July 8 MTC E-mail

Michael continued to progress in his language learning and got to spend July 4th in the MTC.  His enthusiasm continues unabated.  Obviously, we couldn't be more proud of his decision to be a missionary and his very positive approach.  As he became friends with a fellow missionary from Hawaii, he started wearing a lava lava for the fun of it.  I'm pretty sure (hoping) that he didn't wear it to class.  Cindy ended up making and sending him one of his own.

Hey everyone!

 

Well I had the "privilage" of spending the Forth in here.... But actually it wasn't too bad I kinda liked it.  We had a pretty good speaker come and speak to us and then they did this pretty legit ceremony with like a mini bagpipe/drum band marching in playing Praise to the Man and then people carrying a flag of where they're from down the bleachers to represent where everyone here in the MTC is from it was pretty cool.  I liked it.  Then they told us we could go watch the fireworks but had to stay on the MTC campus. So it was like way hard to find anywhere halfway decent to watch them but we got to see some of them nonetheless and it was a good night overall.

 

But then on Sunday we had an awesome fireside! Those pretty familiar with Mormon musicians or modern classical performance may have heard of Jenny Oaks Baker, but she came and shared her talents with us. It was so good! She like has played everywhere you could possibly play got a Masters in Violin Performance from Julliard. And she was so good and it was a great fireside.  Then she had her daughters (like 4, 6 and 9) play a song for us.  And it was incredible! The 4-year old rocked a mini cello and the 6-year old beasted the piano and the 9-year old was crazy at violin! Obviously I was way impressed.  AND they all wore matching 4th of July dresses, can you say adorable?! hahaha but really it was tight, yo.

 

So yeah solely teaching in Tagalog now, we had our 2nd all Tagalog TRC yesterday and it went pretty well! I'm like almost naturally just putting sentances together. Like they're not complicated sentances but its getting easier and easier to take the English from my head and put it into Tagalog out of my mouth.  I love it, but I know the my Father in Heaven is helping me a ton with that!

 

So on Monday and Tuesday we had our district above us leave.  It's way sad to see them go because we are all pretty tight with them, but that means we're even closer to leaving! We get our flight plans a week from yesterday (July 7th being yesterday)! And then just over 2 weeks till we're out and doin this thang! haha But we're so pumped.  Then after they left on Wednesday we got two new districts! That's 24 new elders, our zone is like huge now! So its kinda hard to get to know all of them but they're pretty cool, most of them from what I can tell.

 

Oh yeah, and for fun I taught myself how to write in Ancient Tagalog symbols its so cool! I don't know why but I think its awesome! Yesterday I spent about an hour writing the First Vision in Tagalog/Tagalog symbols its pretty legit if I might say so myself. So yeah that was random. Oh yeah! Another random! So Elder Wong in my district is half Chinese and half Hawiian and so he has two lava-lavas (Polynesian skirt things) so starting last Friday I decided that to wear one just for fun.  So yeah, I'm pretty much Polynesian now, just sayin. Well, I'm running out of time. All is good here!

 

Love,

 

Elder Michael Gadberry

 

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAD! MAHAL KITA! INGOT PO!