Eades, Oakley P

Made it to the Philippines! Long couple of travel days but so glad to be here! The first day here was so many emotions. We landed here at 5am and as soon as we stepped off the plane the humidity hit you and you instantly become so sweaty. Some vans picked us up and we went straight to the mission home, had breakfast and some long introduction meetings with all the new missionaries. Then our trainers came in and we ate lunch and then went straight to our area! I'm currently in the Quezon City South area and my trainer is Sister Domingo who is from the Philippines. Luckily she has perfect English. We came to our tiny apartment, and I got upacked for like 30 min and then we went to a lesson. I thought I knew Tagalog but it turns out I don't. I sat in our first lesson with a 19 year old boy named Khiro and sat there like a weird shy person who didn't say a word. I bore the most simple testimony at the end that probably didn't make sense haha. Then we went and knocked on som...

I’m heading to the Philippines tomorrow! I can’t believe this day is already here. Kinda freaking out but also so excited. No offense to the MTC but I am so ready to leave. We had the best last week. We basically did nothing in any of our classes this week cause none of our teachers knew what to teach us so we just played games and messed around all week. Me and my district have been practicing a song all week that we sang in sacrament meeting as well as went around to all the other Tagalog classes and sang to them. It’s a mix of 3 hymns that we sing in Tagalog, I’ll add the recording at the end of this.  Embarrassing moment from this week: Every sunday we have a devotional with the whole MTC that is put on by the MTC presidency. At the devotionals they have a missionary who has been at the MTC for a while give a short talk/testimony. This past sunday we show up to the devotional and Sister Calderwood (the mtc presidents wife) stands up is like “Unfortunately we do not have a testi...