It is so crazy that I have been here for 5 weeks! It has been another great week and it flew by!!
It was great to hear from everybody again this week! I loved everything I heard about what went on this week and especially the game! We could hardly hear any cheering on saturday so I knew that was a good sign, but of course I already knew the Utes would win!! (Like always) So on saturday's we have our study times at night, so we studied on the roof of one of the new buildings and watched the sunset and tried to hear anything from the game, but the only time we heard stuff was when it started, then after that it was really quiet because it was only 3-0 until we went back to our residences. It was so hard to be so close to it, but not be able to know what was going on!! It will be a lot easier to not worry about any of this stuff when I'm in the Philippines.
Speaking of going to the Philippines...we got our travel plans last friday!! Once we got our travel plans, everything became more real. It was like wow, they actually are going to let us out of this place...haha just kidding! But, it did get really real, its crazy that in less than a week we will be on an airplane to the Philippines!!
So our travel plans go like this:
We leave the MTC at 2pm to go the the SLC airport on the 20th
We don't fly out of SLC until 7:11 to go to LA
We arrive in LA 8:20 pm
Then we fly out of LA at 12:55 am to go to Hong kong
We arrive in Hong Kong at 6:45 am the next day (so the 22nd)
Then we fly out to Manila at 9am and arrive at 11:20 am
So basically 2 whole days of traveling!! sorry that was kind of a weird way to explain it, but I have a picture of the travel plans that i might just send. And I did find out that I can call from the airport, so that would be great if you could send me a card ( one with a lot of minutes preferably ) so I can call you guys, since I will be spending a lot of time at the airport! I am so excited to be able to talk to you guys! So keep your phone close between like 3-7 on the 20th!! I am so excited to go the the Philippines and I can't believe that it is already almost time to go!
So after we got our travel plans we all more excited to go to the Philippines, but also more nervous because of our inability to speak Ilonggo very good! But, our teachers are amazing, they must have sensed or probably have felt exactly how we feel and prepared an awesome lesson! We had a couple of lessons this past week about relying on the spirit and it was exactly what I needed to hear at the time! We talked about how much we have already been relying on the spirit in the MTC and I have talked about that a lot, but I know for a fact that i could not teach or convert anybody if it weren't for the spirit! We read a scripture in 2 Nephi 33:1, it talked about how even though we may not be mighty in speaking the language, the spirit will carry our message to the hearts of the people! That scripture was exactly what I needed to hear, it comforted me so much! sure, its still scary to be going 7,000 miles away and speaking a language that i hardly even know, but I know for a fact I am not alone and I am so grateful for that knowledge!!! I truly love feeling the spirit and I have never felt it more than I do at this point in my life! I am so excited to go and share that great feeling with the filipinos.
Also this week we taught our last lesson with our pretend investigator Benji. It was weird, because he was the first person we taught when we arrived at the MTC and it is crazy how far we have come! I love my teachers here at the MTC (Bro Mariano, Bro Adamson, Bro. Shumway). I will send a picture with all of them next week!
Well thanks for all of the emails and love!!
Palangga ta ka!
Halong!
Elder Degen
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