. We ended up not even getting to the last question that I had planned because of the conversation. I know that that was an answer to my prayers because there was no way that those questions would have filled that time without God's influence.
FINALLY CHRISTMAS
In the Philippines they start celebrating Christmas in the “ber” months, so September 1st they had a Christmas tree set up in the office. I personally love it.
Trying to be like jesus,
Elder Lewis
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