Wow it has been a long few days of traveling, but I have arrived safe and sound, and I am here at the Manila MTC and it is absolutely amazing! I am glad that most of the traveling is over. The airplane food was just okay, we had some weird stuff on the plane. It was so awesome to talk to all of you on the phone yesterday or a few days ago, whenever that was, I don't know what time is anymore. Right now its 5pm on Friday the 22nd. So that song that starts with "do you remember the 21st night of September, is perfect because I literally don't remember it because its like it never happened. We took off on the 20th and landed on the 22nd, haha crazy!
Well when we landed today the humidity hit me pretty hard, but I feel like I'm already getting used to it, which is good because I better get used to it, because thats how its going to be for a while. After we landed and went through customs and everything, we filled out some paperwork, then we hopped on a bus to go to the Manila MTC. The drive to the manila mtc took a while, probably about an hour. During the drive we drove through quezon city, it is amazing. The ride to the mtc was awesome, I can already tell I'm going to love it here in the Philippines. After we arrived at the MTC we left our bags in this little pavilion thing by the front gate and went straight to lunch. And to be honest when I looked at what was for lunch I was a little scared, it didn't look good, but when I ate it, It was soo good! We had rice(of course), chicken, noodles, and some other things that I don't really know what they were, but they were great. After that we had a little greeting devotional with president Carlos, the president of the mtc. President Carlos is awesome, he is so funny. We found out that we are going to the Manila temple tomorrow and we are also going on splits with elders in quezon city, where they speak tagalog, which I do not speak, so i will have to tell you how that goes haha.
Well thats about all I have time for and I won't be able to email until my first pday in the field so, I don't know when the next time i email will be.
I love you all so much and I am so excited for this opportunity to serve in the Philippines!
Elder Degen
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