So I really don't know what to write about this week. Everyday seems like its the same and not a whole lot goes on here! ha But this week we started using only script in our grammar and i now know how to translate pretty decently which is pretty awesome considering its only been 3 weeks. For devotional last week Dallin H. Oaks came and spoke, it was really good, but i especially liked his wifes talk. She talked about how we all need to make sure we include and love everyone no matter how different they are and i thought that was a really important thing to recognize, as i'm sure i will run into/be companions with people that are very opposite me, but as long as i can learn to love them it will all work out!
This week we went to the TRC for the first time, that was fun, a little challenging b/c we weren't really able to prepare a lesson completely so that made it a little more difficult. But in a few weeks i know we will have the language down much better and be able to communicate with the volunteers a lot more!

This weekend is general conference so I'm super excited for that! (it gives us a break from teaching on saturday! ha) but it will be awesome! and then the week after for easter we were told that we are gong to have a big general authority come speak to us (maybe Thomas S. Monson???) But i am super excited for that! I'm almost positive it will be someone from the 1st presidency though!

I found out that there are 5 other sisters here from my freshman ward from my hall i lived in so that was really cool! it's always fun to see some familiar faces! 2 are going to russia, 1 to texas, 1 to France and one to the Ukraine i think, so pretty awesome!

But everything here just seems like a blurr! all the days just mesh together, half the time I can't remember what i just did b/c everything is just moving so fast and once we move on there's like no going back! Sometimes it's hard to keep up because of the amount of things they ask us to do but i am hanging in there for the most part. I think the hardest part it to try and prepare lessons for "investigators" and try and get the language down for the lesson. I feel like I would do a lot better if i could use the time in the lesson to just study language and get more basic vocab down rathter than trying to memorize a million sentences for our lesson, but i know there's a reason they have it set up like they do so i am just tyring to embrace it!

This week I really go to thinking about everything and i just realized how much God has prepared me for this mission and I know my call is truely inspired of God, b/c i can see all the ways that I have been prepared to go to Thailand which is really crazy to me! But I know that God makes no mistakes and has a plan set out for each of us! I know this is the true church and i am so greatful for this opportunity to learn more about it and be able to share it with others!

Well i think thats about it! everything is still going great! Im having a good time and focusing as much as possible! Me and my companion are getting along great and the people in my district are amazing! We are all getting along really well, and i think for the most part everyone is getting the language and working really hard so it's awesome!

Love you all and hope you're doing well!

Love, Sister Itri

Week 2

Hello again family! Well the MTC is still going well. Basically every day is the same, eat, sleep, teach, and learn all day everyday! But it has been fun! Things are going well with me and my companion and such. No real news to disclose. The language is coming along pretty good. I have just started to learn to read and write the script and that is slowly but surely coming along. It is crazy though! there are about 44 consonents and probably like 20 vowels or something like that. its nuts!!

Well our "investigator" is now our teacher, his name is Brother Chui and he is also a very good teacher, I like him alot. He has a completely different style from bro. Olsen and i think it is going to work much better for me. But I really do feel lucky to have the teachers I do b/c i feel like we really are progressing much faster than the older district. I can understand most of what they say and stuff and they are at like week 9 or 10 so that's pretty cool!

Oh ya Jason did you get that note i left you? It was pretty funny, when i went to drop it off i'm pretty sure your comp teacher was in there being an "investigator" and i was like asking to make sure it was the right room and he was just talkin in tagalog so i think he thought i was some of the new missionaries so but i wasn't thinking to tell him i was your sister b/c i was in a hurry so i just dropped the note and left. hahaha

So ya if you or julia could bring that stuff that would be great!!

But other than that, like I said things are pretty much the same every single day and you all know what it's like so i don't think i need to go into much detail. ha
We teach lessons in Thai almost every day, and now our teachers said we aren't allowed to use notes this week so it makes it a little more challenging b/c we would just use our books and plan out everything we needed to say and have it in front of us, but now they will only let us bring a dictionary so it is quite a bit more challenging, but i think it will be to our benefit, so that we don't rely on our books and notes and can actually learn and stretch ourselves to get the language down.


Well I hope everything else is going well! Love you all!

Oh and Jon and Dani if you want to send pictures of Linkin I am definitely not opposed. hahaha like i said he is the only one i truely miss!! and hope little baby topanganga is doing well! :)


Love, Sister Itri