Hi Mom and Dad.
Life in Arizona sounds good. I hope Megan feels better. I got the package on Tuesday and the cookies were good. Thank you for sending me all that stuff. I also got your letter on Tuesday too. I am glad life is going well for you.
Life is going great for me. I love the MTC. I love the language. Tagalog is the best language. It is so cool. I am learning verb conjugations and practicing teaching on the progressive investigators who are our teachers. So my teachers are Sister Landrum and Brother Mauzy. It has been kind of crazy. We have switched up teachers a few times here trying to get the teachers whose schedules work together. They are pretty good. Both of them are complete opposites it seems but they love the gospel and teaching the missionaries. I am trying to learn as much vocab as I can but it is tough. The verb conjugations have to be memorized with each word and there are two conjugations for each verb depending on what you want the focus to be. Oh and then there are exceptions. Basically Filipinos want to make their language easier to speak but it made it crazy to learn. There are also lots of Spanish words. It is kind of cool and kind of confusing. I love learning the language.
So the oldest two districts are leaving on Monday and we get new missionaries on Wednesday. It is really weird but exciting. I am a little sad. I am just starting to get to know the oldest districts. Anyway my district is good. All of us get along real well. We also have the smallest district. We only have 7. Sister Hansen went home this week. It was really sad. But that is life with all its ups and downs.
So now to health things. My finger is good it is getting stronger and hurts less each day. I also had the cyst removed on Wednesday. That was exciting. Then I got to go on a field trip to the student health center on Thursday for the check up. I hopefully will have my last appointment next Wednesday. And for exercise I do a little of everything. I run a bit. Play soccer. Play volleyball. Lift weights. Play 4 square. And one day I worked out with Elder Ziggler. We would run a lap the do pushups or situps or pullups. I did that on Tuesday and still am sore. It was good though.
Mom so far we have had two Seventy come and then one of the Provo MTC president spoke to us. Oh and Elder Holland spoke to us on Tuesday. It was awesome. He was a powerful testimony and loves the missionaries. For the first half he talked about missionaries as the emblem of our church. He told us that people have the right to think we are perfect even thought we are not. Then he said we do not have the right to ruin that image for anyone. Too many people have sacrificed too much for us to ruin that image. He said that missionaries who come back from their missions and then fall away is one of the only things that makes him go crazy. Then after he spoke on that for 30 minutes he answered some awesome questions like how can I feel the spirit and others. It was so good. Now I want more apostles to come.
I tried to send pictures but the computer we use won't let us. So I will find another way.
In another package I could use another pair of exercise socks. I lost one sock so I only have 5 socks. Which is two and a half pair and I work out 5 days a week. Also I wouldn't mind having a pair of shorts. On P-Day it would be nice to where something other than jeans. If not I will get by. Oh and my suit pants ripped again....Other than that I think life is good.
I love you all and I look forward to hearing from you again next week. I just want you to know I love being a missionary. The spirit in the MTC and the people here are great. Life is good.
Love Elder Woolf
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