I hope everything is going well for all of you. Today has been an excellent day. We taught "Dennis" about prophets this morning. It was difficult but we didn't worry about having perfect Tagalog. We just wanted to make sure he felt our love and his Heavenly Father's love and that he understood the doctrine. Our lesson was very slow but heart felt. Your prayers are working. I can feel it. Brother Trebas says it was a good lesson. We did well and he is glad we didn't let the language get in the way.
Yesterday we taught "Randy" and it wasn't great but when we sang I am a Child of God and I bore my testimony I felt my Heavenly Father's love so strongly it almost hurt. I started crying and I hope he got the right message.
Everything is going pretty well. The language is still hard but it is coming. I love the letters from the kids. They are wonderful! I absolutely love the artwork!
Tell Uncle Mike that Sister Tivalu is from Ipswitch. She thinks it is so cool that my uncle served in Australia. She was also excited to hear that he still continues to study the scriptures and chooses to follow the Lord. It is such a good example for all missionaries. That they don't forget what they learned and how much they grew on their missions. That they keep the habits they made in those 2 years. It makes her sad that all too often they revert back to old ways and habits and get lazy. So, good for him! Oh, and everyone is in love with Jennifer!
I don't know if I mentioned this in my other letters, but I busted my finger playing volleyball. Don't worry nothing is broken itwas just huge and purple. Now the swelling has gone down so it is getting better.
I eat far too much here. Everyone says eat it now because they won't have it in the Philippines. But I have fries nearly everyday. Pop is readily available but I just drink water. It tastes better anyway.
My Kasama (companion) is always tired. She falls to sleep a lot. I think she is eating too much and not getting enough exersize. Maybe we need to workout together. That seems like an awesome idea. She is really great. She has saved me more times than I can count.
I love the Book of Mormon so much it isn't even funny. I love having that time to read it everyday. It is my me time. My mini vacation. I get my bottle of water, head over to 9M thinking "oh, I am going to my easy class. It's gonna be a little vacation!" And then we read and I feel so good. I fee renewed on Sunday, Tuesday, and when I get to read the Book of Mormon.
My kasama just gave an inpiring spiritual thought tht I want to share with you. 2 Timothy 4: 7
"I have fought a good afight, I have bfinished my course, I have kept the faith" I want to be able to say that to the Lord. Do you?
I love Alma 26. It is one of my all time favorites. Read it. You will quite enjoy it. My heart is full and I am still a bit nervous about teaching "Randy" on . . . tomorrow, YIKES!!! We will pray lots and lots and hopefully he will get our message. Hopefully he will feel our love and his Savior's love. That is the most important.
May 12, 2012
Tomorrow is Mother's Day. You won't get this letter in time but I still love you. This morning has been kind of hard. Our lesson didn't go well because we don't know hot to get to know people. We have to practise over and over back and forth in English then Tagalog. I am trying to be happy, but I am very discouraged. Don't worry, I will keep working :) I will learn from my mistakes. I will grow and become someone the Lord can be proud of. (silly girl. I'm going to let her know He is already proud of her!)
My favorite scripture of all time is still Doctrina at Mga Tipan 24:8 but now I include 7 in it too. "For thou shalt devote all thy aservice in Zion; and in this thou shalt have strength.
8 Be apatient in bafflictions, for thou shalt have many; but cendure them, for, lo, I am with thee, even unto the dend of thy days."
It is nice to know the Lord will give me strength if I devote my whole self to Him. And, as always, I am never alone. "Endure them, for lo, I am with thee, even to the end of thy days." I take great comfort in that.
I saw Sister Talanoa the other day. I hope she remembered to tell you. It made me so happy! I really have had a great week. The Lord has truly blessed me. I am happy.
Lots of our people are leaving this weekend so the sisters who are staying are going to sing on Sunday and for those leaving we are going to sing as they get on the bus. They are my friends and family and I love them very much. I will miss them, but I believe we will all see each other again.
We just had a lesson about real personal study and it was great. I am going to study today and tomorrowabout how I can trust more in my Heavenly Father. I am excited.
So, we didn't end up singing in Sacrament meeting. Branch President Stott sang Love One Another with 2 extra verses he wrote because he got released today. I finally figured out why I always cry in front of him. It is because he truly loves us with the Savior's love and it just emanates. He makes me feel so wonderful and now he is gone.
May 13
There were so many things I wanted to put into this letter but I can't remember what they all were. We watched The Testaments today and it was very awesome. It made me think of good memories at home. It is always nice to have that. I love you.
Happy Mother's Day! We watched Music and the Spoken Word today. It was dedicated to mothers and they had clips of kids saying things like "I love my mom because she reads to me." "I love my mom because she takes care of me and talks to me." "I love her hugs." "She takes me on walks." And I thought "My mom does that too! And I'm 21 years old!" It made me giggle.
May 14
I must say I NEED LETTERS! Please oh please have mercy please. We have an Elder who gets an average of 4 lleters a day! Help me out here! I love you and want news please! Please don't read this as angry. I'm in my excited state because tomorrow is P-day. It's P-day, p-day, gotta get down on p-day.
3 weeks down, 6 more to go. Then we start the real count down of everlovin' righteousness. You know, I hope I have conveyed in this series of written pages, the fact that this week has been a wonderful week. I have been very happy. don't get me wrong, things haven't gone that great, in fact, things have been very difficult to learn and apply. The gospel is very plain and simple, but difficult in a new language. But I am strooing on the path! Anyway, I love the gospel and I know that my Heavenly Father made this not so great week an excellent feeling week. He answers my prayers.
Sorry that this letter might have to be split between 2 envelopes. It is becoming pretty big even though I have nothing to say.
I really love it when I hear from you all. I hope you can all send me one big awesome letter pretty soon. With pics of your life. My oh my that is so awesome when there are pics on my emails from you. It is super fun to see. I have a wall of home pics & I want to add to it, so help me.
You never told me how Becca's wedding is coming. I hope things are going well. It is coming up. Wow! Things are happening so quickly and yet so so slowly. I really love it here sometimes and sometimes not so much. But things are growing on me. I love the people so much though! I just adore them! They are my new MTC family.
Now you are thinking, "what was the point of this letter." Well, I just really wanted to talk.
Mahal Kita,
Sister Brittany Newman
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